Philip Reinheimer Papers 1929-1949.

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Philip Reinheimer Papers 1929-1949.

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This collection of eight file folders consists of the files of Philip Reinheimer, chief preparator in the Department of Paleontology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science). The files, dating from 1929 to 1949, contain correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings and other materials related to the activities of the department. Among the materials are a typewritten letter from Harold Cook of Nebraska, praising the museum for its careful preparation of a Mesoceras thomsoni skull sent to Cook; various letters between Jesse Figgins, museum director, and Reinheimer about museum field work and fossil specimens; and letters between Reinheimer and officials at other museums, including Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.

8 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. Paleontology Department.

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Reinheimer, Philip, 1863-1948.

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Philip Reinheimer was a self-taught craftsman who joined the Colorado Museum of Natural History, the original name of Denver Museum of Nature & Science, in 1915 and, over three decades, brought the Museum national recognition in the art and science of mounting and displaying fossil vertebrate skeletons in lifelike positions. Philip Reinheimer was born in 1863 in the province of Alsace-Lorraine in northeastern France. After immigrating as a young man, he worked in steel mills in the eastern U...