American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
Organization
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Charles C. Mook papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 123
Scope and Contents
Mook's papers consist of two folders containing annotated manuscripts, pencil illustrations and charts on fossil mammals and reptiles with notes and exchanges with William King Gregory, William Diller Matthew and Childs Frick. The collection includes materials for courses at Columbia University and outlines of lectures by various lecturers. The materials are organized into two folders and are roughly chronological, though many items are undated. There is also correspondence and...
Dates:
1900-1966
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:
1901-1966
The Papers of Henry Fairfield Osborn (1877-1935)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Scope and Contents
Accompanying the collection is a three-drawer wooden cabinet containing file cards on assorted research subjects and people.
Dates:
1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1935
Preparation Molds for Exhibits
Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents
Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1889-1990s
Series 1: 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
Series 1: Field diaries, 1891-1998
Series
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Consist of diaries, lists of specimens found, locations of finds, records of day to day activities, and step by step findings. Individual lists can be found with both the Charles H. Falkenbach and Ted Galusha Papers. The diaries are arranged by date and filed as nearly as possible in chronological order. Notable names in the field diaries include H. F. Osborn, Walter Granger, Barnum Brown, and G. G. Simpson.
Dates:
1891-1998
Gilbert F. Stucker papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Stucker's incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts, as well as some internal department discussions from 1960-1979. Includes correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts: some are listed by number; some dated; some undated. Includes notes regarding a Polish shipment; information regarding publications, expense accounts and field trips of which only some are dated; a listing of turtle head...
Dates:
1960-1979
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
John C. Warren papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 116
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials relating to the mastodon specimen bought by the museum from Dr. Warren's family in 1906. It consists of papers and illustrations.
copies of correspondence between Warren and other researchers
copies of pages from the Visitors' Book from the Warren Museum in Boston
copy of a letter from Dr. Matthew sent to Frederic Augustus Lucas...
Dates:
1831-1963; 1968-1970; Majority of material found in 1831-1906
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192