Ornithology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Edmund W. Stiles Papers
Collection — Box small accessions 4
Identifier: ANSP-2011-027
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Eliot Porter Dye-Transfer Photographic Prints
Collection — Box 1-4
Identifier: ANSP-2012-056
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of color dye-transfer prints of mostly nesting studies of songbirds, largely in New England. According to Doug Wecshler, this includes some of the best early work of stop-action photography of birds at or near their nests; these were take with a 4 x 5-inch camera, which is unusual for bird photography, and represent some of the most detailed studies of birds at the nest for that time period (between the 1960s-1970s or so).
Dates:
1960s-1980s
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
Hans Troschel Woodcuts
Collection — Drawer 34
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0749
Overview
Hans Troschel, 1899-1979, received his schooling at the Bauhaus School in Germany. Before World War 2, he was a teacher of self-expression in the arts. During the war he was taken captive and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. In 1954 he regained his freedom and returned to Germany where he continued to work and teach. The collection contains six woodcuts of birds and mammals, including a buzzard, osprey, wild geese, doe, a squirrel and a cat. Troschel made the prints in 1960, after his...
Dates:
1960
Henry Weed Fowler Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0031
Scope and Contents
Collection of papers produced by and about Henry Weed Fowler and his work at the Academy of Natural Sciences as an ichthyologist and his research on fishes as well as birds and reptiles.
Dates:
1893-1985
Johann Jakob Kaup, Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0380
Scope and Contents
German paleontologist and vertebrate zoologist, Kaup published a great
deal between 1823 and 1871. He presented a peculiar new classification system
for birds which was never accepted. Elected a correspondent of the
Academy in 1848, he wrote of a projected trip to the United States and offered
to sell his large collection of Lepidoptera to the Academy. A list of 4,525
species accompanied the letter. The four colored classification charts refer
to ornithology, with vignettes of various types...
Dates:
1848
John Kirk Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0404
Scope and Contents
Ornithologist and explorer. The papers in this collection all refer to his experiences when accompanying Captain Wyeth across the Rocky Mountains. Captain Wyeth undertook the journey for the Columbia River Fishing and
Trading Company to establish trading posts beyond the Rockies. Townsend's trip, in the company of Thomas Nuttall was extended to the Sandwich Islands. He returned to the Columbia River, collecting birds there, returning to the
Islands, and eventually back to Philadelphia by way...
Dates:
1834-1839
John R. Quinn Illustrations
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0730
Overview
John R. Quinn, 1938-, artist and naturalist, was an Academy employee in the exhibits department. Quinn spent the month of March in 1968 working on illustrations for De Schaunsee's A guide to The Birds of South America. The collection contains thirty acrylic paintings of South American birds: nineteen in color, eleven in black white. The figures were done from study skins in the Academy's collection pluslive birds mist-netted in Trinidad, as well as notes and sketches supplied by Don...
Dates:
1970
Elizabeth R. Lippincott stamp collection
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0992
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two volumes from Elizabeth R. Lippincott's stamp collection. Stamps are arranged according to order, family, and species, along with their descriptions. The accession information listed a third volume, which was not located with the materials as found on the shelf. There is a letter dated 1964 July 3 from C.G. Glindemann, located at the back of Volume 1. Pages have been removed from their original binders for preservation purposes.This collection is...
Dates:
circa 1960s-1970s
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0797
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of Fuertes material amassed from 1976 to 2000, containing the following items: calendar for 1984, illustrated with Fuertes images, and published by El Museo del Barrio in New York; copy of Fuertes's "Images of Tropical Bird Voices," published in Bird-Lore in 1913, given to Academy Curator Witmer Stone in 1915 and so inscribed; Fuertes's illustrations on cards distributed in packages of baking soda by its manufacturer, Arm & Hammer; copy of U.S. Department of...
Dates:
1874-1927