Jerry E. and Norma J. Stillwell papers, 1948-1964.
Collection Number: 2621
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Jerry E. and Norma J. Stillwell papers, 1948-1964.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2621
Abstract:
Letters, diaries, and notes concerning the recording of bird calls, and other ornithology
related work.
Creator:
Stillwell, Jerry E., -1959.
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Ornithologists, authors.
Letters, diaries, and notes concerning the recording of bird calls, begun after Jerry
Stillwell's retirement (1948) as a technical editor for the American Petroleum Institute
in Dallas, Texas, including extensive correspondence with Peter Paul Kellogg and William
Fish, both of the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, which later resulted
in their records, "Bird Songs of Door Yard, Field, and Forest" (three albums); manuscripts,
typescripts, and correspondence relating to the publication of their articles in NATURE
and other naturalists' magazines, and Norma Stillwell's book BIRD SONGS: THE ADVENTURE
AND TECHNIQUES IN RECORDING THE SONGS OF AMERICAN BIRDS (Garden City, New York: Doubleday,
1964); notebooks (some supplemented by snapshots) and journals of numerous field trips
to the Ozarks, Carson National Forest, New Mexico, and other places around the country,
particularly in the Midwest and Southwest, which contain observations on birds, trees,
and wildflowers; also included are newspaper clippings and other printed material
on ornithology and bioacoustics.
Related collection:Arthur Augustus Allen papers, #21-18-1255
Related collection:Peter Paul Kellogg papers, #21-18-893
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Jerry E. and Norma J. Stillwell papers, #2621. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Fish, William.
Kellogg, Peter Paul, 1899-1975.
Stillwell, Norma J.
Cornell University. Laboratory of Ornithology
Subjects:
Ornithologists.
Ornithology -- United States.
Birds -- United States.
Bird-song -- Recording and reproducing.
Bioacoustics.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Diaries.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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A-G
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
American Nature Association
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1950-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
B-File
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1952-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Baird, William and Eloise
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1958-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Baumgartner, A. Marguerite
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1953-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Bedichek, Roy
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1947-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Bergstrom, E. Alexander
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1952-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Beloit College
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Booth, Ernest
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1953-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Brasher, Rex
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1937-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Burton, L.H.
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1954-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
C-File
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undated |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Carson, L.B.
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1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Carter, Mr. and Mrs. J.L.
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1956-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Company)
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Cazier, Mont
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1955-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Chapman, Naomi
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Cheatum, Elmer
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Clark, Caroline
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Clemer, J.H.
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1954-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Coffey, Ben
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1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Cooper Ornithological Society
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1952-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Coronet Instructional Films
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Davie, Paul
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1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Davis, Irby
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1950-1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Disney Company
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Dixon, Keith
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1954-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Fish, William (1)
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1950-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Fish, William (2)
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1954-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Fristad, Harold
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1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Gill, C. Terry
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1950-1964 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Glacier Natural History Association
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Goodman, John
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1954-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Gordon, Kenneth
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1955-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Gunn, William W.H.
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1951-1958 |
H-Q
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Hardwicke, Robert
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1959-1964 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Heiser, Joe
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1958-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Hines,Paul
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1952-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Hostetter, D. Ralph
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1951-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Hurlbutt, Catherine
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1949-1966 |
Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Johnson, Clinton
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1951-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (1)
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1948-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (2)
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January - July 1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (3)
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August 1951-February 1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (4)
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March - August 1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (5)
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September 1952 - March 1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (6)
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April 1953 - April 1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (7)
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May 1955 - December 1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Kellogg, Peter Paul (8)
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January 1956 - November 1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Kincaid, Edgar
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1955-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Lanyon, Wesley
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1954-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Lothian, Ivan
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 52 |
McAtee, W.L.
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1951-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 53 |
McDougald, Lain
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 54 |
McGillivray, Lola and C.M.
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1956-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 55 |
McMurray's Bookshop
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1949-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Marsh, Hallan
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1951-1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Mason, C. Russell
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1951-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Merriam, Mildred and Allen
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 59 |
Mers, William
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 60 |
Millard, Glen
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1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Miller, Loye
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1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 62 |
Mills, Pete
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 63 |
Minnesota, University of
|
1957-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 64 |
Montanta State University
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 65 |
Moore, Nelle (1)
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 66 |
Moore, W.R. (2)
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Box 1 | Folder 67 |
Moorman, Zella
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 68 |
Morton, Dur
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Box 1 | Folder 69 |
Morton, Erle
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1950-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 70 |
Munter, William
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 71 |
Murray, James
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 72 |
Oklahoma Ornithological Society
|
1952-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 73 |
Parker, H.L.
