Laboratory of Ornithology artwork collection

Collection

Identifier: 17-2-3522

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Artwork on deposit from the Lab of Ornithology. Includes works by George Miksch Sutton, Anna Botsford Comstock, and others.

The John James Audubon, Louis Agassiz Fuertes and John Gould, Arthur Singer art work on deposit for the Lab has been added to the illustrators' corresponding collections.

Dates

1840-2000.

Creator

Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology (Organization)
Bishop, Richard E. (Richard Evett), 1887-1975. (Person)
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749. (Person)
Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. (Person)
Dilger, William Chistopher, 1923- (Person)
Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948. (Person)
Kuroda, Nagahisa, 1916-2009. (Person)
Leberman, Robert C. (Person)
Malick, Donald L. (Person)
Schaldach, William Joseph, 1896-1982. (Person)
Sutton, George Miksch, 1898-1982. (Person)
Weick, Friedhelm. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

.7 cubic feet. (.7 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Artwork on deposit from the Lab of Ornithology. Includes works by George Miksch Sutton, Anna Botsford Comstock, Mark Catesby and others.

RELATED MATERIAL

The John James Audubon artwork, #6721, the Louis Agassiz Fuertes papers, #2662 , and the John Gould Artwork Collection, #4736 also contain materials on deposit from the Laboratory of Ornithology The digital collection can be viewed here https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6280355. Note that not all items in the digital collection have been placed on deposit in the physical collection within the University Archives, a number of items remain on display at the Laboratory of Ornithology.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Evan Fay Earle
Date completed:: August 2006
EAD encoding:: August 2006
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, December 2013