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Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 7407
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Bird and Mammal Laboratories
Records, 1945-1970
Descriptive Entry
This collection consists of files of Directors Stanley Paul Young, 1958-1959, and Richard Hyde Manville, 1960-1970, primarily concerning the Alaska sea-otter investigations of Karl Walton Kenyon. The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistics, and photographs. Also included are a small amount of records documenting professional activities and publications of Manville. Records pre-dating the establishment of the Bird and Mammal Laboratories in 1958 were primarily created by Young and Frank G. Ashbrook as staff members of the Section of Wild Fur Animal Investigations, United States Fish and Wildlife Service. See also Record Unit 7171.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Ashbrook, F. G. (Frank Getz), 1892-1966
- Kenyon, Karl W.
- Manville, Richard Hyde, 1910-1974
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Section of Wild Fur Animal Investigations
- Young, Stanley Paul, 1889-1969
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7407, Records