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1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 74 |
Parson, Eleanor
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 75 |
Peggs, Harold
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1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 76 |
Peterson, Roger
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1952-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 77 |
Phillips, Neill
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1953-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 78 |
Picasso, Inc.
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1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 79 |
Pittman, James
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1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 80 |
Plumb, Henry
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 81 |
Quattlebaum, Dr. W. Dave
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1954 |
R-Z
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Box 1 | Folder 82 |
Randall, G.W.
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undated |
Box 1 | Folder 83 |
Randolph, Vance
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1954-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 84 |
Rapp, William
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1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 85 |
Rastall, Mabel
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 86 |
Rebmann, G. R.
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 87 |
Reid, Bessie
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1937-1983 |
Box 1 | Folder 88 |
Rice, Julian
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1953-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 89 |
Riedel, David
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 90 |
Rockefeller, Anne (Mrs. Avery)
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1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 91 |
Rosen, Edith
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 92 |
Ross, Roland
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 93 |
Rycraft, Mrs. Thomas
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 94 |
Sanders, Otty and Ruth
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1951-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 95 |
Saunders, Aretas
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1951-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 96 |
Sclater, Ken
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 97 |
Shark, Gladys
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undated |
Box 1 | Folder 98 |
Sidders, Ruth
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1959, undated |
Box 1 | Folder 99 |
Sigma Xi
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 100 |
Skillman, Edward
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1956-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 101 |
Skinner, Mary Lou
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1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 102 |
Smiley, Daniel
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 103 |
Smith, Cecil
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 104 |
Smith, Frank
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1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 105 |
Smith, Turner
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 106 |
Smithe, Frank
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 107 |
Spirk, Frank
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 108 |
Stebbins, Arthur
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1954-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 109 |
Stillman, Nadine
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 110 |
Stoddard, Herbert
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1949-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 111 |
Story, Mrs. Joseph
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 112 |
Sturmer, Mary
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 113 |
Sutton, George Miksch
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1951-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 114 |
Taber, Wendell
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1955-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 115 |
Tall, Joel
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 116 |
Tanghe, Leo
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 117 |
Taylor, Robert
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1950-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 118 |
Taylor, Mary and Walter
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1950-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 119 |
Terry, Spencer
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 120 |
Thies, Ernestine
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1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 121 |
Thomas, Ruth
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1953-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 122 |
Torrey, Paul
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 123 |
Torti, Mrs. M.L.
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1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 124 |
Treat, Dorthy
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1951-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 125 |
Tulsa Audubon Society
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1954-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 126 |
Turner, Carrol
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1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 127 |
Tulser, F.A.
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1956-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 128 |
Wagner, Sterling and Alice
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 129 |
Walker, Lewis Wayne
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 130 |
Wallenberg, Venice
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 131 |
Watson, Margaret
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1949-1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 132 |
Watson, B.B. and Martha
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Box 1 | Folder 133 |
Weiss, Stanley
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 134 |
Weston, Dr. Henry Jr.
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Box 1 | Folder 135 |
Whitaker, Lovie
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 136 |
Wilkinson Brothers Co.
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Box 1 | Folder 137 |
Williams, Laidlaw
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1956-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 138 |
Williams, Mrs. S.R.
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1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 139 |
Wilson, Belle
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1954, 1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 140 |
Wilson Ornithological Club
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1952-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 141 |
Winford, Edith
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 142 |
Wing, Anne and Leonard
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Box 1 | Folder 143 |
Wisconsin, University of
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 144 |
Wood, Merrill
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1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 145 |
Wrather, W.E.
