Anable, Gloria Hollister
Person
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
[Gloria Hollister expedition to British Guiana: Sugar boat on Canje River], 1936
Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104764
Scope and Contents
A single shot of a boat. [Further description pending digitization.]
Dates:
1936
Miss Christopher Columbus, 1936
Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104746
Scope and Contents
“Miss Christopher Columbus. From South America, a courageous woman explorer – Gloria Hollister– brings amazing pictures of a waterfall mightier than the Niagara. Paramount Pictorial. MCMXXXVI”--Film credits. Reel 104731 in this collection, which has been digitized, includes silent footage from this film.
Dates:
1936
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. General records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005A
Abstract
The Department of Tropical Research (DTR), founded by William Beebe, carried out intensive ecological investigations in terrestrial and oceanographic settings. This collection spans the extent of DTR history and activities and contains a wide range of materials, including correspondence, expedition reports, guest books, specimen catalogues, and catalogues of motion pictures and illustration. DTR staff represented within the records include Beebe, Jocelyn Crane, Gloria Hollister, and John...
Dates:
1900 - 1971
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Oceanographic expeditions. Bermuda records
Fonds
Identifier: 1005J
Abstract
This collection consists of data, manuscript notes, and lists documenting the marine science activities of the Department of Tropical Research staff at Bermuda from 1929 through 1939. Included are trawling records, fish outlines, bird censuses. This collection also includes logbooks of notes dictated to Gloria Hollister by William Beebe via telephone from the bathysphere dives of 1930, 1931, and 1932; correspondence concerning the bathysphere, 1929-1930, from John H. J. Butler's office at...
Dates:
1929 - 1949
New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research. Research Associate. Gloria Hollister Anable papers
Collection
Identifier: 1006
Abstract
Gloria Hollister Anable, nee Gloria Hollister, was a naturalist and ichthyologist who, from 1928-1941, was employed as a Research Associate under Dr. William Beebe in the New York Zoological Society’s Department of Tropical Research. As a Research Assistant, she specialized in preparing ichthyological specimens, and she developed a new technique for preparing fish specimens in which the skin and internal organs of the fish were made transparent, rendering their skeletons far more useful for...
Dates:
1914 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1947
[Various Gloria Hollister footage], circa 1930-1940
Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104731
Scope and Contents
Includes silent dupe negative of footage from British Guiana used in the Paramount newsreel Miss Christopher Columbus with no titles or credits. Shots include aerial footage over Kaieteur Falls. Also includes footage of Hollister in the water in Bermuda with her dog Trumps, and Hollister descending and then ascending off rowboat into water in diving helmet.
Dates:
circa 1930-1940
Various tropical fish, original, circa 1930-1940
Item — Box: Unit 4, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104382
Scope and Contents
Dark footage of tropical fish and coral reefs.
Dates:
circa 1930-1940
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- Archival Object 14
- Collection 3
- Subject
- Bathysphere 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Bermuda Islands 2
- Birds -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Fishes -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Ichthyologists 1
- Invertebrates -- Catalogs and collections 1
- Invertebrates -- Identification 1
- Marine animals -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Guyana 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad and Tobago 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Tropics 1
- Submersibles 1
- Tropics -- Research 1
- Vertebrates -- Catalogs and collections 1
- Vertebrates -- Identification 1
- Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 1 ∧ less
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