Digital Collections | AMNH - Great horn owl, barn owl, meadow mouse, red bat, small headed flycatcher and hawk owl, plate 50 from Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology"

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Great horn owl, barn owl, meadow mouse, red bat, small headed flycatcher and hawk owl, plate 50 from Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology"

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Great horn owl, barn owl, meadow mouse, red bat, small headed flycatcher and hawk owl

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Copper plate used in the first edition of Wilson's American ornithology

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Sharp-skinned hawk, redstart, yellow rumb, copper plates from American Ornithology, Vol. 6, No. 45, by Alexander Wilson

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Carolina parrot, Canada flycatcher, hooded flycatcher, and green black capped flycatcher from Wilson's American ornithology

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Roy Chapman Andrews archives

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AMNH letters from old Hayden Planetarium signs displayed in Gottesman Library great range.

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Armillary sphere, papier-mâché, brass, and wood, 19th century, Europe, Bliss Collection of Astronomical Instruments

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Belted kingfisher, black and yellow warbler, Blackburnian warbler, autumnal warbler, and water thrush from Wilson's American ornithology

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16th century German book dial, Bliss Collection of Astronomical Instruments

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The three solar eclipses seen in the United States in 1918, 1923, and 1925, center panel in triptych, solar eclipse as seen from Lompoc, California, 1923

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19th century Chinese astrological compass, Bliss Collection of Astronomical Instruments

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16th century German astrolabe, Bliss Collection of Astronomical Instruments

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17th century French horizontal compass dial, Bliss Collection of Astronomical Instruments

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Asset ID wilson-plate-print-24314109_DF_230414_2919

Title Great horn owl, barn owl, meadow mouse, red bat, small headed flycatcher and hawk owl, plate 50 from Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology"

Description Original copper plate (left) and restrike from the original copper plate (right)

Artwork/Object Type Copper plates

Is Part Of American Ornithology

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Library, RF-102-I: Wilson, Alexander, Alexander Lawson, John G. Warnicke, and Alexander Wilson. 1808. [Copper plates for Plates 42-51 of American ornithology].

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