Alfred Vincent Kidder Papers 1926-1935

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...

Appleget, Thomas B. (Thomas Baird)

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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...

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...

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934

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Mary Hunter Austin has variously been identified as a feminist, naturalist, mystic, author, and even "woman of genius." She was one of the leading literary figures of her time, the author of 27 books and more than 250 articles, stories, poems and other short pieces. In 1900, Mary Austin settled in Carmel and became one of the founders of the literary colony. In 1918, Austin traveled to New Mexico, hoping to continue on to Mexico to conduct research on folk traditions. In New Mexico she was contr...

Walter, Paul A. F.

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Walter was a prominent New Mexican who served as Secretary of the School of American Archaeology and later the School of American Research, Associate Director of the Museum of New Mexico, and President of the Historical Society of New Mexico. From the description of Paul A. F. Walter papers, 1913-1941. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37435013 Paul A.F. Walter came to Santa Fe in 1899 at which time he started as a reporter for the local newspa...

Coleman, Laurence Vail, 1893-1982

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Washington, D.C. museum expert. From the description of Letter, 1927. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36854532 Author. Coleman was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1915. From the description of Papers, 1928-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502218 ...

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961

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Anthropologist. From the description of Leslie Spier papers, 1924-1961. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 80971494 Anthropologist; b. Leslie Ephraim Spier. From the description of Leslie Spier collection, 1918-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70922393 Leslie Spier (December 13, 1893 – December 3, 1961) studied the Klamath Indians as well as Plains Indians and Indians of the Southwest during his career as an anthro...

Dodge, Homer L. (Homer Levi), 1887-1983

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Homer Levi Dodge : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147496 Physicist (electrical measurements) and educator. On faculty of the University of Oklahoma: head of physics department, 1919-1942, dean of graduate school, 1926-1944, and organizer and director of Oklahoma Research Institute, 1941-1944; a founder, first president, and member of Governing Board of the American A...

Crimmins, M. L.

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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...

Wissler, Clark

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Jackson, Percy

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Dixon, Roland B.

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Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948

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Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) was an archaeologist well known for his studies of Mayan ruins. From the description of Sylvanus Morley and Rhoads family photographs of Latin America, circa 1900s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 123235298 Sylvanus Griswold Morley was an archaeologist and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1940. From the description of Diaries, 1905-1947. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id...

Halseth, Odd S.

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Anthropologist and founder of the Pueblo Grande Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. From the description of Odd S. Halseth collection, 1909-1974 (bulk 1927-1964). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25540805 Odd Sigurd Halseth (1893-1966) lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and was an anthropologist, museum director, educator, author, art critic and lecturer. He earned his Masters in Science from the University of Southern California. Halseth was born in Moss, Norway, in 1893. As ...

Chapman, Kenneth Milton, 1875-1968

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Chapman (1875-1968) served as chief curator and as interim director of the Laboratory of Anthropology, 1927-1968. From the description of Kenneth M. Chapman papers, 1929-1968, (bulk, 1929-1942). (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992692 Art administrator; New Mexico; born 1875; died 1968. From the description of Kenneth M. Chapman interview, 1963 Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192483 From the description of Oral history inte...

Baker, George P. (George Pierce)

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Shepard, Anna Osler, 1903-1973

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Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)

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Art administrator; Arizona and New Mexico. From the description of Jesse L. Nusbaum interview, 1963 Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195337 From the description of Oral history interview with Jesse L. Nusbaum, 1963 Dec. 12 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312026120 Nusbaum, (1887-1976), a National Park Service archaeologist, was the first director of the Laboratory of Anthropology (1930-1935). From the description of Jesse L. N...

Howland, Alice G.

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Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976

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Burge, Margaret McKitterick

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Greenlee, Robert

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Kelly, Daniel T.

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Knaebel, Ernest

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Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985

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Roberts (1888-1985) was an ethnomusicologist and a pioneer in ethnographic field documentation. From the description of Helen Heffron Roberts collection, 1929-1949. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992655 Helen Heffron Roberts was a songwriter. From the description of Songs, 1935-1955, of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466206 From the guide to the Songs, 1935-1955, of the Nootka Indi...

Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978

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(Frank) Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), ornithologist, avian paleontologist, and science administrator, was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1945 to 1952. He was born in North Freedom, Wisconsin, the son of Nelson Franklin and Emma Amelia (Woodworth) Wetmore. He developed an early interest in birds and at the age of eight made his first field journal entry--an observation on the pelican recorded on a family vacation to Florida in 1894. His first published paper, "M...

Wheelwright, Mary C.

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Mary Cabot Wheelwright, born on October 22, 1878, was the only child of Andrew Cunningham Wheelwright and Sarah Perkins Cabot Wheelwright. The Cabots were a distinguished and wealthy Boston family. At age 40, after both of her parents had died, Mary traveled to the southwest, where she found and embraced "a more primitive type of civilization, more adventuresome and more exciting than the safety of Boston." She stayed at a dude ranch in Alcalde, N.M., from where she set out on repea...

