[Peabody Museum director records, Frederic W. Putnam (1839-1915), 1870-1923].

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.)

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company Records have remained in the custody of the St. Louis Art Museum (formerly St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts) since their creation during the period 1901-1909. Although the World's Fair itself was in operation from April to Dec. 1904, years of preparation by the Art Department preceded the exhibition of American and foreign art works, and many months were required to conclude departmental affairs following the closing. The Art Dept. Chief, Halsey C. Ives, was al...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

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The Peabody Museum, founded in 1866 by George Peabody, has sent over 800 expeditions to all parts of the world. These expeditions, together with gifts and purchases, have resulted in the amassing of a comprehensive collection of ethnological, archaeological and somatological materials. From the description of Records of the Museum, 1851-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972599 Built in 1876, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest museums devoted ...

New York Academy of Sciences

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The New York Academy of Sciences was established in 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It provided a forum for scientific research; it maintained a library, natural history specimens, and published scientific papers. The Academy sponsors conferences, continues to publish scientific articles specializing in medicine and other biological subjects. ...

United States. National Park Service

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U.S. National Park Service has managed the Morristown National Historical Park since 1933. From the description of Morristown National Historical Park resource management records, 1933-1994 (bulk 1938-1970). (Morristown National History Park). WorldCat record id: 71014733 The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. It was created...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

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...

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...

Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923

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Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented Native American culture. She credited Frederic Ward Putnam for stimulating her interest in Native American culture. From 1881, Fletcher was involved with the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, an Indian boarding school with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture. In 1881, Fletcher traveled to live with and ...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

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...

Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927

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Sir Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq from 1922 to 1934 for the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As part of this involvement, the University of Pennsylvania Museum sent Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section, as a cuneiformist during the 1924–1925 and 1925–1926 seasons. Most of the records of the Ur expedition are located at the British Museum. The Museum Archives hold only a few records. From the...

Maler, Teobert, 1842-1914

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Charnay, Désiré 1828-1915

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Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay was a French photographer, archaeologist, and writer, best known for his travels and photographs of early South and Central American sites. Born in Fleurie, he travelled to New Orleans, where he became a teacher. He travelled extensively throughout Mexico and Central and South America, pioneering the use of photography to document his journeys and discoveries. He made several important finds, and published numerous books about his discoveries, as well as translatio...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

Merriam, John C. (John Campbell), 1869-1945

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Professor of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley. From the description of John C. Merriam papers, 1904-1934. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 81162069 Paleontologist, educator, and author. From the description of Papers of John C. Merriam, 1899-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78407628 Biographical Note 1869 ...

Thompson, Edward Herbert, 1860-1935

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Edward Herbert Thompson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1860, and his family lineage in New England can be traced to colonial times. His paternal grandmother was a favorite niece of General Israel Putnam (or 'Old Put',) who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. As a small boy, Thompson's mother, a student of the artist Gladwin, planted the archaeological seed when they would search for arrowheads at the bottom of brooks near their summer home in Athol. At his uncle's farm, he...

American ethnological society

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Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934

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Ethnologist. Laufer was an Assistant in Ethnology in the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Anthropology. He made several important collecting trips. From the description of Papers, 1898-1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511772 ...

Haynes, Henry W. (Henry Williamson), 1831-1912

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Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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Archaeological institute of America

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The AIA is an organization originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Harvard University professor Charles Eliot Norton and his friends and colleagues. The first meeting was in 1879 to form a society "for furthering and directing archaeological and artistic investigation and research." Norton was elected the first president. The first local society of the AIA was founded in Boston in 1884. From the description of Archaeological Institute of America records, 1879-1954. (Harvard...

Universal Races Congress 1911 London

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Alabama Archaeological Society

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American Numismatic Society

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Howland Wood (1877-1938) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and graduated from Brown University in 1900. He became a member of the ANS in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed Curator, remaining in this position until his death in 1938. At that time, the Society only maintained a single curator, with two assistants. Despite the limited size of the staff, during Wood's tenure the Society's collections increased significantly, from 50,000 to almost 200,000 specimens. In addition to his curator...

Mead, Frances Harvey

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Visited Conejos Canyon (Colorado) for over 40 summers beginning in 1942. Wrote a book, Conejos Country, based on her experiences. From the description of Papers, 1861-1990. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 27124176 ...

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905

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Uhle, Max, 1856-1944

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Wheatland, Henry, 1812-1893

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Società romana di antropologia.

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Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940

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Bowers, Stephen, 1832-1907

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Editor of the Daily Free Press (Ventura, Calif.). From the description of Stephen Bowers letters received, 1882-1902. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122387742 Stephen Bowers was a Methodist minister who was interested in the geology and archaeology of southern California. From the description of Correspondence, 1860-1915. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440009 Painter (Richmond, Surrey, England)...

Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914

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Adolph Bandelier was a prominent archaeologist in the Southwest and Latin America. His second wife Fanny Ritter Bandelier was intimately involved with his professional career, most often as a translator. The Bandeliers' were in Spain, locating and translating Spanish documents pertaining to the Southwest, at the time of Adolph's death in 1914. Fanny Ritter Bandelier finished the work in Spain, returned to the United States, and taught at Fisk University until her death in 1936. From ...

