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University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Libraries. University Archives/Special Collections. Erwin H. Barbour, papers, museum photograph series 1889-1938.

Title: Erwin H. Barbour, papers, museum photograph series 1889-1938.

Includes images of Barbour's research in paleontology and geology and his personal life. The photographs include landscapes, landforms, bodies of water, as well as scenes of natural disasters, also included are photographs documenting the construction of Morrill Hall, Wyuka Cemetery, and street and buildings in Lincoln, Nebraska.

ArchivalResource: 71 boxes (30 linear ft.)

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Erwin H. Barbour, Papers, Museum Photograph Series, 1889-1938

Title: Erwin H. Barbour, Papers, Museum Photograph Series, 1889-1938

ArchivalResource: 71 boxes 30 linear feet

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Goodale, George L. (George Lincoln), 1839-1923. Papers of George Lincoln Goodale, 1885-1921.

Title: Papers of George Lincoln Goodale, 1885-1921.

Papers, 1894-1911, contain letters relating to the reorganization of the Visiting Committee to the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum into two separate committees, 1911; personal correspondence; professional correspondence; botanical notes; and correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript relating to the discovery by Erwin Barbour of Devil's Corkscrew fossils (daemonelix) in Nebraska. Diaries, 1910-1921 consist of eight printed diaries with manuscript entries by GLG. Entries document the weather, daily activities including travel, and health. Additional notes of a financial or medical nature, addresses, and clippings appear at the front and back of each volume. Volumes date from 1910, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, and 1921.

ArchivalResource: 3 containers (1 folder and 2 boxes) of mss.

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Papers, 1931-1985.

Title: Papers, 1931-1985.

Johnson's papers consist of correspondence with Morris Skinner, 1973-1983, and include maps, charts, and data on Nebraska fossil quarries, and drafts and various portions of the publication with Skinner, "Tertiary Stratigraphy and the Frick Collection of Fossil Vertebrates from North-central Nebraska." Field notebooks of Nebraska geological trips with Skinner, 1961-1981. In addition, photocopies of Johnson's field notes describing his paleontological collecting work in Nebraska, 1931-1935; and photocopies of field notes and diaries of R.A. Stirton providing detailed descriptions.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic ft.

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General correspondence files, [ca. 1887]-1966.

Title: General correspondence files, [ca. 1887]-1966.

Extensive correspondence files of curators and employees and other paleontologists associated with the department concerning field work, identification of specimens, exhibits, acquisition of specimens, research topics, publications, miscellaneous subjects, correspondence with other museums and scientific institutions, and other topics. 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, Joseph T. Gregory, Claude W. Hibbard, D.A. Hooijer, William T. Hornaday, Remington Kellogg, Charles R. Knight, George Kunz, Bjorn Kurten, Richard Swann Lull, R. Lydekker, James Reid Macdonald, William D. Matthew, John C. Merriam, Charles C. Mook, J.P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Frederick K. Morris, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Alfred Romer, George Gaylord Simpson, Charles H. Sternberg, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

ArchivalResource: 48 cubic ft.

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Papers, 1905-1964.

Title: Papers, 1905-1964.

Correspondence between Cook and Erwin H. Barbour regarding the excavation of Miocene fossil mammals from Agate Springs, Nebraska, and publications which resulted from the finds, 1905-1931. In addition, correspondence among Mrs. Margaret Cook, Morris Skinner, Childs Frick, and Malcolm McKenna regarding acquisition of the Harold James Cook Memorial Collection of Fossil Mammals; biography of Cook; and a history of Agate Springs Fossil Quarry by Margaret Cook. Also, lists of specimens in boxes as packed for shipment; list of specimens remaining at Agate Springs, 1961-1963; and catalog cards describing specimens in the Cook Collection.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic ft.

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Notebooks, 1922-1964.

Title: Notebooks, 1922-1964.

Childs Frick notebooks consist principally of material lists showing what fossils were shipped to the American Museum of Natural History from various states in the United States and from some foreign countries where Frick Laboratory had working field parties. Lists are from Alaska, Arizona, California, China, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Mexico, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Ecuador, Honduras, and Ethiopia. Correspondence between Childs Frick, associates, and fellow employees in the field areas listed above, concerning work being done or contemplated. Included are reports, drawings, charts, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and other material pertaining to the field work. Correspondence regarding personnel matters including hiring, firing, expenses, salaries, agendas, evaluations, budgets, vacations, gifts, and other topics. Correspondence with institutions other than the American Museum of Natural History, such as museums, universities, and government agencies. Major correspondents include Charles E. Bunnell, William Klaus, Guy Hazen, Howard S. Gentry, John C. Blick, Theodore Galusha, Otto Geist, Joseph Rak, Charles Falkenbach, Jack Wilson, E.T. Nystrom, Morris F. Skinner, George Sternberg, F. Walker Johnson, Erwin H. Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz, and Gordon Fletcher. In addition, notes, correspondence, and manuscripts concerning fossil horses from. Mexico and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 20.4 cubic ft.

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William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

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