Amsden, Charles Avery, 1899-1941

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Shepard, H. Warren

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Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen), 1893-1974

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Professor of anthropology and director of University of Michigan Museum. From the description of Carl Eugen Guthe papers, 1919-1943. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778401 From the description of Carl Eugen Guthe papers, 1919-1942. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423250 Guthe, an archaeologist, was president of the Board of Trustees of the Laboratory of Anthropology 1935-1941. From the description of Carl Eugen Guthe paper...

Chamberlain, Selah

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La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963

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Oliver La Farge studied anthropology at Harvard University where he took part in an archaeological expedition to northern Arizona where he studied Navajo ruins. He earned a Hemenway Fellowship that extended to graduate research in Guatemala with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University. While writing the report of his research trip, La Farge also began writing his first novel, Laughing Boy, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. La Farge was a prolific writer, publishing 24 books...

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...

Bumpus, Hermon C. (Hermon Carey), 1862-1943

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Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Haile, Berard, 1874-1961

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Franciscan missionary, linguist, and anthropologist. Worked extensively with the Navajo at Lukachukai and St. Michaels Missions in Arizona and wrote several works on Navajo ceremonials, language and grammar. From the description of Papers, 1893-1961 (bulk 1925-1961). (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 30482145 From the guide to the Berard Haile papers, 1893-1961 (bulk 1925-1961), (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections) ...

Harvey, Ford

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Laboratory of Anthropology, Inc.

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Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972

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The Puerto Rico Project was an in-depth study of the Island's population organized by Dr. Jaime Benitez, chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, with the assistance of Clarence Senior, director of the University's Center of Social Science Investigations. In early 1947, the proposed study was brought to the attention of Dr. Julian Steward, chair of Columbia University's Anthropology Department.By December 1947 the organization of project goals, research hypotheses and met...

Albright, Horace M. (Horace Marden), 1890-1987

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Second director of U.S. National Park Service, 1929-1933; conservationist, industrialist. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1949-1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526451 Conservationist. From the description of Reminiscences of Horace Marden Albright : oral history, 1966. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309720604 From the description of Reminiscences of Ho...

Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-

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Colton, Harold Sellers, 1881-1970

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Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962

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Scherer, James A. B. (James Augustin Brown), 1870-1944

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James Augustin Brown Scherer (aka James A.B. Scherer) was born in Salisbury, North Carolina on May 22, 1870 to the Rev. Simeon Scherer and Harriet Isabella Brown. After earning his bachelor's degree from Roanoke College, Scherer accepted a position teaching English at the Japanese Imperial Government school in Saga, Japan. While serving in this post, he met Bessie Brown, a native of Yamaguchi, Japan, whom he wed on July 5, 1894. He also began a lifelong interest in the Japanese peop...

U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology

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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948

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Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518646 Anthropologist. Vassar College Class of 1909. From the description of Ruth Fulton Benedict papers, 1905-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576400 ...

Cammerer, A. B.

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Lord, Louis E.

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Cutting, Bronson M., 1888-1935

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Publisher and U.S. senator from New Mexico. Full name: Bronson Murray Cutting. From the description of Bronson M. Cutting papers, 1890-1950 (bulk 1910-1935). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980057 U.S. senator from New Mexico. From the description of Letter, 1929 Oct. 14, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907337 Biographical Note ...

Harvey, Frederick H.

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Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1983

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White, Elizabeth, 1878-1972

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Bloom, Lansing Bartlett, 1880-

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Lansing B. Bloom, a Presbyterian minister, came to New Mexico in 1912 and worked at several missions, before accepting a staff position with the Museum of New Mexico and School of American Research in Santa Fe, in 1917. In 1924, Bloom became a fellow of the Historical Society of New Mexico, where he held the position of secretary until his death in 1946. He served as editor of the New Mexico Historical Review (NMHR), from its inception in 1926 until 1946, dates which coincide with his teaching d...

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 ...

Zimmerman, James Fulton, 1887-1944

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James Zimmerman served as President of the University of New Mexico from 1928 to 1944. When the New Mexico Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission was established he was elected president of the Commission. Other state commissions from Arizona, Texas, Kansas, and, Oklahoma were established as well as the United States Coronado Exposition Commission to plan the commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the 1540 journey and explorations of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to the American South...

Crampton, Louis C.

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Ellis, Florence Hawley 1906-1991

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Renaud, E. B. (Etienne Bernardeau), 1880-1973

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Etienne B. Renaud (1880-1973) served as faculty member of University of Denver Dept. of Anthropology from 1920-1948. Renaud influenced archeaological survey methods describing one of the first attempts at systematic excavation in the American Southwest. In 1929 he directed a field expedition for the Colorado Museum of Natural History. He conducted archaeological surveys of the American plains area including Eastern Colorado, 1930-1933; Eastern Wyoming, 1931; Western Nebraska, 1933; Northeast New...

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial

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The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was formed in 1918 by John D. Rockefeller and was named by his late wife. Intended to contribute realistically to improvements in public welfare, the LSRM operated from the office of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. with a fluid program until 1922, when Beardsley Ruml was named director and developed a long range program. In 1929, the LSRM was consolidated with the Rockefeller Foundation and made a final grant of $10 million to the Spelman Fund of New York to conti...

Scott, Donald

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