American Ornithologists' Union

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931

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Dorsey was a student of F. W. Putnam at the Peabody Museum. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226043722 Dorsey earned his Harvard A.B. in 1890 and Harvard Ph.D. in 1894. He was an ethnographer who specialized in the North American Plains Indians. From the description of Scrapbook of George Amos Dorsey, 1890-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 62528002 ...

Reisner, George Andrew, 1867-1942

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Reisner graduated from Harvard in 1889 and taught Semitic languages, Semitic archaeology and Egyptology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George A.R. Reisner, 1932-1948 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973161 ...

Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934

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Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912

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Professor of geology. From the description of Ralph Stockman Tarr papers, 1883-1961, 1883-1912 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63939269 Tarr was a professor in the Department of Physical Geography at Cornell University who conducted some studies in Greenland. From the description of Letters : Ithaca, New York, to Albert Operti, New York City, 1896-1898. (Natural History Museum Foundation, Los Angeles County). WorldCat record id: 23366682...

Smith, Erminnie A., 1836-1886

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Erminnie A. Smith, née Erminnie Adele Platt (April 26, 1836– June 9, 1886) was a geologist and an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. She has been called the "first woman field enthnographer" and she was elected the first female member of the New York Academy of Sciences on November 5, 1877. Erminnie Smith published works on the Iroquois people, she was active in collecting their legends and employed John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt to assist in this work...

Massachusetts Indian Association. Cambridge Branch

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The Massachusetts Indian Association was established in 1883, as an auxiliary of the Women's National Indian Association, founded four years earlier by Mary Bonney and Amelia Quinton. The national organization ultimately numbered sixty branches in twenty-seven states. The Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Indian Association was established on 21 Jan. 1886. According to its constitution, the objects of the organization were "to strengthen by every means in its power such a Christian public se...

Societe D'anthropologie De Paris

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Thayer, Sophia Bradford Ripley,

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Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921

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Charles Pickering Bowditch (born September 30, 1842; died June 1, 1921), was an early initiator and supporter of Meso and Central American research at the Peabody Museum. His interest in Maya studies was sparked by a pleasure trip to the Yucatan in 1888. Bowditch received both his A.B. (1863) and his M.A. (1866) from Harvard University. He was a leading member of the Museum's Committee for Central American Researchers from 1891 until his death. Bowditch joined the Department of Anth...

Nickerson, William Baker

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American Anthropological Society

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Hyde Exploring Expedition.

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Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954

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Hooton taught anthropology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Earnest Albert Hooton, 1932-1941 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973070 Anthropologist. From the description of Autobiography of Earnest Albert Hooton: typescript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456362 Earnest Albert Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin on November 20, 1887. After graduating from Lawrence College ( Appleton, Wis...

American folklore society

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Established in 1888 to further the discipline of folklore, the AFS's primary emphasis is directed toward the publication of a journal and the convening of an annual convention. From the description of American Folklore Society records, 1890-9999. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 43959320 Brinton joined the American Folklore Society in 1889 and served as its president. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1894. (University...

Converse, Harriet Maxwell, 1836-1903

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Converse had been named as a chief of the Six Nations (of the Iroquois). From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1897. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226041260 Poet, essayist, and Six Nations advocate born in Elmira, N.Y. Wife of musician Frank Converse; friend of Ely S. Parker. From the description of Harriet Maxwell Converse note : Buffalo, to Mr. Langdon, ca. 1897. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat re...

Hrdlička, Alěs 1869-1943

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Ales Hrdlicka was born in Bohemia and came to America in 1882. He received an M.D. degree from the New York Eclectic College (1892) and graduated from the New York Homeopathic College (1894). He also studied medicine and anthropology at the Sorbonne. Dr. Hrdlicka was assistant curator (1903-1910) and curator (1910-1943) of the Division of Physical Anthropology at the National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He led numerous anthropological expeditions and did extensive research on prehisto...

Merwin, Raymond E. (Raymond Edwin), 1881-1928

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Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)

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Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929.

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Culin was University of Pennsylvania museum director from 1892. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226042711 Stewart Culin (1858-1929), ethnologist and museum curator, worked at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of archaeology and Anthropology from 1890 to 1903, and served as Curator of Ethnology at The Brooklyn Museum from 1903 until his death. From the descr...

Metz, Charles L.

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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....

Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925

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William Curtis Farabee was born in 1865 and was the second candidate to receive a Ph.D. in physical anthropology at Harvard. Although Farabee is more widely known as an anthropologist and ethnographer, he also studied human genetics under William E. Castle while at Harvard. His dissertation, Hereditary and Sexual Influences in Meristic Variation: A Study of Digital Malformations in Man, discussed the disorder brachydactyly, and was eventually published in 1903. Dr. Farab...

Society of American Indians

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Maintained originally as part of the New York State Archaeologist's correspondence files, these records are actually the files of the private Society of American Indians. Organized in 1911 as the "Association of Indians in America," and renamed the "Society of American Indians" in 1912, the organization admitted full or part-blooded aboriginal Americans to active membership and other persons interested in the welfare of Indians as associate members. The organization's goal was "to advance Americ...

Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946

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Edgar L. Hewett was the founder and first director of the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Archaeology (which later became the School of American Research), both in Santa Fe, New Mexico. From the description of Edgar L. Hewett files, 1915-1940. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992690 From the description of Edgar L. Hewett notes on Quarai, 1913. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992649 Edgar L. Hewett was a pro...

Universidad nacional de La Plata

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American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....