Ornithology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Oiseaux dorés ou á Reflets Métalliques copper plates by Jean Baptiste Audebert and Louis Pierre Vieillot
Collection — Folder 1-12
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0069
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 11 copper printing plates and 4 engravings (probably trial or artist proofs). The engraved copper plates were used to print illustrations for Oiseaux dorés ou a Reflets Metalliques, by J.B. Audebert and L.P. Vieillot, Paris: Desray, 1802. Includes two plates from Volume 1, Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars et Promerops and 8 plates from Volume 2, Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Grimpereaux et des Oiseaux de...
Dates:
1800-1802
Ornithology Department Records
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0054
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of catalogs, information about special collections within our holdings, lists of birds offered for sale, donated, exchanged or discarded, various working notes of the curators, personnel of the department,
and general notes. The persons most concerned in this material are John Cassin, Elliott Coues, William A. Kite, Spencer Trotter, Mr. Hill and Wharton Huber, with Witmer Stone adding the later personal touches to the material describing our bird collection. Not only...
Dates:
1863-2010
Pennsylvania Audubon Society, Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0398
Scope and Contents
A Society by this name was incorporated in 1886, was active in furthering
the study of ornithology and in the field of education in the protection of wild
birds, Interest died after a few years and the Society practically ceased to
exist. In 1896 another Society was founded, whose seal gave its name as the
"Audubon Society of Pennsylvania." This second society was not incorporated,
but followed the same line of interest and actually became known as the
"Pennsylvania Audubon Society," even...
Dates:
1886-1937
Plaster Life Mask of John James Audubon
Item — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-097
Overview
First generation cast of original Life Mask in collection of MCZ at Harvard University. Copy by Donald Baird. Original by Robert Havell.
Dates:
1985 cast of original
Earl Lincoln Poole papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0458
Scope and Contents
The Earl Lincoln Poole papers house records created by Poole in the study of ornithology and related disciplines, and his illustrations for Academy collaborations. The collection dates from 1915 to 1972 and contains paintings, illustrations, printing blocks, rough drafts, notes, maps, field notes, correspondence, index cards, photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. These materials document Poole's work as an illustrator for Academy ornithologists, his efforts to document the...
Dates:
1915 - 1972
Samuel Nicholson Rhoads, Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0421
Scope and Contents
Naturalist, ornithologist, mammalogist, book dealer and businessman, Samuel Rhoads wrote particularily on the local fauna of birds and mammals. The journals of his various expeditions contain mostly natural history data. Those written from Ecuador and Guatemala include also information about the countries. He was a founder of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, its Secretary and later its President.
Dates:
1890-1934
SEE Coll 190 Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, "History of Bird Collections typescript
Collection — Box Coll. 444-447, 449
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0446
Scope and Contents
A 29-page record of the collections in the Academy of Natural Sciences arranged chronologically from 1815 to 1953, with a 16-page index prepared by Venia T. Phillips.
Dates:
1957
Spackman Family, Ornithological workbook
Collection — Box Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0428
Scope and Contents
This volume represents a series of numbered sheets, continuing to no.
385, but with a great many gaps. Each sheet was repaired and the full gathering
bound by a former librarian. Each carries a watercolor of a bird, the
drawings seemingly copied from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology.
The volume was originally labeled: "Wilson's original drawings" but this
note lightly crossed out and in the hand of E. J. Nolan another note "Not
Wilson's drawings" inserted. Again below the original...
Dates:
1842?