Taxidermy
Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:
Foundation, 1968-1980
This file contains Foundation correspondence regarding Proposition 13, Hancock Park museum development, museum tool replacement, a jaguar collecting expedition to Mexico, budget plans, grant applications, and foundation policies and procedures.
Foundation -- budget, 1980-1981
This file contains Foundation budget information regarding transfer of anthropology accounts and funding for habitat groups and includes a Foundation chart of accounts.
General correspondence, 1978-1979
This file contains mixed correspondence regarding school tours, museum thefts, paleontological collections, the Old Woman meteorite, and the use of zoo animals in habitat groups.
General correspondence -- A, 1923-1924
This file contains correspondence regarding the purchase of glass eyes from Jonas Bros studios in Denver, Colorado as well as plans to help the San Diego Natural History Museum with diorama construction.
General correspondence - A, 1931-1932
This file contains mixed correspondence and includes the job application of George N. Adams, museum taxidermist.
General correspondence A-Z, 1953
This file contains mixed correspondence and includes a memorandum regarding the world's record Kodiak bear on display in the Kodiak bear habitat group.
General correspondence A-Z, 1952-1954
This file contains mixed correspondence and includes a report of recommendations to the Board of Governors relating to the Museum's habitat groups calling for more representative halls and replacement of inferior taxidermy. It includes correspondence regarding a collecting expedition to Alaska, and a permit for MGM studios to photograph gorillas or to receive specimens of gorillas who had been killed in "self defense."
General correspondence -- April, 1926
This file contains correspondence regarding a Museum collecting expedition to Alaska, orders for animal glass eyes for the taxidermhy department, and scientific permits to hunt for specimens in Canada.
General correspondence -- B, 1929-1930
This file contains correspondence with taxidermist and sculptor Herman T. Beck following the death of former Museum taxidermist John Rowley.
General correspondence -- B, 1933-1934
This file contains mixed correspondence as well as an inquiry into the taxidermy mounting of a Great Dane dog.