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Administrative

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Field box tracking, 1927-1980

 Series
Identifier: VPA 108
Scope and Contents Includes a total of seven notebooks and ledgers created and maintained by George Krochak for the Frick Laboratory to track crates of materials sent and received from the field. The first set of two notebooks record outgoing packages from the field. The second set of five notebooks record the field shipments received. Outgoing : Notebook 1, 1927-1964, Santa Fe, Nebraska, Arizona, California, Alaska, Texas, Espanolia and Notebook 2, 1960's, labelled 'Outgoing packages April 29, 1964'. Ledgers...
Dates: 1927-1980

Papers and records, 1924-1965

 Series
Identifier: VPA 110
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 73 notebooks listing Frick Laboratory specimens. The volume numbers are listed by state and locality within the state. The finding aid includes an abbreviation used on the spines of the various volumes and the state to which the abbreviation refers.

Dates: 1924-1965

Series 2: Childs Frick, Trustee correspondence, 1925 - 1959

 Series
Scope and Contents This correspondence was created during Child Frick's tenure as the Trustee of the Museum.It includes discussions on budgets and personnel. There is also correspondence regarding the proposed plans to alter the museum facade facing the 77th Street in 1942. The museum invited a prominent architect Eliel Saarinen to act as a consultant in colaboration with Aymar Embury II, who was an architect for the Parks Department. The discussions mention participation of Robert...
Dates: 1925 - 1959

Series 2: Departmental and personnel records, 1891 - 1979

 Series
Identifier: VPA 102
Scope and Contents The department's records spanning 1924-1979 were deposited in the VP Archives at different times and in separate groupings. It has not always been possible to determine if files came from a secretary's or chairman's department office. The result is a collection with duplicated records and overlapping dates. This collecton contains personnel, administrative, departmental events, council matters, expeditions, and financial records of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology....
Dates: 1891 - 1979

Series 3: Relationship between Frick and AMNH , 1920 - 1974

 Series
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to the relationship between Childs Frick and AMNH.

It includes the arrangements regarding Frick Laboratory as well as other dealings that Childs Frick had with the museum.

There are multiple records of funds payed by Childs Frick and Childs Frick Corporation to the American Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1920 - 1974

Series 3: Requisitions and Bills, 1900-1965

 Series
Identifier: VPA 102
Scope and Contents

This series consists of records of supply requisitions from the department from 1926 to 1943.

Dates: 1900-1965

Series 3: Specimen casts and reproductions, 1900-1970

 Series
Identifier: VPA 103
Scope and Contents The department's casts and reproductions production was managed as part of the Fossil Preparation lab, which undertakes the preparation of specimens for research and study. The collection is a compilation of records that document sales and exchanges with domestic and foreign institutions and cast information on parts available for reconstruction, includes some photographs. The dates of the transactions are as early as 1900 and as late as 1970. The collection may have originated from Rachel...
Dates: 1900-1970