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Tomkins, Ivan Rexford, 1893-1966. Ivan Rexford Tomkins papers, 1911-1966.

Title: Ivan Rexford Tomkins papers, 1911-1966.

This collection consists of correspondence, field notes, articles written by Ivan Rexford Tomkins on birds and mammals, and photographs. Also included are correspondence, photographs, field notes, etc. of other naturalists, including T.D. Perry, Gilbert R. Rossignol, Louis Bishop, Frank R. Irving, and Walter J. Hoxie. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's last name. Correspondents include: Arthur Allen; Atlanta Bird Club; Audubon Society; Arron M. Bagg; Harold H. Bailey; Wilson Baker; William P. Baldwin; Alexander James Barton; Anna S. Bassett; William J. Beecher; A.C. Bent; Ruby Wilson Berry; Bureau of Biological Survey; Lewis Bishop; F. Bouliere; Gerald L. Brody; Barnum Brown; Thomas D. Burleigh; M.H. Burroughs; E. Milby Burton; David K. Caldwell; Larry Caldwell; Camera Club; Tom and Hedwig Cater; Margaret Davis Cate; B. Rhett Chamberlain; E. Burnham Chamberlain; Alma Cooke; Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology; Clarence Cottam; Edwin P. Crease; Eugene Cypert; J. Fred Denton; Ray Dilley; E. Von S. Dingle; Keith L. Dixon; Paul Bruce Dowling; Wilbur H. Duncan; A.J. Erskine; Don Eyles; William G. Fargo; Fish and Wildlife Service; Harvey I. Fisher; Bill Garrahan; General Drafting Co., Inc.; Georgia Ornithological Society; Georgia Society of Naturalists; Norman Giles, Jr.; Frank B. Golley; Carle Greene; William W. Griffin; Samuel Grimes; William C. Grimm; Ludlow Griscom; Grell Survey; Jack P. Hailman; George A. Hall; Anne Hamilton; W.J. Hamilton; Robert P. Hanson; Jerry D. Hardy; H.L. Harlee; Walter Harmer; Ethel P. Harris; Francis and Roland Harper; Cecilia and Tomsen Hasselstrom; James W. Hazzard; Frederic V. Hebard; Dan Henderson; Vernon J. Henry; Kenneth Hoff; Paul Holle; Milton Hopkins; Neill Hotchkiss; Arthur H. Howell; Walter J. Hoxie; James W. Jenkins; Charles C. Johnson; David W. Johnston; Kale Herbert; Frederick Kennard; Hallam Koons, Jr.; Ralston B. Lattimore; Herschel C. Logan; London Electrotype Agency; George H. Lowery; G. Robert Lunz; W.L. McAtee; Charles M. McGill; W.G. and Anne McNaughton; Brooke Meanley; Mel and Marie Mellinger; Robert Mengel; Joseph C. Moore; Olaus J. Murie; Eugene Edward Murphy; Natural History Magazine; Nature Magazine; Caroline Newhall; Donald J. Nicholson; Robert Norris; Joseph R. Norwood; Eugene P. Odum; Outdoor Life; Ralph S. Palmer; James F. Parnell; Richard Parks; Max M. Pelt; Tully Pennington; Harold S. Peters; Roger Tory Peterson; Olin S. Pettingill; Pictures Incorporated; Robert B. Platt; Earl L. Poole; Richard H. Pough; Thomas L. Quay; Chandler Robbins; James B. Ross; Gilbert R. Rossignol; Scenic South; George W. Sciple; Smithsonian Institution; Alexander Sprunt; Herbert L. Stoddard; W.D. Clyde Todd; Kenneth S. Ulm; Joseelyn Van Tyne; William Vogt; C.H. Wharton; H.E. Wheeler; Charles Wilbur; Ellison A. Williams; Wilson Bulletin; Joseph H. Winkers; C.C. and S.C. Witter; Mrs. Marie Young; Youth Museum of Savannah, Inc. Correspondence subjects include barn owls, bird banding, birds of the Okefenokee, bird permits, a checklist of Georgia birds, Elliptio Spinosus (the spiny mussel discovered by Tomkins), Hilton Head Island, Longwood Gardens, Ornithologie Abregee de la France, and Fort Pulaski. The manuscript portion of this collection includes manuscripts and notes on birds, fossils, animals, whales, shells, plants, reptiles, and other living creatures; manuscript copies of Tomkins' book, Birds of the Savannah River Delta; book reviews; the Cockspur Island Lighthouse; and the history of Quarantine Station. The photographs include images of birds, crustaceans, insects, reptiles, fish, snakes, animals, people, plants, skeletons, fossils, animal tracks, scenes and landscapes, photographs of African American grave markers in Sunbury, Georgia (these may be sculptures by Cyrus Bowen), Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, and other southern cities.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (18.0 cubic feet)

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Alexander Sprunt & Son (Wilmington, N.C.). Records, 1779-1960.

Title: Records, 1779-1960.

Account books, ledgers, journals, cashbooks, purchase and sales journals, inventories, other subsidiary books, and some office files and correspondence. Goods were purchased from the Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, and other states and processed in the firm's compress facilities and sold to Great Britain, France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe. Includes some papers representing various domestic and foreign subsidiaries and branch offices, especially Champion Compress and Warehouse Company, the Wilmington Compress and Warehouse Company, Alexander Sprunt & Son (of Delaware, a holding company), and the company's offices in New York City and Le Havre, France. The letters date mostly to 1904-1910, and 1919-1921, and are largely files of James Sprunt, reflecting his activities in business and interests in secular and theological education, the Presbyterian church in the U.S., and North Carolina history. Notable correspondents and subjects are Alexander Sprunt (1815-1884), Alexander Sprunt (1852-1937), Alexander Sprunt (b. 1898), James Sprunt (1847-1924), Kenneth Mackenzie Murchison, Francis Herman Packer, John Miller Wells, John Campbell White, Edward Jenner Wood, The Laymen's Missionary Movement, and the Presbyterian mission at Kiangyin, China.

ArchivalResource: 6,082 items.

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Harry C. Oberholser Papers 1883-1960 (bulk 1920-1945)

Title: Harry C. Oberholser Papers 1883-1960 (bulk 1920-1945)

Ornithologist. Chiefly correspondence with ornithologists and other scientists on bird life and bird specimens of the U.S. and other countries, Oberholser's work with scientific organizations, and publication of his books and articles.

ArchivalResource: 8,400 items; 24 containers; 9.6 linear feet

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