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Carl Burger was born June 18th 1888 in Maryville Tennessee to Joseph Burger ( a banker) and Elizabeth (Knox) Burger. He attended Maryville College in Maryville Tennessee and Stanford University. He received his Bachelor of Archeology from Cornell University. He also studied at the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for three years. He married Margaret Rothery in September 18th, 1920 and they had one child. He served in the military from 1917 to 1920 and earned the rank of Captain. He was a member of the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Zoological Society and the Cornell Club of New York. He died December 1967.
Carl Burger began his career as an artist as the Art Director for the advertising firm of N.W. Ayer and Sons in Philadelphia. In addition to writing and illustrating his own books, he illustrated many books and magazines and created large murals for the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium.
The collection contains manuscripts, published books, numerous illustrations. Also included are manuscripts in their various stages of publication, correspondence, and miscellaneous material pertaining to the publication of manuscripts.
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[Identification of item], Carl Burger Papers, Ax 577, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
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Beaver Skins and Mountain Men, New York, Dutton, 1968
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1968 |
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Beaver Skins and Mountain Men, second draft, carbon with numerous holograph and pasted-up revisions, 189 p.
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Pencil drawing of two beavers
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#3 pencil drawing (unfinished) cross section through beaver lodge, pond and dam, 8 x 24
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Paste up of book cover
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Pencil drawing cross section of beaver lodge and dam
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February 1968 |
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Cross section through beaver lodge and dam
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Drawing of bull moose eating and watching canoes go by, 9 3/4 x 13 1/2 (small proof taped on back
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Pencil drawing of American flag fort building with Indian teepees in front. Titled: A Permanent Trading Post (Fort Laramie), 8 1/4 x 13 1/2
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Pencil drawing of two men front watching Indians on horseback in background. Titled: IV. The Americans, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2
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Pencil drawing of two beavers near tree, titled: I. The Beaver, 9 x 14
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Pencil drawing, beaver house section through ice and snow, 3 x 7 1/2
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Pencil drawing of one large (3") beaver next to tree stump, beaver carrying stick (7 x 8)
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Pencil drawing of forefoot, skull, hindfoot, 4 1/2 x 10
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Pencil drawing of hats of 17th to the 19th century, 7 x 11 1/2
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Pencil drawing of Champlain and Indians in forest fighting, 8 3/4 x 13 3/4
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Pencil drawing, portrait of Samuel de Champlain, canoes in background, 5 1/2 x 12 1/2
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Pencil drawing of four men in canoe on rough river, titled: II. The French, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2
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One pencil drawing on green paper of white man with Indians in store, 5 x 6 3/4, also includes a proof
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Large unfinished pencil drawing of Jim Bridger in center, horseback riders in background, 5 3/4 x 12 1/2 , finished drawing of the same, 5 x 7
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Pencil drawing of traders and Indians in Indian village, titled: Rendezvous
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Pencil drawing of farmer plowing with two oxen; wife, daughter and dog carrying basket, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2
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Pencil drawing of sunset over a wagon train, trapper sitting forward talking to younger men, titled: V. Sunset, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2
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Pencil drawing, front canoe with figure- head, two Indians and five white men, in a canyon river, 10 3/4 x 12 3/4
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Pencil drawing of trapper in water bending over what must be beaver traps, and on left-hand side an insert of beaver being caught in trap underwater, 6 3/4 x 11 3/4, proof 4 1/2 x 6 3/4
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Royalty statements, Random House Inc.
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1960-1967 |
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Correspondence
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1967-1968 |
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Rough draft of manuscript, typed with holograph revisions, 135p.
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Miscellaneous
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Notebook of holograph research notes, 246 p.
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Pencil drawing of map of Mississippi River and Great Lakes
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Pencil drawing of map of Missouri, Columbia Rivers with Enlarged inset of Salt Lake with dates of trappers' rendezvous
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Paste-up of map of Missouri, Columbia Rivers with Enlarged inset of Salt Lake with dates of trappers' rendezvous
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Pencil drawing of map of Great Lakes and Hudson Bay
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Paste-up of map of Mississippi River from Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico
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Washington Roundabout, by Agnes Rothery, illustrated by Carl Burger, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. 1942
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