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American Museum of Natural History. Annual Reports and other publications

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 113
Scope and Contents Boxes 1 through 4 contain the American Museum of Natural History bound Annual Reports starting from 1946 through 1998. It chronicles museum operations, development, and the Board of Trustees; scientific divisions, research, and publications; science explorations, education, programing, and public outreach; museum finance and support; and museum staff and volunteers. Box 1 (1946-1968) contains themed reports. Of note are, 1953-1954, “The Museum’s Contribution to Our Knowledge of Living...
Dates: 1947-2002

Barnum Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 114
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Brown's correspondence, notes, images and maps relating to his field work, papers of his second wife, Lilian Brown, drafts of unfinished autobiography, notes and illustrations for his scientific articles, records of his work for the museum, including exhibition halls, records of his commercial work as well as reports from his consulting work for the goverment. The collection also contains papers of Peter Kaisen who was a long-term Brown's assistant.

Dates: 1877-1963

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

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence

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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

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

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

Frick Laboratory administrative and personnel records

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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

Ted Galusha collection

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Identifier: VPA 120
Dates: 1852-1979; Majority of material found within 1924-1976

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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 11
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 9
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 5
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 5
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 5
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American Museum of Natural History 4
Brown, Barnum 4
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Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 3
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 3
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 2
Skinner, Morris F. 2
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 1
Bakewell, Robert, approximately 1790- 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
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Division of Paleontology 1
Falkenbach, Charles H. 1
Frick Collection 1
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 1
Galusha, Ted 1
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
Johnson, F. Walker 1
Kaisen, Peter C. 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
Mellon, Richard K. (Richard King) 1
Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 1
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 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
Stucker, Gilbert F. 1
Taylor, Beryl E. 1
Tedford, Richard H. 1
Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856 1
Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 1
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