Isaac Ginsburg Papers, circa 1911-1919, 1924-1958 Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives Washington, D.C. Contact us at [email protected] Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Historical Note.................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1 Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 1 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 2 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 3 Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1958........................................................... 3 Series 2: NOTES, LOGS AND RELATED MATERIALS CONCERNING BUREAU OF FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS, 1911-1917, 1919, 1926-1927, 1930................ 7 Series 3: NOTES, CORRESPONDENCE, ILLUSTRATIONS AND RELATED MATERIALS CONCERNING BUREAU OF FISHERIES WORK OF WILLIAM W. WELSH AND SAMUEL FREDERICK HILDEBRAND, CIRCA 1916-1917, 1924.......................................................................................................................... 9 Series 4: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1924-1925, 1933-1937.............................................. 10 Isaac Ginsburg Papers https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217344 Collection Overview Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected] Title: Isaac Ginsburg Papers Identifier: Record Unit 7187 Date: circa 1911-1919, 1924-1958 Extent: 4.11 cu. ft. (7 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 5x8 box) Creator:: Ginsburg, Isaac, 1886-1975 Language: Language of Materials: English Administrative Information Prefered Citation Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7187, Isaac Ginsburg Papers Historical Note Isaac Ginsburg (1886-1975) was born in Lithuania and came to the United States as a boy. He studied ichthyology at Cornell University and after graduating, spent a short time as an aid in the Division of Fishes, United States National Museum, in 1917. In 1922, he received an appointment with the Bureau of Fisheries and worked there until his retirement in 1956. Ginsburg's chief scientific interest was the marine fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Though at one time he intended to prepare a large work on the shore fishes of the Gulf, necessary revisionary work on those groups took up most of his time. In addition, he worked on the problem of species and their subdivisions. Other duties at the Bureau of Fisheries included handling of the correspondence concerning marine fishes and war work in connection with the coordination of fisheries in 1943-1944. Introduction This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee. Descriptive Entry The papers of Isaac Ginsburg chiefly document his career with the Bureau of Fisheries from 1922 to 1956. There is extensive correspondence concerning the fishes of the Gulf coast, ichthyological nomenclature, and Ginsburg's war work, as well as Bureau of Fisheries affairs. The collection also contains materials Page 1 of 13 Isaac Ginsburg Papers https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217344 concerning Bureau investigations that were probably sent to Ginsburg in connection with his research. This material includes notes and logs of William W. Welsh and Samuel Frederick Hildebrand on their investigations in New England and the Gulf of Mexico and photographs, probably of Hildebrand's work in Central America and the southern United States. Correspondents include Elbert H. Ahlstrom, Allan Hancock Foundation, American Museum of Natural History, American Society of Ichthyologists And Herpetologists, William W. Anderson, Edgar L. Arnold, Jr., Richard H. Backus, Edward W. Bailey, Reeve M. Bailey, Thomas Barbour, John Lafferty Baugham, Barton A. Bean, Henry M. Bearse, Elinor Helene Behre, Henry Bryant Bigelow, Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, James Erwin Bohlke, Alva Esmond Brandt, Charles Marcus Breder, Jr., William Bridges, Vernon E. Brock, E. Milby Burton, Louella E. Cable, David Keller Caldwell, Leonard Carmichael, Chicago Natural History Museum, Eugene Clark, Robert Ervin Coker, Edwin Grant Conklin, Edwin H. Dahlgren, Myvanwy M. Dick, Forrest V. Durand, Howard H. Eckles, Theodore Engelbach, William E. Fahy, Wilbur Irving Follett, Henry Weed Fowler, Isaac Ginsburg, William A. Gosline, James Nelson Gowanloch, Clifford C. Gregg, Gordon Gunter, William J. Hargis, Jr., Robert R. Harry, Edward Sturtevant Hathaway, Earl S. Herald, Albert W. Herre, Elmer Higgins, Henry H. Hildebrand, Samuel Frederick Hildebrand, Carl Leavitt