William Dunlap Sargent falconry papers, 1927-1965.
Collection Number: 21-18-1314
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Dunlap Sargent falconry papers, 1927-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-18-1314
Abstract:
Includes correspondence concerning falconry, including letters to a young falconer
(1947-1948) containing much information on the sport; photographs of hawks and falcons
Sargent trained as hunters; drawings of hawks and falcons; and diagrams of furniture
and fittings used in falconry.
Creator:
Sargent, William Dunlap, 1908-1965.
Quanitities:
1.7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Biographical chronology
CHRONOLOGY |
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| 1908 | Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 15 | |
| 1926 | Graduated from the Lincoln School of Teacher's College | |
| Summer Staff Entomologist in the museum maintained by AMAH at Kanokwakke Lakes Scout Camp | ||
| Entered Cornell University | ||
| 1927 | Summer Junior Nature Counselor, Camp Lincoln, Keeseville, N.Y. | |
| 1928 | Entomology Museum at Kanokwakke Lakes Camp | |
| 1929 | Summer Biological Survey of a trout stream for Tuscarora Club, Arena, N.Y. | |
| 1930 | Summer member of West Virginia University Zoological Field Expedition under Dr. J.G. Needham | |
| 1931 | B.S., Cornell | |
| 1930-1931 | Biological Survey of Mashpee River for Mr. J.W. Farley, Boston, Mass. | |
| 1932 | M.S., Cornell | |
| Summer Survey of North Hudson drainage, fish food unit | ||
| 1932-1936 | Instructor of Ecology and Limnology at Cornell | |
| 1936 | Ph.D., Cornell, in Limnology | |
| 1937-1948 | Biology Instructor at City College of N.Y. | |
| 1948-1961 | Assistant Professor, C.C.N.Y. | |
| 1961-1965 | Associate Professor, C.C.N.Y. | |
| 1965 | Died | |
Correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s concerning falconry, including letters to
a young falconer (1947-1948) with much information on the sport; research and manuscripts
on falcons, hawks and other birds containing locations of eyries, articles, notes
and illustrations; photographs of hawks and falcons Sargent trained as hunters; drawings
of hawks and falcons; and diagrams of furniture and fittings used in falconry.
Correspondence from Sargent can be found in the Arthur Augustus Allen papers, #21-18-1255 with whom he worked at the Laboratory of Ornithology.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Dunlap Sargent falconry papers, #21-18-1314. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Subjects:
Ornithologists.
Falconers.
College teachers.
Ornithology.
Hawks.
Falcons.
Falconry.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Drawings.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence on Falconry
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence,
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1927-1941 |
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Dr. Walter R. Spofford, Minard Stevens, Louis J. Halle, Jr.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence,
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1941-1945 |
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Thomas Ennenga, Louis Halle, Jr., William Russell, Jr., Walter Spofford, Robert Stabler
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence,
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1947-1948 |
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Bob Maull, Jr.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence,
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1946-1950 |
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Richard Pough, Howard Richardson, William Russell, Jr., Williston Shor, Walter Spofford
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence,
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1952, 1953, 1963, 1965, n.d. |
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Edward Reid, Walter Spofford, Minard Stevens, includes response to card dated 11-6-33
from Eugene Smith that is in box 1 folder 1
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Series II. Student Materials
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Ornithology lecture notes,
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1929-1934 |
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Lectures on definition, characteristics, origin and migration of birds, and falconry
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Thesis: "The Training of a Red-Tailed Hawk" (2 copies),
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1936 |
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Scope and Contents
Note that it appears he wrote a separate thesis that was used for obtaining his PhD
titled "The internal thoracic skeleton of the Anisoptera (Order Odonata)" and that
the Red-Tailed Hawk thesis remained unpublished.
