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Frank G. Speck papers, 1903-1950

Title: Frank G. Speck papers, 1903-1950

Anthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was unique among Franz Boas' early graduate students at Columbia University. Unlike other ethnographers of his time who focused their studies on the Western Indian tribes, Speck chose to study the cultures of the Eastern Woodland Indians. Becoming the self-appointed salvage ethnographer for those tribes, Speck was regularly with the Indians he studied, collecting all aspects of their culture. The Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of Speck's professional correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. The material focuses on the Eastern Woodlands Indians, particularly the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Houma, Iroquois, Labrador Eskimo, Mantagnais-Naskapi, Nanticoke, Penobscot, Powhatan, Algonkian, and Yuchi. The collection is divided into two subcollections: Subcollection 1 is comprised of Speck's research material and correspondence, and Subcollection 2 consists of his manuscripts and related correspondence. The two subcollections were acquired separately by the Society, and were originally cataloged as the Frank G. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3) and the Frank G. Speck Manuscripts on Native Americans (970.3 Sp3p) respectively.

ArchivalResource: 28.5 linear feet

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Wallace, Anthony Francis Clarke. Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers. 1920-2000.

Title: Anthony F. C. Wallace papers, 1920-2000

The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers include correspondence to and from 20th century anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, linguists, and psychiatrists and provides a wealth of resources for the study of technological and social change, American Indians, culture and personality, revitalization movements, the anthropological study of religion, and the cultural and biological bases of behavior. In addition to Wallace's correspondence, research notes, and drafts, the collection includes Wallace family correspondence and photographs, as well as Wallace's writings from childhood through recent years.

ArchivalResource: 103.5 linear feet

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Singer, Ernestine H. Wieder. Notes, 1935-1937.

Title: Notes, 1935-1937.

These items include notes on "primitive economics" (Incan) for A. Irving Hallowell and from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (on Mayan architecture), E. B. Howard (on problems of the Clovis site in New Mexico), and others at the University of Pennsylvania. There are also notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association from the lectures of various anthropologists in attendance, such as William N. Fenton and Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, and there are notes from "Anthropology Convention" in Andover, Massachusetts in 1935, which included Ruth Benedict.

ArchivalResource: ca. 150 p.

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William N. Fenton papers, 1933-2001

Title: William N. Fenton papers, 1933-2001

A Yale-educated ethnographer, William Fenton devoted most of his career to study of the Iroquois Indians of New York State and Canada. Receiving his doctorate in 1937, Fenton worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology for a number of years before becoming Director of the New York State Museum and professor at SUNY Albany. The Fenton Papers covers all aspects of William Fenton's professional life, documenting his varied positions as community worker for the New York Agency of the U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937 (accounts, reports, correspondence); associate anthropologist and senior ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1939-1951 (includes notebooks, letters from the field); Executive Secretary of Anthropology and Psychology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952-1954; and Assistant Commissioner, New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968.

ArchivalResource: 60.5 linear feet

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Anne Roe papers, 1949-1974 (bulk), 1949-1974

Title: Anne Roe papers, 1949-1974 (bulk) 1949-1974

The collection represents the data that Roe (Mrs. George Gaylord Simpson) collected on 64 scientists for her 1953 book, The material for each scientist includes transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, personal data, reprints of the scientist's publications, and letters several years afterward the interview asking for additional information. There are also photostats of letters and notes by the scientists dating earlier than 1949; holders of the originals of these letters is unknown. The Making of a Scientist.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Linear feet, Ca. 6000 items

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McHarg, Ian L. Ian L. McHarg papers, 1942-2001.

Title: Ian L. McHarg papers, 1942-2001.

The Ian L. McHarg collection contains materials related to his position as the founder and chairman of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Pennsylvania, materials associated with his lectures, publications, and professional projects, and other professional and personal papers. The collection contains extensive holdings related to the evolution of the principals of ecological planning, together with related teaching records, publications and films. Holdings related to his professional projects are limited by comparison, and the collection contains only a small amount of personal material.

ArchivalResource: Architectural drawings 110 sheets.Boxed files 61 cubic feet.

