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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology general 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
Historical Fossil Fish Collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 140
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection are correspondence, records, notebooks, drawings, photos, illustrations, and maps that pertain to fossil fish reports of finds, distribution and cataloguing, descriptions and publications, private and museum collections, exchanges, purchases, gifts, and exhibitions activities. This collection originally belonged to the Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology, then in 1944 moved to the Department of Geology and Paleontology, which is now the Department of...
Dates:
1862-1980
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Malcolm C. McKenna Papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 117
Scope and Contents
In 1990 Malcolm McKenna cleared his office files of early correspondence through 1987 and deposited them in the archives. After he became Frick Curator Emeritus, McKenna made another transfer of papers to the archive in 2001, which contains his later correspondence after 1985, including some printed e-mails. The collection was originally comprised of two series (previously VPA 48a and VPA 48b), which reflected the two deposits. The two separate series were combined in 2022, although the two...
Dates:
1948-2003
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 1
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
- 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
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 1
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 1
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