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Ornithology.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Roger Farrell collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-19-3407
Scope and content

Includes slides of an ornithology field trip in 1973, Professor Robert J. Walker's retirement party in 1974, and Farrell's hat with buttons representing various events and organizations. Also includes research notes, thesis draft, correspondence, and publications.

Dates: 1939-2000.

Slides and movie films

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2883
Scope and content

Films, color glass slides and negatives of birds and other animals.

Dates: [ca.1917-1930].

Verdi Burtch papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3288
Abstract

Scrapbooks, photographs, and volumes of bird observation notes. Also, 18 notebooks of Verdi Burtch's and Clarence Stone's bird observations and a catalog of bird and plant photographs arranged by species.

Dates: [ca.1894]-1943.

Virginia deMorat Smith Scheetz papers

 Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 31924079266023]
Identifier: 21-18-1108
Abstract Includes notes from classes in ornithology, floriculture, and conservation; Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology newsletter, printed and promotional material, newspaper clippings, photographs, two tapes of bird calls by Myles North, and correspondence, minutes, and balance sheets of the Advisory Council; notes and correspondence regarding Scheetz' speeches; correspondence, minutes, newsletter, and yearbook of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; material on the Garden Club of...
Dates: 1941-1968,-1947-1968 (bulk)

Waldemar H. Fries Audubon research papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3427
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials relating to the writing and production of The Double Elephant Folio; correspondence, slides, books, notebooks,pamphlets and artwork relating to John James Audubon and his family, and other ornithologists. Also, material concerning Audubon exhibitions, including catalogues, Audubon slides, stamps, and photographs.

Dates: 1805-1980.

Whitney and Karen Eastman papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941283]
Identifier: 2680
Scope and content

Mimeographed and printed matter concerning ornithology, primarily written by Whitney and Karen Eastman. Includes a photocopy of "The Advantage of Being Born Poor, Autobiography of Whitney Eastman," 1966.

Dates: 1959-1968.

William C. Dilger papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-18-4214
Abstract

Collection consists of research notebooks, photographs, slides, 16mm films and some additional papers and publications.

Dates: 1950-1970.

William Dunlap Sargent falconry papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-18-1314
Abstract

Includes correspondence concerning falconry, including letters to a young falconer (1947-1948) containing much information on the sport; photographs of hawks and falcons Sargent trained as hunters; drawings of hawks and falcons; and diagrams of furniture and fittings used in falconry.

Dates: 1927-1965.