Manuscript Register

This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
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e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: May 2000

Acquisition Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries over a period of years, beginning in 1949.

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Naturalist Alfred Marshall Bailey (1894 -- 1978) was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1916. As an undergraduate he took part in the government-sponsored experdition to Laysan Island. This was the first of many  experditions he would take in his career. In 1919 he joined the U.S. Biological Survey in Alaska. Two years later as a staff member of the Denver Museum of Natural History, he led expeditions to Siberia and Arctic Alaska. He returned to the Denver Museum of Natural History as its director in 1936. He remained there until his death at the age of 84. Bailey's specialty was ornithology, and he wrote a number of articles and books on the subject, including Birds of New Zealand and Birds of Colorado.

The papers of Alfred M. Bailey reflect his work as a naturalist and ornithologist and are comprised of his literary manuscripts. These manuscripts date from 1949 to 1955 and include articles he wrote from the Denver Museum of Natural History's publication, Museum Pictorial. Each book or article includes rough drafts, typescripts, and proofs. Some also contain correspondence and published versions.

Birds of Alaska. Drafts of section about Branta Canadensis leucoporeia showing opinion change. Incomplete mss. Related correspondence.

Clippings

Denver Museum of Natural History, Museum Pictorials

No. 1. (published February 1951 though dated June 1950). Nature photography with miniature cameras. Drafts, galleys, page and press proofs, published magazine, related ephemera.

No. 3. (published October 15, 1951). Stepping Stones Across the Pacific. Published magazine.

No. 6. (July 1952). Laysan and black-footed albatrosses. Drafts, galley, press proof, published magazine.

No. 9. (September 1953). The red crossbills of Colorado. Drafts, press proof, published magazine.

No. 11. (June 1955). Birds of New Zealand. Draft, page and press proofs, galley, published magazine.

List of titles, numbers 1 -- 9.

Denver Museum of Natural History, Museum Publications. Popular Series. Catalog.