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American Museum of Natural History. Annual Reports and other publications
Collection
Identifier: VPA 113
Scope and Contents
Boxes 1 through 4 contain the American Museum of Natural History bound Annual Reports starting from 1946 through 1998. It chronicles museum operations, development, and the Board of Trustees; scientific divisions, research, and publications; science explorations, education, programing, and public outreach; museum finance and support; and museum staff and volunteers. Box 1 (1946-1968) contains themed reports. Of note are, 1953-1954, “The Museum’s Contribution to Our Knowledge of Living...
Dates:
1947-2002
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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
Edwin H. Colbert collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 115
Dates:
1941-1970
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Edward Drinker Cope papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 118
Scope and Contents
The Edward Drinker Cope Papers collection is comprised of 9 boxes of documents and materials related to well-known paleontologist and naturalist Edward Drinker Cope. The collection includes letters and correspondence between E.D. Cope and his family and colleagues (a mixture of Xerox copies, typewritten copies, photocopies, and originals), as well as specimen lists, photographs, illustrations, a scrapbook, and Xerox copies of his field diaries. Boxes 1 to 3 contain Xerox copies...
Dates:
1846-1924
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology administrative and personnel records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 102
Dates:
1873-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology building and exhibit records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 100
Dates:
1905-1995
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology field work collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 101
Scope and Contents
The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology began sending staff into the field as early as the first year of its founding, 1891. Since then the department has organized and supported decades of seminal field work as it continues to do so today.
Dates:
1880-2000
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology fossil specimen images
Collection
Identifier: VPA 104
Dates:
1855-2005
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
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology historical specimen acquisitions
Collection
Identifier: VPA 103
Dates:
1862-1977
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 9
- Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 9
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 6
- American Museum of Natural History 4
- Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 4
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 3
- Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 3
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 3
- Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 3
- Brown, Barnum 2
- Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 2
- Skinner, Morris F. 2
- Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
- Bakewell, Robert, approximately 1790- 1
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
- Brown, Lilian MacLaughlin 1
- Brown, Marion 1
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 1
- Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 1
- Division of Paleontology 1
- Falkenbach, Charles H. 1
- Galusha, Ted 1
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 1
- Johnson, F. Walker 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
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 1
- Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Stucker, Gilbert F. 1
- Taylor, Beryl E. 1
- Tedford, Richard H. 1
- Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856 1
- Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 1 ∧ less
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