Letter from Paul Bartsch to Sgt. Raymond L. Baker, June 6, 1945

Summary

Letter from Paul Bartsch, Curator of the Division of Mollusks and Cenozoic Invertebrates at the United States National Museum (now known as the National Museum of Natural History), thanking Sgt. Raymond L. Baker for collecting and sending specimens for the Smithsonian. Bartsch also asks for the specific locations from which the specimens were collected. This information often had to be sent separately since they were wartime collections and location information was often confidential.

Subject

• Baker, Raymond L
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Mollusks
• United States National Museum
• United States National Museum Dept. of Marine Invertebrates
• United States National Museum Division of Marine Invertebrates

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

For Sgt. Baker's reply to this letter, see Negative SIA2010-0987. For the original Accession Memorandum for Sgt. Baker's specimens, see Negative SIA2010-0985.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 900, Folder: 170486 Sgt. Raymond L. Baker

Contact information

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

Date

June 6, 1945

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• WW II
• Animals
• Accessions
• Collectors and collecting
• Science
• Specimens
• Shells
• Gifts
• Mollusks
• World War, 1939-1945

Place

Dutch East Indies

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2010-0986

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 8w x 5h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper

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