Vogdes (Anthony Wayne) Collection, 1865-1923

Summary

Creators:

Vogdes, Anthony Wayne, 1843-1923

Extent:

11.5 Linear Feet The collection consists of 11.5 boxes of printed material and realia (rolls, prints, and an album) relating to Vogdes' collections and interests in geology, paleontology, and bookbinding.

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Anthony Wayne Vogdes Collection (Archives collection LA 1994.0411). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Background

Scope and content:

The Anthony Wayne Vogdes Collection consists of printed material and realia related to Vogdes's research in geology and paleontology and his tenure as a research associate with and president of the San Diego Society of Natural History (1904-1920). It contains correspondence, notes, survey documents, papers, and notebooks. In addition, the collection contains a roll of handwritten notes, an album, prints, and portraits.

Biographical / historical:

General Anthony Wayne Vogdes (1843-1923) was a U.S. army officer and self-taught geologist and paleontologist. A descendant of Revolutionary War General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, Vogdes was born on April 23, 1843 at West Point, New York. His father, General Israel Vogdes, was a professor of mathematics at the Military Academy; his mother, Georgiana Welch Berard, was the daughter of the Academy's professor of French. Vogdes served in the American Civil War, receiving his commission as Second Lieutenant in the 100th New York Infantry. He participated in the seige of Fort Sumter in 1861, served with the First U.S. Artillery, and was present at the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in 1865. At the end of the war, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of the 4th U.S. Infantry. He married Ada Adelaide Adams in December 1867 in New York and continued his service, first at Fort Laramie and Fort Fetterman, Wyoming and later in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War (1898). Vogdes retired from the U.S. Army as a brigadier general in 1904. He served as president of the San Diego Society of Natural History from 1904 to 1923; with Frank Stephens, he established the Society's scientific publications series, the Transactions. He was a fellow of the American Geological Society and a member of the New York, Phildadelphia, Chicago, and California Academies of Science. Vogdes died on February 8, 1923 in San Diego. The Vogdes trilobite collection is a small collection of fossils, but diverse in terms of global coverage. His 40,000-volume scientific library is divided between the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library and the Huntington Library.

Processing information:

This is an in-process collection in the archives of the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library; not all of the contents of this collection have been fully arranged and described.

Box lists prepared by Anne Bullard (April 1994); photographs and miscellaneous inventory prepared by Bridgette Byrd (December 1998). Correspondence inventory prepared by Katherine Kolthoff (May 2019).

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

Vogdes Family Papers, 1832-1923. U.S. Military Academy Library at West Point, Highlands, NY 10996.

Letter : Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, to James Hall, Albany, N.Y., 1889 Apr. 14. (Anthony Wayne Vogdes). Special Collections Research Center, The University of Chicago Library, 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Geology
Paleontology
Trilobites -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
Natural history museum directors
Manuscripts
Bookbinding

Names:

Vogdes, Ada Adams, (Ada Adelaide), 1842-1919

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers by appointment. Contact the Research Library Director, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Terms of access:

Copyright may be reserved. Consult the San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Director for more information.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Anthony Wayne Vogdes Collection (Archives collection LA 1994.0411). Research Library, San Diego Natural History Museum.

Location of this collection:

San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library

1788 El Prado, Balboa Park

San Diego, CA 92101, US

Contact:

(619) 255-0225

library@sdnhm.org

Website

Background

Scope and content:

One file of Adams family correspondence including letters of Ada Adams Vogdes, Dr. Samuel Adams, and Henry Hawkes. The Hawkes letter includes an account of an 1875 Osage Indian wedding. Includes two letters of Lucy Audubon, an Adams acquaintance and the widow of John James Audubon.

1. Adams, Ada Adelaide (Vogdes, Ada Adelaide Adams 1842-1919)
2. Adams, Samuel, c. 1839-1967
3. Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874
4. Hawkes, Henry F.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence to A.W. Vogdes, alphabetized by sender. Seven files. Includes letters found loose within his books. Does not include familial correspondence.

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Scope and content:

Correspondence alphabetized by sender.

Surnames A - D

1. Aldrich, T.H. (Truman Heminway), 1848-1932
2. Ami, Henry M. (Henry Marc), 1858-1931
3. Ashley, Geo. H. (George Hall), 1866-1951
4. Aubury, Lewis E.
5. Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874
6. Bainbridge, E.C.
7. Barrett, Edward
8. Bassler, Ray S. (Ray Smith), 1878-1961
9. Björck & Börjesson (booksellers)
10. Blake, William P. (William Phipps), 1826-1910
11. Bownocker, J.A. (John Adams), 1865-1928
12. Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922
13. Britnell, Albert
14. Britnell, John
15. Broadhead, Garland C. (Garland Carr), 1827-1912
16. Calvin, S. (Samuel), 1840-1911
17. Casey, T.L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1831-1896
18. Chapman, Frederick, 1864-1943
19. Clark, William Bullock, 1860-1917
20. Clarke, John Mason, 1857-1925
21. Clayton, James A. (James Atkins), 1831-1896
22. Cox, E.T. (Edward Travers), 1821-1907
23. Cragin, Francis Whittemore, 1858-1937
24. Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
25. Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935
26. Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895
27. Davis, Arthur Powell, 1861-1933
28. Delgado, J.F. N. (Joaquim Filippe Nery), 1835-1908
29. DeWolf, F.W. (Frank Walbridge), 1881-1957
30. Dunbar, Carl O. (Carl Owen), 1891-1979

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Scope and content:

Correspondence alphabetized by sender.

