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The Board of Governors files are comprised of meeting notes from the Natural History Museum Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, and Committee meetings as well as meeting notes from the Museum Foundation and the Museum Associates meetings, all spanning from 1910-2014. The collection also includes 3 reels of microfilm containing digitized images of meeting notes from 1910-1979.

Abstract The Craig C. Black collection documents the activities of Museum Director Craig C. Black (1932-1988) from 1984-1994 and is comprised of correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, and gallery floorplans and incldues correspondence regarding exhibitions planning, research expeditions, specimen loans, repatriation of cultural property, and museum thefts. The collection also includes information regarding the Museum split with LACMA, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and correspondence...

Abstract The Exhibitions Division collection documents the activities of the Exhibitions Division of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the George C. Page Museum from 1914-2015 and includes correspondence, photographs and slides, budget information, division reports and meeting notes, audio/visual materials, exhibition schedules, press kits, and ephemera. The collection also includes label copy, exhibition floorplans and blueprints, and original illustrations and sketches by artist...

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The Frank S. Daggett Collection documents the activities of Museum Director Frank S. Daggett (1855-1920) from 1911-1920 and is comprised primarily of correspondence, budget records, press releases, and scientific collecting permits and incldues correspondence regarding Hancock Park and Rancho La Brea, collecting expeditions to Alaska and Africa, and includes correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt.

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The Charles F. Gehring Collection documents the activities of Acting Director Charles F. Gehring from 1946-1970 and is comprised primarily of correspondence, budget records, newspaper clippings, and press releases and includes correspondence regarding Hancock Park, exhibitions development, quarterly reports, and capital building projects.

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The Giles W. Mead collection documents the activities of Museum Director Giles W. Mead (1928-2003) from 1970-1978 and is comprised primarily of correspondence, budget records, photographs, and press releases and incldues correspondence regarding LACMA, China Lake excavations, exhibitions development, California state fossil selection, Hancock Park and La Brea museum planning, Old Woman Meteorite court proceedings, Proposition 13 (Jarvis-Gann Initiative), and Museum thefts.

Abstract The Greg Byrd papers documents the actitivies of Greg Byrd who served as superintendent of the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries from 1977 until 1987 (estimated). As superintendent, Byrd was tasked with operation of the museum and its staffing and financial decisions. These duties included, budgets, maintenance, custodial duties, security, and special events. These papers consist primarily of correspondence, memorandum, exhibition records, financial records, Page Museum...

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The Gurdon Woods collection documents the activities of Director of the Otis Art Institute and Deputy Director of the Los ANgeles County Natural History Museum Gurdon Woods from 1977-1980 and is comprised primarily of correspondence, meeting notes, grant proposals, and loan agreements and incldues correspondence regarding exhibitions development, collections policy, Museum library collections, art sales, and transfer of Hancock Park collections.

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The Henry Wylde records documents the activities of vertebrate paleontologist and Science Division Chief Henry Anson Wylde (1908-1984).