Mary W.A. and Francis V. Crane Papers 1926-1982

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Mary W.A. and Francis V. Crane Papers 1926-1982

The Crane papers document the establishment of the Southeast Museum of the American Indian in Marathon, Florida, and the later transfer of that institution's collection of American Indian artifacts to the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science). The papers span the years from 1951 to 1980.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6401985

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Crane, Francis V., d1903-1968

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Crane, Francis V., 1903-1968

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Denver Museum of Natural History

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Most of these records were transferred to the Archives from the Building Maintenance Department, although some later records come from the Exhibits Department. In 1996, the records were rehoused in chronological order and catalogued on Data Trek, the in-house library system, as well as on ARGUS, the Museum collections system. Among the architects who designed substantial portions of the present building are Frederick Junius Sterner, George Hebard Williamson, Roland L. Linder, and Stearns-Roger A...

Southeast Museum of the American Indian

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Crane, Mary Winslow (Allen), 1902-1982.

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Mary Winslow Allen Crane, along with her husband, Francis V. Crane, during the 1960s and 1970s donated a large collection of American Indian artifacts to the Denver Museum of Natural History (DMNH), now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Mary Crane was born in 1902 in Norwood, Mass., daughter of Frank Gilman Allen, who briefly served as governor of Massachusetts from 1929 to 1930. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1925 and two years later married Francis Crane. Mary Cr...