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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

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

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, Walter Granger, William T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R....
Dates: 1887-1966

Field and Expedition Equipment

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates: Usage: circa 1877-1990s

Frick Laboratory administrative and personnel records

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 111
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Childs Frick correspondence. The majority of the papers consern his relationship with the American Museum of Natural History while running the Frick Laboratory as well as his role as museum Trustee.

There is also Frick's correspondence with other scientists and institutions that deals with both research in paleontology and Frick's financial support of their activities.

A very small number of letters are of personal nature.

Dates: 1912-1968

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Vertebrate Paleontology Archives 4
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Fossils 3
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 4
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 3
Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 3
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 2
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Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 2
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 2
McKenna, Malcolm C. 2
Schaeffer, Bobb, 1913-2004 2
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Brown, Lilian MacLaughlin 1
Brown, Marion 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Department of Anthropology 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 1
Hayden Planetarium 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
Mellon, Richard K. (Richard King) 1
Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 1
Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Sage, Dean, Jr. 1
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 1
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Skinner, Morris F. 1
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 1
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 1
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