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1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 146 |
WFAA (Dallas)
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1953 |
Series II. Birdsong Files: Journals, Manuscripts and Research
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Mainly Norma Stillwell's Files
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Journal (November 22, 1948-November 19, 1953)
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1948-1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Journal (November 22, 1953 - January 1, 1957)
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1953-1957 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Journal (January 2, 1957- June 23, 1959)
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1957-1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Recorders Notebook
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1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Notebooks
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1956-1959, undated |
Scope and Contents
Notebook of birds recorded and 1 typewritten with notes on identification by bird
types
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Kingbird, Couch's
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1952-1958, undated |
Scope and Contents
Includes notes on birdsong written in musical notation
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Owl, Ferruginous Pigmy
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1952, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Prairie Chicken
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1954, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Solitaire Townsend's
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1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Avian Echoes from the Southwest
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1954 |
Scope and Contents
For Texas Ornithological Society
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
"Rambles of a Pair of Bird Recorders"
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1956-1957, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Birdsong Adventures - Early Version 1
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undated |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 1 "Reel Beginnings"
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Birdsong Adventures - Early Version 2
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undated |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 2 "The Valley" and Chapter 3 "Few Birds, But Friendly Folks"
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Birdsong Adventures - Early Version 3
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undated |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 4 "Kelloggs and the Everglades" and two discarded sections
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Birdsong Adventures - Early Version 4
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undated |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 5 "Otter Creek Park", Chapter 6 "Avian Echoes" and 1 discarded section
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Birdsong Adventures - Early Version 5
|
undated |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 7 "Year of the Hermit Thrush", Chapter 8 "We Go West", Cahpter 9 "Singing
Stars and Snowy Vistas" last page corresponds to last page of Chapter 10 "The Birds
Give an Encore"
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Birdsong Adventures - Early Version
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undated |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 10 "The Birds Give an Encore" and miscellaneous draft chapters
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
"Birdsong Adventures" Draft - Pages 1-87
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
"Birdsong Adventures" Draft - Pages 107-236
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
"Birdsong Adventures" Printer's Copy 1
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1964 |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 1 "Reel Beginnings"
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Birdsong Adventures - Printer's Copy 2
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Scope and Contents
Chapter 2 "The Valley", Chapter 3 "Few Birds, But Friendly Folks" and Chapter 4 "Kelloggs
and the Everglades"
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
"Birdsong Adventures" Printer's Copy 3
|
1964 |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 5 "Otter Creek Park", Chapter 6 "Avian Echoes" and Chapter 7 "Year of the
Hermit Thrush"
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
"Birdsong Adventures" Printer's Copy 4
|
1964 |
Scope and Contents
Chapter 8 "We Go West", Cahpter 9 "Singing Stars and Snowy Vistas", Chapter 10 "The
Birds Give an Encore" and Index
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Bio-Acoustics Newsletter
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1956-1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Newspaper clippings
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1950-1956, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Miscellaneous Notes, Christmas letters and sales material
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Box 2 | Volume 1 |
Bird Songs: Adventures and Techniques in Recording the Songs of American Birds
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1964 |
Mainly Jerry Stillwell's Files
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Box 2 | Volume 2 |
Annual Vacation: Tres Ritos and Red River, New Mexico
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1931 |
Scope and Contents
In a 3 ring notebook marked "Erie Days". Contains photographs.
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Rapidity of Bird Calls
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1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Memo Notes of Jerry Stillwell
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undated |
Scope and Contents
biographical writings with photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence with Rex Brasher
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1936 |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Key and Guide to the Woody Plants of Dallas County by Norma Stillwell
|
1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
A Motor Boat Trip on the Neosho River
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1909 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
American Ornithologists' Union related
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Articles and Notes on Grasses
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1928-1947, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Manuscripts
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1949-1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Attractions for the Birds by Norma and Jerry Stillwell
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1934 |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Manuscripts
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1958, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
The Roadrunner
|
1935 |
Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Preferential Complex
|
1939 |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Crows
|
undated |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
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1934-1935 |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
"Vagabond Trails" and "New Trails and Old" (1)
|
1930 |
Box 2 | Folder 42 |
"New Trails and Old" (2)
|
1930 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Tres Ritos
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1930 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Publications (1)
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1954-1969 |
Scope and Contents
articles and clippings
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Publications (2)
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1935-1954 |
Scope and Contents
articles and clippings
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Publications (3)
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1930-1935, 1970-1971 |
Scope and Contents
articles and clippings
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Woodland Notes
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1933, undated |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Book 6: Journal, January 8, 1933-April 23, 1933
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1933 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Book 1, Number7: August 23, 1931
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1931 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Book 1, Number 6: August 16, 1931
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1931 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Hermit Thrushes
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1954-1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
American Petroleum Institute - Miscellaneous
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1926-1948 |
Scope and Contents
Includes photos and correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Brush Recorder
|
1959-1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
A Narrative of Exploration and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Radio Programs
|
1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
"Our Studies of Bird Song"
|
1951-1970, undated |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Song Patterns
|
1954, undated |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Bird Song Studies
|
1953-1969, undated |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Bird Song Studies (2)
|
1959-1965 |
Scope and Contents
Wilson's Bulletin
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Bird Song Studies (3)
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1935-1950[1952] |
Scope and Contents
Articles and reprints
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Sound recording 34054 | SR-34054 |
Bird Songs of Dooryard, Field and Forest
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Undated |