| 1 | Creator: | Dyk, Walter, 1899-1972 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Walter Dyk Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1931-1956 | | | | Abstract: | The linguist Walter Dyk (1899-1972) began his career as a graduate student under Edward Sapir studying the Wishram language. Following his MA thesis "Verb types in Wishram" (Chicago, 1931) and dissertation "A Grammar of Wishram" (Yale, 1933), Dyk turned to the study of Navajo language and culture, publishing his best known works, "autobiographies" of two of his consultants, Left Handed (1938) and Old Mexican (1948).
The Dyk Collection consists of copies of Dyk's MA thesis and dissertation, some fields notes and related publications on Wishram, and commentary by Mary Haas, C. F. Voegelin, and Dell Hymes (who assembled the collection). Among the more interesting items are a particularly long and informative letter from Sapir commenting on Dyk's dissertation, and a series of letters between Pete McGuff and Sapir, written while the former was doing fieldwork on Wasco at Fort Simcoe, Washington, 1906-1908. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.H998m | | | | Extent: | 0.4 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Dissertations. | Dyk, Walter, 1899-1972 | Field notes. | Indians of North America--Languages | Masters theses | Wasco language | |
| 2 | Creator: | MacLaury, Robert E., 1944- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ayoquesco Zapotec
| | | | Dates: | 1970 | | | | Abstract: | From 1968-1970, the anthropologist Robert E. MacLaury conducted fieldwork on Zapotec (Oto-Manguean) language and ethnography at Santa Mara Ayoquesco de Aldama, Oaxaca. His masters thesis based on that research, "Ayoquesco Zapotec: Ethnography, Phonology, and Lexicon," was accepted at the University of the Americas in 1970. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.4.M22 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of Mexico--Languages | Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca | MacLaury, Robert E., 1944- | Masters theses | Photocopies | Southwest Indians | Zapotec Indians | Zapotec language | |
| 3 | Creator: | Glock, Richard A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Caldwell, M.D.: The Rejection of Chemistry in America
| | | | Dates: | 1959 | | | | Abstract: | The physician Charles Caldwell received his medical degree under Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania in 1796, but shared little, theoretically or stylistically with his mentor. After accepting a chair in medicine at Transylvania University in 1819, Caldwell became a champion of phrenology and racial polygenism, and he was an ardent opponent of the introduction of chemistry into the medical curriculum.
In his master's thesis from the University of Pennsylvania, Richard A. Glock traces Caldwell's opposition to the introduciton of chemistry into medical education in the United States during the early decades of the 19th century, his idiosyncratic vitalistic physiology, and the relations between medical schools in the eastern and western states. | | | | Call #: | Mss.540.973.G51 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853 | Chemistry--History--19th century | Glock, Richard A. | Masters thesis | Medicine--History--19th century | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Transylvania University | University of Pennsylvania. | |
| 4 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum
| | | | Dates: | 1986 | | | | Abstract: | Founded in 1838 by merchant and philanthropist Nathan Dunn (1782-1844), the Chinese museum informed and entertained Philadelphians from 1838-1841 with its variety of objects, art, and life-size figures in recreated Chinese room settings. For the 50,000 or so people who visited, the museum provided a window into a world that few of them ever would have the chance to experience firsthand.
In his 1986 B.A. thesis at the University of Pennsylvania, Aaron Caplan described American diplomatic, commercial, and religious involvement in China and how the experiences of Anglo-American traders and missionaries influenced public perceptions of China and the Chinese. He explored how, in this context, Nathan Dunn's Chinese Museum educated and entertained the public and how it fit into the world of Philadelphia museums in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. | | | | Call #: | Mss.069.C17n | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Caplan, Aaron | China--Civilization--19th century | China--Commerce--United States | China--Politics and government--19th century | Chinese Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Dunn, Nathan,1782-1844. | Masters theses | Museums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century | United States--Commerce--China | |
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