Philip Reinheimer Papers 1929-1949

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Philip Reinheimer Papers 1929-1949

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This collection consists of the files of Philip Reinheimer, chief preparator in the Department of Paleontology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science). The files, dating from 1929 to 1949, contain correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings and other materials related to the activities of the department.

8 folders

eng,

Denver Museum of Nature and Science,

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Colorado Museum of Natural History

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Elmer W. Merritt was a trustee and founding father of the Colorado Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Merritt was born in New York State on October 31, 1861, attended the University of Ann Arbor and arrived in Denver in 1879. He went into the lumber and mercantile business and eventually became connected with the Continental Oil Co. In 1885 he began a career in real estate and investment securities, forming the firm Merritt and Gromman. He served as Secretary ...

Reinheimer, Philip, 1863-1948.

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Philip Reinheimer was a self-taught craftsman who joined the Colorado Museum of Natural History, the original name of Denver Museum of Nature & Science, in 1915 and, over three decades, brought the Museum national recognition in the art and science of mounting and displaying fossil vertebrate skeletons in lifelike positions. Philip Reinheimer was born in 1863 in the province of Alsace-Lorraine in northeastern France. After immigrating as a young man, he worked in steel mills in the eastern U...