| 2 | Creator: | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Smith Lyman papers,1850-1918
| | | | Dates: | 1850-1918 | | | | Abstract: | There are notes, sketches, memoranda, etc., made while Lyman directed the geological survey of Japan, 1873-1879, with reports on petroleum resources, copper, coal, iron, and gold mines, mineral springs, and other mineral resources of the Japanese archipelago. There are data on the Japanese, Chinese, Ainu, and French languages, and on Japanese manners and customs, wit and humor, gardening, painting, measurements, swords, etc. Notes and data on the life, travels, and publications of Bernard Varenius. Notes collected for Lyman's Vegetarian Diet and Dishes. Materials on the geology of New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, and West Virginia; and on coal and iron fields in those states and elsewhere. Manuscripts of articles on instruments for boring wells, theodolites for mining and civil engineers, other surveying instruments, etc. Of particular note is Lyman's period of study in Europe, where he attended the Imperial School of Mines in Paris, France (1859-1861), and the Royal Academy of Mines, Freiberg, Germany (1861-1862). There are about eleven notebooks for this period, written in English, French, and German, that contain: lecture notes, travel observations, comments on geology, mines and mining, railroads, with sketches of machinery, etc. There are a large number of letters (ca. 7,000 items), 1850-1917, from and to Lyman, on personal and business affairs. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L982 | | | | Extent: | 49.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Ainu language | Chinese language | Coal mines and mining. | Ecole impériale des mines (France) | France -- Description and travel. | French language | Gardening -- Japan. | Geological Survey (U.S.). | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. | Geological surveys. | Geology -- Colorado. | Geology -- France. | Geology -- Germany. | Geology -- Iowa. | Geology -- Japan -- Surveys. | Geology -- New Jersey. | Geology -- New Mexico. | Geology -- Ohio. | Geology -- Pennsylvania. | Geology -- Virginia. | Geology -- West Virginia. | Germany -- Description and travel. | Iron mines and mining. | Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1868-1912. | Japanese language | Lecture notes. | Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | Mines and mineral resources -- Japan. | Mining engineering. | Mining machinery. | Notes. | Painting, Japanese. | Railroads -- Europe. | Sketches. | Surveying -- Instruments. | Theodolites. | Varenius, Bernhardus, 1622-1650 | |
| 3 | Creator: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans.
The Collection of the American Council of Learned Socities Committee of Native American Languages is one of the largest and most significant primary resources for study of the indigenous languages of North America. Beginning with the creation of the Committee in 1927, and periodically added to since by the APS, the collection has grown to over 80 linear feet of material representing at least 166 languages and dialects from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The formats range from field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars, and dozens of linguists and Native consultants are represented. Although most of the material was collected in the 1920s and 1930s, a signficant number of items have been added that extends the range of dates represented both backward and forward. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Achumawi language | African Americans--Florida | African Americans--Folklore | African Americans--West Virginia | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Banister, John, Jr. | Bella Coola language | Benin--History | Chehalis language | Cherokee language | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity--Africa | Chukchi--History | Clothing and dress--Middle East | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Drawings. | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology--Africa | Ethnology--Russia | Ethnology--United States | Face painting | Field notes. | Fijians--Social life and customs | Folk music--Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore--Africa | Folklore--British Columbia | Folklore--Florida | Folklore--Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Group portraits | Haida language | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kutenai language | Kwakiutl language | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pomo language | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Shasta language | Sketches. | Slip files | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Tsimshian language | Tunica language | Twi (African people) | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Volga River Region (Russia)--History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Word lists | Yana language | Zapotec language | |
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