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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology correspondence
Collection
Identifier: DR 084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relative to the formation and organization of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. Correspondence between Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, C.O. Marsh, J.L. Wortman, J.B. Hatcher, O.A. Peterson, W.H. Utterback. Many letters from Volume II have been removed. Two volumes containing approximately 100 letters.
Dates:
1891-1906
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Research Library Special Collections
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology field correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 14
Scope and Contents
The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began sending staff into the field as early as the first year of its founding in 1891. Since then, the department has organized and supported decades of seminal field work as it continues to do today.From the field correspondence were written by field workers relaying events during excavations and expeditions. The collection includes department field communications from 1891 to 1969. While Henry Fairfield Osborn was in the department, the...
Dates:
1891-1969
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology general 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, Childs Frick, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington...
Dates:
1887-1966
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology illustrations by Henry Fairfield Osborn and Charles Mook
Collection
Identifier: VPA 69
Scope and Contents
Two oversized illustrations by Henry Fairfield Osborn and Charles Mook. 2 plates, 930 and 931, Camarasaurus paper. Placed here by Bob Evander 1/7/2005 to be archived as illustrations by Evander in the future.
Dates:
1921
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology loans and exchanges
Collection
Identifier: VPA 12
Scope and Contents
Between the years 1896-1930, Henry Fairfield Osborn actively sought from universities, museums, and institutes from around the world paleontological specimens to exchange, borrow, and purchase. The collection of correspondences provides a map of acquisitive collecting that followed the last half of the 19th century’s expansion in paleontological activity, with the trend continuing into the 20th century as more areas around the world developed systematic fossil collections. There are 5 boxes...
Dates:
1896-1940
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- Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 3
- Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 2
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
- Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Peterson, Olof August, 1865-1933 1
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