Birds
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
John S. Dunning papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1005
Dates:
1930 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1951 - 1989
Eiderdown Robe
Item — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-079-Artifact
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an eiderdown robe. There is a dry cleaning ticket that accompanies the robe, "2/18/52, Mrs. J.A. Griswold Jr. of West Valley Road, Stafford-Wayne, PA. Lamb Robe, valued at three-hundred dollars." The charge to dry clean was six dollars. On the back of the ticket in pencil is written, "Griswold curator at Philadelphia Zoo." The Eider duck is a sea-duck, which is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia. The eiderdown are...
Dates:
1952
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
Film "Exploring the Top of the World: The Second Brooke Dolan Asiatic Expedition for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1934-1936]"
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-2012-080
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
John James Audubon Le Petit Caporal Falco Temerarius, Male Print
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: ANSP-2010-241
Scope and Contents
Illustration engraved by R. Havell. Printed and coloured by R. Havell, London 1829.
Dates:
1829
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
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
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