Research

Scope and Content Note

Many of these mounted and unmounted photographic prints, postcards, and offprints from State Museum publications were collected by Winifred Goldring, Assistant in Paleontology (1914), Assistant Paleontologist (1915-1920), Associate Paleontologist (1920-1925, 1928-1932), Paleobotanist (1925-1928), Assistant State Paleontologist (1932-1938) and State Paleontologist (1938-1954). These pictures depict geologic formations, fossil specimens, restorations of specimens and habitats, enlargements of map sections, and portraits of geologists and paleontologists.

B0577-97: The photoimages in this accretion were collected by Donald W. Fisher, who was State Paleontologist from 1955 to 1982. The images consist of black-and-white photographic prints and negatives varying in size from 35mm to 8 x 10 inches. A wide variety of geological subjects are depicted including specimens; sites; models and exhibits; and reproductions of charts, texts, diagrams, maps and illustrations. Some photographs are stamped on the verso as official photographs of the New York State Museum and Science Service.