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Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology

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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur A. Allen papers

 Collection — Box 180: [Barcode: 31924065225991]
Identifier: 21-18-1255
Abstract

Papers consist largely of Allen's professional correspondence and his work in the field of ornithology.

Dates: 1899 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1899 - 1964

Brand family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4934
Scope and content

Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, diplomas, sketches, notebooks, and other papers of an Ithaca, New York family. Includes material of Ernestine Isabel Brand (Barnard College); John E. Brand, especially pertaining to his service in World War II; Charles Brand; Alice Brand; and paintings by Charles S. Isabel.

Dates: [ca.1912-1955]

Brina Kessel papers.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-18-3036
Scope and content

Field notes and research files relating to her graduate work on starlings, with some correspondence with Arthur A. Allen on her publications and the building of Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.

Dates: Undated

Cayuga Lake Basin phenological charts

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1 (positive)
Identifier: 21-18-mf.47
Scope and content

Records of bird observations in Cayuga Lake Basin Area. Also includes records of vertebrates, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

Dates: 1906-1957.

David Lee Hanselman tape recording

 Collection — Tr 4126
Identifier: 37-5-2139
Scope and content Recording of "Symphony of the Birds," an 11-minute tape of bird songs recorded and produced in 1955 and 1956 by Peter Paul Kellogg and Jim Facett, who hosted a CBS radio symphony orchestra program, at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Also, a recording of Arthur Augustus Allen talking about the humming-bird; and taped excerpts of a show David L. Hanselman produced for the Farm and Home Radio Show, Christmas 1957. Included in this show is a 1954 recording of Bristow Adams...
Dates: 1954-1957.

Division of Biological Sciences memoranda

 Collection — Manuscript box 25 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065307484]
Identifier: 53-2-m.971
Scope and content

Photocopies of memoranda relating to the ichthyology collection, August 1963 (3 pp.); proposal for a systematics facility, August 1, 1963 (3 pp.); to the ornithology collection, December 16, 1968 (9 pp.) and memo from A. R. Weisbrod to A. W. Morrison re the status of the ornithology collection, February 7, 1969 (2 pp.).

Dates: 1963-1969.

Dorothy McIlroy ornithology collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6509
Scope and content Index cards and wall charts containing information about spring first arrival dates and fall last departure dates for migrating birds, with related observations about those species of birds reported from the Cayuga Lake Basin. 28 wall charts documenting the bird count and spring first arrival dates for migratory birds in the Cayuga Lake Basin in detail. Charts are missing for the following years: 1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1970,1984 and 1989. 2 charts of breeding records for various species of...
Dates: 1907 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1990

Elsa Guerdrum Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-18-1362
Abstract

Papers consist of correspondence with family members and professional colleagues; diaries; photographs and research notes on early ornithologists; a bibliography of her Ph.D. thesis; travel literature; copies of grant applications (1960-1965); unpublished manuscripts. Family papers also include a genealogy of her Scandinavian ancestors. Papers are in English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Dates: 1885 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1968

Francis G. Scheider papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4856
Abstract

Subject files, field records, reports, and checklists, photographs, and other papers of an expert birder from the Rochester, New York area; records pertain mostly to Central New York State, but include accounts of trips to Alaska, Florida, and other places.

Dates: 1940-1988.

Francis Harley Scheetz papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2-10-1109
Abstract Includes materials relating to Scheetz' student days and papers from his work as a Cornell trustee and presidential councillor. Also, photographs; prints; four world maps prepared for King Louis XV of France (1740, 1741); a portrait of General Henry Dearborn, a Revolutionary War patriot; two Sèvres vases (gifts to General Dearborn from Louis Philippe); information concerning the Xth International Congress on the History of Science (1962); Theta Delta Chi correspondence; postcards; Scheetz'...
Dates: 1740-1963,-1947-1969 (bulk)

Additional filters:

Subject
Ornithology. 13
Photographs 10
Ornithologists. 7
Ornithology -- Study and teaching. 5
Birds -- Societies, etc. 2
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Birds in art. 2
Birdsongs. 2
Field notes 2
Genealogies. 2
Lithographs. 2
Ornithological illustration. 2
Photography of birds. 2
Slides (photographs). 2
Women ornithologists. 2
Woodpeckers. 2
Academic freedom. 1
Alaska. 1
Amphibians -- New York (State) -- Cayuga Lake. 1
Animal behavior. 1
Bibliographies. 1
Bioacoustics. 1
Biographies. 1
Bird banding. 1
Bird lore. 1
Bird refuges -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Bird refuges. 1
Bird songs: the adventure and techniques in recording the songs of the American birds. 1
Bird watchers -- New York (State) 1
Bird-song -- Recording and reproducing. 1
Birds -- Breeding. 1
Birds -- Migration. 1
Birds -- New York (State) -- Cayuga Lake. 1
Birds -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Birds -- North America -- Pictorial works. 1
Birds -- Research. 1
Birds -- United States. 1
Birdsongs -- Recording and reproducing. 1
Cayuga Lake (N.Y.) 1
Christmas -- Exercises, recitations, etc. 1
Christmas stories. 1
Chromolithographs. 1
College teachers 1
Diaries 1
Drawings, 1
Engravings -- United States -- 19th century. 1
Etchings. 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Film 1
Floriculture. 1
Fund raising 1
Glass plate negatives 1
Hand coloring. 1
Horticulture. 1
Hudson Bay (Canada). 1
Hummingbirds. 1
Ichthyology -- Study and teaching. 1
Ivory-billed woodpecker. 1
Labrador. 1
Lantern slides. 1
Lawyers 1
Lovebirds. 1
Mammals -- New York (State) -- Cayuga Lake. 1
Mammals -- North America -- Pictorial works. 1
Maps. 1
Mexico. 1
Motion pictures (visual works). 1
Natural history illustration. 1
Naturalists. 1
Neurobiology. 1
Ornithologists -- United States. 1
Ornithology -- United States. 1
Paintings. 1
Panama. 1
Phenology. 1
Reptiles -- New York (State) -- Cayuga Lake. 1
Ruffed grouse. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Alaska. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Amazon River Region. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Australia. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Brazil. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Colombia. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Galapagos Islands. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Guatemala. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Guiana. 1
Scientific expeditions -- India. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Manitoba -- Churchill. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Mexico. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Nepal. 1
Scientific expeditions -- New Zealand. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Panama. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Peru. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Tobago. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad. 1
Scientific expeditions -- United States. 1
Scientific expeditions -- Venezuela. 1
Scientific expeditions -- West Indies. 1
Scientific expeditions. 1
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