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Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Highlights from the Forty-Ninth Expedition of the Department of Tropical Research, 1951

 Item — Box: Unit 2, Shelf: F
Identifier: 104202
Scope and Contents

Edited film presented at the 1952 NYZS Annual Meeting: Highlights from the forty-ninth expedition of the DTR. William Beebe with man who appears to be Laurance Rockefeller. Macro photography of various insects with local flora flowers; Jocelyn Crane performing studies with butterflies.

Dates: 1951

[Home movie featuring human baby], circa 1930-1940

 Item — Box: Unit 3, Shelf: C
Identifier: 104277
Scope and Contents

Home movie footage of a possible christening. A baby dressed in white is being held by a collared clergy member. Originally housed in same box as reel 000104302, and possibly shot or collected by Elswyth Thane.

Dates: circa 1930-1940

[Insects at Caripito, Venezuela I], 1942

 Item — Box: Unit 4, Shelf: A
Identifier: 103793
Scope and Contents

Macro photography studies of "grasshopper (not eating), green beetle, gold, blue and white caterpillar, sphinx caterpillars on tree, pupa, Hel, chy. against dark sun and bee on stick"--Note in original can.

Dates: 1942

[Insects at Caripito, Venezuela II], 1942

 Item — Box: Unit 2, Shelf: D
Identifier: 103945
Scope and Contents

Henry Fleming capturing moths. Studies of various insects, including moths and butterflies, capturing and eating prey. Footage of insects interspersed with footage Chiriqui the monkey harnessed to a stand while a human hands him insects to examine.

Dates: 1942

[Insects at Simla, Trinidad], circa 1950-1955

 Item — Box: Unit 1, Shelf: F
Identifier: 102592
Scope and Contents

Macro photography footage of various insects, mostly caterpillars, on flora.

Dates: circa 1950-1955

[Inversed fiddler crabs and ring-legged fiddler crabs in Karachi and Pemba Island], circa 1955-1957

 Item — Box: Unit 2, Shelf: D
Identifier: 104117
Scope and Contents

Jocelyn Crane's field studies on the behavior and ecology of crabs in Pakistan and Tanzania. "Inversa, annulipes, lactea Karachi, and Zanzibar"--Original can label. "Sea 1. Karachi. ?inversa. Sea Karachi.? inversa; the annulipes and lactea. Afr 10. Zanzibar. Kombeni. annulipes. Afr 11. Zanzibar. Kombeni. annuli. Afr 23. Pemba. Kiburunzi. Annulipes"--Note in original can.

Dates: circa 1955-1957

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

[Nonsuch Island, Bermuda compilation, part I], 1940

 Item — Box: Unit 5, Shelf: F
Identifier: 102576
Scope and Contents Various footage from the 40th expedition of the Department of Tropical Research field studies in Bermuda. The reel opens with an exterior shot of a building, the back of William Beebe, and an unknown man walking toward the stairs. Close-up shots of "hibiscus [flowers], spiders, centipedes, and an unknown insect catching its prey. [Close-up of an] antlion, various crabs, and a toad on a stick [floating] in the water. [A medium shot of two] large land crabs [climbing up a tree], [Jocelyn...
Dates: 1940

[Nonsuch Island, Bermuda compilation, part II], 1940

 Item — Box: Unit 1, Shelf: F
Identifier: 102588
Scope and Contents Various footage from the 40th expedition of the Department of Tropical Research's field studies in Bermuda. This reel includes shots of a building's exterior, antlions, land crabs, toads [duplicating footage found on reel 102576]. William Beebe with a man possibly called Bob capturing fish at night ["Night light-- Bob and I"--Note in original can for reel 102576]. Close-up shots of squilla mantis, squid, Leptocephalus, and William Beebe collecting specimens while swimming in the bay,...
Dates: 1940

[Nonsuch Island, Bermuda compilation, part III], 1940

 Item — Box: Unit 5, Shelf: F
Identifier: 102603
Scope and Contents Various footage from the 40th expedition of the Department of Tropical Research field studies in Bermuda. William Beebe and two unidentified people collecting specimens while swimming in the bay. Close up footage of an angelfish, and pipefish swimming. A long-angle shot of William Beebe with an unidentified woman and man on the shore collecting pipe fish in sargassum beds in a rock pool. William Beebe removing an octopus from a bucket, a mantis squid swimming and William Beebe with a man...
Dates: 1940