Alfred L. Kroeber letters 1936-1951.

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Alfred L. Kroeber letters 1936-1951.

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This collection, held in one folder, contains three letters written during the years 1936 to 1951 from Dr. Alfred Louis Kroeber to Dr. Ruth Murray Underhill. Both were pioneering anthropologists. One letter, from Kroeber to Underhill, congratulates Underhill on her work "Autobiography of a Papago Woman," which was printed in the Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association in 1936. Two other letters from Kroeber to Underhill contain congratulations on publication and a request for review of a publication. The collection also contains an envelope from Kroeber to Underhill.

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984

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Anthropologist Ruth Murray Underhill served as Supervisor of Indian Education with the U.S. Indian Service from 1942-1948 and was professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver from 1948-1952. She was born in Ossining, New York on August 22, 1884 and graduated from Vassar College in 1905 with a B.A. in comparative literature. She earned a Ph. D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1934 and worked for the U.S. Indian Service (later the Bureau of Indian Affairs). Underhill was invol...

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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