William Harlow Reed papers, 1897-1961.

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William Harlow Reed papers, 1897-1961.

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The William Harlow Reed papers include correspondence of Reed's daughter, Dorothy Reed Patterson, and her husband, George W. Patterson, with A.S. Coggeshall, Carl O. Dunbar (director of the Peabody Musuem), and Dick Brown (director of Alumni Relations at the University of Wyoming) concerning the life of William Harlow Reed; a biographical sketch of Reed written by George W. Patterson (1961); photographs of Reed and the Reed family camping and quarrying dinosaur bones; photographs of the interior of the UW paleontological museum during Reed's tenure (ca. 1899-ca. 1915); and printed material regarding Reed and dinosaurs.

.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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University of Wyoming.

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University of Wyoming. Geological Museum

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Patterson, Dorothy Reed.

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Reed, William Harlow.

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William Harlow Reed (1848-1915) headed the Department of Paleontology at the University of Wyoming in the early 1900s. He also curated the paleontological museum (1899-1915). Reed arrived in Wyoming as an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad. While acting as section foreman and station agent near Como Bluff, Wyoming, in 1877, he discovered fossilized dinosaur bones in the rocks, which he brought to the attention of famed dinosaur collector O.C. Marsh. Although Reed was a self-taught geologist ...

Patterson, George W.

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