Correspondence files, [ca. 1895]-1980.

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Correspondence files, [ca. 1895]-1980.

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Official correspondence of curators and members of the department with major figures in the field of anthropology and with collectors and other individuals associated with the department concerning research projects, publications, letters from the field describing observations as well as operational aspects of field work, internal museum and departmental matters, letters of inquiry from the public, applications for positions, collections offered but not accepted, and other matters pertaining to the role of curator. Curators represented include Franz Boaz, Wendell C. Bennett, Junius Bird, Robert Carneiro, Gordon Ekholm, Stanley Freed, Pliny Earle Goddard, Robert Lowie, Margaret Mead, Craig Morris, Nels C. Nelson, Frederick W. Putnam, Enid Schildkrout, Harry L. Shapiro, Harlin Smith, Ian Tattersall, David Hurst Thomas, Colin Turnbull, George C. Vaillant, and Clark Wissler.

134 cubic ft.

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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology

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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology

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The collection was probably amassed by James Howard McGregor of the Anthropology Dept. as the first part of a lecture on the evolution of man. The first part was entitled "Apes" and the second, "Studies of Man." Many photographs come from the Museum's Dept. of Public Education. From the description of Mammalogical photographs, [ca. 1914-1953] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155515619 Canadian geologist Robert Bell directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1901-1906. ...

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915

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Frederic Ward Putnam (1839-1915) was one of the earliest anthropologists in the United States. He founded anthropology programs, and worked to establish museum collections in anthropology. He directed some of the first field expeditions in the Americas, including sites in Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, New Jersey, and California. Putnam was born April 16, 1839 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Putnam III. In 1864, Putnam married Adelaide Martha Edmands; they h...

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...

Morris, Craig, 1963-

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Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982

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Junius Bouton Bird (b. September 12, 1907, Rye, New York- d. April 2, Spuyten Duyvil, New York), was an American archaeologist who was appointed curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1934. His contributions to the study of ecology, climate, and pre-Columbian archaeology earned him several awards including The Viking Fund Medal for Archaeology (1956) and The Order of "El sol de Peru" (1974). In 1961 he was elected as the president of the Society for Am...

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...

Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Anthropologist. Goddard held several curatorial positions with the American Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1928. In 1914 he became Curator of Ethnology and from 1915 to 1928 he was a Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. From the guide to the Pliny Earle Goddard American Indian Notebooks, 1901-1929., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Ethnologist, museum curator. Goddard was Curator of Ethno...

Thomas, David Hurst, 1945-

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David Hurst Thomas is the curator of North American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History. Thomas received all of his degrees in anthropology from the University of California, Davis. He is one of the founding trustees for the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution....

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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Smith, Harlin H., -1942

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Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990

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Anthropologist at American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Papers 1930's-1950's?. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 39698417 Anthropologist, museum curator. Shapiro is Curator emeritus in the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. His professional interests are in human biology, race mixture, and population genetics. From the description of Anthropometric study, 1930-1934. (Un...

Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945

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Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert LeĢonard), 1927-

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Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953

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Schildkrout, Enid

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Ekholm, Gordon F.

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Freed, Stanley A.

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Tattersall, Ian

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Turnbull, Colin M.

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Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947

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Nelson, Nels C. (Nels Christian), 1875-

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