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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, Childs Frick, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington...
Dates:
1887-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Charles H. Falkenbach papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 119
Scope and Contents
Charles H. Falkenbach Administrative Files contain correspondence, AMNH pension fund records, expense accounts, specimen exchanges, field work accounts, manuscript notes, and geological surveys. The collection is arranged by individuals, institutions, and by subject. Box 1 (1927-1961) contains correspondence from A to Christman; Box 2 (1956-1959) contains correspondence from Davies to Frick; Box 3 (1956-1962) contains correspondence from Frick to Schultz; Box 4 (1950-1951)...
Dates:
1916-1962; Majority of material found within 1940-1962
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Historical Fossil Fish Collection
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
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
F. Walker Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 121
Scope and Contents
The F. Walker Johnson papers is a collection of correspondence, records, field notebooks, bibliographic reference materials, drawings, charts, and maps. Boxes 1-3 labeled “Tertiary Stratigraphy and the Frick collection of fossil vertebrates from North Central Nebraska” contain material for Johnson’s 1984 publication, Bulletin AMNH, vol. 178, article 3. Box 1 (1972-1985) contains correspondence; Box 2 (1931-1979) contains photocopied field notes and M. F. Skinner’s compilation of...
Dates:
1972-1983, 1973-1988
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
William Diller Matthew papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 122
Scope and Contents
William Diller Matthew's notebooks, notes, correspondence and manuscripts. He worked at the AMNH for thirty-two years. His more than 250 publications deal with the morphology and classification of the Eocene mammals and later Cenozoic mammals. He was especially interested in horses and he made them a showpiece of evolution. Evolution was the one theme on which he constantly wrote whether dealing with descriptions or comparisons. Box 1 contains biographical and bibliographic materials, Boxes...
Dates:
1893-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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:
1901-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Gilbert F. Stucker papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three folders of Stucker's incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts, as well as some internal department discussions from 1960-1979. Includes correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts: some are listed by number; some dated; some undated. Includes notes regarding a Polish shipment; information regarding publications, expense accounts and field trips of which only some are dated; a listing of...
Dates:
1960-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Beryl E. Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 129
Scope and Contents
Collection includes Beryl E. Taylor's professional papers from working in the Frick Laboratory, specializing in deer and cameloid fossils of North America. Box 1 contains biographical data, and DVP/Frick Laboratory administrative materials such as memos, meeting notes, and grant applications. Box 2 contains correspondence. Box 3 contains published papers and indices by Taylor. Box 4 contains research notes and unpublished papers, primarily on deer species. Box 5 also contains notes and data...
Dates:
1891-1980; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Richard H. Tedford papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 130
Scope and Contents
Richard H. Tedford's correspondence. In 1994, Tedford cleared his office files of early correspondence through 1985 and deposited them in the archives. They have been processed and inventoried, keeping the original order. Boxes 1- 16 are correspondence and organized alphabetically. There are additional materials dating from post-1994 to 2002.
Dates:
1951-2002
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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