Field photographs, 1871-1967, 1895-1934 (bulk).

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Field photographs, 1871-1967, 1895-1934 (bulk).

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Extensive collection of photographs taken by many collectors associated with the department. Photographs illustrate field sites and quarries, specimens, collectors excavating a site, geology of the region, habitat, field parties and their living conditions in the field, and indigenous peoples in the areas in which they collected. Largest series of photographs were taken by Roland T. Bird showing his dinosaur discoveries in the Western United States. Major series of photographs illustrate Barnum Brown's expeditions to the Western United States, Alberta in Canada, Burma, India, Dudley Expedition to Ethiopia, Cuba, Turkey, Greece, New Zealand, and Patagonia, in addition to the American Museum-Sinclair Aerial Survey to search for dinosaurs in the Western United States. Other paleontologists whose expeditions are represented include William D. Matthew, Childs Frick, Henry Fairfield Osborn, George Olsen, Albert Thomson, and Walter Granger. A series of photographs gathered by William D. Matthew consists of portraits of principal collectors of fossil vertebrates. Photographs are identified. Negatives are available for some photographs.

14.3 cubic ft.

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American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Collecting area: Records relating to the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology's activities in the field and laboratory. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155512262 ...

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...

Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930

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William Diller Matthew was a vertebrate paleontologist and geologist. Matthew joined the American Museum of Natural History in 1895 as an assistant in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, eventually becoming curator in 1911. At the death of E.O. Hovey in 1924, Matthew was appointed acting curator of the Dept. of Geology. In 1927 Matthew went to the University of California as professor of paleontology and curator of the paleontological museum. From the description of Papers, 1922-19...

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

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Paleontologist, professor of biology at Columbia University, President of Trustees 1908-1933, American Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist. From the description of Henry Fairfield Osborn letter to W. Orton Tewson [manuscript], 1925 April 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213468939 Henry Fairfield Osborn was a member of the Princeton class of 1877, one of the earliest graduates of the School of Science. He returned to Princeton in 1883 after gr...

Thomson, Albert.

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Sinclair Oil Corporation

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Dudley Expedition.

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Brown, Barnum

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Curator of Fossil Reptiles in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. He lived from 1873 to 1963. From the description of Expeditions, 1898-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509515 Curator of Fossil Reptiles in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. He lived from 1873 to 1963. From the description of Dinosaur materials, 1924-1940. (Unknown)...

Sinclair Dinosaur Expedition (1934)

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Olsen, George Henry.

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Granger, Walter, 1872-1941

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Frick, Childs, 1883-1965

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Vertebrate paleontologist. Frick maintained the extensive fossil mammal collection at the American Museum of Natural History and a laboratory on Long Island. He provided funding for expeditions and for storage facilities at the Museum. From the description of Photographs, 1922-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509767 Vertebrate paleontologist. Frick maintained the extensive fossil mammal collection at the American Museu...

Bird, Roland T. (Roland Thaxter), 1899-1978

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