Natural history museum directors
Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:
Gehring acting director, 1951
This series contains the correspondence of Museum Director Fred Gehring.
General correspondence, 1985-1986
This file contains mixed correspondence regarding budget planning, the retirement of Craig C. Black, staff salaries, open positions, maintenance and repairs, foundation expenditures, and furloughs.
General correspondence, 1985-1993
This file contains mixed correspondence regarding the Page Museum 10th anniversary, tax issues, NSF audits, criticisms of Craig C. Black, and a list of contracts between county and museum foundations.
General correspondence, 1994
This file contains mixed correspondence regarding vertebrate paleontology, incident reports, director appointments, travel policies, and building projects.
General correspondence -- A-Z, 1979-1980
This file contains mixed correspondence and includes correspondence regarding Pete Lee as new Museum Director, the education division, and correspondence with the American Science Film Association
General correspondence -- D, 1981
This file contains mixed correspondence regarding openings for the position of Museum Director.
General correspondence -- F, 1986-1987
This file contains mixed correspondence and includes correspondence regarding the death of former Museum director Herbert Friedmann.
Giles W. Mead collection
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.
Gurdon Woods collection
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.
Herbert Friedmann collection
The Herbert Friedmann collection documents the activities of Los Angeles County Museum Director Herbert Friedmann (1900-1987) from 1961-1970 and is comprised primarily of correspondence, grant proposals, budget records, press releases, and photographs and incldues correspondence regarding Rancho La Brea, Museum job classifications, collections loans, and the "America's Black Heritage" exhibition.