Mary Jobe Akeley papers, 1859-1940
Mary L. Jobe Akeley,Carl E. Akeley,American Museum of Natural History Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals,American Museum of Natural History Department of Education,Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History,Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History,Martin Johnson African Expedition
Papers relate to Mary Jobe Akeley and her husband Carl E. Akeley. Boxes 1-3 of the 1977 accession include biographical data, correspondence, expedition journals and notes, museum activity records, printed or draft articles and personal items, among them a great deal of material on the sculpture of a lion that Carl designed as a monument to Theodore Roosevelt. Boxes 4-7 include newspaper clippings, primarily of articles by or about the Akeleys, some dealing with gorillas, others with people, expeditions, game hunting, and animals. The 1992 accession includes one folder received in 1978 from Art Greenham of Projection. The 1967 accession consists of 11 boxes of unprocessed material
Archival Material,English, 1859
Biographies
25 boxes (11.25 linear feet) 5 printing plates
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