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Ornithology.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Donald S. Heintzelman letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064717287]
Identifier: 3734
Scope and content

Letters to Donald S. Heintzelman from various ornithologists.

Dates: 1914-1975,-1957-1975 (bulk).

Edna and Arthur Lane ornithology papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113870285]
Identifier: 8714
Abstract

Photographs of birds taken and compiled by Arthur Lane and his wife Edna Lane. Also some publications including an obituary of Edna Lane. Some photos are marked as being taken by or showing Arthur Allen. A focus of the work is chickadees. Photographs most likely taken near Sapsucker Woods, Ithaca, New York.

Dates: 1937 - 1966

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early ornithologists; a bibliography of her Ph.D. thesis; travel literature; copies of grant applications (1960-1965); unpublished manuscripts.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

Evelyn Yost Kramer papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064699204]
Identifier: 4394
Scope and content

Field notes and bird lists compiled by Evelyn Kramer, article mentioning her, obituary, photographs, and papers of Quintin Kramer.

Dates: 1935-1987.

Fordyce family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3646
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, photographs, deeds, and other material of the Fordyce family of Scipio Center, Cayuga County and Monroe County, New York. Also contains papers of the Ohio branch of the Fordyce family, which included George Lincoln Fordyce, a Cleveland businessman and naturalist.

Dates: 1839-1979.

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.

George Burritt Sennett papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065226270]
Identifier: 3893
Scope and content

Correspondence, primarily to George Burritt Sennett from fellow ornithologists, concerning bird taxonomy and conservation efforts. Major correspondents include William Brewster, Arthur P. Chadbourne, Frank M. Chapman, George Bird Grinnell, H. W. Henshaw, F. W. Langdon, G. H. Ragsdale, Robert Ridgway, who was curator of the Department of Birds, United States National Museum, and J. A. Singley.

Dates: 1885-1899.

George Durand Wilder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3241
Abstract

Includes notebooks, pamphlets, field notes, and other material on ornithology, mostly in China; Birds of Northeastern China by Wilder and Hugh Hubbard; correspondence of Wilder and his sons Theodore Wilder and Durand Wilder (George Durand Wilder, Jr.) and of Gertrude Stanley Wilder; volume of "Random Jottings" by Gertrude Wilder, including recollections of China missions and missionaries.

Dates: [ca.1897-1976].

Harrison Flint Lewis papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3696
Abstract

Papers include speeches; published and unpublished articles; 92 notebooks of bird sightings, 1913-1974; annotated bird photographs, 1933, 1936, and 1940; a list of Lewis' publications; and other materials concerning ornithology.

Dates: 1913-1974.