Newell, William Wells. 1839-1907.
Folklorist. Congregational and then Unitarian minister, 1863-68; tutor in philosophy, Harvard College, 1868-70; organized and ran school in New York City, 1870-1880s; private scholar and researcher in folklore, 1880s-1907; co-founder and permanent secretary of Amer. Folk-Lore Soc., 1888; ed., Journal of Amer. Folk-Lore, 1888-1900.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Soc. (Archives); 6 June 1888. L. to Henry Phillips. Jour. of Amer. Folk-Lore.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 27 Feb. 1882 to 17 Dec. 1906. 138 Ls. (129 to Boas, 9 to Newell). Jour. of Amer. Folk-Lore; Amer. Folk-Lore Soc.; research funding.
Notes on Egyptian Antiquities.
Manuscripts (913.32/N84). ca.1785. 72 lvs. Titles include: Sobre las monedas supuestas de los antiques Egipcios y algo de su historia natural; algo de sus pir´mides.
Quelques hiérogliphes des obélisques de Rome et la sphinx du Capitole.
Figures symboliques Égiptienes...
Notas tocante á los Egípcios, en lengua francesa.
Notes on Mexican Antiquities.
Manuscripts (913.72/N84). ca.1785 to 1800. 42 lvs. Titles include: Algo de lengua mexicana y de la explicacion de algunos geroglifícos. Pyrámide de Paplántla & Descripcion iconográfica de la antiqua y famosa pirámide ó adoratorio del Pueblo de Papántla.
Varies modes de pintar. Y per geroglíficos en el fresco y al temple.
Notas varias y caprichosas. Tehuantepec, Tonila, etc.
Nuttall, Zelia. 1858-1953.
Archeologist, Americanist. Hon. special asst., Peabody Mus. of Amer. Arch. and Ethn., Cambridge, Mass.; hon. prof, arch., National Museum, Mexico, 1908-33; member, advis. council, dept. of anthro., Univ. of Calif.
Correspondence, Ms.
American Philosophical Society (Misc. Mss. Coll.). Summary of Fresh Light on Ancient American Civilizations and Calendars. 1926. 51 lvs.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 14 May 1901 to 12 Dec. 1928. 21 Ls. (9 to Boas, 12 to Nuttall). Boas' plans for Amer. anthr.; Int. School of Amer. Arch. & Ethn.; Mexican arch.; Nuttall's work and property in Mexico; anthr. Education.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/384). 5 Aug. 1931 to 25 Jan. 1933. Letters of intro.; Mexican arch.; publcs.
Olbrechts, Frans M. 1899-1959.
Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent Univ.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 15 Dec. 1924 to 12 May 1939. 111 Ls. (66 to Boas, 45 to Olbrechts) + 3 Ls. fr. Olbrechts to Commission for Relief in Belgium, Educational Foundation, J.W. Fewkes, W.W. Long. Olbrechts' matriculation at Columbia; fieldwork; Indian linguistics; museum work; teaching.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 6 March 1937 to 10 March 1937. 2 Ls. (1 to Mason, 1 to Olbrechts). Personal.
Olbrechts, Frans M. Ethiopic and Cherokee Syllabaries -- A Case of Parallelism (497.3/B63c/I2.1). n.d. 8 lvs.
... Papers (497.3/0L2). ca.1910-30. 46 folders and volumes, 5 ln. ft. Field notes, grammars, ethnographic notebooks, vocabulary lists, lexical files, correspondence. Materials refer to Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora Indians.
Osborn, Frederick. 1889-1981.
Businessman, eugenicist. Tres. and vice-pres. in charge of traffic, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R.R., Detroit, 1914-17, pres., 1920-21; partner, G.M.P. Murphy & Co., New York City, 1921-38; hen. research assoc. in anthropology, Amer. Mus. of Natural Hist., 1934-53; exec. vice pres., Population Council, 1953-. Writer on eugenics, race, and population issues; member and officer, American Eugenics Soc., Eugenics Research Assn., Galton Soc.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 27 Nov. 1933 to 7 Nov. 1940. 43 Ls. (26 to Boas, 17 to Osborn) + 5 Ls. to/fr. E.A. Hooton, F.P. Keppel, Frank Lorimer. Eugenics; heredity and environment; race; population studies; publcs.
