American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Annual report, 1873-1948
Microfilm copies of archives and manuscripts from central archives and other Science departments.
Barnum Brown papers
The collection consists of Brown's correspondence, notes, images and maps relating to his field work, papers of his second wife, Lilian Brown, drafts of unfinished autobiography, notes and illustrations for his scientific articles, records of his work for the museum, including exhibition halls, records of his commercial work as well as reports from his consulting work for the goverment. The collection also contains papers of Peter Kaisen who was a long-term Brown's assistant.
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology building and exhibit records
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence
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.
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology field work collection
The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began sending staff into the field as early as the first year of its founding, 1891. Since then the department has organized and supported decades of seminal field work as it continues to do so today.
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection
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.
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Roland T. Bird Howe Quarry Field Sketches and Notes, approximately 1934-1940
Hand drawn quarry sketches and also notes including inventory lists, box by box inventory of Howe Quarry Specimens by Roland T. Bird for field work managed by Barnum Brown at Howe Quarry outside Shell, Wyoming. Created approximately 1934-1940.
Field and Expedition Equipment
Frick Laboratory administrative and personnel records
This collection consists of Childs Frick correspondence. The majority of the papers consern his relationship with the American Museum of Natural History while running the Frick Laboratory as well as his role as museum Trustee.
There is also Frick's correspondence with other scientists and institutions that deals with both research in paleontology and Frick's financial support of their activities.
A very small number of letters are of personal nature.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192