Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

Contains five binders of presidential memos written by then President of the American Museum of Natural History, Henry Fairfield Osborn, to the Museum Director between the years of 1928 to 1934.

Dates: 1928 - 1934

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / American Museum of Natural History presidential memorandums, 1928-1934.

American Museum of Natural History proposed new buildings album, 1915-1917.

Collection

Identifier: DR 137

Abstract

Wrapped album combines several different reports related to proposed new AMNH buildings, including quarterly report from 1916 and oral report of President Henry Fairfield Osborn to the Trustees from 1916, AMNH annual meeting regarding the Museum's need for new construction. Also includes reprinting of an editorial article from the New York Times regarding this proposal, as well as editorials from the New York Sun, New York World, and Evening Post.

Dates: 1915 - 1917

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / American Museum of Natural History proposed new buildings album, 1915-1917.

Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

Collection

Identifier: Mss .A54

Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...

Dates: 1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

Associate curatorship of Dr. Chester Reeds, 1917-1919

File — Box: 1, Folder: 32

Identifier: Mss .H682

Scope and Contents

Correspondence among Hovey, Chester A. Reeds, and Henry Fairfield Osborn regarding appointment of Dr. Reeds as Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology.

Dates: 1917-1919

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Mss .H681-.H682, Edmund Otis Hovey papers / Correspondence and administrative papers

Budget, 1917-1924

File — Box: 1, Folder: 22

Identifier: Mss .H682

Scope and Contents

Primarily correspondence among E. O. Hovey, Chester Reeds, and museum administrators regarding budgets for the Department of Geology. Also includes handwritten budgets and notes.

Dates: 1917-1924

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Mss .H681-.H682, Edmund Otis Hovey papers / Correspondence and administrative papers

[Celebration of the Year of the Horse]

Item

Identifier: Art Survey No. 588

Scope and Contents

Chinese painting in celebration of the year of the horse, presented to Prof. Osborn by Dr. Bashford Dean. It was once one continuous strip; it was cut, mounted and framed for Osborn Library ca. 1944.

Originally one painting cut into 8 pieces and framed. Each strip shows different scenes of horses in herds, standing, running, squatting; one is of deity sitting on clouds; clouds and horses around him.

Dates: undated

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / [Celebration of the Year of the Horse]

Central Asiatic Expeditions records

Collection

Identifier: Mss .C446

Scope and Contents This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...

Dates: 1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933

Found in: Research Library Special Collections / Central Asiatic Expeditions records

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

American Association for the Advancement of Science correspondence and papers, 1916, 1928-1929

American Museum of Natural History annual reports, presidential copy, 1896-1932.

American Museum of Natural History financial book, 1871-1872.

American Museum of Natural History presidential memorandums, 1928-1934.

American Museum of Natural History proposed new buildings album, 1915-1917.

Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

Associate curatorship of Dr. Chester Reeds, 1917-1919

Budget, 1917-1924

[Celebration of the Year of the Horse]

Central Asiatic Expeditions records

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