Board of Trustees records. 1900-1930.

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Thatcher, Joseph A., 1838-1918. Board of Trustees records. 1900-1930.

Board of Trustees records. 1900-1930.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68967577

This collection includes 11 file folders contained in one 2.5 x 15.5 x 10-inch box. These files contain correspondence and other documents relating to work done for the museum by Joseph A. Thatcher and Harry C. James. Thatcher and James both served as Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Museum of Natural History, now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Thatcher served in the office from 1900 to 1918. James served from 1918 to 1932. Most of the papers in the collection are typewritten and handwritten letters to Thatcher concerning financial transactions involving the newborn museum, which was incorporated in 1900. Some of the earliest letters deal with the Edwin Carter collection, one of the museum's founding collections. Others discuss the business of the committee in charge of constructing the museum's building in Denver's City Park. The collection also includes several prints and negatives of images relating to Thatcher and James, among them a portrait of Thatcher and an image of James, a hunter, with wild turkeys.

1 box.

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