Davenport, Charles. Papers (B/D27). 1928-1941. 6 folders of correspondence with Osborn. Amer. Eugenics Soc.; Eugenical News race and biology; eugenics publcs.
Dunn, L.C. Papers (B/D917). 4 Jan. to 1 May 1952. 6 Ls. (2 to Dunn, 4 to Osborn). Eugenics; race and biology; publcs.
Osborn, Frederick. Papers (Ms. Coll. 24). ca.1910-1980. 3 ln. ft.
Correspondence, diaries, reports, article drafts, speeches, photographs. Includes records of Osborn's business career; work in eugenics; race and population research; and government service. Correspondents include Boas, Dobzhansky, Julian Huxley, William Schockley, SSRC, Society for Study of Social Biology, Assoc. for Research in Human Heredity.
Parker, Fly Samuel. 1828-1895.
Seneca chief, soldier, engineer. Student of law and then of civil engineering; civil engineer and superintendent of government works at Galena, Ill., 1857-62; U.S. army, from captain of engineers to brigadier-general, 186269; U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs, 1869-71; businessman, 1871-97.
Correspondence, Mss.
Papers (497.3/P223). 1794-1946. ca.600 pieces. Printed and manuscript sources on Indian affairs and Ely Parker's life and career, collected by Arthur C. Parker. Includes various Parker family materials; comments and manuscripts of Arthur Parker; linguistic materials dealing with the Seneca, collected by Albert Wright; Seneca historical records gathered by Arthur Parker. Correspondents include Lewis H. Morgan, Henry R. Schoolcraft, Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. 1875-1941.
Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-05; asst. editor, Journal of Amer. Folk-Lore; pres., Amer Anthropological Ass., 1940-41.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 4 Jan. 1907 to Dec. 1941. 346 Ls. (161 to Boas, 185 to Parsons) + 19 Ls. to/fr. P.E. Goddard, A.M. Totter, Frank Harrison, M.J. Herskovits, A.M. Huntington, and others. Folklore, religion, ceremonialism; research funding; Amer. Folklore Soc.; museum exhibits; publcs.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25). ca.1875 to 1941. 12 ln. ft.
Correspondence,ca.1400 lvs., 1921-41. Original with some photocopies. Correspondents include Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Ruth Bunzel, A. Irving Hallowell, Melville Herskovits, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Robert Redfield, C.G. Seligman, Edward Sapir, Leslie White, Clark Wissler. Also included are Parsons' notebooks, drawings, photographs and negatives, manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Materials deal primarily with religion, folklore, and the ceremonial culture of Indians in Antilles, American Southwest, and Mexico.
... Papers (Ms. Coil. 29). ca.1898 to 1941. 17 ln. ft. Primarily correspondence, but includes financial and family records, photographs, diaries, manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Much of correspondence consists of Parsons' family letters, but there are four boxes of professional correspondence. Correspondents include Ruth Benedict, Ruth Bunzel, J. Walter Fewkes, Franklin Giddings, P.E. Goddard, A. Goldenweiser, M. Herskovits, A. Kidder, Walter Lippmann, R. Lowie, Paul Radin, R. Redfield,G. Reichard, L. Spier, Clark Wissler.
Peale, Benjamin Franklin. 1795-1870.
Medallist, collector. Operated cotton mill near Philadelphia, 1812-?; manager, Peale Museum until 1833; U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, 1833-54, chief coiner, 1840-54; pres., Hazelton Coal and Railway Co.; pres., Pa. Institution for Instruction of the Blind. Peale was an avid antiquarian, collector of stone age artifacts, and author of numerous papers on prehistory.
Correspondence.
Peale-Sellers Collection (B/P31). 31 March 1855 to 29 Nov. 1866. 12 Ls. to Isaac Hayes, Titian Peale, George Escoll Sellers + 1 L. fr. Charles Adolphe Morlot concerning Peale's collection of stone age artifacts and Indian skulls and implements.
Pearl, Raymond. 1879-1940.
