Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
American Museum of Natural History scrapbooks, 1873-1886.
Collection
Identifier: DR 025
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks containing articles relating to ornithology, mammalogy, and museum interest news stories.
Dates:
1873-1886
Department of Invertebrate Zoology correspondence and administrative records, 1917-1989.
Collection
Identifier: DR 138
Libbie Hyman Memorabilia Collection
Collection
Identifier: MEM 22
Content Description
Artwork, Memorabilia and documents housed in Libbie Hyman's office space. Artwork includes watercolors of specimens by Childs, Verrill, Stevens and probably Hyman herself. Also ink drawings toward publication. Memorabilia includes her Typewriter, two sets of eyeglasses, suitcase, regalia.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1908 - 1969
Libbie Henrietta Hyman taxonomic records
Collection
Identifier: Mss .H86
Scope and contents
The collection consists of six notebooks (four composition, one small spiral notepad, one leather), kept as part of Hyman’s research work on invertebrate, including taxonomic identification of Turbellaria. The notebooks range from 1927 to 1964. They feature mathematical equations, trial and error scientific testing and a log of specimens. The majority of the journal content details specimen numbers, as well as information when these items were received, from where and whom. They are all...
Dates:
1927-1964
Libbie Hyman photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: PSC 133
Scope and Contents
Original and copy slides of black and white prints. Includes images of Libbie Hyman's house and garden (October 1949) and the American Museum of Natural History original library originally taken in 1937. There are also portraits of Hazel Gay (1961) and Helen Gunz (1960).
Dates:
1949-1991