Kaisen, Peter C.

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.

The professional correspondence includes letters between Brown and other paleontologists both within AMNH and elsewhere. It also contains correspondence regarding Brown's lecture tours and his application for copyright. There are also some letters from the public with paleontological enquiries.

This series consist of 2 sub-series. The first contains writing about Barnum Brown and the second contains writing by Barnum Brown.

The series consists of papers belonging to Barnum Brown's long term assistant Peter Kaisen. There is a manuscript of Kaisen's diary and his notes on specimen boxes.