Bowdoin College Scientific Station, DVD of reels 1-3 (transfer from 16 mm film)
Series Description
Three reels of silent 16mm film from ca. 1936, documenting life and work during the early years of Bowdoin's Scientific Station on Kent Island (New Brunswick, Canada). Most of the footage is black and white with some color spliced in. Scenes include Scientific Station personnel, landscapes, buildings, and birds; expedition vehicles leaving Bowdoin College and at the dock in Lubec, Maine loading equipment and supplies onto a boat the "Scientist"; the "Scientist" at sea towing a row boat and passing a fenced retaining area for boats, and unloading at Kent Island. Alfred O. Gross, William Gross, Ernest Joy, Thornton Burgess, and others are shown (reel 2). Also includes maps of Kent Island, scenes of the island and its buildings, the weather station, the research group (including students), nesting birds and chicks, early birdsong recordist Albert Brand (Cornell University) who came to Kent Island to record Leach's Petrels, student playing "Songs of Wildbirds" (by Brand) on a record player, student pressing plants, and wildflowers on the island (reel 3).
Dates
- Creation: 1883-1970
Creator
- From the Collection: Gross, Alfred O. (Alfred Otto) (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 45 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository