| 1 | Creator: | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Anthropologist at work: writings of Ruth Benedict / by Margaret Mead
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | This item is the first working draft of the book published in 1959. Arrangement is different from published version, and lacks correspondence with Edward Sapir. More letters, fuller texts, fuller identification of references in this version, however. Includes correspondence of Ruth Benedict with Franz Boas, Reo Fortune, and Margaret Mead. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B428.mx | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropology | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Drafts (preliminary versions). | Fortune, Reo, 1903-1979 | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | |
| 2 | Creator: | Jones, William,1871-1909. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ojibwa ethnographic and linguistic field notes, 1903-1905
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1905 | | | | Abstract: | The collection includes material relating to government, mythology, festivals, customs, games, etc. of the Ojibwa Indians. Also includes comments on the language; vocabulary, some items with English glosses; lists of bands and locations; and photographs of people, activities, dwellings, canoes, etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.J71 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquian Indians | American Museum of Natural History. | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Field notes. | Gelatin silver prints | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Minnesota | Indians of North America--Ontario | Indians of North America--Religion | Indians of North America--Social life and customs | Jones, William,1871-1909. | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | Ojibwa Indians | Sketches. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Boas-Rukeyser Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1869-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Material collected by Muriel Rukeyser in the late 1940s and 1950s for a proposed biography of Franz Boas, including original manuscript materials of Boas, correspondence between Boas and Rukeyser, biographical data, early family letters and documents relating to him, school and military records, family reminiscences of Boas, and some professional correspondence. There is one box of material specifically related to the publication of Rukeyser's biography, including notes, a synopsis of the book, and correspondence with publishers and funding agencies. There are also boxes of Boas-related newsclippings, and publications concerning Boas. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61ru | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology--United States--History. | Authors and publishers. | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, -- 1840-1914. | Baur, Georg, -- 1859-1898. | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Benedict, Stanley Rossiter, -- 1884-1936. | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Champion, Martha. | Clarke, Hans Thacher, 1887-1972 | Clippings. | Dakin, H. D., (Henry Drysdale), 1880-1952 | Dorsey, James Owen, -- 1848-1895. | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896 | James, William, -- 1842-1910. | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | Nuttall, Zelia, -- 1858-1933. | Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Tylor, Edward Burnett, -- Sir, -- 1832-1917. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Cushman Murphy journals, 1907-1971
| | | | Dates: | 1907-1971 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains the diaries, journals, and observations of a naturalist, generously illustrated with newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, sketches, maps, and charts. This collection contains primarily correspondence, but includes articles and addresses by Murphy as well as scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous volumes documenting his career. From his earliest travels to South American and the Antarctic regions in 1912, until his Australia voyage in 1971, Murphy continually explored animal and bird life as a scientist, and also as a concerned citizen who became one of the earliest advocates of conservation and ecology. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M957 | | | | Extent: | 42.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Geographical Society of New York. | American Museum of Natural History. | American Philosophical Society. | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration. | Armstrong, John Charles | Articles. | Australia -- Description and travel. | Avila, Enrique | Bahamas -- Description and travel. | Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--Description and travel | Beck, R. H. | Belt, Charles Banks. | Bermuda Islands -- Description and travel. | Bermuda petrel. | Biogeography. | Birds -- Geographical distribution. | Birds -- New York (State) -- Long Island. | Birds -- Peru. | Birds -- Research. | Birds -- Venezuela. | Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950 | British Columbia -- Description and travel. | Brooklyn Museum. | Brooks, Paul | Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 | Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 | Chapman, Frank M. | Charts. | Choco Indians | Clippings. | Cocopa Indians | Colombia -- Description and travel. | Conservation of natural resources. | DDT (Insecticide) | Deevey, Edward Smith, 1914-1988 | Diaries. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Ecology. | England -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Falla, R. A., (Robert Alexander) | Faunce, Wayne M. | Fisheries -- Florida. | Fisheries -- North Carolina. | Fisheries -- Peru. | Fishes -- Peru. | Fishes -- Venezuela. | Fleming, C. A., (Charles Alexander), 1916-1987 | Gelatin silver prints | Georgia -- Description and travel. | Greely, A. W., (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935 | Grosvenor, Gilbert H., 1875-1966 | Guano. | Indians of Central America--Panama | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Indians of South America--Colombia | Indians of South America--Ecuador | Indians of South America--Peru | Journals (notebooks). | Maps. | Marine biology. | Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 | Mead, Margaret,1901-1978,comp. | Mexico -- Description and travel. | Montauk Indians | Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 | Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 | Oceanography. | Ornithologists. | Ornithology--South America | Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996 | Philippines -- Description and travel. | Photomechanical prints | Photoprints. | Quechua Indians | Ripley, Sidney Dillon, 1913-2001 | Scrapbooks. | Seminole Indians | Sketches. | South America -- Description and travel. | Southeast Indians | Sperm whale. | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 | United States -- Description and travel. | Vogt, William, 1902-1968 | Voyages and travels. | Water birds. | Whaling. | Zoology -- New York (State) -- Long Island. | Zoology -- New Zealand. | Zoology -- South Carolina. | Zoology. | |
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