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Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.)

 Organization

Found in 998 Collections and/or Records:

New York Zoological Society. Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences and New York Aquarium records

 Collection
Identifier: 3001
Abstract The collection holds records from the New York Aquarium and the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences. The New York Aquarium, founded in 1896 and operated by the New York Zoological Society since 1902, was moved from its original Manhattan location in 1941. After an interlude at the Bronx Zoo, a new Aquarium opened in 1957 in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The Aquarium’s research laboratories, which had also been moved offsite, reunited with the public Aquarium a decade later, in 1967. The...
Dates: circa 1900-1998; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990

New York Zoological Society. Public Affairs Division and predecessor units records

 Fonds
Identifier: 2032
Abstract The New York Zoological Society's (NYZS) communications, marketing, publications, government affairs, community affairs, photography and media production, and other public relations functions historically have been divided among several different departments and units. In the late 20th century, these function were eventually united in the Society's Public Affairs Division, but prior to that they were performed by numerous predecessor units, including, among others, the Department of...
Dates: 1925 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980

New York Zoological Society. Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Joseph A. Davis records

 Fonds
Identifier: 1065
Abstract

The collection holds the administrative records of Joseph Anthony Davis, Jr. while he held the position of Scientific Assistant to the General Director. Davis started at the Bronx Zoo in the Mammalogy Department as an Assistant Curator in 1958 and eventually became Curator in 1962. In 1966 Davis moved to a position created for him in the General Director’s Office, Scientific Assistant to the Director (William Conway).

Dates: 1968 - 1974

New York Zoological Society seal, 1974

 Item — Container: Unit 2, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

Footage of NYZS logo seal used for film credits.

Dates: 1974

New York Zoological Society titles, circa 1940-1970

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: A
Identifier: 103565F
Scope and Contents

"Titles- NYZS presents, the end, A-wind"--Note in original can.

Dates: circa 1940-1970

New York Zoological Society titles, beginning and end, 1965

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: B
Scope and Contents

Extra footage of film credits, titles, and NYZS logos. "1) Great days in the zoo, 2)Happy Birthday, 3)New Ideas and Something Always Happening at the Bronx Zoo, 4) NYZS shield 5) 'The end'--Original can label.

Dates: 1965

Newfoundland and the Investigation of the Harp and Hood Seal Fishery, 1948

 Item — Container: Unit 4, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

Film by the medical officer on a seal-hunting boat in the ice fields off St. John's. Graphic footage of seals being killed; footage and intertitles illustrate animal exploitation at sea. "Newfoundland and the Investigation of the Harp and Hood Seal Fishery. 1949 Production by Harry R. Lillie"--Film credits.

Dates: 1948

Nocturnal exhibits in Small Mammal House, circa 1960s

 Item — Container: Unit 3, Shelf: B
Scope and Contents

Experimental nighttime footage shot inside to illustrate the exhibit's architecture and a close-up of snakes and lizards in just two tones: black and red.

Dates: circa 1960s

Northern waters, fishing and seining, circa 1950-1975

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: D
Scope and Contents

Unedited footage of fishing boats with seine nets in the water, some shots of people on the deck of the boat.

Dates: circa 1950-1975

[NYZS member trip to Jamaica Bay and various Bronx Zoo animals], 1974

 Item — Container: Unit 5, Shelf: D
Identifier: 102983
Scope and Contents

"Members tour to Jamaica Bay, Pere David deer, wild horses, crane chick, crane chick, murre chick, Hodari and Mopie, giraffe and baby, and baby gorilla"--Original can label.

Dates: 1974

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Type
Archival Object 959
Collection 39
 
Subject
Wildlife conservation 17
Zoos -- Administration 14
Zoo animals 11
Public aquariums 8
Aquarists 6
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Public aquariums -- Design and construction 6
Aquarium animals 5
Aquatic animals 5
Zoo directors 5
Zoo exhibits 5
Zoos -- Employees 5
Marine laboratories 4
Scientific expeditions 4
Wildlife conservation -- Law and legislation 4
Wildlife research 4
Animal dealers 3
Herpetology 3
Marine biologists 3
Wildlife conservation -- Fieldwork 3
Wildlife management 3
Zoo veterinarians 3
Zoo visitors 3
Birds -- Conservation 2
Endangered species 2
Herpetologists 2
Ichthyologists 2
Marine ecology 2
New York Zoological Society -- History 2
Public aquariums -- Administration 2
Scientific expeditions -- Trinidad and Tobago 2
Wildlife art 2
Wildlife conservation -- Africa 2
Wildlife conservationists 2
Zoos -- Design and construction 2
Zoos -- Administration 2
Zoos -- Educational aspects 2
American bison 1
Aquarium visitors 1
Bathysphere 1
Birds -- New York State -- Bronx County 1
Birds of paradise (Birds) 1
Electrophorus (Fish) 1
Endangered species -- Law and legislation -- United States 1
Giant panda 1
Mammalogists 1
Mammalogy 1
Mammals -- Research 1
Marine natural products 1
Motion picture film collections 1
Museum exhibits 1
National parks and reserves 1
New York Zoological Park -- History 1
Ornithologists 1
Primates -- Africa 1
Protected areas 1
Public aquariums -- Educational aspects 1
Public aquariums -- Employees 1
Reptiles 1
Rodents -- Canada 1
Scientific expeditions -- Bermuda Islands 1
Scientific expeditions -- Costa Rica 1
Scientific expeditions -- Guyana 1
Scientific expeditions -- Labrador (N.L.) 1
Scientific expeditions -- Papua New Guinea 1
Scientific expeditions--Asia 1
Snakebites 1
Snakes 1
Veterinary medicine 1
Veterinary medicine -- Research 1
Whale sounds 1
Whales 1
Wild animal collecting 1
Wildlife conservation -- Madagascar 1
Wildlife conservation -- Sudan 1
Wildlife management -- Madagascar 1
Xiphophorus 1
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation 1
Zoos 1
Zoos -- Administration -- Economic aspects 1
Zoos -- Public relations 1
Zoos -- Publicity 1
Zoos in motion pictures 1
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