Expeditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Records of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Managing Directors
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1010
Scope and Contents
Natural Science, history, geology, religion, anthropology, government reports, maps, advertising ephemera, letterhead art,
This is a collection of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Charles M.B. Cadwalader, dating from 1933 to 1939. Much of the correspondence relates to the acquisition of specimens, donations, estates and annuities, publications, and other Academy business. There is also a significant amount of correspondence with scientists on Academy expeditions,...
Dates:
1929-1959
Samuel Washington Woodhouse, Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0387
Scope and Contents
Naturalist and surgeon, he accompanied the U. S. topographical engineers, under Sitgreaves and Woodruff, on the Boundary Survey of the Creek and Cherokee Indian Nations, 1849-50, and again under Sitgreaves, on the Zuni
River Expedition in 1851-2. The next year, he was a member of the private enterprise Inter-ocean Canal, Railroad and Mining Company's Expedition to Nicaragua and Honduras. In 1859-60 while surgeon on Cope's Line of Packets running between Philadelphia and Liverpool, he made a...
Dates:
1849-89
Shackleton Antarctic Expedition
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0184
Scope and Contents
These photographs are mounted on heavy boards 30 x 23 cm. The pictures include photographs of personnel, activities of the party on water, land and ice, their ship, their longboats, their dogs and the animals seen in Antarctica. Many others pertain to the topography of the area, to icebergs, ice floes and glaciers.
Dates:
1906-1907
Wharton Huber, 1877-1942.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0775
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, photographic equipment, and miscellaneous printed material. 3 document cases. Unprocessed.
Personal papers of the Academy's curator of mammals, including a copy of the typed diary kept by Edward Woolman on the Academy expedition to the Queen Charlotte Islands In 1930, illustrated with Huber's photographs.
Archived from Huber's library on August 9, 1965.
Dates:
1877-1942