Skip to main content

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1849-09-20 - 1938-04-11

Biography

George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Charles F. Bates papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1314
Abstract:

The papers document the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century historiography of General George Armstrong Custer and the Little Big Horn Battle. The collection contains research material consisting of correspondence, notes, writings, photoprints and maps. There is some original nineteenth centry material related to Custer, in particular the correspondence of Edward Settle Godfrey, but most of the papers are reproductions of original primary material.

Dates: 1866-1977

Farnam family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 203
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, financial papers, writings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the Farnam family of New Haven, Connecticut, 1721-1929. The papers of Henry Farnam (1803-1883), and two of his sons, Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) and William Whitman Farnam (1844-1929) form this collection. The papers of Henry Farnam include personal and professional correspondence concerning his family, life in New Haven, and the building of several canals and railroads in Connecticut and...
Dates: 1721-1941

Garvan-Sheldon collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 232
Abstract:

Miscellaneous letters related to big game hunting, a photograph album of early contributors to Forest and Stream (with a letter from George Bird Grinnell identifying the photographs), diaries, miscellaneous writings and memorabilia all related to travel or hunting. The letters were removed from books in a library collected by Charles Sheldon and presented to Yale University by Francis P. Garvan in 1929.

Dates: 1796-1943

George Bird Grinnell papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1388
Abstract: The papers, which consist of letterbooks, correspondence, and subject files, including photographs and writings, document George Bird Grinnell's leading role in the American conservation movement. The material focuses on Grinnell's adult life (1886-1938) and details his work as editor of Forest and Stream magazine, authority on American Indians of the West, and active participant in the National Audubon Society, the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Game Protective and Propagation...
Dates: 1859-1939

Letter : New York, to Charles Sheldon, 1922 Mar 17

 Part of Collection — Box 54: [Barcode: 39002137225299], Folder: GROUP 1995, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS with manuscript note in the hand of Grinnell.

Removed from Boone and Crockett Year-Book for 1889.

Dates: 1922 Mar 17

Othniel Charles Marsh papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 343
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, school notes, and other papers of O.C. Marsh, scientist and first professor of paleontology at Yale and in the United States. Of special interest is the rather extensive correspondence Marsh carried on with many prominent scientists of his time; included are letters from Charles Darwin, Leonard and Thomas Huxley, Simon Newcomb, and Benjamin Silliman Sr. and Jr. Also included are materials relating to Marsh's education at Andover,...
Dates: 1817-1899

Fred E. Pond papers related to fishing

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 904
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, photographs, drawings, writings, and ephemera primarily related to fishing, publications on fishing, and the history of fishing. Much of the correspondence is in regard to the life and work of the author Henry William Herbert ("Frank Forester") and includes letters from his daughter Margaret Herbert Mather and various authors, booksellers, and independent researchers. The papers also hold correspondence and material on three other writers of interest to...
Dates: 1750-1947, bulk 1876-1922

Henry Lewis Stimson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 465
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, letter books, speeches, articles, letters to the editor, statements prepared for presentation to Congress and substantial subject files with clippings, printed matter, reports, memoranda and photographs related to Henry Stimson's various public offices. While the official records of Stimson's service (as Secretary of War under President Taft, Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover and as Secretary of War in the cabinets of Presidents Roosevelt and...
Dates: 1846-1966

Additional filters

Type
Collection 7
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
Diaries 4
Conservation of natural resources 2
Forest and Stream 2
Indians of North America 2
World War, 1914-1918 2