George G. Heye autograph collection

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George G. Heye autograph collection

1886-1928

Collection of autographs of individuals associated with George Gustav Heye, Frederick W. Hodge, and Indians of North America.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6401581

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Lewis, A.B. (Albert Buell), 1867-1940

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Warner, Lee F.

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Dixon, Fanny.

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Harrington, John Peabody

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Blackiston, A. H.

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Wardle, H. Newell.

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Barnes, Cassius McDonald.

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Mathewson, William, 1940-

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Cunningham, J. Thomas

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Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957

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Frances Theresa Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887. Her professional interest in the music of Native Americans dates from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1905, she made her first visit to the Minnesota tribes and in 1907 began to record Indian music under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. During her fifty years with the Bureau, she recorded near...

Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939

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Warren King Moorehead (1866-1939) grew up in Ohio, where he cultivated a lifelong interest in archaeology and American Indians. He attended Denison University but did not complete his undergraduate studies. In his early career, he worked as a correspondent for The Illustrated American and served as the first curator of the Ohio Archaeological Society. In 1896, he began what would become a personal friendship with Robert S. Peabody, providing the latter with several American Indian artifact colle...

Kappler, Charles Joseph, 1868-1946

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Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939

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American anthropologist and linguist. From the description of Yana field notes: holographs, 1907. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227536942 ...

Mills, William C. (William Corless), 1860-1928

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Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934

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Ethnologist. Laufer was an Assistant in Ethnology in the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Anthropology. He made several important collecting trips. From the description of Papers, 1898-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511772 ...

Archaeological institute of America

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The AIA is an organization originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Harvard University professor Charles Eliot Norton and his friends and colleagues. The first meeting was in 1879 to form a society "for furthering and directing archaeological and artistic investigation and research." Norton was elected the first president. The first local society of the AIA was founded in Boston in 1884. From the description of Archaeological Institute of America records, 1879-1954. (Harvard...

Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917

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Authority on Algonquian Indian language, history, and culture; resident of Sag Harbor, New York. From the description of Long Island New York Indian vocabularies: glossary, [189-]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758383 William Wallace Tooker once was widely recognized as one of his era's leading specialists in Coastal Algonquian culture, history and place names. A productive and prolific writer, he published 12 books, some 50 pamphlets and over...

Schley, Winfield Scott, 1839-1911

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United States Navy rear admiral. Served in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. From the description of Winfield Scott Schley autographed note, 1903 Apr. 23. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 181085075 Rear Admiral Winfield Schley was born in 1839 and died in 1911. Highlights of his naval career included blockading squadron during the Civil War, the rescue of Greeley in the Arctic in 1884 and the destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet during the Spani...

Peabody, Charles, 1867-1939

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Emmons, George Thornton.

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Emmons was a naval lieutenant from whom the American Museum of Natural History acquired extensive collections of Northwest Coast Indian material, 1880s-1920. From the description of Manuscript, [ca. 1920]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511653 Emmons was a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who was stationed on board the U.S.S. Pinta during the 1880s and 1890s. After retiring from the Navy in 1899, he took on special projects for the U.S. government that involved working with th...

Chamberlain, Alexander Francis, 1865-1914

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Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

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George Heye was the President of the Museum of the American Indian. From the description of Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians, 1916-1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64063650 ...

Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952

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Winship graduated from Harvard in 1893 and taught history of printing and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Parker Winship, 1899-1953 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973222 Winship (A.B. 1893) was the first Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection. From the description of Bibliographical notes, compositions, and other papers, [19--] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868810 ...

Keith, Minor C. (Minor Cooper), 1848-1929

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Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897

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Historian and philologist; of Hartford, Conn. From the description of James Hammond Trumbull autograph letters signed, 1868. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71057479 Historian, bibliographer and Indian philologist of Stonington and Hartford, Connecticut. He served as assistant secretary of the state, Secretary of the State, State Librarian, and librarian of the Watkinson Library of Reference at Hartford. From the description of Papers, 167...

Harrington, John Peabody

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Dixon, Fanny.

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United States National Museum

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The Act of Congress of August 10, 1846, establishing the Smithsonian Institution, empowered the Board of Regents to receive, either through donations or exchanges, new specimens for the museum of the Institution. In addition, the Secretary was authorized to discharge the duties of the "keeper of the museum." Beginning in 1841, the museum collections of the United States government had been stored in the Patent Office. Originally they were under the custodianship of the National Ins...

Twitchell, Ralph Emerson, 1859-1925

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Twitchell was a New Mexican historian, author, and lawyer. He served as president of the New Mexico Bar Association, Historical Society of New Mexico, and the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce. From the description of Ralph E. Twitchell papers, 1896-1986. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37518553 Twitchell was a New Mexican lawyer, historian, author and editor. He was president of the New Mexico Bar Association, New Mexico Historical Society, and the Santa Fe C...

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899

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Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton (13 May 1837-31 July 1899) was born in Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pa., on "Homestead Farm" to Lewis and Ann (Garrison) Brinton. Brinton entered the army as a surgeon and served as Medical Director of the II Army Corps, holding the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. After the war, Brinton became well known for his work in ethnology, anthropology, and linguistics of North and South America. From the description of Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton papers,...

Heistand, H. O. S. (Henry Olcot Sheldon), 1856-1924

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Leupp, Francis E. (Francis Ellington), 1849-1918

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Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967

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Blackiston, A. H.

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Lothrop, S.K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965

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Archaeologist who studied South American Indian textiles, gold, and other crafts and industries. From the description of Field notes, 1929-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155480735 Lothrop was an archeologist who traveled extensively in Central and Latin America. He studied the artifacts of this area and documented his research with notes and published works. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and an Honorary Fellow of t...

Warner, Lee F.

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Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933

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Participated in Hayden Geological Survey. Named six Colorado mountains. From the description of Explorations in the Rocky Mountains, 1872-1887, [1932?]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 16905051 William Henry Holmes, archaeologist and artist, served as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution from 1902-1920. From the description of Letter : Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, to My dear Mr. [E.A.] Bur...

National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center

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Curator of the exhibit was Susan Milbrath. From the description of Star gods of the ancient Americas [1982]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 67615718 Founded in 1916 by George G. Heye, the Museum is devoted to the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of materials connected with the anthropology of the aboriginal peoples of North, Central, and South America. From the description of Records, 1860-1983, 1890-1980 (bulk). (Unknown). World...

Choate, Mabel, 1870-1958

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Mooney, James, 1861-1921

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James Mooney was the main speaker at the event. From the description of Address for the one hundredth anniversary of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 1979 [manuscript] (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 314404182 ...

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.

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Culin was University of Pennsylvania museum director from 1892. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226042711 Stewart Culin (1858-1929), ethnologist and museum curator, worked at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of archaeology and Anthropology from 1890 to 1903, and served as Curator of Ethnology at The Brooklyn Museum from 1903 until his death. From the descr...

Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936

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American amateur archaeologist who worked in the Southeastern United States. From the description of Field notes, 1891-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155480793 Clarence B. Moore was a wealthy amateur archaeologist from Philadelphia who crisscrossed the rivers of the southeast each year in his steam-powered paddleboat, the Gopher, excavating sites near the shores in states ranging from Alabama to Tennessee. During his twenty years of investigations, Moore explored an as...

Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Anthropologist. Goddard held several curatorial positions with the American Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1928. In 1914 he became Curator of Ethnology and from 1915 to 1928 he was a Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. From the guide to the Pliny Earle Goddard American Indian Notebooks, 1901-1929., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Ethnologist, museum curator. Goddard was Curator of Ethno...

Kate, Herman F. C. ten (Herman Frederik Carel), 1858-1931

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Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921

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Charles Pickering Bowditch (born September 30, 1842; died June 1, 1921), was an early initiator and supporter of Meso and Central American research at the Peabody Museum. His interest in Maya studies was sparked by a pleasure trip to the Yucatan in 1888. Bowditch received both his A.B. (1863) and his M.A. (1866) from Harvard University. He was a leading member of the Museum's Committee for Central American Researchers from 1891 until his death. Bowditch joined the Department of Anth...

