Harvey Pitkin Papers 1884-1968

Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...

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...

Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957

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Dorothea V. Kaschube is an anthropologist. From the guide to the Crow Texts, 1978, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Pitkin, Harvey

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Born in New York City on April 22, 1928, Harvey Pitkin received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963. Under the direction of Alfred L. Kroeber, he directed his attention to a study of the dialects of Wintu (Wintu and Patwin), a Penutian language of Northern California, and later to Yuki and Wappo, California languages of uncertain affinity. Relatively early in Pitkin's career, Kroeber entrusted him with his invaluable collection of Yuki n...

Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996

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Linguist Haas began graduate work in Philology at the University of Chicago in 1930, but soon followed her advisor, Edward Sapir, to Yale. There, in 1935, she received her doctorate for an exacting descriptive analysis of Tunica, a linguistic isolate spoken in Louisiana, establishing what would become a life-long association with the Native American languages of the Southeastern United States. Eventually, Haas' research encompassed a wide array of languages from Tunica to Thai to the Athabas...

Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934

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Kroeber, A. L. and Dell Hymes

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Li, Fanggui

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A student of Edward Sapir at the Univerity of Chicago, the linguist Fanggui (Fang-Kuei) Li was a pioneer in studying the Canadian and Pacific Coast Athapascan languages. After completing a Master's thesis on the Sarcee verb-stem in 1927, Li was advised by Sapir to continue on to other Athapascan languages, and with funding provided in part by the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, he spent the summer of 1927 getting an introduction to field...

Uldall, Hans, 1903-1983

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Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-

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Harrington, John Peabody

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Driver, Harold

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Ultan, Donald

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Halpern, A. M.

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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...

Kroeber, A. L. and Hans Uldall

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Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906

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Irish American diplomat, folklorist, linguist, translator. From the description of Jeremiah Curtin Letter to S.S. McClure, 1892 May 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 82200094 ...

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...

Kroeber, Theodora

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Theodora Kroeber was born Theodora Covel Kracaw, in Denver, Colo. on Mar. 24, 1897. Kroeber, a writer, authored the book "Ishi in Two Worlds" (1961). Kroeber's second husband was the anthropologist, A.L. Kroeber. From the description of Theodora Kroeber papers, 1881-1983 (bulk 1960-1979). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84653243 Born Theodora Covel Kracaw in Denver Colo. in 1897. Married Clifton Spencer Brown in 1921, Alfred L. Kroeber in 1926, and ...

Angulo, Jaime de

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Born Jan. 29, 1887 in Paris, France, of Spanish expatriate parents; came to US, 1905; studied medicine at Cooper Union Medical School, and in 1908 transferred to Johns Hopkins; conducted research at Stanford Univ, where his interests turned to anthropology and linguistics, and he studied Pit River (Achomawi) Indians of Northern CA; wrote two novels, Don Bartolomeo (1922) and The Reata (late 1920s), as well as some children's stories and poetry; also wrote a book about his first linguistic field ...

Radin, Paul

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Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957

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Robert H. Lowie was a noted anthropologist, professor of anthropology, and specialist on the Crow Indians. He moved from Vienna to New York in 1893, and later received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying with Franz Boas. After doing curatorial and field work for the American Museum of Natural History, in 1921 he joined the anthropology faculty at U.C. Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1950. Lowie published hundreds of articles, reviews, and monographs in English, Ger...

Barrett, S. A.

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Ishi, -1916

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Hymes, Dell H.

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Dell Hathaway Hymes, an anthropologist, linguist, and educator, is best known for his studies of the language and culture of Native Americans at the Warm Springs reservation in Central Oregon. From the guide to the Introduction to Swadesh Book, The Origin and Diversification of Language, 1971, (American Philosophical Society) Dell H. Hymes is a linguist and folklorist. From the guide to the The language of the Kathlamet Chinook, 1955, 1955, (American Philosophica...

Wilson, Howard B.

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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...