Volney H. Jones papers, 1909-1979.

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Volney H. Jones papers, 1909-1979.

The papers include correspondence with ethnobotanists and anthropologists including Edward F. Castetter and Leslie A. White, administrative files, biographical information on anthropologists, teaching files for Jones' courses within the University of Michigan Department of Anthropology, and notes for unpublished textbooks on ethnobotany. Also includes correspondence with Chase S. Osborn, Stellanova Osborn, and Milo M. Quaife concerning a project to establish a Friends of the Michigan Indian organization and correspondence and reports from Ted Bank concerning the University of Michigan expeditions to the Aleutian Islands.

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University of Michigan. Department of Anthropology

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Established in 1929, the University of Michigan Department of Anthropology provides instruction in ethnology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistics, and is consistently ranked among the top academic programs in anthropology in the country. From the description of Dept. of Anthropology (University of Michigan) records, 1927-1983. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778631 The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology was establ...

Bank, Ted

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Theodore (Ted) Bank, II was born on August 31, 1923, in Patterson, Louisiana. He served as a Naval weather observer in the Aleutians and the North Pacific during World War II. Bank obtained his M.S. in ethnobotany from the University of Michigan (1950). He led and participated in numerous scientific expeditions to the Aleutian Islands, as well as expeditions to Japan (1955-1956), Argentina, West Africa, Mexico, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific. Bank's professional positions included village...

Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940

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Melvin Randolph Gilmore was one of the preeminent ethnobotanists of his generation and served as Curator of Ethnology for the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1939. From the description of Melvin R. Gilmore photographs. 1905-1938. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 52300960 From the description of Melvin R. Gilmore papers, 1905-1938. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 78492642 Melvin Randolph Gilmor...

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975

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Professor of anthropology at University of Michigan, chairman of the anthropology department, 1932-1957 and 1959, and student of the culture of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States, and of the career of early American anthropologist, Lewis H. Morgan. From the description of Leslie A. White papers, 1921-1974. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423619 Leslie White was an influential American anthropologist and anthropological theorist ...

Murphy, Frank, 1890-1949

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Mayor of Detroit; Governor of Michigan; Governor General of the Philippine Islands; associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Frank Murphy papers, 1893-1960 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 369174924 Mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan; justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Frank Murphy autograph book, 1930-1942. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778857 Detroit (Mich.) Recorder...

Osborn, Chase S. (Chase Salmon), 1860-1949

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Author and newspaper editor at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, University of Michigan regent and Republican governor of Michigan, 1911-1912. From the description of Chase Salmon Osborn papers, 1889-1949. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423228 Chase S. Osborn was born in Huntington County, Indiana on January 22, 1860, the son of George A. and Margaret (Fannon) Osborn. He married Lillian G. Jones on May 7, 1881. Osborn was a newspaperman and author before becoming ...

Jones, Volney H. (Volney Hurt), 1903-1982

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Curator of ethnology and professor of anthropology at the Museum of Anthropology of University of Michigan. From the description of Volney H. Jones papers, 1945-1948. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421611 Volney H. Jones was a leading ethnobotanist and served as Curator of Ethnology at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology from 1945 to 1969. From the description of Volney H. Jones papers, 1909-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat ...

Castetter, Edward Franklin, 1896-

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Osborn, Stellanova, 1894-1988

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Wife of Chase S. Osborn, leader in the Atlantic Union Movement, and officer in the Atlantic Union Conference, the International Movement for Atlantic Union, and Federal Union, Inc. From the description of Stellanova Osborn papers, 1916-1992. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 78061120 From the description of Stella Brunt Osborn papers, 1916-1992. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421771 Stella Brunt Osborn was born on July 31, 1...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

University of Michigan. Museum of Anthropology.

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Established in 1922, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan is one of the major research facilities in the United States for the collection and study of archaeological and ethnological materials. From the description of Museum of Anthropology (University of Michigan) records, 1894-1990. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 79108231 The Latin American Ethnohistory Library was created by Joyce Marcus, and supplemented with funding from D...

University of Michigan. Ethnobotanical Laboratory

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Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959

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Milo M. Quaife was born in Nashua, Iowa on October 6, 1880, the son of Albert E. and Barbara S. (Hine) Quaife. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1908. Dr. Quaife taught at Lewis Institute in Chicago, Wayne University and the University of Detroit. He served as superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1914 until 1920. He was editor and founder of Wisconsin Magazine of History to 1.922 and managing editor of Mississippi Valle, Historical Review, 1924-1...