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Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969

 Person

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

American Museum of Natural History scrapbooks, 1873-1886.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 025
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks containing articles relating to ornithology, mammalogy, and museum interest news stories.

Dates: 1873-1886

Libbie Hyman Memorabilia Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MEM 22
Content Description

Artwork, Memorabilia and documents housed in Libbie Hyman's office space. Artwork includes watercolors of specimens by Childs, Verrill, Stevens and probably Hyman herself. Also ink drawings toward publication. Memorabilia includes her Typewriter, two sets of eyeglasses, suitcase, regalia.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1908 - 1969

Libbie Henrietta Hyman taxonomic records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .H86
Scope and contents The collection consists of six notebooks (four composition, one small spiral notepad, one leather), kept as part of Hyman’s research work on invertebrate, including taxonomic identification of Turbellaria. The notebooks range from 1927 to 1964. They feature mathematical equations, trial and error scientific testing and a log of specimens. The majority of the journal content details specimen numbers, as well as information when these items were received, from where and whom. They are all...
Dates: 1927-1964

Libbie Hyman photographic slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 133
Scope and Contents

Original and copy slides of black and white prints. Includes images of Libbie Hyman's house and garden (October 1949) and the American Museum of Natural History original library originally taken in 1937. There are also portraits of Hazel Gay (1961) and Helen Gunz (1960).

Dates: 1949-1991