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Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), b. 1885. T. T. Waterman correspondence, 1915.

Title: T. T. Waterman correspondence, 1915.

Requests from Waterman for permission to reprint items for his textbook on anthropology, with replies from George Hubbard Blakeslee, Frederick J. V. Skiff and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86093753 View

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.). Panama-Pacific International Exposition records, 1893-1929 (bulk 1911-1916).

Title: Panama-Pacific International Exposition records, 1893-1929 (bulk 1911-1916).

The Panama Pacific International Exposition Records consist of the official records from the offices of the world's fair held in San Francisco, California in 1915. The bulk of the records range in date from 1911, when San Francisco was officially declared the site for the Exposition, to the dissolution of Exposition property in 1916. The records have been arranged into nine series, documenting the major divisions of the Exposition: Executive and Administrative Files, the Office of the Comptroller, Division of Works; Division of Exploitation, Division of Concessions and Admissions, Division of Exhibits, Foreign Office Files, Office of the Historian, and Legal Division Office Files. The collection includes material relating to the organization, planning, and administration of the Exposition by President Charles C. Moore and the Board of Directors; raising money and maintaining accurate accounting for the Exposition; designing and building the fairgrounds; advertising the Exposition at home and abroad; managing admissions and concessions; and arranging exhibits on a wide array of topics ranging from arts to industry.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 145 volumes (volumes 1-143, volumes 145-146), 28 boxes, 172 cartons, and 24 oversize folders (260 linear ft.)Copies of v. 124-127, Minutes of the Executive Committee: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3045) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25751105 View

W J McGee Papers, 1880-1916, (bulk 1885-1905)

Title: W J McGee Papers 1880-1916 (bulk 1885-1905)

Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes correspondence when he was director of the anthropological and historical exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items; 31 containers plus 1 oversize; 12.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 View