Frick Laboratory field notebooks

The relationship between the American Museum of Natural History and the Childs Frick Corporation has been in existence since 1923. The activities of the Corporation consisted in carrying on field explorations for the fossilized remains of extinct mammals of the late Tertiary-Quaternary in areas located in the states of New Mexico, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, North and South Dakota, California, Alaska, etc. The recovered remains were sent to the Frick Laboratory at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and to the Millstone Laboratory, Roslyn, Long Island, a laboratory facility Childs Frick maintained in conjunction with his home. At these two laboratories, the fossilized specimens were prepared for study, preserved for future scientific endeavors, and used as material data for the publication of monographic studies. In 1966 the Childs Frick Corporation and the American Museum of Natural History entered into a formal agreement by which the Frick specimen collections were transferred to the Museum and housed in the Frick Building endowed by funds from the Childs Frick Corporation. The collection of notebooks represents the historical records of the Frick Laboratories, such as specimen shipping records from the field to the laboratories; specimen record keeping activities of cataloging, inventorying, and taxonomic indexing; and specimen field notes and locality descriptions.

The collection consits of 12 black binders (binders are all dated in the 1960s). Felid Notebooks from the Frick Lab. Also two miscellaneous folders. All contain documentation and data about specific specimens, inlcuding Panthera, Pseudaelurinae, F. atrox, F. spelaea, and more.