Records, 1945-1970

Object Details

Notes: For an administrative history of the Bird and Mammal Laboratories, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, see record unit 7171.; None.
Addl. KW Subjects: (RU 7171); Inaugural balls (RU 7146); Conway, Mercer (RU 1070201); (RU 1070101)
Organization: Unarranged
Summary: This record unit consists of files of Directors Stanley Paul Young, 1958-1959, and Richard Hyde Manville, 1960-1970, primarily concerning the Alaska sea-otter investigations of Karl Walton Kenyon. The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, statistics, and photographs. Also included is a small amount of records documenting professional activities and publications of Manville. Records predating the establishment of the Bird and Mammal Laboratories in 1958 were primarily created by Young and Frank G. Ashbrook as staff members of the Section of Wild Fur Animal Investigations, Fish and Wildlife Service.
Repository Loc.: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bird and Mammal Laboratories
Subject: Young, Stanley Paul 1889-1969; Manville, Richard Hyde 1910-1974; Kenyon, Karl W; Ashbrook, F. G (Frank Getz) 1892-1966; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Section of Wild Fur Animal Investigations