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    Carl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature...
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    Carl E. Akeley, who was employed at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Akeley biographers Penelope Bodry-Sanders and Jay Kirk suggest that Delia and Akeley...
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    lost by the 1940s. Jumbo's hide was stuffed by William J. Critchley and Carl Akeley, both of Ward's Natural Science, who stretched it during the mounting...
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    velocity onto a surface. This construction technique was invented by Carl Akeley and first used in 1907.: 7  The concrete is typically reinforced by conventional...
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    Mary Jobe Akeley (January 29, 1878 – January 19, 1966) was an American explorer, author, mountaineer, and photographer. She undertook expeditions in the...
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    museum was constructed by taxidermist Carl Akeley for the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1889, where it is still held. Akeley set taxidermy muskrats in a three-dimensional...
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  • Akeley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Akeley (1864–1926), American naturalist, inventor, sculptor and photographer Delia...
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    Bodry-Sanders, "Carl Akeley, Africa's Collector, Africa's Savior" Paragon House, 1990, pp. 53–54 Penelope Bodry-Sanders, "Carl Akeley, Africa's Collector...
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    taxidermy was taken forward under the leadership of artists such as Carl Akeley, James L. Clark, William T. Hornaday, Coleman Jonas, Fredrick, and William...
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    visionary achievement in filmmaking technology Film portal 1976 in film Carl Akeley, invented gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera Image stabilization List...
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    U.S. presidency, and post-presidency. Named after taxidermist Carl Akeley, the Akeley Hall of African Mammals is a two-story hall on the second floor...
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    depth. Carl Akeley, a naturalist, sculptor, and taxidermist, is credited with creating the first ever habitat diorama in the year 1889. Akeley's diorama...
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  • Life of a Storyteller, p. 123 Clark, James Lippitt, memorial essay on Carl Akeley, copy in the archives of the Explorers' Club, New York City Roosevelt...
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  • including: Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Carter Beard Ernest Thompson Seton Carl Akeley Gifford Pinchot 'Buffalo Bill' Cody George Shields David Abercrombie...
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    management tools were and are being advanced at Field Museum. For example, Carl Akeley's development of taxidermy excellence produced the first natural-looking...
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    The first systematic study was not conducted until the 1920s, when Carl Akeley of the American Museum of Natural History traveled to Africa to hunt...
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  • published by Henry Holt in 2010. Kingdom Under Glass is the biography of Carl Akeley, the American taxidermist, explorer, and creator of the African Hall...
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    gorilla and named it Gorilla beringei after the man who shot it. In 1925, Carl Akeley, a hunter from the American Museum of Natural History who wished to study...
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  • Lewis Ellsworth Akeley was born on February 22, 1861, in Clarendon, New York. His brother, Carl, would become a conservationist. Akeley first attended...
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    means in its power. Joining Walsh were Adolphus Greely, Donaldson Smith, Carl Lumholtz, Marshall Saville, Frederick Dellenbaugh and David Brainard. After...
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  • national park in Africa, formally proposed in 1925. He became known to Carl Akeley of the American Museum of Natural History through his cartographic work...
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    Early in his career, he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first...
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    Written by Martin Johnson Terry Ramsaye Produced by Daniel E. Pomeroy Carl Akeley Alfred J. Klein Starring Martin & Osa Johnson Cinematography Martin &...
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    NY 31A west of Clarendon village. Carl Akeley, (1864-1924), noted taxidermist, conservationist, and inventor. Akeley Hall in the American Museum of Natural...
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  • footage at AllMovie. Herbert Morrison: Reporter; Alfred E. Gold: Camera Operator; Carl Akeley. Finder for Moving-Picture Cameras US1310776 Google Patents...
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    Frans Snyders George Stubbs Julia Wernicke Ernst Zehle Silvio Apponyi Carl Akeley Alphonse-Alexandre Arson Alfred Barye Antoine-Louis Barye André-Vincent...
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  • realistic, natural displays that Carl Akeley had created as Chief Taxidermist at the Field Museum from 1896 to 1909. Akeley was considered to be the "father...
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  • in New York City. In 1926 he travelled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience...
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    building at 814 W. Wisconsin Avenue was completed in 1898. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a taxidermist and biologist noted as the "father of modern taxidermy...
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  • Glass, published in 2010, recounts the life and story of taxidermist Carl Akeley. He is the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction...
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