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Guide to the Annie Montague Alexander Papers

Processed by Helen E. Fox; machine-readable finding aid created by Gabriela A. Montoya Museum of 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building University of , Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-4780 Phone: (510) 642-1821 Fax: (510) 642-1822 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu © 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Guide to the Annie Montague 1 Alexander Papers Guide to the Annie Montague Alexander Papers

Museum of Paleontology

University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Contact Information: Museum of Paleontology 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-4780 Phone: (510) 642-1821 Fax: (510) 642-1822 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu Processed by: Helen E. Fox Date Completed: August 1998 Encoded by: Gabriela A. Montoya © 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary Title: Annie Montague Alexander Papers Creator: Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950 Extent: Number of containers: 3 boxes, 2 volumes Linear feet: 1.2 Repository: Museum of Paleontology. Berkeley, California 94720-4780 Language: English. Provenance The Alexander Papers were given to the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, by Miss Alexander and/or her heirs in 19xx. Funding Funding for processing provided by the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Access Collections are open by appointment only. Please contact the Museum of Paleontology directly. Publication Rights Copyright has been assigned to the Museum of Paleontology. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director or the Principal Museum Scientist for forwarding. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Museum of Paleontology as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Annie Montague Alexander Papers, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley. Biography Annie Montague Alexander became interested in paleontological work while attending John C. Merriam's lectures at the University of California in 1900. From then on, she was closely associated with the Department and Museum of Paleontology, as well as the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. She supported and participated in many field expeditions up

Guide to the Annie Montague 2 Alexander Papers until the year of her death, and advised museum directors on financial matters, policies, and personnel decisions. December Born in , , the third of four children born to Samuel Thomas and Martha Cook Alexander 29, 1867 1882 Alexander family moves to Oakland, CA 1886 AMA enrolls in La Salle Seminary for girls in Auburn, MA Summer, Alexander family travels abroad, AMA remains to study art and music in . She abandons her studies due to 1888 headaches caused by eye strain 189? AMA enters Fabiola Hospital as student nurse, again leaves due to eyestrain and headaches 1896 Travels to South Pacific, , , and Canton Fall 1900 Attends lectures at University of California, including paleontology class taught by John C. Merriam, becomes fascinated with paleontology and vertebrates. Summer Finances and participates in Merriam's fossil collecting expedition to , OR 1901 Summer Finances and participates in Merriam's fossil collecting expedition to Shasta County, CA 1902 Summer Finances and participates in Merriam's fossil collecting expedition to Shasta County, CA 1903 Summer Finances and participates in Merriam's "Saurian expedition" to Humbolt Range, NV, which reveals great 1905 skeleton deposits 1906 Begins monthly contributions to support research in paleontology at the University of California Summers Hunting and collecting expeditions to 1906-8 1908 Provides funds to establish the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California 1919 Establishes an endowment fund for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 1921 Provides funds to establish the Museum of Paleontology as a separate unit of the University of California 1934 Establishes an endowment fund for the Museum of Paleontology to "safeguard for the future the care of collections on which I have already expended many thousands of dollars." Continues to be active in her own fieldwork. 1948 Provides funds for student research fellowships in the Museum of Paleontology and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology September Death, following illness and a cerebral hemorrhage 10, 1950 Scope and Content Collection contains correspondence between Annie M. Alexander and key figures in the Museum and Department of Paleontology from 1901 to 1949. Much of this correspondence consists of information about paleontological research in the field, of Miss Alexander and others. Further correspondence is with the President's Office and Museum and Department directors regarding personnel and organizational issues. Letters also cover financial information about Miss Alexander's support for individual researchers, and ultimately the endowment of the Museum of Paleontology. Other correspondence of Miss Alexander can be found in collections of John C. Merriam and those relating to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Also included in the collection are Annual Reports and Budgets of the Department and Museum of Paleontology for the years 1906-1948, often with a letter to Miss Alexander accompanying the report. A scrapbook documenting the 1905 Saurian expedition to the Humbolt Range, is included, with text by Miss Alexander and captioned photographs. Important correspondents include David Barrows, Charles Camp, William Wallace Campbell, Ralph Chaney, Bruce Clark, Eustace Furlong, William Matthew, John C. Merriam, Robert Sproul, Ruben Stirton, Chester Stock, Samuel Welles, and Benjamin Wheeler. The collection is not complete. The papers are primarily professional in nature, although since Miss Alexander was personally involved with the workings of the Museum and Department of Paleontology, the correspondence includes personal matters as well. Related Collections Researchers should be aware that the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, holds other papers of Miss Alexander (Banc MSS 67/121C; CU-120; C-B 1003) as well as a Biographical sketch of Miss Alexander (Banc MSS 69/15c)