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Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers, 1892-1981

Title: Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers 1892-1981

Alfred Irving ("Pete") Hallowell was an anthropologist best known for his studies of Ojibwa culture and world-view, and the innovative use of the Rorschach Test in his studies of the psychological interrelations of individuals and their culture. Early in his career, Hallowell worked as a social case worker for Family Service, and even after moving on to study anthropology in 1920 (M.A.), he carried with him an interest in ethnic and racial culture, developing additional interests in psychological testing. Except for the years 1944-1947, when he taught at Northwestern University, Hallowell spent his entire career at the University of Pennsylvania where he was professor of anthropology, professor of anthropological psychiatry in the Medical School, and curator of social anthropology at the University Museum. A cultural anthropologist, Hallowell's use of clinical psychological methods, especially Rorschach tests, was both innovative and controversial in his discipline. In his research, he concentrated on the Algonkian Indians, especially the Abenaki and Ojibwa Indians of Canada and Wisconsin (Berens River, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin areas), and the Saulteaux of Berens River. The Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (1892-1981) contain correspondence, subject files, manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Hallowell, papers by colleagues and students, research notes kept by Hallowell, with a special emphasis on social organization, personality, behavior, psychology, religion, and folklore. The collection of several hundred photographs provides rich graphic documentation of Hallowell's work among the Ojibwa and Abnaki Indians during the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 21.0 Linear feet

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Roe, Anne, 1904-1991. Papers, 1949-1971 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1949-1971 (bulk).

This collection represents the data that Roe (Mrs. George Gaylord Simpson) collected on 64 scientists for her 1953 book, "The Making of a Scientist." The material for each scientist includes transcripts of interviews, Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests, personal data, reprints of the scientist's publications, and letters several years afterward asking for additional information. There are also photostats of letters and notes by the scientists dating earlier than 1949; holders of the originals unknown.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6000 items (6 linear ft.)

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Elsie Clews Parsons papers, 1880-1980

Title: Elsie Clews Parsons papers

Elsie Clews Parsons (1875-1941) was trained as a sociologist at Columbia University, but made her greatest achievements in the fields of anthropology and folklore. Parsons' early works in the field of sociology dealt primarily with gender roles, conventions of society, and the effect of society's pressures on the individual. After a trip to the American Southwest with her husband in 1910, Parsons' interests turned to anthropology. She began making field trips to Arizona and New Mexico and, under the influence of her friend Franz Boas, Parsons recorded in meticulous detail data on social organization, religious practices, and folklore of the Southwest Indians. Concurrently, Parsons conducted research in folklore, concentrating on folk tales of Afro-Americans and Caribbean peoples. She was active in a number of professional associations and was the associate editor of the from 1918 until her death. The Parsons Papers were acquired as two separate accessions and remains organized in two distinct subcollections. Subcollection I (572 P35), acquired in 1949, contains approximately 12 linear feet of materials focused on Parsons' career in anthropology. Subcollection II, acquired in 1985, consists of 26.25 linear feet of materials divided into ten series, covering a larger scope of Parsons' life, including family and personal correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 38.25 linear feet

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Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941. Papers, 1835-1944.

Title: Papers, 1835-1944.

This collection includes correspondence (ca. 1921-1941; ca. 1000 items), notebooks, photographs, news clippings, etc., relating to the folk literature of the West Indies. There are also riddles, folk tales, and poems from York Village, Maine and folklore and ethnographic notes of Pueblo Indians of the southwest U.S.; Mitla, in Oaxaca, Mexico; and Peguche, Ecuador. There are unpublished manuscripts on sleep, on her trip to Greece, "Filipino Village Reminiscences," and "The World Changes." The correspondence pertains to her publications and those of others and to her work in the American Anthropological Association and the American Folklore Society.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1200 items (12 linear ft.)

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Ernestine H. Wieder Singer notes, 1935-1937, 1935-1937

Title: Ernestine H. Wieder Singer notes, 1935-1937 1935-1937

These items include notes on "primitive economics" (Incan) for A. Irving Hallowell and from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (on Mayan architecture), E. B. Howard (on problems of the Clovis site in New Mexico), and others at the University of Pennsylvania. There are also notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association of papers by various anthropologists in attendance, including Ruth Benedict, Frederica de Laguna, Waiter Dyk, William N. Fenton, Alfred V. Kidder, David G. Mandelbaum, George P. Murdock, Arthur C. Parker, Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys A. Reichard, William A. Ritchie, Linton Satterthwaite, Gene Weltfish, and others regarding Cree, Flatheads, Iroquois, Kaingang (Southern Brazil), Kiowa, Mayan, Natchez, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pawnee, Pueblos, Sahaptin, Saulteaux, Siouan, Tarascan, Tonowanda (Seneca), Zuni, etc.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Volume(s), 2 volumes, ca. 150 p.