Hubbs, Clark Hubbs, Theodor Just, Robert H. Kanazawa, A. Remington Kellogg, Joseph E. King, Milton Jerome Lindner, Irene McCulloch, Donald L. McKernan, John C. Marr, Ernst Mayr, Giles W. Mead, Daniel Merriman, Robert C. Miller, Robert Rush Miller, James E. Morrow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, George Sprague Myers, Robert A. Nesbit, Morris Graham Netting, New York Zoological Society, James B. Nichols, John Treadwell Nichols, J. R. Norman, Yngve H. Olsen, Albert Eide Parr, Raymond Pearl, John C. Pearson, Max Poll, Edward C. Raney, George K. Reid, Jr., Luis Rene Rivas, Luis Howell Rivero, C. Richard Robins, William F. Royce, Leslie W. Scattergood, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Waldo LaSalle Schmitt, William C. Schroeder, Leonard Peter Schultz, Hurst Hugh Shoemaker, F. G. Walton Smith, Society of Systematic Zoology, Stewart Springer, Victor G. Springer, H. Steinitz, Frank Stick, Royal Dallas Suttkus, John Tee-Van, Texas Academy of Science, Paul E. Thompson, Lionel A. Walford, Alfred C. Weed, William W. Welsh, John W. Winn, Loren P. Woods, Joe Young, Woodhull B. Young. Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms: Subjects: Ichthyology Types of Materials: Black-and-white photographs Manuscripts Names: Cornell University Ginsburg, Isaac, 1886-1975 Hildebrand, Samuel F. (Samuel Frederick), 1883-1949 United States National Museum. Division of Fishes United States. Bureau of Fisheries Welsh, William Welsh, 1878-1921 Page 2 of 13 Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1958. Isaac Ginsburg Papers https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217344 Container Listing Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1958. Box 1 Box 1 of 9 Folder 1 Ade - Audant. Box 1 of 9 Folder 2 American Museum of Natural History, 1957. Box 1 of 9 Folder 3 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1951, 1953, 1957; group picture, 1949. Box 1 of 9 Folder 4 William W. Anderson, 1947-1948, 1950-1955. Box 1 of 9 Folder 5 Backus - Burrows. Box 1 of 9 Folder 6 John Lafferty Baugham, 1945, 1947-1952. Box 1 of 9 Folder 7 Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, includes correspondence with Daniel Merriman, James E. Morrow, Yngve H. Olsen, Albert E. Parr and William C. Schroeder, 1931-1940, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1952-1954. Box 1 of 9 Folder 8 Biological Abstracts, 1930, 1940-1941, 1950-1952. Box 1 of 9 Folder 9 Charles Marcus Breder, Jr., 1932-1933, 1936, 1938-1939, 1941-1942, 1948, 1951, 1957. Box 1 of 9 Folder 10 William Bridges, 1938-1939, 1942 1951, 1953-1954. Box 1 of 9 Folder 11 Bureau of Fisheries. Includes reports on work and correspondence with Edward W. Bailey, Elmer Higgins, and Samuel Frederick Hildebrand, 1925-1940. Box 1 of 9 Folder 12 Bureau of Fisheries travel orders and memoranda of expenses, 1931-1932, 1934, 1937. Box 1 of 9 Folder 13 E. Milby Burton, 1933-1939, 1941, 1948-1949. Box 1 of 9 Folder 14 Cabirac - Cooper Box 1 of 9 Folder 15 Cambridge trip. Includes vouchers for expenses and correspondence with Edward W. Bailey, Elmer Higgins, and Leonard Peter Schultz concerning trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to conduct commercial fishery investigations and assist in the work of fishery coordination in connection with the war effort. September 1943-March 1944. Box 1 of 9 Folder 16 Civil Service Commission. Includes job descriptions of Isaac Ginsburg, 1925, 1947-1952. Page 3 of 13 Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1925-1958. Isaac Ginsburg Papers https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217344 Box 1 of 9 Folder 17 Dagry Freres - Dunson Box 1 of 9 Folder 18 Edmondson - Evermann Box 2 Box 2 of 9 Folder 1 Fahy - Fowler Box 2 of 9 Folder 2 Field Museum. Includes correspondence with Clifford C. Gregg, Robert H. Kanazawa, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Stewart Springer, Alfred C. Weed, John C. Winn and Loren P. Woods. 1933, 1936, 1941, 1948-1952. Box 2 of 9 Folders 3-4 Fish and Wildlife Service. Includes memoranda, vouchers for expenses, time and attendance reports, travel authorizations and orders, a 1943 report on the fisheries of Manchuria and correspondence with Edward W. Bailey, Edwin H. Dahlgren, Howard H. Eckles, Elmer Higgins, Paul E. Thompson and Lionel A. Walford, 1940-1948. Box 2 of 9 Folder 5 Fish and Wildlife Service, Annual Reports of Isaac Ginsburg, 1947-1957. Box 2 of 9 Folder 6 Fish and Wildlife Service. Time and attendance reports of Isaac Ginsburg. 1945-1950. Box 2 of 9 Folder 7 Gaige - Greenberg Box 2 of 9 Folder 8 Gulf Coast