John Alden Mason papers

University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963

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Kidder was an archaeologist who excavated sites in the Southwest. He became a member of the Advisory Board for the Laboratory of Anthropology in 1927. From the description of Alfred Vincent Kidder Pecos papers, 1915-1935. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992640 Kidder was an archaeologist who excavated sites in the southwest. He became a member of the Advisory Board for the Laboratory of Anthropology in 1927. From the description of Alfred Vi...

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...

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

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Frank G. Speck was an anthropologist. From the description of Naskapi scenes, [ca. 1930]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523446 From the guide to the Naskapi scenes, [ca. 1930], Circa 1930, (American Philosophical Society) Frank Gouldsmith Speck was an anthropologist. From the description of Delaware Indian material, 1928. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440271 From the descripti...

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004

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Frederica de Laguna, an archaeologist and anthropologist, studied Alaskan native cultures. From the guide to the Tlingit and Yakutat songs, March-August 1954, (American Philosophical Society) Frederica De Laguna is an anthropologist. From the description of Field notes, 1949-1960, on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632871 From the description of Atna of the Copper River ...

Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) Cattell...

Harrington, John Peabody

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Radin, Paul, 1883-1959

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Dr. Paul Radin is considered to be one of the formative influences in contemporary anthropology and ethnography in the United States and Europe. He was born in Lodz (Russian Poland) on April 2, 1883, the son of a reform rabbi and scholar. In 1884, his family moved to Elmira, New York, and then to New York City in 1890. Educated in the public school system, Radin entered the College of the City of New York as a sub-freshman at the age of fourteen, graduating in 1902. After a brief stint in gradua...

Madeira, Percey Child, Jr.

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Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955

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Satterthwaite, Linton, 1897-1978

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Piedras Negras is a Maya site in Guatemala particularly noted for the beautifully sculpted stelae and hieroglyphic inscriptions it has yielded. The site, located in the northwestern corner of the Department of Petén, Guatemala, along the Usumacinta River, which forms in this area the border between Guatemala and Mexico, was discovered in 1894 by a Mexican lumber man, and brought to the attention of Teobert Maler, a pioneer archaeologist and explorer of the Ancient Maya. Maler visite...

Johnson, Frederick, ....-1937

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Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992

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Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960

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Materials gathered for Gamio's study of Mexican immigration conducted under the auspices of the Social Science Research Council and published in 1930 by the University of Chicago as "Mexican immigration to the United States." A companion volume consisting of several of the autobiograhical accounts collected by Gamio for the earlier study was also published by Chicago, in 1931, as "The Mexican immigrant, his life story." From the description of Notes gathered for his book, Mexican imm...

Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967

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John Alden Mason was an anthropologist and archaeologist. From the description of Papers, ca. 1915-1967. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523535 From the guide to the Northern Tepehuan language material, 1951, 1956, 1958, (American Philosophical Society) The archaeologist John Alden Mason was Curator of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania from 1926 until 1955. His research centered on the languages and...

Agogino, George.

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Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011

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Edmund Snow Carpenter was an archaeologist. From the guide to the The ancient mounds of Pennsylvania, 1950, 1950, (American Philosophical Society) Edmund Snow Carpenter is an archaeologist. From the description of The ancient mounds of Pennsylvania, 1950. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440372 Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, was a British-American anthropologist, specializing in the ar...

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976

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Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942

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Bronislaw Malinowski was educated in Poland, Germany, and England. From 1914-1918, he conducted field work in New Guinea, Australia, and Melanesia. Malinowski taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1921-1942. From the description of Bronislaw Malinowski papers, 1869-1946 (inclusive), 1914-1939 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145078358 From the description of Bronislaw Malinowski papers, 1869-1946 (inclusive), 1914-1939 (bulk). (Unknown). W...

Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991

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Fred Eggan was born in Seattle, Washington on September 12, 1906. His parents, Alfred J. and Olive Smith Eggan, later relocated to Lake Forest, Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago. In 1923 Eggan came to the University of Chicago as an undergraduate and continued on to earn an M.A. in psychology with a minor in anthropology in 1928. His master's thesis was entitled "An Experimental Study of Attitudes toward Race and Nationality." From 1928 to 1930 he taught psychology, so...

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...

Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967

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James M. Crawford was a linguist who mainly studied Native American languages, including Cocopa, Yuchi, and Mobilian trade language. He came to the field of linguistics halfway through his lifetime after pursuing a career in forestry in the West and Southwest. After receiving his PhD in 1966 from the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to his birthplace, Georgia, where he taught in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia at Athens. From the guide to t...

American anthropological association

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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 ...

Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-

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Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945

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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...

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848

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Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947

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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...

Latin-American Institute for Race and Culture Studies

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Cadzow, Donald S.

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Cross, Dorothy, 1906-1972

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Greywacz, Kathryn B.

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Dolores, Juan

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University of Pennsylvania, University Museum

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Birge-Smith, Kaj, 1893-

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Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958

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Anthropologist. J.D., University of Chicago, 1924; Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1928. Assistant professor of anthropology, University of Chicago, 1928-1934; professor, 1934-1958; dean, Division of the Social Sciences, 1934-1946; chairman, Department of Anthropology, 1947-1949. Died 1958. From the description of Papers, 1925-1958 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52250075 The association of Robert M. Hutchins and Robert Redfield ...

Brugge, David M.

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David L. Brugge was born in Jamestown, New York on September 3, 1927. He was drafted into the army in the fall of 1945 and served until the summer of 1947. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1950 he and a friend, Glen F. (Jim) Wilson, ran the Ayani Trading Company in Albuquerque Old Town. This business venture gave Brugge the opportunity to make contacts on buying trips to the reservations in the Southwest. In 1952 Brugge began his ...

Garro, José Eugenio

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Bascom, Burton W.

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John Alden Mason was an anthropologist and archaeologist. From the guide to the Northern Tepehuan language material, 1951, 1956, 1958, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941

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Linguist: received a Social Science Research Fellowship for a field trip to Mexico, 1930; studied at Yale University with Edward Sapir, 1931-1936; lecturer on anthropology at Yale, 1937-1938; author of numerous articles on languages, linguistics, science and religion. From the description of Benjamin Lee Whorf papers, 1914-1957 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145078609 From the description of Benjamin Lee Whorf papers, 1898-1957 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat r...

Black, Fred L., 1891-1971

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Fred L. Black was always interested in aviation and received his pilot's license in 1928 while working for the Ford Motor Company. He had a keen interest in preserving the records of early fliers and approached Edsel Ford about creating a museum in connection with the Edison Institute Museum at Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was very interested in doing so and Fred Black then began acquiring photographs and printed materials about the Wright Brothers and their experiments with flight. He was in contac...

Butler, Mary, active 1700

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Epithet: wife of James, 2nd Duke of Ormonde British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x00012b Epithet: niece of Samuel Butler British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x000125 Epithet: sister of Samuel Butler British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x00012...

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963

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Pioneer anthropologist and Africanist; Professor of Sociology (1927-38) and of Anthropology (1938-61), Northwestern University. From 1961 through 1963, held Northwestern's Chair of African Studies, the first such position in the United States. From the description of Melville Herskovits Papers, 1906-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80577063 Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. ...

Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963

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Anthropologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Fejos : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734131 ...

Kelly, David H.

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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...

Whorf, Benjamin L.

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Weitlaner, Robert

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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...

Bascom, Burton W.

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John Alden Mason was an anthropologist and archaeologist. From the guide to the Northern Tepehuan language material, 1951, 1956, 1958, (American Philosophical Society) ...