Edward Oscar Ulrich

Summary

Edward Oscar Ulrich (1857-1944) stands on a bridge holding a geologist's hammer at Buffalo River, Arkansas. Ulrich was a geologist and an invertebrate paleontologist. He worked many years as a freelance geologist and paleontologist on many of the state geological surveys. He worked for the United States Geological Survey from 1897 to 1932. After retiring he continued to work on fossils and publications in an office in the United States National Museum, where he had held an honorary appointment since 1914.

Subject

• Ulrich, Edward Oscar
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Geology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of G. Arthur Cooper Interview by Pamela M. Henson, January 6, 1984, in Smithsonian Institution Archives

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9524, G. Arthur Cooper Oral History Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1937

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Geologists
• Paleontologists
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Clothing and dress
• Collectors and collecting
• Field Work
• Arkansas

Place

Arkansas

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

84-11281

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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