Birds
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:
Merrill Wood, "The Birds of State College, Pa."
Collection — Box Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0386
Scope and Contents
The article, written by this Professor of Zoology, at the Pennsylvania State College was prepared for Zoological Problems 444, June, 1932.
Dates:
1932
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
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
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?
Terence Michael Shortt Field notebooks, illustrations and photographs.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0805
Scope and Contents
Terence M. Shortt was a Canadian artist who worked most of his life for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. He made more than 30 expeditions worldwide in connection with the preparation of natural history exhibitions for the museum. The field notebooks, all disbound, are filled with his illustrations; the collection
also includes sketches, finished drawings, and Christmas cards.
Given to the Academy by the artist in 1983-1984; archived in 1987
Dates:
1930 - 1985
Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates:
1974-1997
Vertebrate Zoology Department Records
Collection — Box 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0587
Dates:
1830-1941
VIREO Department papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-1000
Scope and Contents
The VIREO Department papers document the early history of the VIREO Department from its inception in 1979. This collection contains accession books, planning documents, reports, agreements, inventories, procedures, grant proposals, job applications, ledgers, royalty documents, correspondence, and negatives.
Dates:
1956 - 2011; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1996
Watercolors of Birds ca. 1915
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2013-004
Scope and Contents
This collection contains watercolor paintings of birds by an unknown artist, ca. 1915.
Dates:
ca. 1915