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Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 106
Scope and Contents
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology map collection. Includes commercial and handdrawn maps of North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Some maps are annotated. Also includes rolled maps above map drawers and in corner of archives.
Dates:
1880-1990
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Charles H. Falkenbach papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 119
Scope and Contents
Charles H. Falkenbach Administrative Files contain correspondence, AMNH pension fund records, expense accounts, specimen exchanges, field work accounts, manuscript notes, and geological surveys. The collection is arranged by individuals, institutions, and by subject. Box 1 (1927-1961) contains correspondence from A to Christman; Box 2 (1956-1959) contains correspondence from Davies to Frick; Box 3 (1956-1962) contains correspondence from Frick to Schultz; Box 4 (1950-1951)...
Dates:
1916-1962; Majority of material found within 1940-1962
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Frick Laboratory correspondence and publications
Collection
Identifier: VPA 110
Dates:
1900-1969
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Frick Laboratory field work collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 108
Dates:
1924-1980
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Frick Laboratory fossil specimen records
Collection
Identifier: VPA 109
Scope and Contents
The relationship between the American Museum of Natural History and the Childs Frick Corporation has been in existence since 1923. The activities of the Corporation consisted in carrying out field explorations of fossilized remains of extinct mammals in Vertebrate Paleontology. The Frick expeditions were undertaken by field parties working in various states, including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Mexico, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota,...
Dates:
1920-1981
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
Ted Galusha collection
Collection
Identifier: VPA 120
Dates:
1852-1979; Majority of material found within 1924-1976
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
F. Walker Johnson papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 121
Scope and Contents
The F. Walker Johnson papers is a collection of correspondence, records, field notebooks, bibliographic reference materials, drawings, charts, and maps. Boxes 1-3 labeled “Tertiary Stratigraphy and the Frick collection of fossil vertebrates from North Central Nebraska” contain material for Johnson’s 1984 publication, Bulletin AMNH, vol. 178, article 3. Box 1 (1972-1985) contains correspondence; Box 2 (1931-1979) contains photocopied field notes and M. F. Skinner’s compilation of...
Dates:
1972-1983, 1973-1988
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
William Diller Matthew papers
Collection
Identifier: VPA 122
Scope and Contents
William Diller Matthew's notebooks, notes, correspondence and manuscripts. He worked at the AMNH for thirty-two years. His more than 250 publications deal with the morphology and classification of the Eocene mammals and later Cenozoic mammals. He was especially interested in horses and he made them a showpiece of evolution. Evolution was the one theme on which he constantly wrote whether dealing with descriptions or comparisons. Box 1 contains biographical and bibliographic materials, Boxes...
Dates:
1893-1979
Found in:
Vertebrate Paleontology Archives
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- Johnson, F. Walker 1
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- Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Mellon, Richard K. (Richard King) 1
- Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Nutting, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1803?-1887 1
- Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 1
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
- Richardson, John, Sir, 1787-1865 1
- Sage, Dean, Jr. 1
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