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American Museum of Natural History presidential memorandums, 1928-1934.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 144
Abstract

Contains five binders of presidential memos written by then President of the American Museum of Natural History, Henry Fairfield Osborn, to the Museum Director between the years of 1928 to 1934.

Dates: 1928 - 1934

American Museum of Natural History proposed new buildings album, 1915-1917.

 Collection
Identifier: DR 137
Abstract

Wrapped album combines several different reports related to proposed new AMNH buildings, including quarterly report from 1916 and oral report of President Henry Fairfield Osborn to the Trustees from 1916, AMNH annual meeting regarding the Museum's need for new construction. Also includes reprinting of an editorial article from the New York Times regarding this proposal, as well as editorials from the New York Sun, New York World, and Evening Post.

Dates: 1915 - 1917

Roy Chapman Andrews papers, 1987 Accession

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A54
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of Andrews' correspondence, manuscripts, and transcripts of Andrews' broadcasts and talks from 1934 to1944. It also contains one folder of family and biographical documents and newspaper clippings received from Charles Gallenkamp, Andrews' biographer, in 1990. The majority of the administrative papers' correspondence concerns requests for speaking engagements about Andrews' explorations, requests for articles, and letters from the public and from companies...
Dates: 1920-1947; Majority of material found within 1934-1944

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

[Celebration of the Year of the Horse]

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 588
Scope and Contents

Chinese painting in celebration of the year of the horse, presented to Prof. Osborn by Dr. Bashford Dean. It was once one continuous strip; it was cut, mounted and framed for Osborn Library ca. 1944.

Originally one painting cut into 8 pieces and framed. Each strip shows different scenes of horses in herds, standing, running, squatting; one is of deity sitting on clouds; clouds and horses around him.

Dates: undated

Central Asiatic Expeditions records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .C446
Scope and Contents This collection is a record of the Museum’s explorations undertaken during the 1920s in the Gobi Desert under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews. A list of the men who participated in the CAE can be culled from the expeditions’ letterheads used by museum personnel in New York. All but three of the men cited on these letterheads are represented here. Those not found are Mont Reid, a physician, James Wang, an interpreter and G. Horwath of motor transport. The variety of other correspondents...
Dates: 1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1921-1933

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 32
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives 5
 
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Manuscript Collection 12
Department Records 9
Art Survey 5
Paleontologists -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Photographic Print Collection 4
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Fossils 3
Natural history museum curators -- Correspondence 3
AMNH Expeditions -- Vertebrate Paleontology 2
Annual reports 2
Mammals -- Evolution. 2
Mongolia -- Description and travel 2
Museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence. 2
Ontogeny. 2
Paleontologists -- Correspondence 2
Paleontology 2
Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 2
AMNH Expeditions 1
Administrative 1
Adventure and adventurers -- United States 1
Animals -- Classification 1
Archives Microfilm 1
Australia -- Description and travel. 1
Birds -- Classification 1
Birds -- Collection and preservation 1
Conservationists -- United States 1
Construction 1
Dinosaurs 1
Ecology 1
Education -- Museums 1
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- Sources. 1
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- History -- Sources. 1
Fishes -- Anatomy. 1
Fishes -- Evolution. 1
Fishes -- Nile River Valley -- Phylogeny 1
Fishes -- Phylogeny 1
Forests and forestry 1
Game protection -- United States 1
Geology -- Congresses. 1
Geology -- New York (State) -- Long Island. 1
Hunting -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Hunting guns 1
Ichthyologists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Komodo dragon 1
Library 1
Mammals 1
Mammals -- Classification 1
Mammals -- Collection and preservation 1
Mammals, Fossil -- North America. 1
Mammals, Fossil. 1
Map projection 1
Marineland (Fla.) 1
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Museum construction 1
Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Correspondence 1
Museum finance 1
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Natural history museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History 1
New Zealand -- Description and travel. 1
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Paleontology -- Research -- History. 1
Polypterus 1
Portraits 1
Primates -- Evolution. 1
Saurischia. 1
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Scientific expeditions -- Africa 1
Scientific expeditions -- Australia 1
Scientific expeditions -- Nile River Valley 1
Scientific expeditions -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia 1
Scientists -- Correspondence 1
Shark attacks -- Prevention 1
Sharks 1
Silent enemy (Motion picture) 1
Teeth, Fossil. 1
Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel. 1
Vertebrates, Fossil 1
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Names
American Museum of Natural History 13
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 8
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 6
Brown, Barnum 5
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 5
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Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 4
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 4
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 4
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 4
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 3
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 3
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 3
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 3
Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 3
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 3
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 3
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 3
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 3
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 3
American Association of Museums 2
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 2
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 2
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 2
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 2
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 2
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 2
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 2
Dodge Brothers 2
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 2
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 2
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 2
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 2
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 2
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 2
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 2
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 2
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 2
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 2
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 2
Shackelford, James B. 2
Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 2
Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 2
Young, John McKenzie 2
Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955 1
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 1
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 1
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1916) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting (1928-1929) (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 1
American Museum of Natural History. Library 1
American Museum of Natural History. Trustees 1
Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Bangs, Outram, 1862-1932 1
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brown, Lilian MacLaughlin 1
Brown, Marion 1
Buba, Joy Flinsch, 1904-1998 1
Burden East Indian Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 1
Buxton, N. G. (Norman G.) 1
Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Dutcher, William, 1846-1920 1
Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929 1
Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915 1
Felix M. Warburg Memorial Hall of New York State Environment 1
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949 1
Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953 1
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 1
Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
Harrington, Nathan Russell, 1870-1899 1
Hatcher, J. B. (John Bell), 1861-1904 1
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
Heinz 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
Hunt, Reid, 1870-1948 1
Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 1
Kaisen, Peter C. 1
Klein, Alfred J. 1
Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
Lee, Hugh J. 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
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