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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
Frederick B. Butler collection on the 1925 field season of the Third Asiatic Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B88
Scope and Contents
This collection contains field notes written by Butler during the 1925 field season (April 11-August 20) of the Third Asiatic Expedition. It also contains a typed diary detailing his experiences in Mongolia and discussing expedition staff members. Correspondences include letters to and from Butler and his wife in Tianjin (Tientsin), China, and official correspondences. Also included are various lectures ("Speech to the Algonquin Club. Boston, Dec. 7, 1926"; "Expedition lecture with...
Dates:
1924-1927; Majority of material found within 1925-1926
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
Chester A. Reeds Mongolia Studies papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .R441
Summary
Eleven folders containing drafts of chapters appearing in vol. 1 of Natural History of Central Asia, as well as correspondence between Reeds and other authors of the book regarding the content of the volume from 1932.
Dates:
1932
Chester Reeds papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS .R44
Summary
2 boxes containing 52 folders of correspondence, typescript, handwritten notes, and printed images (maps, illustrations, etc.), most of which relates to the September-October 1926 issue of Natural History entitled The Romance of Fossil Hunting.
Dates:
1924-1930; Majority of material found in 1926
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 4
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 3
- Young, John McKenzie 3
- American Museum of Natural History 2
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
- Dodge Brothers 2
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 2
- Reeds, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1882-1968 2
- Shackelford, James B. 2
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 2
- Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
- American Association of Museums 1
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 1
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
- Butler, Frederick B. 1
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 1
- Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 1
- Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 1
- Heinz 1
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 1
- Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
- Lee, Hugh J. 1
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
- McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 1
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- Nyholm, N. Erik I. 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sanford Memorial Hall of the Biology of Birds 1
- Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 1
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 1
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