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Charles C. Mook papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 123
Scope and Contents
Mook's papers consist of two folders containing annotated manuscripts, pencil illustrations and charts on fossil mammals and reptiles with notes and exchanges with William King Gregory, William Diller Matthew and Childs Frick. The collection includes materials for courses at Columbia University and outlines of lectures by various lecturers. The materials are organized into two folders and are roughly chronological, though many items are undated. There is also correspondence and...
Dates:
1900-1966
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
Henry Fairfield Osborn papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .O835
Dates:
1877-1935; Majority of material found within 1908-1935
Preparation Molds for Exhibits
Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents
Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1889-1990s
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
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
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
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- Brown, Barnum 5
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 5
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 4
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 4
- Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 4
- Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 4
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 3
- American Museum of Natural History 2
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- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 2
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- Department of Anthropology 2
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- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 2
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 2
- Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 2
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 1
- Archbold, Richard 1
- Bakewell, Robert, approximately 1790- 1
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Lilian MacLaughlin 1
- Brown, Marion 1
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Chesek, Craig 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Department of Herpetology 1
- Department of Ichthyology 1
- Division of Paleontology 1
- Ellison, Mick 1
- Finnin, Denis 1
- Frick Laboratory 1
- Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 1
- Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians 1
- Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904 1
- Hayden Planetarium 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
- Kaisen, Peter C. 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
- Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 1
- Mellon, Richard K. (Richard King) 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Norell, Mark 1
- Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 1
- Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 1
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
- Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Peterson, Olof August, 1865-1933 1
- Photo Studio 1
- Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 1
- Sage, Dean, Jr. 1
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Skinner, Morris F. 1
- Stucker, Gilbert F. 1
- Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
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