Annie Montague Alexander papers 1904-1949

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Annie Montague Alexander papers 1904-1949

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Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Annie Montague Alexander, concerning the establishment, work with and gifts to the Museum of Vertebrae Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley. The bulk of the letters are from Joseph Grinnell, the first Director of the MVZ. Other correspondents include Seth Bertram Benson, E. Raymond Hall and Alden H. Miller. Also includes scrapbooks containing photographs and copies of letters written by Alexander and her father, Samuel T. Alexander, while on safari in British East Africa (present-day Kenya) in 1904. Collection does not include correspondence with her companion Louise Kellogg. Papers concerning the establishment and work with the University of California Museum of Paleontology can be found at that museum.

Number of containers: 3 boxes and 2 volumes; Linear feet: 1.4

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Online Archive of California

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Alexander, Samuel N.

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Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond), 1902-1986

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E. Raymond Hall was born on May 11, 1902, in Imes, Kansas. Hall received his A.B. from the University of Kansas in 1924. He accepted a teaching assistantship at the University of California at Berkeley in 1924, and later received both his M.A. degree in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1928 from UC Berkeley. Hall served as curator of mammals at Berkeley from 1927-1944 and was acting director of the museum from 1938-1944. He joined the KU faculty in 1944 as Professor of Zoology and Director of the Museum of Nat...

University of California (1868-1952). Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

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Benson, Seth B. (Seth Bertram), 1905-

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Alexander, Samuel T.

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Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950

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Annie Montague Alexander was a naturalist, explorer, and patron of the sciences. She founded both the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) and the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) on the Berkeley campus and was the benefactress of those museums for more than 40 years....

Miller, Alden H. (Alden Holmes), 1906-1965

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Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939

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Biography Joseph Grinnell was born on February 27, 1877 near Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory at the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Indian Agency, where his father served as government physician. After living for a short time in Tennessee and in the Dakota Territory, the family settled in Pasadena, California in 1885. Grinnell attended school in Pasadena and received his B.A. from Throop Polytechnic Institute (now Caltech) in 1897. Grin...