AMNH Research Library, Departmental Records Revised August 2013
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AMNH Research Library, Departmental Records Revised August 2013 Call Number Creator Title Dates Summary Physical Description Related Archival DR 001 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1884-1886 State appropriations. 1 box (0.25 linear feet) Natural History. History state appropriation records DR 002-004 American Museum of Conference notes during the 1908-1934 Special edition of American Museum of Natural History meetings with 9 boxes (5 linear feet) Related material can be Natural History. presidential years of Henry signature and notation by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Henry Fairfield found in Henry Fairfield Fairfield Osborn Osborn presidential copy. Conference notes, proposals, budget, general Osborn Papers, 1877- American Museum of Natural History administrative business. Includes 1935 (bulk 1908-1935)., indexes of conferences. call number: MSS .O835 DR 005 The Press of New York on the March 31, 1917 A collection of articles appearing in various New York newspapers 1 box (1 linear feet) Educational Work and Proposed relating to proposed building and educational projects at the American New Buildings of The American Museum of Natural History, printed by the Trow Press of New York. Museum of Natural History DR 005A Fortune Magazine Fortune Magazine and American April 1937 Article about the American Museum of Natural History from Fortune 1 folder (1 linear foot) Museum of Natural History Magazine, April 1937. Seven copies of American Museum of Natural reprints History reprints of article as well as two complete copies of the Fortune Magazine issue featuring the article. Some photographs of the museum credited to Margaret Bourke-White. DR 006 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1950s-1960s Historical AMNH brochures. 1 box (0.25 linear feet) Natural History. History historical brochures DR 007 American Museum of Grapevine newsletters 1942-1992 (bulk Grapevine. The Employees benefit Association of American Museum of 6 boxes, 2 binders (2 Natural History. 1942-1966, 1983- Natural History newsletter. linear feet) 1992) DR 008 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1917 Correspondence of the federal estate tax committee. 1 box (0.5 linear feet) Natural History. History inheritance tax correspondence DR 009 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1890-1958 Pamphlets outlining laws affecting museum series of charters and 2 boxes (2 linear feet) Natural History. History Charters, By-laws, and bylaws, rules and regulations. Titles include: Rules and Regulations of Rules and Regulations pamphlets the Scientific and Administrative Departments; General Regulations of the Scientific and Administrative Departments; American Museum of Natural History Detailed Financial Statement; Seventh Annual Report of the Board of the Trustees of the New York State Roosevelt Memorial; Status of the Collections of the AMNH in the year 1923 (Extract from the Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the President, entitled “The American Museum and the World”); American Museum of Natural History Charter, Contract with the City of New York, Constitution, By-Laws; General Regulations of the American Museum of Natural History. Page 1 of 30 Call Number Creator Title Dates Summary Physical Description Related Archival DR 010 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1910-1940 Contains annual audit reports 1910-1940 and monthly reports 1935- 3 boxes (1.25 linear feet) Natural History. History monthly statements 1940. DR 011 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1910-1937 Some in binders. Originals and carbons. Includes 4 bound volumes. 3 boxes (1 linear foot) Natural History. History faculty meeting minutes DR 012 American Museum of Museum Memo 1951-1960 Issues of American Museum of Natural History publication. Museum 1 box (0.5 linear feet) Natural History. Memo ran from 1951 to 1960 and in October 1960 continued in Natural History Magazine. DR 013 American Museum of Rifle Club papers 1935-1940 Naturalist rifle and revolver club minutes, rules and accounts, and 1 box (0.5 linear feet) Natural History. targets. DR 014 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1935-1968 Reports on pension funds made from actuarial investigations by 4 boxes (1.75 linear feet) Natural History. History pension reports consulting actuaries and insurance consultants. Reports labeled duplicates on cover may contain unique hand-written notations. DR 015 OPEN CALL NUMBER DR 016 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1984-1988 Financial reports. 