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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

E-news (PaleoCenter)

 Collection
Identifier: EXH.025

Frick Laboratory administrative and personnel records

 Collection
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

Notebooks of fossils and specimens, 1927-1936

 Series
Identifier: VPA 109
Scope and Contents Childs Frick's laboratory notebooks as arranged by Mr. Frick's secretary.5 notebooks, 1927-1937 (1932-1933 missing); Comprises Box numbers 1-435 (99-219 missing); Ainsworth, Nebraska.Lists of fossils and specimen material received in the Frick Laboratory from Morris Skinner. These lists may have been typed into other field lists by George Krochak at a later date.Wilson, Jack3 List books, 1932-1936; Oct. 1932-May 1936 Barstow, California; Aug....
Dates: 1927-1936

[Prehistoric scenes] [art original] / [Rob Barber]

 Collection
Identifier: Floor 6, Stack 6-38, shelf F-2
Scope and Contents

The paintings were made for the Wallach Orientation Center, which introduces visitors to the key concepts presented in the Museum's fossil halls: the Hall of Vertebrate Origins, the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing, and the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives. The paintings were removed in September 2015 when the Museum began to renovate the Center. Paintings signed RJB or R; a few are dated in back.

Dates: 1995-1996