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Annual report: [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #66
Dates:
1873-1948
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology building and exhibit records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 100
Dates:
1905-1995
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence
Collection
Identifier: DR 084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relative to the formation and organization of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Correspondence between Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, C.O. Marsh, J.L. Wortman, J.B. Hatcher, O.A. Peterson, W.H. Utterback. Many letters from Volume II have been removed. Two volumes containing approximately 100 letters.
Dates:
1891-1906
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology fossil fish collections
Collection
Identifier: VPA 140
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection are correspondence, records, notebooks, drawings, photos, illustrations, and maps that pertain to fossil fish reports of finds, distribution and cataloguing, descriptions and publications, private and museum collections, exchanges, purchases, gifts, and exhibitions activities. This collection originally belonged to the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, then in 1944 moved to the Department of Geology and Paleontology, which is now the Department of...
Dates:
1862-1980
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology general correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 105
Scope and Contents
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence from 1887-1966, alphabetized by subject or author. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Thomas Alva Edison, Childs Frick, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington...
Dates:
1887-1966
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 106
Scope and Contents
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection. Includes commercial and handdrawn maps of North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Some maps are annotated. Also includes rolled maps above map drawers and in corner of archives.
Dates:
1880-1990
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:
1908-1966
Henry Fairfield Osborn papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Dates:
1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908-1935
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
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
Found in:
Research Library Special Collections
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
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- Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 2
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Bakewell, Robert, approximately 1790- 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 1
- Chesek, Craig 1
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
- Division of Paleontology 1
- Ellison, Mick 1
- Finnin, Denis 1
- Frick Laboratory 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
- Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Norell, Mark 1
- Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 1
- Peterson, Olof August, 1865-1933 1
- Photo Studio 1
- Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 1
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 1
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