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Lydia Nadejena Papers, 1907-1974, (bulk 1920-1960)

Title: Lydia Nadejena Papers 1907-1974 (bulk 1920-1960)

Russian émigré, historian of Russian medieval art, writer, and educator. Correspondence, journals, writings, research notes, photographs, and news clippings relating to her personal life and professional activities.

ArchivalResource: 2450 items; 7 containers; 2.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004002 View

American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society, 1882-1958

Title: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society 1882-1958

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.

ArchivalResource: 80.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml View

Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937. Collection, 1899-1979 (bulk 1899-1942).

Title: Collection, 1899-1979 (bulk 1899-1942).

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs and memorabilia. The material relates to both Jochelson's and Brodsky's work and writings, and also includes many personal and family items.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes ; 8 x 30 x 39 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55797140 View

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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.126-ead.xml View

Boas-Rukeyser Collection, 1869-1940.

Title: Boas-Rukeyser Collection, 1869-1940.

This is material collected by Muriel Rukeyser in the late 1940s and during the 1950s, for a proposed biography of Franz Boas. It contains original manuscript materials of Boas, such as correspondence between Boas and Rukeyser, biographical data, early family letters and documents relating to him, school and military records, reminiscences of Boas by his family, professional correspondence and related activities.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1500 items (3 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523360 View

Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936. Eskimo tales [microform], 1901 / W. Bogoras.

Title: Eskimo tales [microform], 1901 / W. Bogoras.

ArchivalResource: ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42067405 View

Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936. Waldemar Bogoras papers, 1901.

Title: Waldemar Bogoras papers, 1901.

Collection consists of Eskimo tales recorded by Waldemar Bogoras as a member of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition of 1901; linguistic and ethnographic introductions by Bogoras and Ernest W. Hawkes; and a descriptive catalog by Roman Jakobson.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122597901 View

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. Correspondence, 1862-1942.

Title: Correspondence, 1862-1942.

There is material in this collection other than correspondence, as well as letters other than professional in nature, but the collection does bring together the overwhelming correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes.

ArchivalResource: ca. 58,500 items (59 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540737 View

Boas-Rukeyser Collection, 1869-1940

Title: Boas-Rukeyser Collection 1869-1940

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.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61ru-ead.xml View

Waldemar Bogoras papers, 1901

Title: Waldemar Bogoras papers 1901

Waldemar Bogoras (1865-1936) was an ethnographer and writer. Collection consists of Eskimo tales recorded by Waldemar Bogoras as a member of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition of 1901; linguistic and ethnographic introductions by Bogoras and Ernest W. Hawkes; and a descriptive catalog by Roman Jakobson.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/328 View

Franz Boas Papers, 1862-1942

Title: Franz Boas Papers 1862-1942

During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism. This collection includes correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes.

ArchivalResource: 59.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml View