George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk).

Indian Rights Association

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Zitkala is the Indian name for Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938. From the guide to the National Council of American Indians records, 1926-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The Indian Rights Association was organized in Philadelphia in 1882. The early leaders of the association, including Herbert Welsh, sought to protect the interests and general welfare of the Indians. Through its monitoring and lobbying activities with executive agencies and Congress, the association, in i...

Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935

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Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, artist, topographer, explorer and author, was born September 13, 1853 in McConnelsville, Ohio. After graduating from high school in Buffalo, New York, Dellenbaugh's interest in painting and boating led his uncle Almon Harris Thompson to introduce him to John Wesley Powell. Thompson was Powell's brother-in-law and served as second-in-command and chief topographer of Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871-1873. Powell appointed the seventeen year o...

American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

Hallock, Charles, 1834-1917

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Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1860-1929

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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...

National Audubon Society.

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BIRD-LORE later became AUDUBON MAGAZINE. From the description of Account book for Bird-lore, 1901-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507194 Callison was Executive Vice President of the National Audubon Society, 1966-1970s. From the description of Charles H. Callison records, 1969-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507203 The Finley and Davis families, related through marriage, lived in Marshall County, Mississippi; in 1834, Mary Ja...

Gould, George, 1898-

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North, Frank A. (Frank Allen), 1869-

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Eddy, John R.

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Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934

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Hugh Lenox Scott (b. Sept. 22, 1853, Danville, Ky.-d. Apr. 30, 1934, Washington, D.C.), Major General in the U.S. Army, graduated from West Point in 1876 and for the next 20 years served on the frontier, chiefly with the 7th Cavalry. He fought in campaigns against Indians of the Plains and became an expert in their languages. He was commander of Troop L of the 7th Cavalry, the last Indian troop in the Army. He also served during the Spanish-American War, as military governor in the Philippines, ...

Bent, George, 1843-1918

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George Bent (1843-1918), son of Colonel William Bent, fur trader and founder of Bent's Fort, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, daughter of White Thunder, went to school in St. Louis. By 1904 he was living in Colony, Oklahoma. From the description of George Bent papers, 1904-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127533 George Bent, born in Bent's Fort in 1843, the son of William Bent and his Cheyenne wife. As a witness of the Indian wars and conflicts in Colorado during the late 1...

Fisher, A. K. (Albert Kenrick), 1856-1948

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Albert Kenrick Fisher (1856-1948) was born on March 21, 1856 in Ossining, New York. He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating with medical training in 1879. He and 21 other people founded the American Ornithologists’ Union and set up studies for migration and distribution. He also founded the Branch of Economic Ornithology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, in 1885. In 1905 he played a role in the creation of the Bureau of Biological S...

Grinnell family.

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Mershon, William Butts, 1856-

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National Parks Association (U.S.)

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Sanders, James U. (James Upson), 1859-1923

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James Upson Sanders was born on July 12, 1859, in Akron, Ohio, the first of five sons of Wilbur Fisk Sanders and Harriet Peck Fenn Sanders. In 1863, the family moved overland to Bannack, Idaho Territory. James Sanders attended public schools in Helena, Montana, and then, in 1878, went with his younger brother Wilbur to Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1881, he attended law school at Columbia. After graduating in 1884, he returned to Montana and joined his father's law firm. Sanders ...

North, Luther Heddon, 1846-1935

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Nebraska frontiersman and rancher. During Indian wars of the 1860s and 70s, served with his brother Frank in the U.S. Army's Pawnee Scouts. From the description of Correspondence, 1928-1934. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19020036 ...

Perrine, James.

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Riggs, Thomas, 1873-1945

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Grant, Madison, 1865-1937

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Schultz, James Willard, 1859-1947

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James Willard Schultz (1859-1947) lived in and wrote about the northwestern portion of Montana now included within the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park. In 1877, at the age of 18, he traveled from his birthplace in Boonville, New York to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. He became interested in American Indians, and lived for many years with the Blackfeet Indians as an accepted member of their nation. Drawing upon his experiences on the western frontier he later wrote thrilling and ...

Yard, Robert Sterling

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Epithet: Editor of' The Century Magazine' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x00017d ...

Burnham, John B. (John Bird), 1869-1939

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Hardy, Manly, 1832-1910

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Manly Hardy was a fur buyer and dealer, naturalist, writer and ornithologist from Brewer, Maine. Although they never met, Hardy maintained an extensive correspondence with William Brewster, an ornithologist, writer, and naturalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hardy's daughter, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, was a naturalist, historian, folklorist and writer who spent most of her life in Brewer. She too corresponded extensively with William Brewster. From the description of [Correspondence]...

Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937

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Wild animal collector, conservationist, and taxidermist; curator of living animals for the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park (1882-1890), and director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926). From the description of Notes and correspondence of William Temple Hornaday, 1878-1934. (Smithsonian Institution Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51557581 First Director of the New York Zoological Park. From the description of Photographic collection, [ca...

Rowland, Willis.

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Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938

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George Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 20 Sept. 1849. His father prospered after the Civil War with a wholesale dry goods business. He eventually developed an investment firm in which he hoped his son would develop an interest. While a student at Yale University, however, young Grinnell went on a fossil and dinosaur expedition to the west led by Professor O.C. Marsh. By 1874 Grinnell dissolved the investment firm his father had founded and moved to New Haven, Conn., to work with Mar...

Roosevelt Memorial Association

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The Roosevelt Memorial Association conducted a competition to create a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, DC. From the description of Roosevelt Memorial Association competition photographs, 1925. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 706653421 ...

Sheldon, Charles, 1867-1928

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Charles Sheldon (1867-1928), big game hunter, conservationist, and authority on mountain sheep, was a close personal friend of Edward William Nelson. Nelson was co-editor of Sheldon's posthumously published "The Wilderness of Denali," and the author of a biographical memoir on Sheldon. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_212_pid_EACP209 Hunter, naturalist, and conservationist Charles Sheldon (1867-1928) collected, photographed, and...

Boone and Crockett Club

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In December 1887, a dinner was held by Theodore Roosevelt at his home in New York City and was attended by 10 of his friends, all hunting enthusiasts. Among the attendees were Dr. George Bird Grinnell, then editor of Field and Stream magazine, Roosevelt’s cousin, and Roosevelt’s brother. At the dinner Theodore Roosevelt proposed that the guests form an organization to promote sport with the rifle and work for the preservation of the large game of North America. The first...

Bannon, Henry.

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Hershaw, Henry W.

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Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956

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Frederick Webb Hodge was an ethnographer, archaeologist, editor and museum director. Hodge's first exposure to archaeology was as secretary of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition. When the project was over he returned to work at the Bureau of American Ethnology as Librarian. His work as editor began with the revitalization of the American Anthropologist and carried through his 2 vol. set of the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, to the famous 20 vol. set by Edward S. C...

Aubrey, Charles

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Shiras, George, 1859-1942

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Born in Allegheny, Pa., George Shiras III attended Cornell University and received his law degree from Yale in 1883. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the Pittsburgh area from 1903 to 1905. While a representative Shiras advocated for unified federal supervision of health matters. He worked closely with the Committee of One Hundred, a select group which was part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and formed primarily to lobby for a national department of h...

United States., Department of the Intérior

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The Alaska Public Works Program was authorized during the 81st Congress through the Alaska Public Works Act, Public Law 264. The Act authorized the General Services Administration to construct public works in Alaska, at a total cost of $70 million, then to sell them to the Territory of Alaska or other public bodies in Alaska at a purchase price that would recover approximately 50% of the total estimated cost. The authority, set to expire June 30, 1955, was extended to June 30, 1959. The program ...

Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

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C. Hart Merriam was a biologist who work for the Smithsonian Institution from 1910-1939. Merriam was born December 5, 1855 in New York City. His childhood was spent in Locust Grove, Lewis County, New York. Merriam’s father introduced him to Prof. Spencer Baird who attached the seventeen year old Merriam to a government expedition, the Hayden Survey. He spent a summer collecting birds and eggs in the Yellowstone region. That year, he attended college, first at the Pingry Military School in Elizab...

Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899

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Othniel Charles Marsh was a paleontologist and was President of the National Academy of Science. From the description of Papers, 1817-1899. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616238 From the guide to the Othniel Charles Marsh papers, 1817-1899, 1817-1899, (American Philosophical Society) Epithet: Professor of Palaeontology, Yale University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055...

American Game Protective and Propagation Association

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Woodcock, A.J.

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Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938

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Audubon family.

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Monroe, J.B.

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Hofer, T. Elwood.

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Kipp, Joseph, 1849-1913

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Saunders, Charles Francis, 1859-1941

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Charles Francis Saunders (1859-1941) was born to Quaker parents in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He and his first wife, Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders (d. 1910), were both avid naturalists; Charles began publishing essays on botany as early as the 1890s. Charles and Elisabeth also collaborated on a number of publications, he as author, she as illustrator. The couple settled in Pasadena in 1906 in a Craftsman bungalow on North Lake Avenue, where Charles devoted himself full time to writing. Saunders ...

Stohr, A. C.

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