C. J. Albrecht

              Annual Series of
LECTURES
by C. J. Albrecht of Field Museum - Chicago
EXPLORER
ZOOLOGIST
PHOTOGRAPHER
ANIMAL SCULPTOR

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C.J.Albrecht — preparing his first specimen.



While in Arctic Alaska and Siberia.



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World's largest mammal group.  Field Museum — Chicago



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Designing and modeling African Water Hole Group.



In Africa



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ROUND THE YEAR WITH WILD LIFE
A travel tale of nature through the four seasons.  Familiar things seldom photographed.  Booming prairie chickens, dancing grouse, singing tree frogs, fighting lizards, hatching woodcock, cocoon spinning caterpillars, snowshoe rabbits, shy fawns, bold moose, microscopic and telescopic marvels of the game of forest and stream, and feathered friends of the air.

Nature in all her moods, from tranquility to turmoil, from moonbeams to blizzards.  A lecture of beauty, filmed by one who has been a nature lover for a life time.

[Illustrated with motion pictures]



LEGEND AND ROMANCE OF THE NORTHWEST INDIAN
OR
WILD LIFE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Covering a period of twelve years' intimate acquaintance and association with the Indian and wild life of the northwest while a member of the faculty of the University of Washington, and curator of the State Museum, Seattle.  Wandering with the Indian, we learn the secrets of wild life.  Marvelous motion pictures of elk, deer, bear, cougar, cats, otter, martin, beaver, sea lions and sea bird life, making canoes and weaving baskets, hunting the fur seal, and fishing, feasts, games and war dances.  An ideal interpretation of the vanishing American and a lecture you will not forget.

[Illustrated with slides and motion pictures]


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OTTIGA, THE MASTER OF THE HAREM
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THE LIFE HISTORY OF THE ALASKA FUR SEAL
Filmed in Alaska, the home of glaciers, totem poles and the midnight sun, the Story of Ottiga vividly and dramatically portrays the life cycle of a great harem bull from tiny puppyhood until master of a hundred cows.

Traveling nine months of the year along our Pacific coast, the great seal herd of two million spends three months on the Pribilofs, Treasure Isles of the Mists, to bear their young and breed.  Here the law of the herd is the survival of the fittest.  Excitement ranges from birth to death as Ottiga's struggle goes on, seeking nourishment, learning to swim, dodging killer whales and poachers, running the gauntlet of the fur seal industry and arriving at the pinnacle of power by terrific fights.  A story that is one of the seven wonders of Nature.  [Illustrated with motion pictures]



BY CARAVAN THRU THE LOST KINGDOM
A year's Safari through Abyssinia, Kenya Colony and Tanganyika, collecting material for the huge Water-hole group in Field Museum.  A guest of Haile Selassie; viewing his golden treasures, roaming his palace grounds.  A caravan of seventy camels and mules and sixty men across plains and mountains toward the Southern Cross. Weary and exhausted; pack animals dying in their tracks; that great cry for watery facing bandits and dangerous game; photographing wild tribes; hobnobbing with killers and princes; stopping death-dealing charges of big game.

A caravan trek that cannot be repeated in a land that breathes of mystery and is reminiscent of Biblical times.

[Illustrated with slides and motion pictures]


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C. J. Albrecht after graduating from the Iowa State University, served successively as a faculty member of the University of Washington, as curator of zoological exhibits in the State Museum in Seattle, and as a staff member of the American Museum of New York and Field Museum, Chicago.

Mr. Albrecht is both an explorer and a zoologist.  His scientific research and collecting include a series of twenty-two expeditions that extend from arctic Alaska and Siberia to the jungles of Africa.  He is a crack shot, not only killing big game with a rifle, but, on one occasion, an American bison with a bow and arrow.

As a photographer of wild life he was awarded first prize in an international competition on outdoor photography.

As a sculptor of animals and a taxidermist he has prepared many habitat groups.  About one of these Field Museum News says:
One of the finest groups in Field Museum was recently completed and opened to the public.  This group, called the 'African Water Hole,' is by far the largest animal group in the Museum, and, so far as known, the largest in the world.


With this marvelous background Mr. Albrecht is eminently qualified to tell the story behind the scenes in an interesting and fascinating manner.  He has, also, the most unusual still and motion pictures to illustrate the dramatic presentation of his lecture subjects.



APPRECIATIONS

His pictures border on the Wonderland and around them he has built a lecture that holds the closest attention of his audience from start to finish.—
Independent Republican, Waverly, Iowa.

The most interesting motion pictures we have ever had at the club.—Gen. J. Fred Pierson, New York Association for the Protection of Game.

Legend and Romance of the Northwest Indian was a lecture greatly enjoyed by all of us.  Its unique features and beautiful as well as unusual motion pictures placed it among the best we ever had at the Academy.—Harold T. Green, Director Ludwick Series of Lectures, Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia.


Your previous lectures at this Museum on the Pacific Northwest, Laysan Island, and other subjects have been eminently satisfactory and we shall be glad to reserve for you a booking during the next season.—
The Brooklyn Museum.

There never has been a time since I have been a member of the Men's Club of Hyde Park that we have had a program that was more interesting than the one you gave last night.  It was just the type that men like.

R. O. BYERRUM, President
Men's Club, Hyde Park, Chicago

Your pictures were both unusual and exceedingly interesting and the large audience thoroughly enjoyed your description of the life of the seals on the Pribilof Islands.

F. E. VAUGHAN
Chairman, Entertainment Committee,
University Club of Chicago

I heard many favorable comments on the splendid address which you gave at our Ladies' Night party.

EDWARD J. STRASMA, Secretary
Kiwanis Club, Kankakee, Illinois

Our four audiences who heard your fine lectures on the fur seal, were highly pleased both with the informative lecture itself and with the very fine illustrations and motion pictures you used.  It was a real pleasure and I trust that we may soon have another one of your lectures on our course.

S. A. BARRETT, Director
Milwaukee Public Museum

I consider your illustrated lecture one of the best we have ever had, and we always try to buy the best.

O. FRED UMBAUGH
Head of English and Dean of Boys
Thornton Township High School, Harvey, Illinois