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Frick, Childs 1883-1965
birth: March 12, 1883
death: May 8, 1965
see full description in AMNH Archives database: https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/agents/amnhp_1001371
Donor, Paleontologist
In 1916, the American Museum of Natural History Department of Paleontology began a long association with Childs Frick, the son of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick and a longtime American Museum trustee. Using his personal fortune to employ a small army of collectorsand researchers including Morris Skinner, Theodore Galusha and Beryl Taylor, Frick accumulated a collection of over 200,000 fossil mammals, which formed the basis of a series of monographic studies on mammal evolution. The collection was donated to the Museum after Frick's death in 1965. The financial assets of the Childs Frick Corporation, which were donated to the Museum along with Frick's fossil collections in 1968, assisted in the construction of a new, 10-story collection and office building, which opened in 1973. (source: AMNH website)
Trustee, American Museum of Natural History.