Deming, Edwin Willard, 1860-1942

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Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942) was an American painter and sculptor. He studied in New York and Paris and painted scenes from his visits with Indian groups in the Southwest and West of the U.S. From the description of Edwin Willard Deming papers, 1880-1931, bulk (1881-1894). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626931 From the guide to the Edwin Willard Deming papers, 1880-1931, 1881-1894, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Roth, Walter E. (Walter Edmund), 1861-1933

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Anthropologist and medical practitioner. Protector of Aborigines Qld 1889-1904, later Chief Protector 1904-1906. From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225817058 Walter Edmund Roth was born 2 April 1861 in London to Mathias and Anna Maria Roth nee Collins. He came to Sydney in late 1887. In 1896 he became government surgeon attached to hospitals at Boulia, then at Cloncurry and Normanton. In 1898 he became Queensland?s first northern Prote...

Léon, Nicolás (1859-1929).

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Barrett, S.A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965

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Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946

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Edgar L. Hewett was the founder and first director of the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Archaeology (which later became the School of American Research), both in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the description of Edgar L. Hewett files, 1915-1940. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992690 From the description of Edgar L. Hewett notes on Quarai, 1913. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992649 Edgar L. Hewett was a pro...

McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916

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Epithet: American anthropologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000025 ...

Mathewson, William

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Rivet, Paul, 1876-1958

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Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958

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Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953

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Hunt, Gaillard, 1862-1924

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Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924

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Archaeologists. Pepper, field director, and Wetherill, assistant, excavated prehistoric pueblo sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1896-1899, for the Hyde Expeditions on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. The Hyde Expeditions were funded by B.T.B. Hyde and Frederick Hyde. From the description of George Pepper and Richard Wetherill papers, 1896-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511944 ...

Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940

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Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946

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Naturalist, author, illustrator. Born in Monroe, Michigan. Accompanied 1874 Hayden survey party. Wrote several books on his experiences in the West. From the description of Engravings, 188? (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 54053444 American naturalist and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : New York, to officers of Harper & Brothers, 1890 Aug. 6-1891 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269544791 Naturalist, ...

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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Alfred L. Kroeber was an anthropologist. He taught anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1946, and was curator, 1908-1925, and director, 1925-1946, of the University's anthropological museum. From the description of Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165433 Anthropologist. From the description of Anthropology : mss., 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185772 A...

Wardle, H. Newell.

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Barnes, Cassius McDonald.

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George G.(George Gustav), Heye 1874-1957.

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Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934

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Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899

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Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937

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Russian ethnologist and linguist noted for his studies on Siberian peoples, especially the Koryaks and Yukaghirs. Led the Siberian Division of the American Museum of Natural History's Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1900-1902). From the description of Papers [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18538920 Waldemar Jochelson (Vladimir Il'ich Iokhel'son, 1855-1937), Russian anthropologist, was in the Aleutians for eighteen months in 1909-1910: U...

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...

Huntington Free Library

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Milwaukee public museum

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Lewis, A. B. (Albert Buell), 1867-

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Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956

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Frederick Webb Hodge was an ethnographer, archaeologist, editor and museum director. Hodge's first exposure to archaeology was as secretary of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition. When the project was over he returned to work at the Bureau of American Ethnology as Librarian. His work as editor began with the revitalization of the American Anthropologist and carried through his 2 vol. set of the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, to the famous 20 vol. set by Edward S. C...

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907

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J. N. B. Hewitt was an Iroquois Indian and ethnologist. From the guide to the Tuscarora Indian materials, 1883-1890, 1883-1890, (American Philosophical Society) Albert S. Gatschet, 1832-1907,was an American ethnologist. He was born in Switzerland and was trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin. After his arrival in the United States, he was a pioneer in the scientific study of Native American languages. In 1877 he became ethnologist of the U.S. Geologica...

