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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology

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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Annual report: [microform]

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #66
Dates: 1873-1948
Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Annual report: [microform]

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology building and exhibit records

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 100
Dates: 1905-1995
Found in: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / Department of Vertebrate Paleontology building and exhibit records

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: DR 084
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relative to the formation and organization of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Correspondence between Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, C.O. Marsh, J.L. Wortman, J.B. Hatcher, O.A. Peterson, W.H. Utterback. Many letters from Volume II have been removed. Two volumes containing approximately 100 letters.

Dates: 1891-1906
Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology fossil fish collections

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 140
Scope and Contents The materials in this collection are correspondence, records, notebooks, drawings, photos, illustrations, and maps that pertain to fossil fish reports of finds, distribution and cataloguing, descriptions and publications, private and museum collections, exchanges, purchases, gifts, and exhibitions activities. This collection originally belonged to the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, then in 1944 moved to the Department of Geology and Paleontology, which is now the Department of...
Dates: 1862-1980
Found in: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / Department of Vertebrate Paleontology fossil fish collections

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology general correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 105
Scope and Contents Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence from 1887-1966, alphabetized by subject or author. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Thomas Alva Edison, Childs Frick, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington...
Dates: 1887-1966
Found in: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / Department of Vertebrate Paleontology general correspondence

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 106
Scope and Contents

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection. Includes commercial and handdrawn maps of North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Some maps are annotated. Also includes rolled maps above map drawers and in corner of archives.

Dates: 1880-1990
Found in: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection

Departmental Annual Reports, Departmental Meetings, 1873-1976

 Series
Identifier: VPA 102
Scope and Contents Department of Vertebrate Paleontology records, including annual reports, minutes of staff meetings and some scientific reports. Administrative activity is recorded in the Annual Report documents of the early Department of Paleontology from 1873-1891. Following are reports for the later Department of Vertebrate Paleontology from 1891-1976. Records during the years following 1891 provide a robust account of the Department's personnel hired, administrative costs and spending. Field work and...
Dates: 1873-1976
Found in: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / VPA 102, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology administrative and personnel records

Rachel H. Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 124
Scope and Contents Rachel H. Nichols served as a cataloger, staff assistant and finally as a scientific assistant and replaced Miss Lucas in charge of the Osborn Library. The records that resulted consist of a great variety of subjects and represent her activities both in some personal enterprises and in her official capacity. Box 1 (1908-1966) contains Osborn Library history, organization, and administrative activity (1908-1962); excerpts from the publication Fossil Vertebrates, vi-xii (1926-1939), v.16-19...
Dates: 1908-1966
Found in: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Archives / Rachel H. Nichols papers

Henry Fairfield Osborn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Dates: 1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908-1935
Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Henry Fairfield Osborn papers

Vertebrate Paleontology photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 95
Scope and Contents

Slides of dinosaur illustrations and Frick Laboratory storage area with dinosaur fossils in the American Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Dates: 1993, undated
Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Vertebrate Paleontology photographic slides
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