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Understanding Field Books
In arranging and describing the T. Donald Carter Field Book Collection, a question emerged that required delving into the topic of field books with more specificity than had previously been required....
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The T. Don Carter Negatives
As far as we know, this collection of negatives represents the last piece of the T. Don Carter Collection. It was discovered in the library stacks recently, not far from where Richard had been working...
View ArticleFirst Day in the Department of Mammalogy Archives
Today was our first day participating in the summer semester internship program. After getting our ID cards, we made our way to the Department of Mammalogy Archive, the home of the Museum’s original...
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Mammalogy Field Books, Round 1
Today we started to catalog the extensive field notes collection in the Department of Mammalogy library. This valuable collection is made up of field books, specimen catalogs, species accounts, notes,...
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Mammalogy Takes the Field
The quest to complete the inventory for the field notebooks continued today in Mammalogy. In last week’s episode, we faced the choice of whether to complete one record for the entire collection or...
View ArticleStatus of the AMNH Anthropology Archive
Well, it’s the end of my time here at AMNH, and it’s certainly been a great experience. I’ve enjoyed looking into some of the Museum’s hidden collections and making records for them so that one day...
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Welcome to the Jungle
Today was our first day in Invertebrate Zoology. We were greeted by our nice new friends: tarantulas and hissing cockroaches. At first, we tried to get a sense of the collection’s scope and order. Some...
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Frogs, Frogs, and More Frogs!
We made good progress today – we were able to catalog many collections, most of which contained field notes from expeditions. Almost all the field notes that we read were about frogs. There was one...
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Maiden Voyage
Iris joined me today on my maiden voyage into the slide collection of the Museum. The day began with bugs and ended in spiders but brought us to Aztec ruins, street markets in India and the San Juan...
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Grinnell to GUIDs: Connecting Natural Science Archives and Specimens
Eight of the 940 watercolor illustrations of fungi by Lewis David von Schweinitz in the Academy of Natural Sciences Archives. Ewell Sale Stewart Library and Archives Coll. no. 437 “It is quite probable...
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