Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records

Ford, James Bishop, 1844-1928

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Museum of the American Indian trustee....

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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The oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning." Since the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, there have been twenty-eight presidents and five acting presidents (please see additional note for a complete list of Academy presidents). From 1937 to 1995, there were four pre...

Tibbles, Susette La Flesche, 1854-1903

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Susette La Flesche Tibbles was an Omaha author, lecturer, and advocate for Native American rights. She was also known as Bright Eyes, the English translation of her Omaha name, which has been variously transliterated as Inshta Theamba, Inshta Theumba, and Inshata Theumba. She was born in 1854 on Omaha lands. (The Omaha Reservation is now located mostly in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri River, with some areas in western Iowa, U.S.) Her parents were Joseph La Flesche (Iron Eye), chief of the Om...

American Museum of Natural History

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The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869 to be of service to the city's public schools, advance scientific research in natural history, and to exhibit natural history objects for casual visitors. From the description of Administrative files, 1869-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155513508 Museum exhibition displayed in the Museum's showcase in 1975. From the description of Cans from pressured city exhibition photographs, 1975. (Unknown). Wor...

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...

Harte, Neville A.

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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...

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Research Branch.

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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 ...

Bolton, Reginald Pelham, 1856-1942

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Bolton was an author and archaeologist who studied the Washington Heights and Inwood region of New York extensively. He was a life Member of the New York Historical Society and of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. From the description of Reginald Pelham Bolton collection: notes regarding Indians near Inwood Hill Park, New York City, 1900-1935. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64038988 Reginald Bolton was born in London and moved to New York...

Stiles, William F., 1912-1980

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Churchill, Clara.

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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Board of Trustees.

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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 ...

Carter, Eloise.

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Harvey family.

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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...

Tibbles, Thomas Henry, 1840-1928

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Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland

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Samuel K. Lothrop had a long affiliation with the Peabody Museum that lasted from 1915-1960. After completing his Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard University, he was appointed the Director of the Museum's celebrated Central American Expedition 1916-1917. Lothrop was an Associate in Anthropology from 1919-1934. In 1935 he was promoted to Research Associate in Anthropology for Middle America, a post which he kept until 1940 when he was named Assistant Curator in Middle American Archae...

University of Pennsylvania, University Museum

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Gridley, Marion E. (Marion Eleanor), 1906-1974

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Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925

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Archaeologist. Skinner conducted research on Indians of Manhattan and Staten Islands, the Iroquois, and the Menomini and was associated with the American Museum of Natural History and later the Milwaukee Public Museum. From the description of Field notes, 1918-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155481252 ...

Dade, Philip L.

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Carter, Ernest Frank, 1899-

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Cadzow, Donald Adams, 1894-1960

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Donald Adams Cadzow worked on expeditions and archeological excavations for George Gustav Heye and the Museum of the American Indian from 1916 until 1927. Between 1917 and 1919, Cadzow, collected artifacts and archaeological materials from the Copper and Kogmollok Eskimo, the Loucheux, Slavey, and Woodland Cree of Alberta, Canada. In 1919, Cadzow assisted Alanson Skinner on an archeological excavation in Cayuga County, New York. Cadzow next worked with Mark Harrington: excavating a site on St...

Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935

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Charles Pickering Bowditch was a major benefactor to the Peabody Museum. Frederic W. Putnam served as the curator of the Peabody Museum. Alice E. Putnam was Frederic Putnam's daughter and served as a research assistant at the Peabody Museum, as well as Frederic's liason to the museum when his health began to fail. From the description of Notes, correspondence and drawings on the Indian mounds of the Ohio Valley, 1915-1935. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64064236 ...

American Geographical Society of New York

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The American Geographical Society, also known as the AGS, is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. It was founded by a group of New Yorkers, among them philanthropists, historians, publishers and editors. They included George Folsom, Henry Grinnell, Henry Varnum Poor, Hiram Barney, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, S. De Witt Bloodgood, John Romeyn Brodhead, Joshua Leavitt and Archibald Russell....

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...

Harvey, Fred

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Fred Harvey (1835-1901) was a restauranteer who worked closely with railroad companies in the American West. His restaurant chain was known as Harvey Houses. From the description of Fred Harvey photographs of the West, circa 1880s-1900s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 223811382 ...

Churchill, Frank C. (Frank Carroll), 1850-1912

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Indian inspector and Special Disbursing agent, U.S. Dept. of the Interior; resident of Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1906-1909. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19347274 ...

Harrington, M. R. 1882-1971.

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Dockstader, Frederick J.

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Frederick J. Dockstader (1919-1998) was an art consultant, museum director, and silversmith from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Frederick J. Dockstader, 1970 June 16-July 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595140 Art consultant, museum director, silversmith; New York, N.Y. Born 1919. From the description of Frederick J. Dockstader interviews, 1970 June 16-July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185506 ...

Wildschut, William

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William Wildschut, an ethnologist and field researcher for the Museum of the American Indian, was born in the Netherlands. He was the author of Crow Indian Beadwork (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: 1959), and Crow Indian Medicine Bundles (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: 1960). His biography of Two Leggings, a Crow Indian chief, was published in 1967, twelve years after Wildschut's death. From the guide to the William Wildschut paper...

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Exhibits Dept.

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Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954

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A. Hyatt Verrill was born in 1838 in the United States. An archaeologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator, Verrill was also a prolific author, writing on extremely diverse subjects such as whaling, travel, natural history and the radio. This writing resulted in the publication of more than 100 books, including several science fiction novels written under the pseudonym Ray Ainsbury. Verrill served as the natural history editor of Websters International Dictionary in 1896, and invented the autochr...