Letters pertaining to natural history publicationsh[manuscript] , 1887-1916, 1932.

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Letters pertaining to natural history publicationsh[manuscript] , 1887-1916, 1932.

Letters of Rex Brasher and Philip Brasher, 1932, to Evan M. Evans concern his subscription to "Birds & Trees of North America" by Rex Brasher. The collection also contains 4 letters, 1887-1916, to J. E. Thayer regarding the latter's collection of natural history books. Correspondents are W. W. Sabin, Walter Faxon, Ruthven Deane, and Charles W. Richmond. There is also a letter from Howard Jones to Frank Walters regarding his collection.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Thayer, J. E.,

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Evans, Evan Morton, 1870-1955

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Faxon, Walter, 1848-1920

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Sabin, W. W.,

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Brasher, Rex, 1869-1960

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Born in 1869 in Brooklyn, New York, Rex Brasher was one of America's greatest bird painters. He painted almost twice as many North American birds as Louis Aggasiz Fuertes or John James Audubon. In 1924, while living at his homestead in Kent, Connecticut, Brasher finished his task of 47 years, paintings that included 1200 species and sub-species of birds listed on the American Ornithologists Union (AOU) Checklist of North American Birds. From the description of Rex Brasher collection,...

Walters, F. P. (Francis Paul), 1888-

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Richmond, Charles W.,

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Dean, Ruthven,

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Jones, Howard, 1950-

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Brasher, Philip, 1770 or 1771-1835

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