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Barnum Brown papers

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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

Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 105
Scope and Contents Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence from 1887-1966, alphabetized by subject or author. Hundreds of scientists worldwide are represented by correspondence and include Alexander Agassiz, Glover M. Allen, Florentino Ameghino, Erwin H. Barbour, Franz Boas, Stephen F. Borhegyi, Robert Broom, Barnum Brown, Hermon C. Bumpus, Edwin H. Colbert, Thomas Alva Edison, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R....
Dates: 1887-1966

Field and Expedition Equipment

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Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates: Usage: circa 1877-1990s

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Vertebrate Paleontology Archives 2
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Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 2
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 2
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
McKenna, Malcolm C. 2
Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 2
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Brown, Lilian MacLaughlin 1
Brown, Marion 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Department of Anthropology 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Hayden Planetarium 1
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
Kaisen, Peter C. 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Skinner, Morris F. 1
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 1
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 1
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