Solon Toothaker Kimball papers, 1902-1981.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Provinse, John Henry, 1897-1965

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United States. Soil Conservation Service

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Reports were prepared by various engineers with the Soil Conservation Service. From the description of Reports of a land management survey, Navajo Indian Reservation, 1930-1938. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31277347 Formed in 1935, the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its function was to promote and lead efforts to protect against soil and watershed degradation as part of a broader concern fo...

Shevky, Eshref

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Eshref Shevky was associated with the Haynes Foundation, which published many studies of Los Angeles; Shevky's books include The social areas of Los Angeles, analysis and typology (1949), Your neighborhood, a social profile of Los Angeles (1949), and Social area analysis : theory, illustrative application, and computational procedures (c1955). From the description of Papers, 1945-1960. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40721861 ...

Collier, John, 1884-1968

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Collier was U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1933 to 1945. From the description of John Collier papers, 1932-1936, [microform] (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38520724 Zitkala is the Indian name for Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938. From the guide to the National Council of American Indians records, 1926-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) John Collier was born on May 4, 1884 in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as editor of the journal o...

United States. Office of Indian Affairs

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United States bureau with responsibility for Indian relations. From the description of Letter, 1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699812 Develops and implements, in cooperation with tribal governments, Native American organizations, other federal agencies, state & local governments, and other interested groups, economic, social, educational, and other programs for the benefit and advancement of Indian and Alaska native people. Established in 1824 within the War Dept...

Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997

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Conrad M. Arensberg was born on September 12, 1910 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Academically inclined from a young age, he excelled at school and graduated first in his class at Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh. His early success earned him admittance into Harvard College. When he left for Cambridge, he was “singing for joy over each of the seven ridges of the Alleghenies, vowing never ever to return, but to remain forever in the greater world of Boston and beyond” (Comitas 2000). Harvard brough...

Fryer, E. R.

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Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970

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W. Lloyd Warner was born on October 26, 1898 in Redlands, California. He attended the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkley, where he received his B.A. in anthropology in 1926. Warner also attended graduate school at Berkeley and spent three years researching in northeastern Australia. Warner became assistant professor of Anthropology at Harvard University in 1929. In 1935, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago where h...

Kimball, Solon Toothaker.

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Educator, anthropologist. Kimball was a professor of anthropology and education at Teachers College, 1954-1967. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1924-1980]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 252029401 Anthropologist, educator and author who studied the socio-economic situations of various communities including rural County Clare, Ireland, and the Navajo Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. Kimball's Irish research, conducted w...