Gilbert F. Stucker papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two folders of Stucker's incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts, as well as some internal department discussions from 1960-1979. Includes correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts: some are listed by number; some dated; some undated. Includes notes regarding a Polish shipment; information regarding publications, expense accounts and field trips of which only some are dated; a listing of turtle head slides and an inventory of fossil material. Correspondents include: E. H. Colbert, Wann Langston Jr., John S. McIntosh, Dale Russell, Ralph W. G. Wyckoff, Russ Patterson, Bobb Schaeffer and others. Includes a list of Triassic vertebrates from North Carolina donated to the AMNH dated March 21-24, 1967.
One of the specimen collections discussed is shared between AMNH and National Museum of Canada.
Collections VPA 35a and VPA 35b are housed in the same box.
Dates
- 1960-1979
Creator
- Stucker, Gilbert F. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is housed in the Division of Paleontology. Please contact the collection manager for access; materials are sometimes restricted. https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/vertebrate-paleontology-archives
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
General
Historic Call Number: 5:6
Formerly VPA 35a
- Title
- Gilbert F. Stucker papers, 1960-1979
- Author
- Melissa Silvestri, Allyson Mellone, Alana Gishlick, 2021
- Date
- 2021 August
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Minimal level collection record created with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America grant, 2020.
Repository Details
Part of the Vertebrate Paleontology Archives Repository
200 Central Park West
New York NY 10024-5192
