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American Museum of Natural History oral history collection, 1975-2002.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A45O73
Dates: Majority of material found within 1975 - 2002

Bobb Schaeffer photographs of fossil fish specimens

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .S34
Scope and Contents

Photographs of fish fossils and skeletons, also includes color positives

Dates: undated

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

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

Latimeria (Coelacanth) at the American Museum of Natural History

 Collection
Identifier: DR 078
Summary

Thirteen folders of correspondence and reprints relating to the Coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural History, including discovery of five unborn pups.

Dates: 1962-1992

Bobb Schaeffer collection

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 126
Dates: 1940-1984

Gilbert F. Stucker papers

 Collection
Identifier: VPA 128
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three folders of Stucker's incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts, as well as some internal department discussions from 1960-1979. Includes correspondence regarding loans and exchanges of specimens and casts: some are listed by number; some dated; some undated. Includes notes regarding a Polish shipment; information regarding publications, expense accounts and field trips of which only some are dated; a listing of...
Dates: 1960-1979

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Vertebrate Paleontology Archives 4
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 3
 
Subject
Fossils 2
Administrative 1
Coelacanth 1
Department Records 1
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English 6
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Names
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 3
Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 3
Atz, James W. 2
Brown, Barnum 2
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 2
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McKenna, Malcolm C. 2
Nichols, Rachel H. (Rachel Husband) 2
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Sternfeld, Ruth, d. 2007 2
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 1
Allen, Glover M. (Glover Morrill), 1879-1942 1
Amadon, Dean 1
American Museum of Natural History 1
American Museum of Natural History. Department of Library Services 1
Anderson, Sydney, 1927- 1
Anthony, H. E. (Harold Elmer), 1890-1970 1
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 1
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
Davison, Frederick Trubee, 1896-1974 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Freed, Stanley A. 1
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 1
Gardiner, Henry, 1916- 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
Lanyon, Wesley E. 1
Lecroy, Mary 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 1
Mellon, Richard K. (Richard King) 1
Merriam, J. C. (John Clark), 1829- 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
Myers, Charles W. 1
Newell, Norman Dennis, 1909-2005 1
Oliver, James A. (James Arthur), 1914-1981 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Platnick, Norman I. 1
Prinz, Martin 1
Rozen, Jerome George, 1928- 1
Sage, Dean, Jr. 1
Sanford, L. C. (Leonard Cutler), 1868-1950 1
Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Smith, C. Lavett, 1927- 1
Smith, J. L. B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968 1
Stucker, Gilbert F. 1
Tedford, Richard H. 1
Wortman, J. L. (Jacob Lawson), 1856-1926 1
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