Papers, 1920-1978 (bulk 1926-1961).

American Museum of Natural History. Trustees.

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Whitney, C. V. (Cornelius Vanderbilt), 1899-1992

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20, 1899 – December 13, 1992), commonly known as C. V. Whitney or Sonny to friends, was an American businessman, film producer, government official, writer and philanthropist. He was also a polo player and the owner of a significant stable of Thoroughbred racehorses. Whitney was scion of two of America’s most prominent families. He was a descendant of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. His mother was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a sculptor who ...

Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943

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Kermit Roosevelt I (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943), recipient of the Military Cross, was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. The son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit was a graduate of Harvard College, served in both World Wars (in World War I with both the British and American armies), and explored two continents with his father. He fought a lifelong battle with depression and committed suicide while serving in the U.S. Army in Alaska d...

Shackelford, James B.

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Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960

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Zoologist, explorer, and author. From the description of Roy Chapman Andrews correspondence, 1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449556 Naturalist and explorer, leader of the Asiatic Zoological Expeditions and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, director of American Museum of Natural History from 1935 to 1941. From the description of Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930 [microform] / Roy Chapman Andrews. 1919-1930. (American Museum of Natural His...

Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978

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W. Douglas Burden was a geologist, naturalist, hunter, filmmaker and author, affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. Burden was a trustee of the AMNH, 1926-1961, chaired a committee on the preparation of homolosine (equal-area projection) maps, and established the AMNH Dept. of Experimental Biology in 1928 (later named the Dept. of Animal Behavior). Burden formed Burden Pictures, Inc., 1928-1931, with ichthyologist Ilia Tolstoy; beginning in 1935, with To...

Tolstoy, Ilia A., 1903-1970

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Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940

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Herpetologist, Chairman of the Dept. of Herpetology and the Dept. of Experimental Biology, American Museum of Natural History. Noble was instrumental in developing the modern science of animal behavior. From the description of Papers, 1919-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155510694 ...

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

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...

Burden East Indian Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926)

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