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Orphan Photograph Collection

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Held at: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia [Contact Us]1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, 19103

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
2010.025
Repository:
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Extent:
2.0 linear feet (2 containers)
Language:
English
Date:
1926-1985, undated
Creator:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Form:
Negatives (photographic), Photographic prints, Slides (photographs), and Stereoscopic photographs
Abstract:
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 of animal and plant specimens; photos taken during a few Academy events and multiple Academy sponsored expeditions; exhibits; as well as numerous portraits and snapshots of people affiliated with the institution. In addition, there are a handful of photographs and negatives produced or collected by the Public Relations Department for use in the Academy newsletter, Frontiers and other publications. Of particular note, are the photographs taken during Academy sponsored expeditions, especially those few snapshots taken during George Vanderbilt's trans-Africa expedition in the 1940s.

There is no known custodial history for this collection.

The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources’ “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.

This collection was minimally processed to the folder level.

Subject

Publisher
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Courtney Smerz
Sponsor
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources’ “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project. This collection is minimally processed to the folder level.
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives with requests for copying and for authorization to quote or reproduce the material.

Collection Inventory

Animals: bat, fish specimens, undated.
Box 1 Folder 1
Animals: birds, undated.
Box 1 Folder 2
Animals: deer, undated.
Box 2 Folder 1
Animals: fish, snapping turtle, frog and others (negatives), 1956-1959, undated.
Box 1 Folder 3
Animals: muskoxen, undated.
Box 2 Folder 2
Animals: terns, owl, squirrel and others, 1926, 1935, undated.
Box 1 Folder 4
Animals and plants, undated.
Box 1 Folder 5
[Archives]: Union Pacific Railroad documents (loose slides), undated.
Box 1 Folder 6
Book, unidentified (negative), undated.
Folder Roll 1
Events: "Death by Chocolate" (slides), undated.
Box 1 Folder 7
Events: "Outside-In", undated.
Box 1 Folder 8
Events: Richard Hopper Day medal presentation to Lewis Thomas at annual meeting, 1985.
Box 1 Folder 9
Events: unidentified (slides), undated.
Box 1 Folder 10
Expedition: Alaska circa 1895-1896 (reprints), undated.
Box 1 Folder 11
[Expedition]: Alaska, salmon fishing, undated.
Box 1 Folder 12
[Expedition]: Cambodia (negatives), undated.
Box 1 Folder 13
[Expedition]: Delaware River, circa 1949.
Box 1 Folder 14
Expedition: Africa, George Vanderbilt Trans Africa Expedition, circa 1945.
Box 1 Folder 15
[Expedition]: [Nicaragua] (glass mounted slides), 1961.
Box 1 Folder 16
[Expedition]: Nihoa, Pacific Islands, 1940.
Box 1 Folder 17
Expedition: Peru, 1955.
Box 1 Folder 18
Expedition: Wood River, Idaho, [Led by R.M. Carpenter], [1939].
Box 1 Folder 19
Expedition: unidentified tropical location, undated.
Box 1 Folder 20
Expedition: unidentified location, undated.
Box 1 Folder 21
[Expedition]: unidentified, snapshots of birds and beaches, undated.
Box 1 Folder 22
Exhibit: Anning, Mary, 1985.
Box 1 Folder 23
[Exhibit]: [Academy Natural Sciences of Philadelphia founding], 1962.
Box 1 Folder 24
Exhibit: Fuertes Show: A Celebration of Birds, 1982.
Box 1 Folder 25
Exhibit: Princeton University exhibit featuring paintings on loan from Academy of Natural Sciences, 1984.
Box 1 Folder 26
[Exhibit]: unidentified, snapshots of shells, live rabbit and other artifacts, 1984.
Box 1 Folder 27
Exhibit: unidentified (negatives), circa 1955.
Box 1 Folder 28
Fossils, undated.
Box 1 Folder 29
Fossils: megalonyx jeffersoni, 1981.
Box 2 Folder 3
Microscopic views of human and animal blood for [use during C. Seiler's lecture], undated.
Box 1 Folder 30
Plant specimens, circa 1962, undated.
Box 1 Folder 31
Portraits and snapshots: [Judd, C.H., Jr.], undated.
Box 2 Folder 4
Portraits and snapshots: Knight, Captain C.W.R., the "Eagleman", 1941, undated.
Box 1 Folder 32
Portraits and snapshots: Leydig, Frantz Von, undated.
Box 1 Folder 33
Portraits and snapshots: [Michel], Alan, vice president of Public Affairs, 1973.
Box 1 Folder 34
Portraits and snapshots: Stone, Whitmer, undated.
Box 2 Folder 5
Portraits and snapshots: Stone, Whitmer with Delaware Valley Ornithology Club, 1936.
Box 2 Folder 6
Portraits and snapshots: Stone, Whitmer (glass slides), undated.
Box 1 Folder 35
Portraits and snapshots: individual portraits of staff and members, 1959, undated.
Box 1 Folder 36
Portraits and snapshots: unidentified people posing with animals, undated.
Box 1 Folder 37
Portraits and snapshots: unidentified, undated.
Box 2 Folder 7
Portraits and snapshots: unidentified (transparency), undated.
Box 1 Folder 38
Portraits and snapshots: unidentified group, 1987.
Box 1 Folder 39
Public Relations Department: Animals (glass negatives), 1953, undated.
Box 1 Folder 40
Public Relations Department: Animals, 1961, undated.
Box 1 Folder 41
Public Relations Department: snapshots of children in the museum (prints and negatives), 1982, undated.
Box 1 Folder 42
Public Relations Department: snapshots of children in the museum (prints and negatives), undated.
Box 1 Folder 43
Public Relations Department: dinosaur (transparency), undated.
Box 1 Folder 44
Public Relations Department: Event, Live Animal Eco Show, undated, [circa 1980].
Box 1 Folder 45
Public Relations Department: Expeditions, exhibits, undated.
Box 1 Folder 46
Public Relations Department: miscellaneous snapshots, 1941-1968, undated.
Box 1 Folder 47
Public Relations Department: miscellaneous snapshots of children in the Academy Museum, scientists and expeditions, 1972, undated.
Box 1 Folder 48
Pursh Collection: research photographs and negatives and associated correspondence, 1989.
Box 1 Folder 49
Scenery: various snapshots, 1957, undated.
Box 2 Folder 8
Stereograph: Bones of Hadrosaurus Fonl[kll], undated.
Box 1 Folder 50
Women's Committee, event in Academy library, 1989.
Box 1 Folder 51

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