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American Museum of Natural History oral history collection, 1975-2002.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A45O73
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975 - 2002
Barnum Brown papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Edwin H. Colbert collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 115
Dates:
1941-1970
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Norman Dennis Newell Collection, 1909-2005 (bulk 1973-2003)
Collection
Identifier: Mss .N495
Scope and Contents
These papers consist of Newell’s scientific work at the American Museum of Natural History from 1973-2005, and Columbia University from 1945-1997; and his contributions mentioned below in the individual Series. They also include some personal and family papers dating from his childhood in Kansas through his education at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Yale University, to his death in 2005. Series I: Correspondence with Individuals (includes some institutions, where...
Dates:
1909-2005 (bulk 1973-2003)
Paleontology Field Expedition to Arizona photographic slides, 1946.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 391
Abstract
Field photographs from the AMNH Expedition to Arizona in 1946. Photographs of fossils, fossil beds, images of paleontologists working in the field, plastering specimens, boxing, packing and loading of specimens.
Dates:
1946
Rams of the rimrock ; Brontosaurus ; Trance and dance in Bali
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 27
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Rams of the Rimrock. Harold E. Anthony, AMNH mammalogist, introduces the first segment of this program while standing in front of the bighorn sheep diorama in the museum's Hall of North American Mammals and discusses the courtship behavior of the rams. This film, made by naturalist and AMNH lecturer Cleveland Grant, depicts the animals in head-on collisions fighting for mates. These rams have been known to fight for days over one female. SEGMENT 2: Brontosaurus. Shot in the Hall...
Dates:
1953
Gilbert F. Stucker papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists 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...
Dates:
1960-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Richard H. Tedford papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 130
Scope and Contents
Richard H. Tedford's correspondence. In 1994, Tedford cleared his office files of early correspondence through 1985 and deposited them in the archives. They have been processed and inventoried, keeping the original order. Boxes 1- 16 are correspondence and organized alphabetically. There are additional materials dating from post-1994 to 2002.
Dates:
1951-2002
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- Cloud, Preston, 1912-1991 1
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- Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000 1
- Fischer, Alfred G. 1
- Freed, Stanley A. 1
- Gardiner, Henry, 1916- 1
- Geological Society of America 1
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- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 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
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- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
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- Quinn, Stephen C., 1951- 1
- Reekie, Gordon 1
- Rozen, Jerome George, 1928- 1
- Saunders, John R. (John Richard) 1
- Stucker, Gilbert F. 1
- United States National Museum 1
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