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Ornithology -- Fieldwork

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

James Taylor Tanner papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2665
Abstract

Papers relating to James T. Tanner's career as an ornithologist.

Dates: 1935-2012.

Leila Beaver Higgins scrapbook and notebook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924131176384]
Identifier: 37-5-4571
Content Description

Collection consists of the scrapbook of Leila Warren Beaver Higgins, documenting her time as a student at Cornell University. Scrapbook contains photographs of campus and events including Spring Day; programs; correspondence; and ephemera. Also included is her Ornithology class notebook, which contains descriptions and colored illustrations of various birds.

Dates: 1921 - 1925

Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4047
Abstract

Professional correspondence; photographic negatives of birds; notes and rsearch materials relating to his book.

Dates: [ca. 1895-1990].

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.

Thomas S. Litwin papers

 File
Identifier: 17-2-4561
Abstract Research files, correspondence, typed and handwritten research notes, surveys, articles, reviews and drafts, research-related, aerial photographs, spot maps, and audio cassettes of the Cornell Ph.D. alumnus in Conservation Biology, Natural Resource Policy and Planning (1986) and later Senior Research Associate and Program Director of the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology (1981-1989), Thomas S. Litwin, document his research at the Laboratory and the Sapsucker Woods dating from...
Dates: 1938 - 1990