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Box 2

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Incorporation of Frick Laboratory into AMNH, 1965 - 1972

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Contains reports of staff of Frick Laboratory after Childs Frick death outlining scientific work that needed to be done with the collection.

Dates: 1965 - 1972

Incorporation of Frick Laboratory into AMNH. New Building, 1966 - 1974

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence regarding new building that was being constructed for the Frick Collection.

Includes lists of space allotments, correspondence regarding projected cabinet and tray needs including cost estimates as well as correspondence with suppliers.

Dates: 1966 - 1974

General correspondence , 1920 - 1945

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the funds transferred by Adelaide Howard Childs Frick, Childs Frick's mother, to the museum in 1920. Also contains correspondence regarding Frick's financing Barnum Brown's expedition in India and other financial contributions by Childs Frick of other departmental expeditions. Correspondence regarding Childs Frick and his employees borrowing of Department's specimens, discussions of storage space for fossils. There is extensive...
Dates: 1920 - 1945

General correspondence, 1946 - 1965

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence regarding specimen catalog numbers being assigned to the Frick Laboratory fossils.Correspondence regarding Childs Frick mulitple financial contributions to the museum.List of storage facilities used by Frick Laboratory in responce to Museum-wide survey in 1954.Museum Treasurer's and Chief Accountant's statements for the Frick Laboratory for 1950-1965.Notifications to Childs Frick of his (re)appointment as Honorary...
Dates: 1946 - 1965

Incorporation of Frick Laboratory into AMNH, 1965 - 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence among museum staff and Henry Clay Frick II (Childs Frick's son and executor) regarding disposition of the Frick Collection of fossils.

Includes an unsigned document "Background Statement Concerning Frick Collection of Fossil Mammals" describing the collection and its history and current situation of the fossils as of 1967.

Includes correspondence regarding the movement of fossils into the new Frick Building.

Dates: 1965 - 1968

Incorporation of Frick Laboratory into AMNH, 1934 - 1974

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents This folder contains copies of correspondence and legal agreements between Frick Corporation and the Museum dated from 1934 to 1945. I also holds original correspondence regarding the eventual integration of the Frick Laboratory into the Museum after Child Frick's death.Contains multiple revisions and the final draft of the agreement with Henry Clay Frick completed in 1967. Included are the details of the distribution of the funds held previously by the Childs Frick Corporation....
Dates: 1934 - 1974

Frick gifts of specimens to DVP, 1934 - 1964

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence regarding specimens given by Childs Frick to the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology

Dates: 1934 - 1964

Frick and departments other than DVP, 1936 - 1963

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Frick and departments of Mammalogy, Anthropology, Geology, Ornythology, and Insects and Spiders.

Dates: 1936 - 1963