Notebooks, 1922-1964.

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Notebooks, 1922-1964.

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Childs Frick notebooks consist principally of material lists showing what fossils were shipped to the American Museum of Natural History from various states in the United States and from some foreign countries where Frick Laboratory had working field parties. Lists are from Alaska, Arizona, California, China, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Mexico, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Ecuador, Honduras, and Ethiopia. Correspondence between Childs Frick, associates, and fellow employees in the field areas listed above, concerning work being done or contemplated. Included are reports, drawings, charts, maps, manuscripts, photographs, and other material pertaining to the field work. Correspondence regarding personnel matters including hiring, firing, expenses, salaries, agendas, evaluations, budgets, vacations, gifts, and other topics. Correspondence with institutions other than the American Museum of Natural History, such as museums, universities, and government agencies. Major correspondents include Charles E. Bunnell, William Klaus, Guy Hazen, Howard S. Gentry, John C. Blick, Theodore Galusha, Otto Geist, Joseph Rak, Charles Falkenbach, Jack Wilson, E.T. Nystrom, Morris F. Skinner, George Sternberg, F. Walker Johnson, Erwin H. Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz, and Gordon Fletcher. In addition, notes, correspondence, and manuscripts concerning fossil horses from. Mexico and the United States.

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Bunnell, Charles E. (Charles Ernest), 1878-1956

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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...

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...

Hazen, Guy.

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Rak, Joseph.

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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...

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 ...

Nyström, Erik Torsten

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Schultz, C. Bertrand (Charles Bertrand), 1908-

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Sternberg, George Miller, 1838-1915

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Born at Hartwick Seminary, Otsego County, New York, on June 8, 1838, George Miller Sternberg received a medical degree from the Maryland College of Physicians in 1860. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, United States Army, on May 28, 1861; Captain, May 28, 1866; Major (Surgeon), December 1, 1873; Lieutenant Colonel (Surgeon), January 12, 1891, Brigadier General, Surgeon General, May 30, 1893; and retired from the Army on June 8, 1902. During the Civil War, he began his service with the Army of ...

Johnson, F. Walker.

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Geologist with Esso Oil Company. Johnson was born in 1909 and was a volunteer in the Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History studying late Tertiary stratigraphy in Nebraska. From the description of Papers, 1931-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509833 ...

Klaus, William R.

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Mr. Klaus worked in the Commercial department at the Philadelphia law firm, Pepper Hamilton from 1951 until his retirement as Chairman Emeritus in 1996. At Pepper Hamilton, Klaus was primarily engaged in mergers and acquisitions, particularly representing non-U.S. investors acquiring interests in U.S. industrial companies. He was also active in international banking affairs and representing U.S. corporate clients abroad. Mr. Klaus holds an L.L.B. from Temple University, where he was Editor-in-Ch...

Barbour, Erwin Hinckley, 1856-1947

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Erwin H. Barbour was born in Springfield, Indiana, on April 5, 1856. He received both his A.B. in 1882 and Ph.D. in 1887 from Yale University. He worked for the United States Paleontological Survey from 1882 to 1888 before becoming professor of natural history and geology at Iowa College in Grinnell, Iowa. In July 1891, he accepted the position of professor of geology and zoology at the University of Nebraska and became director of the State Museum. He remained a vital member of the...

Geist, Otto William

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Gentry, Howard Scott

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Blick, John C.

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

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Wilson, Jack.

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Fletcher, Gordon A., 1900-

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