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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

American Museum of Natural History, Expedition to China correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .E973
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 16 folders of material, primarily typewritten correspondence (some carbon copies), relating to the planning, organization and progress of the Expedition to China. The majority of the letters are between Laufer and Franz Boas (a famed anthropologist who had formerly worked at AMNH and at the time was running the anthropology PhD. program at Columbia University), with Laufer supplying regular reports on his work to Boas, who disseminated and coordinated the...
Dates: 1900-1904; Majority of material found within 1901-1904

Joseph Asaph Allen correspondence, 1870-1919

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A451-.A452
Dates: Majority of material found within ( 1899-1902)

Portrait of Morris K. Jessup

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .J47
Scope and Contents

Portrait of Morris K. Jesup, third president of the American Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1904

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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 4
American Museum of Natural History 2
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1