Morice, A. G. (Adrien Gabriel), 1859-1938

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Father A.G. Morice was a priest of the Oblate Order who served as a missionary to the Chilcotin Indians until 1885 when he was sent to Fort St. James, Stuart Lake. While at the Indian missions, Morice invented a syllabary for the Dene languages and printed catechisms and prayer books in those languages. A prolific writer, Morice's many works included histories of Western Canada and the Catholic Church. From the description of Adrien Morice fonds. 1891-1930. (University of British Col...

Willoughby, Charles Clark, 1857-1943

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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930

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Archaeologist and head of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. From the description of Letter : Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to Walter Hough, Washington, D.C. 1916 Aug 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150523 From the description of Letter : Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to Walter Hough, Washington, D.C. 1916 Aug 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83206603 Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was born in Newton, Massachusetts. His sc...

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...

Davidson, James Wheeler, 1872-1933

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James Wheeler Davidson (b. June 14, 1872, Austin, Minnesota-d. July 18, 1933, Calgary, Alberta, Canada), explorer, writer, United States diplomat, businessman and philanthropist. He was a member of the 1893-1894 expedition to Greenland headed by Robert E. Peary....

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938

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George Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 20 Sept. 1849. His father prospered after the Civil War with a wholesale dry goods business. He eventually developed an investment firm in which he hoped his son would develop an interest. While a student at Yale University, however, young Grinnell went on a fossil and dinosaur expedition to the west led by Professor O.C. Marsh. By 1874 Grinnell dissolved the investment firm his father had founded and moved to New Haven, Conn., to work with Mar...

Nordenskiöld, Erland, 1877-1932

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Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896

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John Gregory Bourke was a United States Army officer and ethnologist. After serving in the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War, Bourke attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1869. While serving in the 3rd Cavalry he studied customs of American Indians of the Southwest and published works on Indian ethnology. The Garza War, 1891-1892, was a rebellion against Mexican president Porfirio Díaz by Mexicans living in Texas led by Catarino Garza. Bourke participated in ef...

Hartman, Carl Vilhelm, 1862-1941

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Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

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George Heye was the President of the Museum of the American Indian. From the description of Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians, 1916-1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64063650 ...

Spitzka, Edward Anthony

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905

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Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910

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Bushnell, David I. (David Ives), 1875-1941

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David Ives Bushnell was born 28 April 1875 in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in St. Louis schools and in Europe. He worked as an assistant in archaelogy at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University from 1901-1904. Bushnell contributed to the Handbook of American Indians. He did much research in Virginia and in the Midwestern United States. He died on 4 June 1941. From the description of Papers, 1797-1941 1917-1941. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 22258877 D...

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...

Cunningham, J. T.

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Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954

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Tozzer graduated from Harvard in 1900, and taught anthropology and archaeology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Alfred Marston Tozzer, 1908-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973202 Alfred Marston Tozzer was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on July 4, 1877 to Samuel Clarence Tozzer and Caroline Blanchard (Marston) Tozzer. He grew up in Lynn and after graduating from high school attended Harvard College where he received degrees...

Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927

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Sir Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq from 1922 to 1934 for the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As part of this involvement, the University of Pennsylvania Museum sent Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section, as a cuneiformist during the 1924–1925 and 1925–1926 seasons. Most of the records of the Ur expedition are located at the British Museum. The Museum Archives hold only a few records. From the...

Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915

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Nuttall, Zelia, 1858-1933

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Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was born to an Irish father, Dr. Robert Kennedy Nuttall, and a Mexican-American mother, Magdalena Parrott Nuttall, in San Francisco on September 6, 1857. Raised in Europe, Nuttall acquired her education in France, Germany, Italy, and England, where she studied at Bedford College, London. In 1876 when Zelia was nineteen, the Nuttall family returned to San Francisco. Four years later, she married French anthropologist Alphonse Louis Pinart, whom she lived...

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908

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Otis Tufton Mason (1838-1908) was an ethnologist. His parents were Rachel Lincoln Mason and John Mason, whose ancestors were from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. From the guide to the Otis Tufton Mason Papers, ., 1849-1910, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...