{"value"=>"<p>The Name / Subject Files, 1930's-1940's, contain substantial correspondence of Baker with officers and members of the Board of Directors of NAS including Robert P. Allen, Carl W. Buchheister, Roger Baldwin, Jay N. Darling, Thomas C. Desmond, Guy Emerson, Kermit Roosevelt, Alexander Sprunt, Jr., William P. Wharton, and Mrs. Robert C. Wright.</p> <p>The Robert P. Allen file includes lengthy reports of his research on colonies of spoonbills in the Florida Everglades and in Texas; and logs kept while on a research boat \"Croc\" in the Everglades and Florida's western coast.</p> <p>The Carl W. Buchheister file relates to his directorship of the Audubon Camp of Maine. The Alexander Sprunt, Jr. file contain reports (1935-36) by Sprunt as supervisor of southern sanctuaries.</p> <p>The Willard G. Van Name file includes Name's correspondence as an officer of the American Museum of Natural History relating to NAAS, the Hawk and Owl Society, the Rosalie Edge controversy, as well as correspondence with Baker. There is correspondence with Arthur 0. Eifler and M. B. Parker, wardens in the Florida Everglades.</p> <p>The Singer Tract file contains Baker's correspondence with Richard H. Pough relating to the establishment of a wildlife sanctuary in Madison Parish, Louisiana, and the saving of the remainder of the primeval forest in the bottom land of the Tensas River in northern Louisiana, the habitat of the rare ivory-billed woodpecker (a project which was opposed by the Singer Mfg Co. who owned the land).</p> <p>The Harold Bailey file relates to a controversy resulting from an attempt of NAAS investigators (Robert P. Allen and Alexander Sprunt, Jr.) to determine if Bailey or his associate, Dick Harlow, a Harvard football coach who was also Curator of Eggs at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, had illicitly collected roseate spoonbill eggs at Bottompoint Key, Florida.</p>"}