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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology departmental records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 4
Scope and Contents
The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began as a new department of the American Museum of Natural History with the arrival of Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) as curator in 1891. The years following are marked with substantial areas of growth in the department’s paleontology collections and scientific staff. The department’s records spanning 1924-1979 were deposited in the VP Archives at different times and in separate groupings. It has not always been possible to determine if files...
Dates:
1924-1979
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology general correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 1
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
Bobb Schaeffer correspondence
Collection
Identifier: VPA 40
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from 1940-1984. Arranged alphabetically by subject and name of individual or institution.
Dates:
1940-1984
Bobb Schaeffer photographic slide collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 63b
Scope and Contents
Color slide collection for Bobb Schaeffer. The collection is stored in five narrow boxes, with slides divided into categories like sharks, skeletal tissues, canyons and forests, and other areas.
Dates:
undated
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- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 2
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- Gaffney, Eugene S. 1
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- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
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New York, NY 10024-5192