Biometrician, human biologist. Asst. in zoology, Univ. of Michigan, 1899-1902, instr., 1902-06; instr., Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1906-07; biologist and head of station, Maine Agricultural Exp. Station, 1907-18; prof, biometry and vital statistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1918-25, research prof, 1925-30, prof. of biology, Medical School, 1923-40; statistician, Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1919-35; dir., Inst. for Biological Research, 1925-30; prof. of biology, School of Hygiene, 1930-40.
Correspondence. Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 26 Nov. 1917 to 3 Oct. 1935. 55 Ls. (16 to Boas, 39 to Pearl) + 1 L. to Pearl fr. A. Hrdlicka. Leo Frachtenberg; Amer. anthropometry; Int. Jour. of Amer. Ling.; NAS Comm. on Funds in Aid of Research Publ.; race and mental charcs.; publcs.
Pearl, Raymond. Papers (B/P312). 1895 to 1940. ca.15 ln. ft., 15,000 Ls., 33 diaries, 12 notebooks, 11 scrapbooks, photographs. Most of Pearl's papers deal with his professional work in biometry, biological statistics, and human biology. The correspondence contains material relevant to Pearl's interest in physical anthropology and racial studies. In particular there are letters between Pearl and Members of the Amer. Ass. of Physical Anthropologists, including H. L. Shapiro, E. A. Hooton, Ales Hrdlicka, M. F. Ashley Montagu, W. W. Howells, and others; there is also correspondence between Pearl and the Galton Society, the Social Science Research Council, F. Boas, Sir Arthur Keith, Alfred Kroeber, and B. Malinowski. See also description of the collection in Bentley Glass, A Guide to the Genetics Collections.
See also Pearl correspondence in the L.C. Dunn, H.D. Goodale, C.B. Davenport, and A. F. Blakeslee papers.
Powell, John Wesley. 1834-1902.
Explorer, geologist, ethnologist. Explored south-west United States, 1869-75; director, second div. of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey, 1875-79; director, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879-1902; director, U.S. Geological Survey, 1880-1894.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 16 Nov. 1887 to 25 May 1901. 20 Ls. (6 to Boas, 14 to Powell). Founding of Amer. Anthropological Ass.; linguistic and ethnographic studies of Northwest Coast Indians; Bureau ofAmer. Ethnology; research funding; publcs.
For Powell's geographical and geological explorations see "Papers Collected by Wallace E. Stegner" (B/P869s.6), "Survey of Western Lands -- Letters Received, 1869-79" (Film 736), "Misc. Materials From the N.Y. Public Library and U.S. National Archives" (Film 736.1), and letters in the J. Peter Lesley papers (B/L56.1).
Prichard, James Cowles. 1786-1848.
Physician, ethnologist. Practiced medicine at Bristol, England, 1810-45; elected physician, St. Peter's Hospital, 1811; physician Bristol Infirmary, 1814-45; commissioner in lunacy, London, 1845-48. Prichard was a leading monogenist, president of the Ethnological Society, and published extensively on the physical history of man.
Correspondence.
American Philosophical Society (Archives). 26 Oct. 1838. L. to unknown correspondent. Languages of Brittany and Wales.
... (Misc. Ms. Coll.). n.d. L. to unknown correspondent. Anthropology of South Africa.
Letters of Scientists (509/L56.23D). 16 Oct. 1839. L. to James Yates. Physical History of Mankind; publcs.
Morton, Samuel G. Papers (B/M843). 20 May to 17 Feb. 1840. 3 Ls. Prichard to Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (20 May 1839) and to S.G. Morton (23 Aug. 1839 to 17 Feb. 1840). Aborigines Protection League; the study of primitive peoples; Crania Americana.
Putnam, Frederick Ward. 1839-1915.
Archeologist, naturalist, museum administrator. Curator of ichthyology, Boston Society of Natural History; superintendent, Museum of East India Marine Soc., Salem, 1867-69; dir., Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 1869-73; curator, Peabody Museum of Amer. Arch. and Ethn., 1874-1909; Peabody Prof. of Amer. Arch. and Ethn., Harvard, 1886-1909, emer. prof., 1909-15; curator of anthropology, Amer. Museum of Nat. Hist., New York, 1894-1903.
Correspondence.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 17 Nov. 1887 to 19 Oct. 1914. 180 Ls. (120 to Boas, 60 to Putnam) + 7 Ls. to/fr. Samuel Crawford, E.L. Hewett, M.K. Jesup, Augustus Lowell, H.S. Pritchett, B. Laufer. Amer. Anthr. Ass.; Amer. Anthropologist; museum collcs.; Columbian Expos. exhibitions; Amer. Mus. of Natural History; Arch. Inst; AAAS; Int Sch. of Amer. Arch. & Ethn.; prof. positions; research funding; personal; publcs.
Bowers, Stephen. Letters (B/B672). 17 May to 2 July 1886. 2 Ls. to Bowers. A collection of human artifacts.
Radin, Paul. 1883-1959.
Anthropologist. Ethnologist, Bureau ofAmerican Ethnology, 1910-12; field ethnol., Canadian Dept. of Mines, 1912-17; asst. prof., ethn., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1918-20; lect., ethn., Cambridge Univ., 1920-24; Canadian fieldwork, 1925-26; Fisk Univ., 1927-31; Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1931-40; Black Mountain Coll., North Carolina, 1941-45; foundation supported lecturing and research, 1945-57; Samuel Rubin prof, and head of dept., anthr., Brandeis Univ., 1957-59.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 28 May 1908 to 18 Feb. 1942. 124 Ls. (69 to Boas, 55 to Radin) + 3 Ls. to H.A. Andrews fr. Radin. Bureau of Amer. Ethn.; fieldwork; Indian ling., esp. Winnebago, Huave, Zapotecan; Mexican and Winnebago folklore; prof. positions; research support.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M3 84). 10 ~an. 1941 to 22 March 1960. 3 Ls. (1 to Mason, 2 to Radin) + 1 L. to Doris Radin. Mexican and South Amer. linguistics. Radin Festschrift.
Radin, Paul. Papers (497.3/R114). ca.1910 to 1959. 13.5 in, ft. (21 boxes, 79 notebooks). Linguistic and ethnographic manuscripts, notebooks, cards dealing with Mexican and American Indians. Linguistic materials on Patwin, Poma, Otomi, Wappo, Winnebago, Huave, Zapotec, and other langs. Folklore notes and manuscripts on Mandan, Winnebago, Ojibwa-Ottawa, and others.
... Papers (497.3/B63c). ca.600 lvs. and 300 cards. Materials on Indian linguistics and ethnography. Includes manuscript material on Otomi, Huave, Mixtec, Chinantec, Patwin.
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1783-1840.
Naturalist. Secretary and chancellor to American consul, Palermo, Sicily, 1805-08; exporter, Palermo, 1808-15; tutor, naturalist, in U.S., 1815-19; prof., botany, natural history, modern langs., Transylvania Univ., Lexington, Ky., 1819-26; lect., retailer of medicinal plants, founder of savings bank, Philadelphia, 1826-40.
Correspondence, Mss.
Rafinesque, Constantine. Ancient Monuments of North and South America (Film 32). 1822-25. 125 lvs.
... Indian Vocabularies (497/V85). Vocabulary of the Chontal Language and its Dialects Spreading from Guatimala to Panama & Darien. 1826. 7 lvs. Vocabulary of the Extinct Haytian or Taina Language. 1826. 3 lvs.
... Papers (B/R124). 1808 to 1840. 221 items. Correspondence and mss. Most of Rafinesque's writings deal with botany and other aspects of American natural history. However, he was also very interested in the antiquities and languages of the New World. Letters to John Adams and from J. A. Van Heuvel discuss the antiquities and languages of the Americas. Relevant essay manuscripts include discussions of the "Graphics System of North America," "Book 43d or Z. Y. Materials for the history of the American nations...," "Mémoires sur l'origine des nations nFgres...," and "Outlines of American ethnology.. ."
Redfield, Robert. 1897-1958.
Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology, Univ. of Colorado, 1925-26; fellow, Soc. Sci. Res. Council, 1926-27; instructor, anthropology, Univ. of Chicago, 1927-28, asst. prof, 1928-30, assoc. prof, 1930-34, prof. and dean, Div. of Social Sciences, 1934-46, chmn., dept of anthropology, 1947-49, Robert Maynard Hutchins prof., 1953-58; res. assoc, in charge of ethn. and sociological fieldwork, Carnegie Inst., 1930-46.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 10 January 1941. L. to Boas. Recommendation for Jules Henry.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 31 Oct. 1940 to 1 July 1942. 4 Ls. (2 to Mason, 2 to Redfield). Mexican codices; current ethnographic research in Guatemala.
