New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research
Dates
- Existence: 1916 - 1964
Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
[Butterflies and other insects at Simla, Trinidad], 1952-1953
William Beebe working with butterflies. Macro photographic field studies of insects caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. Some of this reel duplicates footage from reel 104230, Dr Beebe's Moths and Butterflies.
Capturing Rare Birds in Trinidad, 1959
Color on the Wing in Trinidad: Butterfly Studies at the Society's Tropical Research Station, circa 1953-1956
Edited film likely presented at NYZS Annual Meeting. DTR staff members building a new insectary on the grounds of Simla. Time lapse studies of the pupa, chrysalis, and cocoon stages of butterfly development. Footage of researcher, possibly Rosemary Kenedy, working with butterflies. "Butterfly Studies at the Tropical Research Center. Photographed by Russ Kline, Jocelyn Crane, Nautica Waterbury, Rosemary Kenedy"--Film Credits
Curioseando en la Selva, 1948
[Department of Tropical Research activities, Bermuda, part I], circa 1928-1929
[Department of Tropical Research activities, Bermuda, part II], circa 1928-1929
Footage from the Department of Tropical Research work in Bermuda. Some shots are similar to Pathe's Beebe footage, but there are additional shots. Based on the black edges, this reel looks to be 16mm footage shot with a home movie camera, not a reduction print from 35mm nitrate negative. Presumed to be shot by Elswyth Thane. Further description pending digitization; expected October 2024.
[Department of Tropical Research staff and grounds at Simla, Trinidad], 1957
[Department of Tropical Research staff at Caripito, Venezuela], 1942
DTR staff members at work at their headquarters and out in the field. William Beebe looking through binoculars, a young boy with a donkey, William Beebe collecting subterranean mammals, George Alan Swanson painting a lizard as he holds it in his hands, an ant colony, various insects.
Dr Beebe's Moths and Butterflies: A Newsletter in Pictures from the Trinidad Field Station of the Department of Tropical Research, 1954
Edited film likely presented at an NYZS Annual Meeting. William Beebe greeting a visitor to Simla. Jocelyn Crane working in an insectary at Simla. Various examples of the trials conducted with butterflies to study color preferences and behavior. Macro photographic field studies of caterpillars and the egg, larva, pupa life cycle of the butterfly. "A Newsletter in pictures from the Trinidad Field station of the Department of Tropical Research. Photography by Rosemary Kenedy"--Film credits.
[Elswyth Thane home movie footage?], circa 1930-1940
Home movie footage shot at a lakeside house with a pool. Reel originally housed with other home movie reels of Bermuda shot or collected by Elswyth Thane.
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 63
- Collection 15
- Subject
- Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 7
- Bathysphere 4
- Scientific expeditions -- Bermuda Islands 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Galapagos Islands 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad and Tobago 3
- Scientific expeditions -- Tropics 3
- Amphibians -- Venezuela 2
- Birds -- Venezuela 2
- Fishes -- Catalogs and collections 2
- Invertebrates -- Catalogs and collections 2
- Mammals -- Venezuela 2
- Reptiles -- Venezuela 2
- Scientific expeditions 2
- Scientific expeditions -- California, Gulf of (Mexico) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Guyana 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Peru Current 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Sargasso Sea 2
- Scientific expeditions -- Venezuela 2
- Submersibles 2
- Wildlife conservation 2
- Amphibians -- Guyana 1
- Amphibians -- Trinidad 1
- Arima (Trinidad and Tobago) 1
- Bats -- Venezuela 1
- Biological illustration 1
- Birds -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Birds -- Guyana 1
- Birds -- Trinidad 1
- Butterflies -- Venezuela 1
- Fishes -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Fishes -- Guyana 1
- Fishes -- Trinidad 1
- Fishes -- Venezuela 1
- Fishes -- West Indies 1
- Ichthyologists 1
- Insects -- Trinidad 1
- Insects -- Venezuela 1
- Invertebrates -- Identification 1
- Mammals -- Guyana 1
- Mammals -- Trinidad 1
- Marine animals -- Bermuda Islands 1
- Marine laboratories 1
- Meteorology -- Observations -- Trinidad 1
- Moths -- Venezuela 1
- Oceanographic submersibles 1
- Parque Nacional Henri Pittier (Venezuela) 1
- Public aquariums 1
- Public aquariums -- Administration 1
- Public aquariums -- Design and construction 1
- Reptiles -- Guyana 1
- Reptiles -- Trinidad 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Haiti 1
- Scientific expeditions -- Pacific Ocean 1
- Scientific expeditions -- West Indies 1
- Syrinx (Bird anatomy) 1
- Tropics -- Research 1
- Underwater exploration 1
- Vertebrates -- Catalogs and collections 1
- Vertebrates -- Identification 1
- Wildlife art 1
- Wildlife conservation -- Africa 1
- Wildlife conservationists 1
- Wildlife research 1
- Zoo exhibits 1
- Zoos -- Administration 1
- Zoos -- Design and construction 1
- Zoos -- Employees 1 ∧ less