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

Johnson, Willard D.

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Willard Drake Johnson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1859. He graduated from Yale University, and joined the U.S. Geological Survey in 1879. He worked for USGS until 1913, performing numerous topographical surveys throughout the United States. His transfer to the U.S. Forest Service in 1913 was unsuccessful. He patented the Johnson tripod head in 1887. Johnson died in Washington, D.C. in 1917. From the description of Johnson, Willard Drake, 1859-1917 (U.S. National Archives and Re...

International Geographical Meeting.

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Johnson, Lawrence C.

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Star, Frederick.

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McCowan, S. W.

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Hay, Robertus, 1708 fl.

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McGee, Anita Newcomb, 1864-1940

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Anthropologist and physician; director of the Daughters of the American Revolution Hospital Corps which became the Red Cross; organized the Army Nurse Corps in 1901; b. Anita Newcomb; married William John McGee. From the description of McGee collection, 1904-1908. (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Association Library). WorldCat record id: 70944096 Anthropologist and physician. From the description of Papers of Anita Newcomb McGee, 1688-1932. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Saint Louis Museum (St. Louis, Mo.)

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.)

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Records have remained in the custody of the St. Louis Art Museum (formerly St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts) since their creation during the period 1901-1909. Although the World's Fair itself was in operation from April to Dec. 1904, years of preparation by the Art Department preceded the exhibition of American and foreign art works, and many months were required to conclude departmental affairs following the closing. The Art Dept. Chief, Halsey C. Ives, was al...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Skiff, F. J. V. (Frederick James Volney), 1851-1921

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Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906

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Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professory of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania (now known as the University of Pittsburgh). While at the Smithsonian he founded the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory....

Saint Louis Public Museum

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Johnson, Jerome F.

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Jerome Johnson was a Vermont photographer. From the description of English town photographs, ca. 1950s. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 297174873 Jerome Johnson, adaptor. Ernest Hemingway, author of source material. From the description of In our time: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378626 ...

McGee, W. J., 1853-1912

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Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. From the description of Papers of W. J. McGee, 1822-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78067600 Biographical Note 1853, Apr. 17 Born near Farley, Iowa 1878 1882 Made surveys of the geology of Iowa...

Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918

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Geologist and paleontologist, who taught at Cornell University from 1879-1892, then at Yale until 1904, and then at Cornell again from 1904-1912. He retired in 1912. From the description of Henry Shaler Williams anatomical drawings, 1912. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 70687042 ...

Geological survey (U.S.)

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...

Call, Richard Ellsworth, 1856-1917

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McCowan, Samuel M.

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Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933

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Starr was born in Auburn, NY, Sept. 2, 1858; graduated from Lafayette College in 1882, and received his Ph. D in 1885; professor of biology, Coe College, 1883-87; Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1889-91; professor and Dean of the Science Dept., Pomona College, 1891; assoc. professor, Univ. of Chicago, 1895-1923; publications related to Mexico include: Some first steps in human progress (1895), American Indians (1898), Indians of Southern Mexico (1898), Reading...

Hay, Robert

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Epithet: of Linpluin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x000204 Epithet: Secretary, Dunfermline Branch, Young Scots Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x000207 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ...

Johnson, Willard D.

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Johnson, Lawrence C.

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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Native American tribes from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The Bureau's founding director was John Wesley Powell. In 1897, the Bureau's name was changed from Bureau of Ethnology to Bureau of American Ethnology to indicate the primary geographic limit of its focus. In 1965, the BAE merged with the Smithsonian Ins...

Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941

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Significant figure in the development of American geology during the late 19th and early 20th century. From the description of Robert T. Hill letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1892 Mar 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 420487387 Geologist and professor. Born in 1859 in Nashville, Tennessee. Moved to Comanche, Texas in 1875. Attended Cornell University. Worked as a geologist for the United States Geographical Survey under the direction of John Wesley Powel...

International Geographical Congress

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Hayward, Florence, 1865-

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Colby, Frank Moore, 1865-1925

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Williams, George Huntington, 1856-1894

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George Huntington Williams was a mineralogist, petrologist, and professor of Geology, The Johns Hopkins University, 1882-1894. He was born in Utica, N.Y. Jan. 28, 1856. Williams received his Ph. D. from the University of Heidelberg (1882) where he studied with the renowned teacher of microscopic petrography, Heinrich Rosenbush. Williams accepted a position in the newly established Geology department at Hopkins and pioneered the instruction of petrography in American univ...