Scope and Contents

This collection contains 59 black and white lantern slides of birds, including puffins, titmice, cormorants, and razorbills from ornithological studies dating from the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents

This collection primarily contains bound manuscript notes, watercolors, and photographs from ornithologist David Armitage Bannerman’s trip to the Cape Verde Islands between 1903-1908, 1909-1912, and 1920. The collection includes one hand drawn map titled “Graciosa,” pages from publications on bird breeding, and a feather picked-up in Trinidad Gardens, Sandiago from a Guinea-fowl. Notes focus on the breeding of birds in the Cape Verde Islands.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of nearly 400 letters, 14 notebooks, a few incomplete, and most pertaining to Job’s scientific work. It also contains approximately 820 lantern slides from Job’s research in the the Northeastern United States and Canada from the early 1900s depicting waterfowl and other birds. Topics of letters consist of discussion of works by Job, writing and publishing, as well as correspondence with other bird enthusiasts such as W. Henninger on where they can find certain...