Rachel Husband Nichols
Dates
- Existence: 1900 - 1985
Biographical Note
Rachel Alice Husband Nichols (1900-1985) started working at the museum in 1925 and served as a cataloger, staff assistant and scientific assistant. In 1940 she was given charge of the Osborn Library of Vertebrate Paleontology (replacing Jannette Lucas) before she retired in 1959 after 35 years of service at the American Museum of Natural History. (source: AMNH Annual Report for the year 1959 and Grapevine)
Topics
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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 correspondence
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.