Wildlife Conservation Society
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Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
[Various Gloria Hollister footage II], circa 1930-1940
Item — Box: Unit 2, Shelf: F
Identifier: 104174
Scope and Contents
Rare footage of the Department of Tropical Research in Bermuda and Barbados. Reel opens with Gloria Hollister inside of a lab preparing fish specimens and shows her out on location with her dog Trumps. Standing in open water, Hollister holds Trumps up to water glass in order to view content of water below the surface. Flying fish fishing at Bathsheba in Barbados viewed from boats wherein crews are shown using hook-and-line and nets to catch fish. Deep hulled sailboats seen on water from...
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
[William Beebe's diving helmet], 1925, 1927
Item — Box: Unit 7, Shelf: E
Identifier: 104766
Scope and Contents
Reel shows footage of William Beebe diving in copper helmet and appears to be from two expeditions. From 0:00-2:57, the footage is from the Arcturus expedition to the Galapagos; the remaining footage, from 2:58-6:14 is believed to have been shot during the DTR's Haiti expedition and includes more underwater footage.
Dates:
1925, 1927