Moe, Henry Allen. Papers (B/M722). 29 July 1942 to 8 Jan. 1943. 7 Ls. (2 to Moe, 3 to Redfield) + 2 Ls. to/fr. H. C. Daines and German Arciniegas; Guggenheim Found. support for Arciniegas.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25.1). 23 Nov. 1936 to 19 Sept. 1941. 21 Ls. (20 to Parsons, 1 to Redfield). Publ. of Pueblo Indian Religion; personal.
Redfield, Robert. Manuscripts (Film 297). Microfilm copies from Univ. of Chicago "Collection of Manuscripts on Middle Amer. Cultural Anthr." April is this Afternoon. 1937. 79 lvs.
Ethnographic Materials on Agua Escondida. 1938-39, 40-41. 38 + 688 lvs.
Notes on San Antonio Palapo. 1940-41. 13 + 379 lvs. Guatemalan ethnography; fieldwork.
Shryock, Richard H. Papers (B/Sh86). 26 Sept. 1939 to 31 May 1940. 7 Ls. (4 to Shryock, 3 to Redfield). Anthropology and history; social sci. research training; confs.
Reichard, Gladys. 1893-1955.
Anthropologist. Asst., anthropology, Barnard College, 1921-22; res, fellow, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1922-23; instr., anthropology, Barnard Coll., 1923-28, asst. prof, 1928-41, assoc. prof., 1941-51, prof., 1951-55.
Correspondence, Mss.
Boas, Franz. Professional Correspondence (B/B61). 18 May 1919 to 6 Nov. 1941. 140 Ls. (106 to Boas, 34 to Reichard) + 7 Ls. to/fr. J.M. Cowan, Schmidt, Paul Jacobs, Lucy Knox, D.A. McDonald, F.M. Settler, "Frances."
Graduate studies at Columbia; Algonquin ling. and folklore; Wiyot ling.; Navaho social structure; ling.; material culture; fieldwork; publcs.; personal.
Mason, J. Alden. Papers (B/M384). 8 ~an. 1925 to 7 Sept. 1958. 17 Ls. (9 to Mason, 8 to Reichard). Amer. Ethn. Soc.; confs.; publcs.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Papers (572/P25.1). 1938 to 28 Aug. 1941. 18 Ls. (12 to Parsons, 1 to Reichard). Navaho social life and folklore; fieldwork; Amer. Folk-Lore Soc.; confs.; publcs.; personal.
Reichard, Gladys. Letter to Amer. Council of Learned Societies (506.73/Am72co). 1927 1 lf. Report of field trip to Coeur d'Alene Indians. July to Sept. 1927.
... Coeur d'Alene Indian Texts (497.3/B63c). n.d. 418 lvs.
Roe, Anne. 1904-
Psychologist. Psych., Commonwealth Fund Grant, 1931-33; asst. psychology, Worcester State Hosp., 1933-34; res, psychology, N.Y. Infirmary for Women & Children, 1935-36; asst. ed., Res. Council Probs. Alcohol, 1940-41; dir. study, School Alcohol Studies, Yale, 1941-42; res, asst. psychol., Lab. Appl. Physiol., 1943-46; dir., study of scientists, USPHS, 1946-51; psychol., Vet. Admin. Hosp., Montrose, N.Y., 1955-57; adj. prof., N.Y. Univ., 1957-59; lecturer and res. assoc., Grad Sch. Educ., Harvard, 1959-63, dir., center res, careers, 1963-66, prof, educ., 1963-67, emer. prof, 1967-. Data Sheets.
Data collected for The Making of a Scientist (B/R621). 1959. ca.6000 pieces (12 ln. ft.). Transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception tests, personal data. Includes files for A. I. Hallowell, Clyde Kluckhohn, Ralph Linton, Harry L. Shapiro, Robert Redfield. Not available until 10 years after Roe's death.