Corporation and Laboratory records, 1918-1965, 1924-1961 (bulk).

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Corporation and Laboratory records, 1918-1965, 1924-1961 (bulk).

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Records of Childs Frick Corporation refer to relationship with American Museum of Natural History and Museum construction plans; finances, insurance and other correspondence pertaining to daily operation of Millstone Laboratory on Long Island. Other papers include correspondence with individuals and institutions, memoranda, notes, bills, and publications, and concern purchase of specimens, field finds, requests for identifications, exchange of publications, and expeditions. Also, correspondence pertaining to his publications, including manuscripts and some drawings for several papers based on fossil vertebrates collected in the American West. Some research notes are included. Also, notebook of Floyd Blair about fossils found in Nebraska. Most of the correspondence in Frick's papers are letters to him or the Frick Laboratory, many from his employees such as Theodore Galusha and Charles Falkenbach, and from curators of the American Museum of Natural History. Other correspondents include Walter Granger, William K. Gregory, J.M. Lucas, Thompson M. Stout, and N.Z. Ward.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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American Museum of Natural History

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Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984

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Frick, Childs, 1883-1965

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Frick Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology (New York, N.Y.)

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Childs Frick Corporation.

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Galusha, Theodore, 1911-1979.

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Geologist, paleontologist. Galusha helped develop the Frick collection of fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. He worked for the Museum in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Frick Laboratory from 1935 to 1975. From the description of Field diaries, 1935-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509777 Geologist, paleontologist. Galusha helped develop the Frick collection of fossil mammals at the A...

Skinner, Morris F.

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Paleontologist; worked for the Frick Laboratory (1927-1968) and the American Museum of Natural History (as Frick Assistant Curator, 1968-1973) From the description of Collection, [between 1927 and 1976]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 29579389 Specialist in horse evolution, vertebrate paleontologist and geologist for the Frick Laboratory and the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. Skinner w...

Millstone Laboratory (Roslyn, N.Y.)

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Ward, N. Z.

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Falkenbach, Charles H., 1902-1962.

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Paleontologist, specialist in oreodonts. Falkenbach worked for the American Museum of Natural History and the Frick Laboratory for forty-six years, and was a pioneer in systematic stratigraphic vertebrate paleontology. From the description of Papers, 1924-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509666 ...

Blair, Floyd

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Stock, Chester, 1892-1950

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Biography Chester Stock was born in San Francisco on January 28, 1892. At the University of California, where he received a B.S. degree in 1914 and a Ph.D. in 1917, Stock studied geology and vertebrate paleontology under John C. Merriam. In 1918, he began working on the Rancho La Brea (now Hancock Park) collection of ground sloths, saber-tooths, and other fossil bones, housed at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, in Expositi...

Mook, Charles Craig

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Collector for the Frick Laboratory. From the description of Papers, 1900-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509845 ...

Stout, Thompson Mylan, 1914-

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