This accession documents the professional activities of Wendell Phillips Woodring (1891-1983), a geologist who was an expert on the fossils of the Caribbean and Central America. Materials include correspondence and committee files.
This collection contains 61 glass plate negatives taken by Rev. Thomas Huckerby between 1912-1920. Most of the images depict views of petroglyphs on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and Grenada. Also includes eight images of objects collected by Huckerby; these objects are now in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian.
This accession consists of the website for the Collections Management Training Program for Latin American and Caribbean Professionals, a six-week training program in the management, preservation and use of natural history collections for professionals working in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The website includes lists of participants...
This accession consists of 35 mm color slides taken by J. F. Gates Clarke on field work and personal travel. Materials include slides from field trips to the South Pacific, 1953, 1963; and the Caribbean, 1956, 1958. Also included are journals from field trips to the South Pacific, 1953, 1961; personal correspondence and documents; and pho...
This accession consists of film footage taken by A. Stanley Rand, a biologist specializing in the ecology and behavior of tropical reptiles and amphibians. After receiving his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1961, Rand served as a zoologist at the Departamento de Zoologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1964, he was hired as a biologist at ...
This accession consists of field notes from the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expeditions. These expeditions were done in conjunction with J. Bruce Bredin and document station data and specimens collected. Materials also include scientific illustrations.
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future" and other films associated with the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Life in the Sea Hall. "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future" is a 60 minute film produced in 1984 and broadcast by PBS. It is a documentary on the complex ...
This collection consists of six cubic feet of material mostly relating to the Pan Am Communications Department and their work in Latin America. This material includes the following types of material: photographs, charts, drawings, weather memos, reports and manuals. This collection also includes material relating to Pan Am employees, such as retire...
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Dan Hagedorn documenting grants received for projects related to Latinos in aviation. The records document both the grant process as well as the exhibitions, events, films, and other programs that were funded by the grants, such as the exhibition Arriba!: The History of Flight i...
The collection consists of a photograph album containing photoprints of the construction of the Panama Canal during a trip to Latin America (1913), and photographs of other Caribbean localities where McCrady stopped while on his ship Prinz Joachim. Also 104 photoprints of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, 1906. the San Francisco earthqua...