Surnames E - H

1. Egan, W.C. (William Constantine), 1841-1930
2. Etheridge, Robert, Junior, 1846-1920
3. Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman), 1860-
4. Fellmer, E.A.
5. Finkelnburg, W.A.
6. Fontaine, William Morris, 1835-1913
7. Ford, S.W. (Silas Watson), 1848-1895
8. Friedländer, R. & Sohn (booksellers)
9. Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen, 1854-1931
10. Gerhard, William J.
11. Girty, George Herbert, 1869-1939
12. Grönwall, Karl Anders Axel, 1869-1944
13. Gurley, Wm. F.E. (William Frank Eugene Reed), 1854-
14. Hall, James, 1811-1898
15. Hall, Newton Marshall, 1865-1926
16. Hannibal, Harold
17. Harper, J.R.
18. Haworth, Erasmus, 1855-1932
19. Hay, Robert, 1835-1895
20. Hayden, F.V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
21. Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907
22. Herrick, C.L. (Clarence Luther), 1858-1904
23. Hicks, L.E. (Lewis Ezra), 1839-1921
24. Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941
25. Hitchcock, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1836-1919
26. Hoeing, J.B. (Joseph Bernard), 1855-1941
27. Hoffmann, G. Christian (George Christian), 1837-1917
28. Holmes Co. (bookseller)
29. How, Henry
30. Hurlbut, W.B.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence alphabetized by sender.

Surnames I - L

1. Irving, Roland Duer, 1847-1888
2. Jackson, Robert Tracy, 1861-1948
3. Jahn, J.J. (envelope only)
4. Jamison, C.E.
5. Kemp, James Furman, 1859-1926
6. Kümmel, Henry Barnard, 1867-1945
7. Landes, Henry, 1867-1936
8. Lawson, Andrew C. (Andrew Cowper), 1861-1952
9. Lesley, J.P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903
10. Lesquereux, Léo, 1806-1889
11. Levette, G.M. (Gilbert M.)
12. Lindahl, Josua, 1844-1912
13. Lindström, Gustaf, 1829-1901
14. Lowe, E.N. (Ephraim Noble), 1864-1933

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence alphabetized by sender.

Surnames M - S

1. Malcolm, Wyatt, 1860-
2. Marcou, Jules, 1824-1898
3. Martin, D.S.
4. Mathews, Edward Bennett, 1869-1944
5. Matthew, G.F. (George Frederick), 1837-1923
6. Mayer, W.
7. Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874
8. Merrill, George P. (George Perkins), 1854-1929
9. Mitchell, John, 1848–1928
10. Mitchell, N.H.
11. Moelling, Edith
12. Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936
13. Mulligan, J.H.
14. Murray, David, 1842-1928
15. Neuman, John C.
16. O'Harra, Cleophas C. (Cleophas Cisney), 1866-1935
17. Orton, Edward, 1829-1899
18. Packard, A.S. (Alpheus Spring), 1839-1905
19. Perkins, F.B.
20. Peter, Robert
21. Phillips, W.B. (William Battle), 1857-1918
22. Pohlman, Julius, 1848-
23. Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
24. Rathbun, Richard, 1852-1918
25. Raymond, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1879-1952
26. Reece, J.A.
27. Resser, Charles Elmer, 1889-1943
28. Rhoads, Samuel N. (Samuel Nicholson), 1862-1952
29. Richter, Rudolf, 1881-1957
30. Ruedemann, Rudolf, 1864-1956
31. Sahlström, K.E., 1884-1964
32. Schuchert, Charles, 1858-1942
33. Sellards, E.H. (Elias Howard), 1875-1961
34. Simmonds, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1819-1896
35. Skinner, John, 1851-1925
36. Smith, Eugene Allen, 1841-1927
37. Smith, James Perrin, 1864-1931
38. Snelling, Payot, Upham & Company (booksellers)
39. Spencer, J.W. (Joseph William), 1851-1921
40. Stoddart, F. Wallis (Frederick Wallis), 1859-1916
41. Straelen, Victor Émile van, 1889-1964

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence alphabetized by sender.

Surnames T - Z

1. Thomas, Ivor, 1877-1918
2. Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin, 1843-1909
3. Törnqvist, Sv. Leonh. (Sven Leonhard), 1840-1920
4. Todd, J.E. (James Edward), 1846-1922
5. Udden, Johan August, 1859-1932
6. Van Deloo, Jacob
7. Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
8. Weg, Max (bookseller)
9. Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905
10. White, C.A.
11. Whitfield, R.P. (Robert Parr), 1828-1910
12. Whitney, J.D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896
13. Wiman, Carl, 1867-1944
14. Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891
15. Winchell, N.H. (Newton Horace), 1839-1914
16. Yeates, W.S.