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Series III. Research and Manuscripts on Falcons, Hawks and Other Birds
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Articles and Speeches by Sargent
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Draft speeches and published and unpublished articles,
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1934-1939 &, n.d. |
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"A Visit with the Falconer of the Falcon Field," "Hawks," "Nest Parasitism of Hawks,"
"The Prairie Falcons of Williams Canyon Colorado," "The Flying Dutchess," "The Training
of a Red-Tailed Hawk," "The Internal Thoracic Skeleton of the Dragonflies"
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Research: Subject Files
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Anatomy and osteology (drawings, reprints),
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1927, 1941, &, n.d. |
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William L. Engels, E. Sunderville
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Bibliographical notes
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undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Bird-banding (bulletin)
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undated |
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"How to Band Nestling Hawks, Owls, and Eagles"
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Care and management (articles, thesis)
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1826, 1890, 1935, 1936 |
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John Downes, "Observations on Falconry"; Col. E. Delme Radcliff, "Falconry"; George
G. Goodwin, "Winged Monarchs of the Air"
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Drawings, sketches, and watercolors of falcons
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undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
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undated |
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Locations of nests of falcons, in the U.S. and abroad
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
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undated |
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Locations of falcon nests by state: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
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undated |
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Locations of falcon nests by state: Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
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undated |
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Locations of falcon nests by state: New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
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1940, 1950 &, undated |
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Locations of falcon nests by state: Pennsylvania
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Falcon eyries (lists, magazine photographs)
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undated |
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Locations of falcon nests by state or territory: South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Panama
Canal Zone and Puerto Rico
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Falcon measurements and weights
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undated |
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Weight and measurements of several falcon species, including the peregrine, sparrow
hawk, and pigeon hawk
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Falcon notes
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undated |
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Vitamins, minerals, mews, medicine, hooding, scouring, imping, flying falcons, falcon
sounds, caring for hawks, peregrine watching
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Falcon records
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undated |
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Statistics and activities of three peregrines and one prairie falcon
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Falcons, Keys and Taxonomy of (manuscripts)
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undated |
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Descriptions and characteristics of the families of falcons, article on taxonomy of
the Palaearctic Goshawk
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Furniture and fittings (articles, photos, mss. diagrams)
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undated |
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Trappings and gear used in falconry with diagrams
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Falconry clippings,
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1930-1948 &, n.d. |
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Art of falconry, early falconry, Sargent's work
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
List of Falcon specimens
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undated |
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Lists of collected American Falconiformes
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Falconry, bulletins and journals,
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1940-1943 &, 1954 |
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List of falconers, Journals of American Falconers' Association, Journals of the Falconers'
Association of North America, Bulletins of Westchester Hawking Club and American Amateur
Falconers' Association
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Falconry articles
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1913-1939 |
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Hawk and falcon articles, 1920 National Geographic article by Louis A. Fuertes
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Falconry articles
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1940-1948 |
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Articles on eagles, hawks, falcons
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Falconry articles
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1952-1964 &, n.d. |
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Articles on eagles, falcons, albatross
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Falcons and hawks (bulletins, reprints, reports, advertising material, 2 photos)
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1929-1943 &, n.d. |
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U.S. Dept. Agr. bulletins on parasites and diseases in poultry, mites and lice on
poultry, movie ad with two photos, hawk reprints
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Falcon, Hawk, Vulture and Eagle pictures
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undated |
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Magazine clippings, lithographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Field identification of Hawks
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1939 |
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Illustrations of characteristics of hawks for field identification, including wingspread
dimensions
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Hawk migration
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1939-1940 |
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Annual report of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association, Goshawk flight
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Hawks: Notes on living birds
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1938-1940 |
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Study skin notes on collected hawks
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| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Hawks, owls, and other birds of prey
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1929-1939 |
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Articles on hawks and owls; birds of prey; food habits of Buteo hawks, eagles, hawks,
and vultures; the bald eagle
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| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Hawks--trapping
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1935 &, n.d. |
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Articles on shooting hawks, methods of hawk trapping
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| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Maps, nest sites marked
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undated |
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California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Maps, nest sites marked
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undated |
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New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Maps
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1916, n.d. |
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North America, Canada, Newfoundland and Greenland, United States with nesting sites
of the duck hawk (peregrine falcon)
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| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
"Observations on the Peregrine Falcon" by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson (typescript--published
article)
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undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Parasitology and pathology (notes, articles, photos),
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undated, 1925, n.d. |
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Notes on two diseases of hawks, articles on blood parasites of birds, and external
parasites of birds; list of the cestodes (worms) of the falcons; note on delousing
hawks
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| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Quarry (magazine articles and pictures),
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undated, 1940 |
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Prey of the falcons
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| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Quotations
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undated |
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Falconry quotations from Shakespeare, poems, a German quotation, and the Falconer's
Song
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| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Study skin notes
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undated |
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Peregrine falcon study skin statistics
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| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Wings (diagrams, notes, magazine illustrations)
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undated |
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Wings of the falcon with drawings showing various movements and positions
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| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Falcon drawing
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undated |
| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
"Falconry," Field, Aug. 5, 1871 (photocopy)
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undated, Aug. 5, 1871 |
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Research: Card Files
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| Box 6 |
Card file (3"x5") on falconry
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Books, articles and manuscripts by title and author, falconry topic references, locations
of eyries by country and state
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| Box 7 |
Card file (3"x5")
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References on birds and falcons, address index, bibliography on thorax of odonata
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Series IV. Photographs
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| Box 5 |
Photographic prints of falcons and climbing expeditions to eyries
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1920s-1940s &, n.d. | |