Steed, Gitel P. Papers 1907-1980

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Steed, Gitel P. Papers 1907-1980

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Gitel P. Steed (1914-1977), anthropologist. Consists primarily of research data from the Columbia University Research in Contemporary India Field Project, directed by Steed from 1949 to 1951. Data were collected from three villages in western and northern India and include life histories of informants, psychological tests, typed notes, field notebooks, photographs, genealogies, transcripts of interviews, and art work by researchers and villagers. Contains research notes collected by project participants James Silverberg, G. Morris Castairs, and Grace Langley. Also includes data from fieldwork projects on the Inuit of Greenland and Chinese immigrants in New York City, lectures, and publications about the India Project by Steed and other scholars. Also contains some of Steed's India photographs that were included in Edward Steichen's 1955 exhibit, The Family of Man.

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Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973

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Steed, Gitel Poznanski

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Gitel P. Steed was born Gertrude Poznanski in 1914, in Columbus, Ohio, to Sara Auerbach and Jakob Poznanski. Her mother was a native of Columbus and her father, a businessman, immigrated from Poland. Shortly after her birth, Steed family moved to the Bronx, New York. She eventually attended Waleigh High School, and as a teenager adopted the Yiddish name Gitel. In 1932 Gitel entered New York University (NYU), majoring in banking and finance, but dropped out after her firs...

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Silverberg, James

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James Silverberg, Professor of Anthropology Department at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee accompanied Gitel P. Steed as a graduate student on the Columbia University Research in Contemporary India Field Project. From the description of James Silverberg papers, 1941-1994 (inclusive) (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 773290374 There are few biographical materials housed in the James Silverberg Papers. He worked with Gitel P. Steed as a graduate studen...