Guide to the Annie Montague 3 Alexander Papers Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1949

Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1949 Physical Description: Boxes 1 and 2. Scope and Content Note Incoming and outgoing letters are interfiled and arranged alphabetically in the "miscellaneous" folder, and chronologically within major correspondent folders. Letters neither to nor from Miss Alexander are filed under the name of the original author, with the following exceptions: letters from Miss Alexander are filed by the receiver, as are letters whose author has no folder. If a duplicate copy for a third party is the sole copy in the collection, it is filed by the original author; if there is indeed a duplicate copy, it is filed in the third party's folder. Contains primarily letters, some post cards, photographs, newspaper clippings.

Series 2: Administrative and Financial Records of the Department and Museum of Paleontology, 1906-1948 Physical Description: Box 3. Scope and Content Note Arranged chronologically. Contains Annual Reports and Financial Statements, and other statements, objectives, and reports of the Museum and Department of Paleontology, and official papers regarding the Museum of Paleontology Endowment Fund.

Series 3: Saurian Expedition Scrapbook, 1905 Physical Description: Volume 1. Scope and Content Note A scrapbook documenting the 1905 Saurian expedition to the Humbolt Range, Nevada, with text by Miss Alexander and captioned photographs.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1949

Box Box 1, Miscellany, photographs and news clipping 1980, n.d. Folder 1 Folder 2 AMA Miscellany, Correspondents with fewer than 3 letters, both incoming and outgoing, arranged alphabetically A-W 1910-1949 Folder 3 Barrows, David Prescott 1919-1923 Folder 4 Camp, Charles Lewis 1921-1933 Folder 5 Camp, Charles Lewis 1934-1939 Folder 6 Camp, Charles Lewis 1940-1948 Folder 7 Camp, Jessie 1947-1948 Folder 8 Campbell, William Wallace 1924-1929 Folder 9 Chaney, Ralph W. 1931-1938 Folder 10 Clark, Bruce Lawrence 1920-1923 Folder 11 Clark, Bruce Lawrence 1924-1933, 1945 Folder 12 Davidson, Pirie 1920-1928 Folder 13 Deutsch, Monroe E. 1945 Folder 14 Furlong, Eustace Leopold 1921-1926 Box Box 2, Kinne, A. Marian 1930-1946 Folder 1 Folder 2 MacDonald, J. R. 1948-1949 Folder 3 Mallory, George D. 1946 Folder 4 Mallot, Deane W. 1946-1947 Folder 5 Massey, William C. and Ellen 1947-1949 Folder 6 Matthew, William Diller 1924-1930 Folder 7 Merriam, John Campbell 1901-1905 Folder 8 Merriam, John Campbell 1908-1915 Folder 9 Merriam, John Campbell 1916-1930, 1939 Folder 10 Nichols, Luther A. 1931-1934 Folder 11 Osborn, Henry Fairfield 1920, 1924

Guide to the Annie Montague 4 Alexander Papers Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1949

Folder 12 Reinhart, Roy H. 1949 Folder 13 Sproul, Robert Gordon 1921-1949 Folder 14 Stirton, Ruben Arthur 1930-1945 Folder 5 Stirton, Ruben Arthur 1946-1949 Folder 16 Stock, Chester 192?-1925, 1949 Folder 17 VanderHoof, V. L. 1949 Folder 18 Welles, Samuel P. 1930-1949 Folder 19 Wheeler, Benjamin Ide 1903-1919 Series 2: Administrative and Financial Records of the Department and Museum of Paleontology, 1906-1948

Box Box 3, Museum of Paleontology, Dept. of Paleontology, Statements, Objectives, Reports Folder 1 192?-194? Folder 2 Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Dept. of Paleontology, Merriam to AMA 1906-1915 Folder 3 Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Dept. of Paleontology, Merriam to AMA, Clark to AMA (1921) 1916-1920, 1921 Folder 4 Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Budgets Museum of Paleontology 1921-24, 1927-29, 1930-32 Folder 5 Annual Reports and Financial Statements, Budgets Museum of Paleontology 1932-33-1948 Folder 6 Museum of Paleontology Endowment Fund, official papers 1934-1948 Series 3: Saurian Expedition Scrapbook

Volume Volume 1 A scrapbook documenting the 1905 Saurian expedition to the Humbolt Range, Nevada, with text by Miss Alexander and captioned photographs. Annie Montague Alexander Papers Volume Volume 2 A scrapbook documenting the 1901 field expedition to with text by Miss Alexander and captioned photographs.

Guide to the Annie Montague 5 Alexander Papers