Papers 1870-1899

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Papers 1870-1899

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Three scrapbooks, one book of lists, one book of field notes, and four file folders The Carter collection contains scrapbooks of original specimen data, data slips, field notes, ledgers, and correspondence related to the founding collection of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

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Rockwell, Robert B. (Robert Blanchard), 1883-1941

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Robert Blanchard Rockwell was an investment banker, ornithologist and Colorado Museum of Natural History (CMNH) trustee who served the museum from its first decade. Rockwell was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1883, the son of Fred Rockwell, one of Colorado's pioneering cattle ranchers. As a child, he visited Denver with his parents, eventually moved to Denver and attended North High School and the University of Colorado. In 1915, established in Denver as an "investment man," he formed his ...

Carter, Edwin

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Edwin Carter, known as "Professor" and "the log cabin naturalist," amassed a collection of some 3300 specimens of Colorado wildlife for his private museum in the old mining town of Breckenridge. His offer to sell the collection to a museum that would care for it was the spark that ignited the founding in 1900 of the Colorado Museum of Natural History, the original name of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Edwin Carter was born in 1828 in Oneida, New York. As a y...