Papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive), 1949-1951 (bulk).

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Papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive), 1949-1951 (bulk).

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Consists primarily of research data from the Columbia University Research in Contemporary India Field Project which Steed directed from 1949 to 1951. Data were collected from three villages in western and northern India and include extensive 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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Edward Jean Steichen, born Eduard Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973), was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator. His were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917. Steichen laid claim to his photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911, being the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Steichen used his talents in the military in ...

Steed, Gitel Poznanski.

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Anthropologist. Born 1914. B.A., New York University, 1938. Ph. D., Columbia University, 1969. Taught at Hunter College, Fisk University, and Hofstra University. Died 1977. From the description of Papers, 1907-1980 (inclusive), 1949-1951 (bulk). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247004 ...

Carstairs, G. M. (G. Morris)

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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...

Columbia University. Research in Contemporary India Field Project.

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Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990

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