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

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Found in 998 Collections and/or Records:

[Various titles and credits], circa 1966-1970

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

Reel of extra film titles and credits. Shot list: "Educational titles and credits - "animals are their textbooks". A chart captioned Amphibians and Reptiles Past and Present. Maps - map for Whale Film/Globe for "Tomorrow". Title of the Curious Crabs of Singapore with credits. Oreng Titles - 1971- text used in film loops for Great Apes House. Titles and credits (The Defence of Reptiles). NYZS presents titles"--Original box label.

Dates: circa 1966-1970

[Various zebra, lion, deer, and gibbon footage], 1963

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

Edited footage of zebras, lions, deers and gibbons, unknown if footage was shot in the wild or Bronx Zoo.

Dates: 1963

Vincent Astor - Galapagos expedition, 1930

 Item — Container: Unit 5, Shelf: F
Identifier: 102596
Scope and Contents

"Vincent Astor capturing sea lions. Post office on Charles Island. Tower Island; frigate bird, tide pools, chapin; Cocos Island cascades, and shark on board Nournahal. Shots of feeding baby iguana on board ship, iguana biting the hand that feeds it, penguins at Tagus Cove, shots of colony of terns at Tortugar. Expedition Lecture: #2 55 BB61"--Original can label.

Dates: 1930

Viperidae: Snake, rattlesnake, 1952

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

Close-up footage of snakes in indoor exhibit at the Bronx Zoo.

Dates: 1952

Viverridae, 1963

 Item — Container: Unit 1, Shelf: F
Scope and Contents

"Viverridae. African palm civet in red light, palm civet in day light, rusty spotted genet in red light and day light, cusimanse (mongoose)"--Original can label.

Dates: 1963

Vocalizations of Wild Chimpanzees, 1970

 Item — Container: Unit 1, Shelf: C
Identifier: 102460
Scope and Contents

"Research by Peter Marler, New York Zoological Society and Jane van Lawick-Goodall. Sound recording by Peter Marler. The sounds made by chimpanzees are basically variations of four themes 1.) Hoots 2.) Barks 3.) Screams and 4.) Grunts and pants. The categories grade into one another, but nonetheless are usually acoustically distinguishable"--Film credits.

Dates: 1970

Walking catfish, 1969

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

Close-ups of a catfish out of water, walking on pebbles and sand.

Dates: 1969

Walruses, 1963

 Item — Container: Unit 8, Shelf: B
Identifier: 102962
Scope and Contents

"Walrus. 1963. Gambell, Alaska. Carlton Ray"--Note in original can. " In order to obtain Pacific walruses, Dr. Ray made a trip to Gambell, Alaska, from May 6 to May 30. Through the cooperation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service four nursing youngsters were collected. Mr. Averill Thayer of the Service, stationed at Kenai; Dr. Francis Fay of the Arctic Research Center at Anchorage; and Mr. Winifred James, Eskimo hunter, made this difficult operation possible"--1963 NYZS Annual Report.

Dates: 1963

Walruses, 1958 - 1959

 Item — Container: Unit 7, Shelf: B
Identifier: 104699
Scope and Contents

"Alaska footage for "Background for a baby walrus" 1959. Kodachrome original cuts"--Original box label. Footage of walrus hunt by Indigenous people, including footage of people skinning walrus, removing meat, and head. Includes footage a walrus being crated and put onto an Alaskan Airlines plane. Much of reel is documents Indigenous families without walruses in the frame. Aerial landscapes of Alaska and multiple shots of the planes transporting the walruses.

Dates: 1958 - 1959

Waterbirds of Africa and Asia, circa 1972

 Item — Container: Unit 1, Shelf: G
Scope and Contents

"Waterbirds of Africa and Asia (sections used in the film Society In the Field 1972)"--Original can label. "Frank Kolarex, Zoo Film"--Film leader.

Dates: circa 1972

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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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