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Science and technology
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The Science subseries holds sheet music dating from 1900 to 1990 and is dedicated to various land animals, marine animals, and insects. This includes birds, bees, butterflies, domestic animals, farm animals, forest dwellers, and mythical creatures. A small section of scores is dedicated to weather and other elements of the natural environment, as well as the rise of innovations encompassing the invention and use of radio, telephone, and wireless technology.
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Museum culture
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A screen-printed portfolio cover containing eight screen prints that humorously critique museum methods and ideologies on material collection, exhibition, and organization. The portfolio was printed by Columbia University's LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and is indicated by the chops (printer's marks) on the verso of the prints. The portfolio cover contains an image of a broken column, and the eight prints include labeled diagrams and charts of insects, sea creatures, birds, plants, and mythical creatures in a style reminiscent of nineteenth-century natural history illustrations. Titles include: On the Exhibition of a Museum Collection Object; Thorny Territory; Notable Bird Beaks of American History; Intangible Associations; Exhibition Paradise and Perdition; The Bestiary of Museum Visitors; On Museum Collection and Controls; and The Stegosaurus of Alfred H. Barr Jr. The prints are in red, blue, and black ink, and in pencil the artist has signed his name, date, and the edition number. This is the seventh edition out of the twenty that were printed.
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Ann Renaudet Chevalier letter to Charles Willson Peale
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This autograph letter signed is addressed to Mr. Peale at the Museum (Peale retired from the museum in 1810, this letter may be for him or one of his sons who replaced him). Chevalier writes, "Sir, Please to receive in your Museum a little pensionnary that came last night to take refuge in the house where I live: It is a screetch-owl of the smallest and beautiful kind, I had always been told that such birds were ominous creatures; but the contrary I now find in the opportunity this offers me, by presenting you with it, to do something with that perhaps may prove agreeable to you. I am with respect, Anne Renaudet Chevalier."
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The birds and the beasts were there
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"This highly personal narrative conveys the excitement and sense of discovery which comes to bird watchers and other nature lovers as they learn to look at the world with more informed eyes. The book itself is a source of carefully researched information about birds--their appearances and habits, the foods preferred by various species, the plants and habitat that will attract them. Her final chapter is an eyewitness account of the great Coyote Fire, a man-caused forest fire which came near to destroying the canyon, and the whole city, and of how the charred forest and its creatures resumed their lives after the fire. Beneath the warm, engaging surface of Mrs. Millar's story is a deeply affirmative answer to a question of great importance: how can human beings learn to live with nature, and what will happen to us if we can't"--Dust jacket.
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Carnival edition. Pageant of Mystick Krewe of Comus. Subject: Mahomet 1910 New Orleans, February 8th
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Image of a parade of twenty horse-drawn carnival floats, decorated with flowers, fruits, and oversized birds and mythical creatures, depicting fanciful scenes from the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, with each car led by a man carrying a banner with a title for the scene: "1 Comus," "2 Title," "3 The Koran," "4 The Mystic Shrine," "5 Legend of Eyla," "6 Habib the Wise," "7 Cadijah," "8 The Genii," "9 Al Borak," "10 The Garden," "11 The Cock," "12 The Tree of Heaven," "13 The Place of Adoration," "14 Solomon's Messenger" "15 The Hegira," "16 Ayesha," "17 King of Abyssina," "18 The Sorcerer," "19 Contest of the Poets," "20 Reward of the Faithful"; the verso contains four pages of the "Comus Edition" of the "Carnival Bulletin" for February 8, 1910, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the krewe of Comus for the 1910 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Jelly-fish, star-fish, and sea urchins. : Being a research on primitive nervous systems
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"Among the most beautiful, as well as the most common, of the marine animals which are to be met with upon our coasts are the jelly-fish and the starfish. Scarcely any one is so devoid of the instincts either of the artist or of the naturalist as not to have watched these animals with blended emotions of the aesthetic and the scientific--feeling the beauty while wondering at the organization. How many of us who live for most of the year in the fog and dust of large towns enjoy with the greater zest our summer's holiday at the seaside? And in the memories of most of us is there not associated with the picture of breaking waves and sea-birds floating indifferently in the blue sky or on the water still more blue, the thoughts of many a ramble among the weedy rocks and living pools, where for the time being we all become naturalists, and where those who least know what they are likely to find in their search are most likely to approach the keen happiness of childhood? If so, the image of the red sea-stars bespangling a mile of shining sand, or decorating the darkness of a thousand grottoes, must be joined with the image, no less vivid, of those crystal globes pulsating with life and gleaming with all the colours of the rainbow, which are perhaps the most strange, and certainly in my estimation the most delicately lovely creatures in the world"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
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