Emmet Reid Blake papers, 1912-1988.

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Blake, Emmet Reid, 1908-. Emmet Reid Blake papers, 1912-1988.

Emmet Reid Blake papers, 1912-1988.

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Correspondence, journals, photographs, and miscellaneous materials documenting Blake's study of ornithology; his career with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Ill., including specimen collecting expeditions to Venezuela, Guatemala, British Honduras, British Guyana, Mexico, Peru and the Southwestern United States; and his expedition for the National Geographic Society, in which he accompanied a surveying party to the Brazilian-Venezuelan border. Contains correspondence chiefly related to specimen gathering expeditions, but also letters re college life at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, Blake's R.O.T.C. light heavyweight boxing championship, and graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh; letter, 23 Feb. 1927, from Emmet Reid ("Snakey") Blake, to his mother, re his decision to make a career in Natural History rather than in laboratory sciences; also materials documenting his service as an officer with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in the North African and European theaters of World War II. Contains notes, correspondence and reviews re Blake's published works, which include over one hundred articles and 3 major books: Preserving Birds for Study (1949), a manual for museum research collections; Birds of Mexico, A Guide for Field Identification (1953); and Manual of Neotropical Birds, volume 1 (1977).

578 items.

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