Fred Shane correspondence
Personal and business correspondence relating to Shane's career as a painter and chairman of the art department at University of Missouri.
James Steele Williams Papers
The 1879 act establishing the United States Geological Survey (USGS) declares, "And all collections of rocks, minerals, soil, and fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when …
Paul J. Spangler Papers
These papers consist mainly of professional correspondence documenting Spangler's work in the Division of Coleoptera and his research on aquatic beetles. Most of the material concerns the identification of entomological specimens. A small amount of correspondence predates Spangler's association with the USNM.
Arnold B. Grobman Papers
These papers document the professional career of Arnold B. Grobman. Included are correspondence with colleagues on scientific topics, professional societies business, and files documenting his activities on numerous boards and committees. As a general rule, his files as an academic administrator are not in these papers, nor are some files …
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Paul J. Spangler, curator at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). These records include correspondence, grants, loans, administrative records, research materials, manuscripts, specimen information, reference information, and materials related to his work with professional societies. Some material predates his association …
Judith Saul Stix papers relating to Bessie Lowenhaupt
Sound recordings and notes concerning painter Bessie Lowenhaupt. Included are an audio cassette of Lowenhaupt recorded during dinner with the Stix family, December 20, 1961 and notes about the conversation; an audio cassette of a radio interview with Bessie Lowenhaupt conducted by Stix for station KADI, Brookline, Mo., October 29, 1982, (broadcast October 31, 1982); biographical …
David J. Marcou Photoprints
Twenty-one digital photographic prints of miscellaneous subjects from photographs taken by David J. Marcou. These images are "born-digital" photographs, 2002-2008, except for the earliest, made on black-and-white negative film in 1980 or 1981.
Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 23: Universe
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. This series covers the moon, stars, comets, and meteors. For music relating to the sun, see Series 14: Calendar, Time, and Weather. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
John Pickard papers
A letter from Pickard to many American artists requesting information from them for an art history course he was teaching at the University of Missouri in 1907 and replies from George de Forest Brush, Bryson Burroughs, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Dwight W. Tryon. Also included …
Ward F. Weakly photograph collection relating to pottery making in Sinoloa, Mexico
Photographs depicting Sinaloa scenery, women working in various stages of pottery making, and examples of finished pots. Photographs were mounted as part of a University of Missouri Museum of Anthropology photographic exhibition of fieldwork, which was financed by a University of Tulsa Faculty Research Grant. The collection includes an exhibit …
