Oscar T. Owre papers

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Oscar T. Owre papers

• circa 1960s-1990 (Vervaardig)

23.50 linear feet (39 document cases and 9 record storage boxes)

Oscar T. Owre (1917-1990) was a renowned professor from University of Miami's Biology Department, who retired in 1984 with the title of the Robert E. Maytag Professor of Ornithology. His papers contain correspondence, research data, field notes, slides, and other archival materials related to his profession and his subject interest in ornithology.

This collection has been arranged into four series:

Series I. Correspondence (Boxes 1-11)
Series II. Topical files (Boxes 12-39)
Series III. Slides (Boxes 40-46)
Series IV. Miscellanea (Box 47-48)

This collection is open for research.

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• Engels

• Latijn

This collection was donated by Lydia Owre on May 11, 1993.

• J. Riis Owre papers

This collection was originally processed by William E. Brown, Jr., former Head of Special Collections, in October 1995 and Marcia Evanson, March 1999. Finding aid edited by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 04-10-23.

• Biology -- Study and teaching -- United States
• Ornithology
• Birds -- Research

• Correspondence
• Research (documents)
• Field notes
• Slides (Photographs)