Background

Scope and content:

Three letters to Vogdes; senders signatures are illegible.

Background

Scope and content:

Photos of Vogdes and family. Includes original marriage certificate of Vogdes and Ada Adams (1867), and news clipping of wedding between Vogdes's brother Charles Bayard Vogdes and Harriet "Hallie" Hawks [sic] (1886). The photographs have been digitized.

A. W. Vogdes photographs (digitized)

1. AWV-005: Anthony Wayne Vogdes and Ada Adelaide Adams, Bride and Groom, 1867; tintype, 5.25 x 8.5 in.
2. AWV-006: A. W. Vogdes outside his home, San Diego; 3.5 x 4 in.
3. AWV-007: A. W. Vogdes, seated outside with books; 4 x 5 in.
4. AWV-008: General A. W. Vogdes, portrait; cardstock; 3.5 x 4.75 in.
5. AWV-009: A. W. Vogdes in his attic study, San Diego; 5 x 7 in.
6. AWV-010: A. W. Vogdes, portrait; tintype; 2.5 x 3.5 in.
7. AWV-011: A. W. Vogdes, frontispiece portrait; page 7.5 x 12 in.
8. AWV-012: Ada Adelaide Vogdes; cardstock 4 x 6.5 in.
9. AWV-013: View of Alcatraz (military post), 4 x 6 in.; verso: photo of Blanche Vogdes as a small child.
10. AWV-014: Blanche B. Vogdes (A. W.'s niece), as a small child in a baby carriage (later Mrs. Stewart C. Kendall), 4 x 5.5 in.; verso View of Alcatraz (military post).
11. AWV-015: Ada Adelaide Adams Vogdes; 2.5 x 4.25 in.
12. AWV-016: General A. W. Vogdes, Mrs. Ada A. Vogdes, and other military families; stereo view, 3.5 x 7 in. (Photographer: W. H. Jackson, U.S. Survey of the Territories)
13. AWV-017: Portrait of a man; subject not identified.

Background

Scope and content:

News clippings, pamphlets, and assorted material from Vogdes correspondence and books. Includes newspaper feature "Captain Vodges [sic] Library on Geology," San Francisco Bulletin (11 January 1896).

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Scope and content:

Various pamphlets from Vogdes files. Includes publication reprints on topics including silkworms and the Chicken Tick; includes one copy of the San Diego Society of Natural History Charter, Constitution and By-laws (1878); includes program of memorial service for Francis Huntington Snow (1908).

Background

Scope and content:

Autographs of naturalists, various fields; clipped from correspondence.

Correspondence signatures

1. Anthony, A.W.
2. Anthony, H.E.
3. Batchelder, C.F.
4. Benthram, Chas. E. (?)
5. Blaisdell, F.E.
6. Brewster, William
7. Brown, W.W.
8. Burnett, W.L.
9. Clay, C.J.
10. Cooke, Wells W.
11. Dalgleish, John J.
12. Dawson, W. Leon
13. Dickey, D.R.
14. Evermann, Barton W.
15. Fisher, A.K.
16. Grant, Ulysses S. 4th
17. Grinnell, Fordyce, Jr.
18. Grinnell, Hilda Wood
19. Grinnell, J.
20. Hardy, O.N. (?)
21. Holland, W.J. (Director, Carnegie Inst)
22. Howell, A.B.
23. Kelsey, F.W.
24. Law, J.E.
25. Louderback, Geo. W.
26. Mathew, Chas. K.
27. Merriam, C. Hart
28. Morcom, G. Frean
29. Palmer, T.S.
30. Parish, S.B.
31. Pringle, C.G.
32. Rathbun, R. (National Museum)
33. Rothschild, N. Charles
34. Shreve, Forrest
35. Shufeldt, R.W.
36. Stejneger, Leonhard
37. Swarth, Harry S.
38. Thompson, J.C.
39. True, F.W.
40. Warren, E.R. (?)
41. Widmann, Otto

Background

Scope and content:

Small booklet, Roman Catholic catechism. Nineteenth century printing of Spanish language translation.

Background

Scope and content:

Writings found in Vogdes files, not correspondence. Includes transcriptions, papers, manuscripts, drafts, research material, and bibliographies. Includes manuscript copy of Darwinity (1878) by Herman C. Merivale. Mostly undated.

Background

Physical description:

Mother of Pearl Album (binding in poor condition). Bookmaking.

Background

Scope and content:

Includes geology field notes and manuscripts. Includes reprint of Peach, B. N. "Scottish Paleontology during the last twenty years" (1900); includes two plates, "Paleographic Map of Onondaga Time" and "Paleographic Map of Hamilton Time," from American Geologist XXXII (1903).

Summary

Extent:

1 Linear Feet Handwritten notes in a roll. Possibly notes about paleontology. Paper is very brittle.