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Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974. Papers, 1892-1981.

Title: Papers, 1892-1981.

Series I (5.25 linear ft.) contains letters, carbons, telegrams, and postcards generated by Hallowell and his colleagues, Native American field informants, students, and family. The primary focus of most correspondence is professional research. Correspondents include: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Franz Boas, Ruth Leah Bunzel, Joseph Casagrande, Gordon Day, Frederick Eggan, Loren Eiseley, William Fenton, M. Inez Hilger, E. Adamson Hoebel, Bruno Klopfer, Clyden Kay Kluckhorn, A.L. Kroeber, Dorothea Cross Leighton, Ralph Linton, Margaret Mead, Henry Allen Moe, Elsie Clews Parsons, Frank Speck, Leslie Spier, Melford Spiro, C. F. Voegelin, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, and Anthony Wallace. Series II (.75 linear ft.) contains materials concerning Hallowell's involvement with professional societies, foundations, conferences, and committees; biographical and bibliographical materials; reviews of "The Role of Conjuring in Salteaux Society;" and an interview with Hallowell by Anne Roe. Series III (3 linear ft.) contains notes and drafts of reviews, lectures, articles, and a handbook. One of the earliest works included here is Hallowell's master's thesis, "The Problem of Fish Nets in North America." Several of Hallowell's later works are represented, including "Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere Re-examined," "The Backwas of the Frontier," and "Rorschach Protocols of 151 Berens River Adults and Children and 155 Adults from Lac du Flambeau." Series IV (1.5 linear ft.) contains notes and articles written by Hallowell's students and colleagues. The authors best represented are William A. Caudill, who studied the Ojibwa, and Blanche Green Watrous, who administered Rorschach Tests to Native American children in the Lac du Flambeau and Berens River areas. Series V (9 linear ft.) contains field and reading notes taken by Hallowell, his students, and colleagues; as well as some course materials. The bulk of the field notes include ethnological observations, folklore, Rorschach Tests, and drawings of the Ojibwa-speaking peoples in Canada (Berens River Saulteaux) and Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. Other major subjects of this series include the Abenaki, marriage and the family, nets and netting, bear cult, self and ego, and Rorschach methodology and materials.

ArchivalResource: 28.5 linear ft.

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Margaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, (bulk 1911-1978)

Title: Margaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978)

Anthropologist, author, and educator. Personal, professional, and family papers, consisting of correspondence, notebooks, organization files, appointment books, writings, teaching and office files, field notes, photographs, and miscellany relating primarily to anthropological and ethnological fieldwork, Mead's association with various universities and other cultural, scientific, and educational institutions, and her interests and activities in the broader areas of race, technological change, overpopulation, and peace. Also includes papers of Mead's associates and colleagues.

ArchivalResource: 530,000 items; 1,790 containers plus 50 oversize; 783.2 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

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William N. Fenton papers, 1933-2001

Title: William N. Fenton papers, 1933-2001

A Yale-educated ethnographer, William Fenton devoted most of his career to study of the Iroquois Indians of New York State and Canada. Receiving his doctorate in 1937, Fenton worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology for a number of years before becoming Director of the New York State Museum and professor at SUNY Albany. The Fenton Papers covers all aspects of William Fenton's professional life, documenting his varied positions as community worker for the New York Agency of the U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937 (accounts, reports, correspondence); associate anthropologist and senior ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1939-1951 (includes notebooks, letters from the field); Executive Secretary of Anthropology and Psychology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952-1954; and Assistant Commissioner, New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968.

ArchivalResource: 60.5 linear feet

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George S. Snyderman Papers, Bulk, 1945-1985, 1758-1995

Title: George S. Snyderman Papers Bulk, 1945-1985 1758-1995

Trained as an anthropologist under Frank Speck at the University of Pennsylvania, the ethnohistorian George Snyderman (1908- ) spent his career studying Seneca Indian religion, history, and culture. Snyderman edited the previously unpublished diaries of Halliday Jackson and John Phillips, Quaker missionaries to the Senecas in the late 18th and early 19th century. The Snyderman Papers includes a small volume of correspondence, along with manuscripts of works by Snyderman and colleagues, and copies of primary source materials pertaining to Seneca history. Of particular interest is his correspondence with anthropologists William N. Fenton, Merle Deardorff, and Frank Speck and with his Seneca consultant Clara Redeye and her daughter, Helen Harris, and photographs of the Allegany Senecas taken by Fenton and Speck.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet

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