Category Archives: Stories from the Archives

Precedented Times

Posted on January 19, 2022 by mvzarchguest

Written by MVZ URAP Apprentice Margaret Asperheim, a senior in Linguistics. When Margaret first started in the MVZ Archives, she insisted on in-person tasks, and thus was our first archival apprentice regularly back in the museum for over a year! … Continue reading →

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MVZ and Stanford

Posted on December 21, 2017 by cfidler

I just finished listening to the podcast, “Who Killed Jane Stanford,” which was produced last year by a history course at Stanford University. It is a fascinating investigation of the events surrounding the death of Jane Stanford, early Stanford culture, … Continue reading →

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Dearly Departed: The fascinating lives and letters in the MVZ Correspondence Collection

Posted on February 7, 2017 by cfidler

The MVZ Archives has three new undergraduate students working on the IMLS funded project, “Strategic Stewardship for Sustaining the Archives of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.” Our students are working on the MVZ’s active correspondence collection and identifying correspondents who are deceased. … Continue reading →

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The Woman Beyond the Portrait: Annie and Samuel Alexander’s 1904 Expedition to East Africa

Posted on October 17, 2016 by mvzarchguest

by Jackie L. Childers, MVZ graduate student One of the major undertakings of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology’s (MVZ) Archives project is digitizing historical photographs. This includes maps, images of specimens and landscapes, as well as portraits of some of … Continue reading →

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Looking at the Screech Owl

Posted on October 3, 2016 by mvzarchguest

Written by Masha Paramonova, a 3rd year student participating in URAP for fall 2016 and studying biology.  As I’ve already looked through hundreds of archived photos in the MVZ’s collection, it can be hard to pick a couple that stand … Continue reading →

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