Kingman Museum of Natural History

The Kingman Museum in Battle Creek, MI will re-house 75 linear feet of archival material dating from the late 1800s to the present day in acid-free folders and boxes. The collections include documents on the founding of the museum, as the Battle Creek Public School Museum, in the early 1930s, as well as papers from two of the early leaders of the community, Edward M. Brigham and Edward M. Brigham, Jr. These papers contain memoirs and photographs documenting numerous expeditions around the world, which resulted in collections for the museum, and journals discussing their many scientific discoveries, such as the hoatzin, the four-footed bird of the Amazon basin. Once re-housed, the collections will be available for researchers and for exhibitions about this community treasure.