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Rollo Howard and Ida Menzies Beck Collection (Unprocessed)

Box List

   
   


1.  Photos, lists, doc., songs, slides of Beck (taken from photos)
2.  Correspondence - 1870, letters, maps (196)

3.  Correspondence - 1897-1919, (241)

4.  Correspondence

5-7.  Correspondence - from suitcase

8.  Bird lists

9.  Photos - personal (unsorted)

10.  Photos - Alaska, Polynesia, Tahiti, Andes

11.  Photos - Galapagos (some large)

12.  Photos - South Seas

13.  Negatives, lists, letters, etc.

14.  Misc.

15.  Photographs with negatives

16.  Photographs with negatives (added 6/1987)

17.  Lists, 8 pg. document

18.  Some non-Beck material, acid-treated news clippings, pictures, maps, notebook, etc.

19.  Correspondence 1910-19, Mrs. Beck

20.  Correspondence 1934-47, clippings, cash book, 2 scrap books

21.  Field book, ms on Pacific birds, bird lists, scrapbook

22.  Glass negatives, large negatives, some photos - 1925  (FRAGILE)

23.  Photographs, some negs. - So. Seas, Galapagos, etc.

24.  Photographs: (Galapagos?), So. Seas, ship, Fiji

25.  2 ledgers, 1 field notebook, large photo, ship "France" album, 4 photo files

26.  Glass negatives, 1 negative album, photos (FRAGILE)

27.  2 book albums: 1920-21 Marquesas, Tahiti, Moorea, etc.; Personal pictures, etc. 1921

28.  2 book albums: Schooner "Hinano" 1921 - Tuamotui, Tahiti, etc.: Schooner "Moana" - So. Pacific 1921

29.  Manuscripts and notes from 1908-20 on Los Banos, Alaska, Peru, So. America, Haiti, Tahiti and Whitney Exp. 1920

30.  Field notes and mss to So. Pacific Islands 1921-28, Redwing Blackbird control - Merced Co 1945-50, misc.

A.  Publications (3’ shelf space)
B.  Pictures (1 framed)

C.  Steamer chest

* Framed certificate, life membership American Museum of Natural History  - in oversize flat files
* Several boxes of glass slides

 

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