Box 22
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Discovery Story
File — Box: 22, Folder: 1
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Sometime after the discovery of dinosaur bones in August of 1909 in Vernal, Utah, Douglass wrote "Story of Discovery of Dinosaur Monument," which describes the actual uncovering of the bones and his reactions to this monumental event.
Dates:
1879-1953
Area Description, 1909-1910
File — Box: 22, Folder: 2
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Description of the area where dinosaur bones were discovered and the locale of the dinosaur quarry. Douglass located Hidden Hollow and Orchid Spring, areas which were later acquired by him as a Desert Land Claim.
Dates:
1909-1910
Resolution
File — Box: 22, Folder: 3
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Resolution by the Uintah Club of Vernal, Utah, asking Donald B. Colton, representative from Utah, to introduce a bill in Congress to appropriate $100,000 for the creation of a museum at Dinosaur National Monument. The resolution also gives a brief history of the site and the Douglass discoveries.
Dates:
1879-1953
Museum
File — Box: 22, Folder: 4
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Notes and outline of Douglass's plan for the museum to be constructed at Dinosaur National Monument. These plans include the actual dimensions for the proposed structure and were used for the present facility.
Dates:
1879-1953
Story Notes
File — Box: 22, Folder: 5
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Notes to be used for a creative story on the discovery of the Dinosaur National Monument site. The notes and story outline describe how the area is unique, the mystery of dinosaurs, and how the discovery relates to the origin of man.
Dates:
1879-1953
Public Notice, 1922
File — Box: 22, Folder: 6
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Statement for local publication about visiting times, tour guides, and necessary fees charged visitors at the quarry. The notice, written by Douglass, predates the 1922 rules issued by the United States Park Service.
Dates:
1922
American Museum of Natural History, 1894
File — Box: 22, Folder: 7
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
List of bones and fossils collected in 1894 in the Uinta Basin by O. A. Peterson for the American Museum of Natura l History.
Dates:
1894
Carnegie Museum--Annual Reports, 1922, 1923
File — Box: 22, Folder: 8
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Reports outlining, briefly, the activities of the Carnegie team at the dinosaur quarry. Lists of the major discoveries or bones removed are included. The 1923 report states that five nearly complete skeletons were exposed representing five distinct dinosaur species.
Dates:
1922, 1923
Carnegie Museum, 1904
File — Box: 22, Folder: 9
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
List and remarks on fossils sent from Carnegie Museum to T. S. Stanton in 1904 for his description. Also included in Stanton's report on the fossil examination dated 1904.
Dates:
1904
Carnegie Museum, 1917
File — Box: 22, Folder: 10
Identifier: V
Scope and Contents
Lists of boxes and description of numbered dinosaur bones in each box sent to Carnegie Museum by Earl Douglass. Also included is a brief list of rejected specimens.
Dates:
1917