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Childs Frick (March 12, 1883 - May 8, 1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him.
2. Feb. 2024 · Childs Frick was the only surviving son of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and Adelaide Howard Childs (1859-1931). The elder Frick is mostly remembered for his mansion on Fifth Avenue that he filled with art, and which became the Frick Collection after his death.
Born in Pittsburgh, Childs Frick was the first of four children of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and Adelaide Howard Childs. He spent his childhood at Clayton, the family estate in Pittsburgh, exhibiting an early interest in studying the rocks, plants, and animals in the surrounding wooded areas and experimenting with photography and taxidermy.
Over a thirteen-month period spanning 1891–1892, Henry Clay and Adelaide Howard Childs Frick lost two of their four children. A reasonable conclusion can be drawn from Frick family history that a virulent infection contributed to oldest daughter Martha’s death a week before her 6th birthday.
11. Juli 2019 · Driving Herself: Adelaide Howard Childs Frick's Love of Horses If you visit the Frick any time this summer, you can immerse yourself in all things horses. Through the paintings in the A Sporting Vision exhibition, you can study how galloping horses were depicted before Edward Muybridge’s 1878 motion photography technique captured ...
Childs Frick was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and Adelaide Howard Childs. Frick graduated from Princeton in 1905. He had a life-long interest in natural science, especially the evolution of mammals.
Childs Frick (1883–1965), son of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), led two expeditions to Africa. The first, in 1909–10, was to British East Africa where he collected 126 mammals for Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Few details of this trip have come to light in archival research. The second, in 1911–12 ...
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