Negatives (photographic)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Allan Cruickshank Photographic Negatives of North American Birds
Collection — Box 1-6
Identifier: ANSP-2012-057
Dates:
1950s-1970s
American Women's Hospitals Service photographs
Collection
Identifier: WM-144-a
Overview
The American Women's Hospitals (AWH) developed from the War Service Committee of the Medical Women's National Association (later called the American Medical Women's Association) in 1917, to provide, register and finance American women physicians for war work; to offer medical and emergency relief to refugees; and, later, to provide international public health service. In 1959, AWH became an independent agency and remained such until 1982 when it re-merged with the American Medical Women's...
Dates:
1917 - 1982
Eugene Abraham Rau, 1848-1932. Botanists' Portraits.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0508
Dates:
1848-1932
George L. Harrison, Jr., Photographs from Hunting Expeditions, 1903-1914
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2012-049
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 1300 glass and nitrate film negatives taken by and of George L. Harrison, Jr., and his wife Mary Ingalls Harrison, on their expeditions and travels in the early 20th Century. Importantly, a number of Academy specimens (mammals and birds, at least) were collected by Harrison et al. and remain in the Academy collections today.Further, the collection includes an external hard-drive with a set of digital images of the negatives, professionally...
Dates:
1903-1914
Crawford H. Greenewalt papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0997
Overview
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) was a chemical engineer and the President of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962. He had a passion for the natural sciences, and combined his love of ornithology with photography. He was especially known for his high speed photographs of hummingbirds. His ornithological interests included bird songs, the radiance of hummingbird feathers and the evolution of shapes and sizes of birds in relation to their flight abilities. The Crawford H. Greenewalt...
Dates:
1951 - 1993
E.R. Fenimore Johnson photographs
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0995
Overview
Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson (1899-1986) was a pioneer in the development of underwater photography and was also an explorer, yachtsman and researcher. His interests in underwater photography developed during World War II when he enlisted in Naval Research and worked with underwater demolition and photography. He created his own company, Fenjohn Underwater Equipment Company and patented equipment inventions. The E.R. Fenimore Johnson photographs, 1929-1970, is a rich collection of...
Dates:
1929 - 1970
Library records
Collection
Identifier: UR-05-002
Overview
The Library records contains documentation of the Drexel University Library from its creation in 1891 to 2003. Drexel University Library has been housed in three different buildings; the Main Building (1891-1958), the Korman Center (1959-1982) and W.W. Hagerty Library (1983-2010). The library was also responsible for running the library school until 1962, with the exception of the years 1914 to 1922 when the library school was suspended. The documents in this collection constitute a record...
Dates:
1891-2013
Found in:
Drexel University Archives
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Library records
Orphan Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2010-025
Overview
The Orphan Photograph collection houses unrelated photographic prints, negatives, slides and other visual media created for or by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, dating from circa 1926 to 1985. The collection has an unknown custodial history; it appears to have been gathered together over time due to the random nature of the images and lack or loss of any connection between individual images and other larger collections. Researchers will find images of a variety...
Dates:
1926-1985, undated
Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0200
Scope and Contents
The Henry Augustus Pilsbry papers houses the papers of Henry Augustus Pilsbry. This collection, which dates from 1878 to 1986, with bulk dates from 1878 to 1957, consists of correspondence, notes, index cards, manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, illustrated and photographic publication plates, photographs, negatives, glass plate negatives, ephemera, and wooden printing blocks.This collection is arranged into six series: “I. Correspondence, 1882-1977,“ “II. Writings,...
Dates:
1878 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1878 - 1957