Board of Trustees records 1930-1935.

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Board of Trustees records 1930-1935.

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This collection, contained in two file folders, holds letters and copies of letters to and from Walter C. Mead, Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) from 1930 to 1935. One file, of miscellaneous documents and correspondence, contains letters to and from Mead. One letter deals with the museum's agreement to contribute $500 to archaeological explorations by the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Denver in eastern Colorado in the summer of 1930. Another from Mead to a donor in Boston accepts the donation of a collection of sea shells for the Museum. The second file holds correspondence related to the possible hiring of Alfred M. Bailey, who eventually was hired as the Museum's second director in 1936. Among these letters are two recommending Bailey for the job.

2 folders.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Colorado Museum of Natural History. Board of Trustees.

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Mead, Walter C., 1866-1951.

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Walter C. Mead, a noted patron of the arts and sciences in Denver, served on the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) from early 1913 until his death in 1951. Walter C. Mead was born in 1866 in Greenwich, Connecticut, on a farm that had been in the family since 1662. The oldest of four children, he worked as a clerk in a brokerage office in New York City for a year, then decided to head west to Colorado. He arrived in Denver ...