Charles D. Walcott Collection
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
- Dates:
-
1851-1940 and undated
- Size:
-
108.59 cu. ft. (16 record storage boxes) (84 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 12x17 box) (2 16x20 boxes) (8 5x8 boxes) (oversized materials and framed panoramas)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7004
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Charles D. Walcott Collection Papers (Record Unit 7004) were given to the Smithsonian Institution by his wife, Mary Vaux Walcott, with certain more recent additions. The Archives would like to thank Dr. Ellis L. Yochelson, United States Geological Survey, and Frederick J. Collier, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural His...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Oliver, William Albert, 1926-2005
- Dates:
-
1946-1998
- Size:
-
3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-307
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists mostly of field notes created by William Albert Oliver, a paleontologist and geologist with the United States Geological Survey, 1957-1993, and the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, 1967-2005. Oliver specialized in the study of ancient coral reefs. The majority of these field books doc...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Dates:
-
1941-2005
- Size:
-
7 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 06-014
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the administrative and membership activities of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP). Materials include correspondence; information about annual meetings; program schedules; news bulletins; photographs; budget summaries and financial statements; reports; executive committee meeting minutes...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997, interviewee
- Dates:
-
1975, 1986
- Size:
-
14 audiotapes (Reference tapes). 27 digital .mp3 files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9521
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum
- Dates:
-
1875-1902
- Size:
-
16.5 cu. ft. (33 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 201
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of two of the special files maintained by the Department of Correspondence and Documents. In 1902 a new system for maintaining records was established. Descriptions of the records are included as part of the series descriptions.
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
Grant, Richard E., 1927-1994
- Dates:
-
1950-1990, 2005
- Size:
-
1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-093
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of field notes of Richard E. Grant (1927-1994), a paleontologist with the United States Geological Survey and the Department of Paleobiology in the National Museum of Natural History. Some of these materials predate his time at either institution. Materials also include correspondence, postcards, scientific illustration...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Dates:
-
circa 1850-1943
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7441
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of papers documenting the research of both Stejneger and Baur on tortoises. Much of the Baur material was created during his research for the planned USNM monograph on North American tortoises. The papers consist of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, lists, newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives, and drawings. ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
United States National Museum
- Dates:
-
1881-1964
- Size:
-
49 cu. ft. (98 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 158
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The administration of the United States National Museum required curators to submit regular reports on the activities of the departments, divisions, and sections. Prior to about 1900 these reports were often made monthly and semiannually as well as annually. The reports were traditionally submitted to the Director of the National Museum to ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
True, Frederick William, 1858-1914
- Dates:
-
circa 1886-1910
- Size:
-
2 cu. ft. (4 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7181
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit contains correspondence of Frederick William True with zoologists, naturalists, museum officials, Smithsonian administrators, and friends concerning specimens, publication of manuscripts, exhibitions, his trip to the Pribilof Islands in 1895, and USNM affairs. Also included are files concerning the preparation of exhibits, ...
Found In
Collapse [ ]
Expand
- Creators:
-
United States National Museum
- Dates:
-
circa 1898-1963
- Size:
-
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession T91021
- Repository:
-
Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession contains United States National Museum annual reports; travel reports; press releases; and administrative records, including workload reports, Congressional bylaws, Works Progress Administration records, State Department dispatches, telegrams, and Smithsonian memoranda and announcements.