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American Museum of Natural History, Department of Preparation and Installation: Diorama and Hall construction
Collection
Identifier: DR 104
Scope and Content Note
This collection spans the planning and development of the Department of Preparations for the dioramas of the various halls. These folders detail the requests and expenditures for the efforts made in travel, models, and sketches. The majority of the correspondence is directed from or to James L. Clark, the Director of the Department of Preparations between the 1930’s-1940’s. Much of the correspondence from James Lippit Clark, is directed to trackers, guides, taxidermists, donors, and...
Dates:
1919-1962
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
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology field work collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began sending staff into the field as early as the first year of its founding, 1891. Since then the department has organized and supported decades of seminal field work as it continues to do so today.
Dates:
1880-2000
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 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, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R....
Dates:
1887-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Edward Drinker Cope papers, 1846-1897
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C67
Scope and Contents
Contains chiefly letters written by Cope to his family and correspondence between him and Henry Fairfield Osborn, some illustrated or with newspaper clippings attached. Also included are childhood report cards, a few mss. of his poems and essays (1854), a pamphlet by him entitled "The marriage problem" (1888), shipping notices from expedition sites (1881-1884), and a copy of his will.Box 1. Letters, 1846-1875 -- Box 2. Letters, 1876-1888 -- Box 3. Letters, 1889-1897. Cope-Osborn...
Dates:
1846 - 1897
Frick Laboratory administrative and personnel records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 111
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1912-1968
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
William King Gregory papers, 1889-1948 (bulk 1906-1948)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .G7441
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of administrative, scientific, academic and personal papers, and correspondence. Papers include Gregory's general correspondence with universities, colleges and scientists about his research topics and publications; correspondence with museums about purchasing replicas of fossils; and with students seeking employement. Other papers include lecture notes prepared for zoology classes emphasizing evolution, 1925-1926 and 1939; and manuscripts and notes for his...
Dates:
1889-1948; Majority of material found within 1906-1948
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) / Behind subject's shoulder "M. Flinsch Buba 1938"
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 653
Scope and Contents
Portrait bust of Henry Fairfield Osborn, Paleontologist and AMNH President from 1908-1933. Inscription: On base plate "For Him the Dry Bones Came to Life/and Giant Forms of Ages Past/Rejoined the Pageant of the Living." On marble base "Joy Flinsch Buba/1942".
Dates:
1938
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) portrait
Item — Frame: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 208
Scope and Contents
Painting of man in his academic robe, holding book, 3/4 view. Inscription: Frame plate "Henry Fairfield Osborn/Fourth President/of the/American Museum of Natural History/February 10, 1908". Osborn was A.M.N.H. President from 1908 to 1933, paleontologist, naturalist, author; growth of museum and its collections are attributed to him.
Dates:
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