S. Dillon Ripley films
name: label: Creator
content: Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001
topic: label: Topic
content: Scientific expeditions
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Rosemary L. Ripley in 1994.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (32,000 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Films were initially deposited at HSFA by Ripley's office.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2007.21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Travelogs
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Travelogs
label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Film materials associated with S. Dillon Ripley, ornithologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.  Many of the films record his scientific travels with others of ornithology and family home movies.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: S. Dillon Ripley's papers are held by Smithsonian Institution Archives and Yale University Library.