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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
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, Childs Frick, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington...
Dates:
1887-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Rachel H. Nichols papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 124
Scope and Contents
Rachel H. Nichols served as a cataloger, staff assistant and finally as a scientific assistant and replaced Miss Lucas in charge of the Osborn Library. The records that resulted consist of a great variety of subjects and represent her activities both in some personal enterprises and in her official capacity.
Box 1 (1908-1966) contains Osborn Library history, organization, and administrative activity (1908-1962); excerpts from the publication Fossil Vertebrates, vi-xii (1926-1939), v.16-19...
Dates:
1901-1966
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
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- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Lilian MacLaughlin 1
- Brown, Marion 1
- 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
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
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American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192