1 box (0.5 linear feet) Natural History. History quarterly reports for restricted gifts DR 017 OPEN CALL NUMBER DR 018 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1885-1958 Pamphlets of Pension Fund annual reports and Pension Fund rules and 2 boxes (1.5 linear feet) Natural History. History pension pamphlets regulations. DR 018A American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1936, 1941 Retirement plan for the employees of the American Museum of Natural 1 box (0.25 linear feet) Natural History. History Retirement Plan History, effective July 1, 1936 with some copies revised to July 1, 1941. pamphlets DR 019 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1962-1984 Profile and consumer use and evaluation 1974 and 1981, House 1 box (1.5 linear feet) Natural History. History reports and surveys keeping committee report 1968 (3 copies), Traffic Impact study 1974, Security survey 1972, Museum salary survey 1984, Storage survey booklet 1984, preliminary salary budget 1978, Survey of public relations 1955, food service management proposal 1962 DR 020 American Museum of Curator (magazine) papers 1957-1966 Correspondence, administrative and editorial records, including meeting 1 box (1 linear foot) Natural History. minutes of the editorial committee, for CURATOR, a quarterly publication of the American Museum of Natural History. Also includes one mock-up with black & white photographs. DR 021 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1913-1989 Miscellaneous reports 1913 -1989. Including American Museum of 1 box (0.5 linear feet) Natural History. History reports Natural History President's office reports 1913-1932, Letters and other materials to and from Roy Chapman Andrews, Administrative and labor 1927-1985, Consititution, Financial statements 1913-1942 and 1980s, Planning committee reports 1941, 1945, 1947, 1985, 1989, Long range planning committee 1984. DR 022 Kane, Parsons & A Survey of Persons Visiting the 1989 A survey , 2 copies. 1 folder (1 linear foot) Associates, Inc. Dinosaur and Fossil Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History Page 2 of 30 Call Number Creator Title Dates Summary Physical Description Related Archival DR 023 American Museum of Resolutions in Appreciation of 1908 From the title page: Resolutions in appreciation of Morris Ketchum 1 bound volume (1 linear Natural History. Morris Ketchum Jesup Jesup, by the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History, the foot) scientific staff of the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Audubon Society of the state of New York, the American Ethnological Society, the Linnæan Society of New York, the Peary Arctic Club, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, the Carnegie Museum, Department of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, die Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt a/Main, Germany, la Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. DR 024 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1911-1918 Proposed building plans used in the planning the growth of the 4 envelopes (1 linear foot) Additional building plans Natural History. History building plans American Museum of Natural History. Proposals include building the located in the AMNH new east facade facing Central Park, the southeast wing and southeast Research Library 1st floor. court, and plans for future building and arrangement of collections. One envelope containing blank ground plans. Notes hall names for permanent exhibitions. DR 025 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1873-1886 Scrapbooks containing articles relating to ornithology, mammalogy, and 2 boxes (1.5 linear feet); 4 Natural History. History scrapbooks museum interest news stories. scrapbooks DR 025A American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1870s-1930s Mixed material from oversize scrapbooks. Contains pamphlets and 23 boxes, 11 scrapbooks Natural History. History scrapbooks newspaper clippings. Eleven scrapbooks intact. (29.75 linear feet) DR 026 OPEN CALL NUMBER DR 026 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1869-1935 Accounting ledgers, minutes of faculty meeting, and other 7 boxes, 15 bound Natural History. History miscellaneous records miscellaneous materials. volumes (12 linear feet) DR 027 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1871-1872 Vouchers and report of the treasury. Miscellaneous receipts, pasted in 1 box (0.5 linear feet) Natural History. History financial book and numbered. DR 028 American Museum of American Museum of Natural 1869-1946 Papers, including some related to Roy Chapman Andrews. 21 boxes (14 linear feet) Natural History. History financial records Correspondence, ledgers, general cash books, field fund accounts, budgets, African Hall funds, pension fund accounts (1913-1918). DR 028A American Museum of Financial Office contributions 1950-1969 Contributions arranged alphabetically by donating party. 6 boxes (3 linear feet) Natural History. records DR 028B American Museum of Congo Expedition bills and 1909-1920 Financial information regarding the Lang-Chapin