Box 10
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Thomson, Albert; South Dakota, 1937 - 1941
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Thomson and Granger. Includes correspondence between Granger and Childs Frick regarding financing the expedition. Correspondence from 1938 and 1939 includes list of expenses. Correspondence from 1939 includes a permit to collect fossils near Badlands National Monument as well as a list of specimens collected.There is no correspondence for 1940.Correspondence from 1941 includes letter from Thomson(?) to National Park Services regarding the expedition and...
Dates:
1937 - 1941
Brown, Barnum; Montana; South Dakota, Kansas, 1941
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Brown and Lett M. Ford regarding location of dinosaur fossils in Montana. Includes a exerpt on Oligocene Deposits in the Little Badlands, South Dakota from Annals of the Carnegie Museum, Vol. V, 1908-1909. Also included a outline of the expedition with tentative budget and expenses. Also included a permission for The Montana Power Company to excavate fossils on the land belonging to the company. Financial statement submitted to Childs Frick who financed the expedition....
Dates:
1941
Colbert, Edwin H.; South Dakota, 1941
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Colbert and Granger, Thomson, Childs Frick. Includes list of expenditures and Colbert's report on the expeditiont sent to Frick.
Dates:
1941
Wood, Horace Elmer, 2nd; Multiple states, 1941
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 1
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Wood's itinerary and letter from Wood to Land Classification Services in D.C. asking for maps of Southwest Wyoming, Northwest Wyoming, and sections of Northern Great Plains covering the western half of North Dakota.
Dates:
1941
Colbert, Edwin H.; Texas, 1943
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 2
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Includes list of supplies stored with the museum truck that was stored in Texas. Extensive correspondence between William Mussig, the museum's Purchasing Agent and various government and local entities in Texas regarding the car and the permissions nesessary from the Office of Defence Transportation to purchase tires and gasoline. Also included correspondence between Colbert and Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University, Louis Monaco. Included is statement of expenses and a notebook of Field...
Dates:
1943
Colbert, Edwin H.; Florida, 1944
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 3
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Colbert and Richard Archbold regarding Colbert's visit to the Archbild Biological Station in Florida. Includes Colbert's correspondence with Louis Monaco, Rachel Nichols (Husband), Herman Gunter, Florida State Geologist. Also includes record of expenses.
Dates:
1944
Colbert, Edwin H.; Arizona, 1946
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 4
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Colbert and Chas L. Camp of the Museum of Paleontology at Bercley. Included is an letter to the Secretary of the Interior requesting permission to excavate for fossils, combined list of needed camp equipment, Colbert's itinerary. Also included is Colbert's report on the work in the Petrified Forest National Monument Area with list of most important fossils discovered. Also included is a note from Floyd Keller of the National Park Service with a clipping from the...
Dates:
1946
Brown, Barnum; Guatemala, 1946 - 1953
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 4-11
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from 1946 contains notes about contacts in Guatemala, letter from Edgar H. Stapper, U.S. Representative of Progreso Industrial De Mexico, S.A. to Guatemalan Council, informing the latter that Brown was working for Stapper. Handwritten notes on locations and maps. Letter from Frank E. Egler of theChicle Development Company to Minister of Argiculture in Guatemala regarding Brown's activities. Letter to Brown from AMNH Department of Fishes and Aquatic Biology seeking information...
Dates:
1946 - 1953
Colbert, Edwin H.; New Mexico; Arizona, 1947 - 1948
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 5-6
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
1947 includes itineraries for Colbert and Simpson. Correspondence between Colbert and Erik K. Reed, Thomas E. Whitcraft, Superintendent of the Pertrified Forest National Monument, Dr. Thomas Ierardi, George Whitaker, William Fish, Wayne M. Faunce, Jack Noble, Carl Sorensen. Correspondence includes letters about permission to excavate for fossils. Also correspondence about publicity for the expedition. Also included is the report on the expedition sent by Colbert to Alexander Wetmore of the...
Dates:
1947 - 1948
Simpson, George Gaylord; New Mexico; Arizona, 1947 - 1949
Record Group — Box: 10, Folder: 5-7
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
1947 correspondence includes letters between Simpson and George Whitaker, William Fish, Colbert.
1948 correspondence includes letters between Simpson and H.F. Henriques, Jr., Carl Sorensen, George Whitaker, Louis Monaco. Also included correspondence regarding publicity for the project. 1949 correspondence includes letters between Simpson and C. B. Read of University of New Mexico, correspondence regarding publicity, expense accounts
Dates:
1947 - 1949