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Finding Aid to the Annie Montague Alexander Papers, 1904-1949
BANC MSS C-B 1003
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Collection Title: Annie Montague Alexander papers
Date (inclusive): 1904-1949
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 1003
Creator :
Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950
Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes and 2 volumes
Linear feet: 2.0
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Annie Montague Alexander, concerning the establishment, work with and gifts
to the Museum of Vertebrae Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley. The bulk of the letters are from Joseph
Grinnell, the first Director of the MVZ. Other correspondents include Seth Bertram Benson, E. Raymond Hall and Alden H. Miller.
Also includes scrapbooks containing photographs and copies of letters written by Alexander and her father, Samuel T. Alexander,
while on safari in British East Africa (present-day Kenya) in 1904. Collection does not include correspondence with her companion
Louise Kellogg. Papers concerning the establishment and work with the University of California Museum of Paleontology can
be found at that museum.
Additions (box 4): Contains correspondence (1933-1948), indexes to various Alexander and Kellog collections (location unknown),
and numerous plant specimens from Cisco and Lake Tahoe, Calif. The specimens are mounted on card stock listing the name of
the plant and the place and date where it was collected.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce must be submitted
in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Annie Montague Alexander Papers, BANC MSS C-B 1003, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Biographical sketch of Annie M. Alexander (BANC MSS 69/15)
Joseph and Hilda Wood Grinnell papers (BANC MSS 73/25)
Alden H. Miller papers (BANC MSS 68/82)
Records of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (CU-120)
Annie Montague Alexander papers at the University of California Museum of Paleontology
One African safari album has been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library. (BANC PIC 1966.013--ALB)
Photograph of Annie Montague Alexander and Louise Kellogg has been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft
Library. (BANC PIC 2005.053)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Alexander, Annie Montague, 1867-1950--Archives
Alexander, Samuel T.--Correspondence
Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939--Correspondence
Benson, Seth Bertram, 1905--Correspondence
Hall, E. Raymond, (Eugene Raymond), 1902--Correspondence
Miller, Alden H. (Alden Holmes), 1906--Correspondence
University of California (1868-1952). Museum of Vertebrate Zoology--History
Zoology
Zoology--Pictorial works
Hunting--Africa, East--History
Safaris--Africa, East
Africa, East--History--Pictorial works
Africa, East--History
Kenya--History--1895-1963
Kenya--History--1895-1963--Pictorial works
Photographs
History of science and technology collection
The Annie Montague Alexander Papers were transferred to The Bancroft Library by the University of California, Berkeley, Museum
of Vertebrate Zoology in 1965. Additions were made in February 1967. Additions of copies of Alexander's outgoing correspondence
were made by Alice Q. Howard, heir to Louise Kellogg's estate, on April 29, 2005 and in 2007.
No additions are expected.
Reprocessed by Alison E. Bridger in 2006.
Annie Montague Alexander was a naturalist, explorer, and patron of the sciences. She founded both the Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology (MVZ) and the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) on the Berkeley campus and was the benefactress
of those museums for more than 40 years.
More information can be found on Alexander from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology,
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/alexander.html and the University of California Museum of Paleontology,
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/alexander.html websites.
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of Annie Montague Alexander, concerning the establishment, work with and gifts
to the Museum of Vertebrae Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley. The bulk of the letters are from Joseph
Grinnell, the first Director of the MVZ. Other correspondents include Seth Bertram Benson, E. Raymond Hall and Alden H. Miller.
Also includes scrapbooks containing photographs and copies of letters written by Alexander and her father, Samuel T. Alexander,
while on safari in British East Africa (present-day Kenya) in 1904. Collection does not include correspondence with her companion
Louise Kellogg. Papers concerning the establishment and work with the University of California Museum of Paleontology can
be found at that museum.