8 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Anthropology.
W J McGee papers, 1880-1916
7,000 items ; 31 containers plus 1 oversize ; 12.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes...
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Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996
530,000 items ; 1,790 containers plus 50 oversize ; 783.2 linear feet ; 2 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anthropologist, author, and educator. Personal, professional, and family papers, consisting of correspondence, notebooks, organization files, appointment books, writings, teaching and office files, field notes, photographs, and miscellany relating primarily to anthropological and ethnological fieldwork, Mead's association with various universities and other cultural, scientific, and educational...
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Anita Newcomb McGee papers, 1688-1932
3,000 items ; 12 containers plus 1 oversize ; 5.1 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anthropologist and physician. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, writings, scientific and medical data, and miscellaneous material pertaining to McGee's studies of communistic societies in the United States such as the Shakers and the Bethel and Oneida communities, to her duties as acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War; and to the formation of the Women's...
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Thomas Jefferson papers, 1606-1943
25,000 items ; 225 containers plus 9 oversize ; 90 linear feet ; 65 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States president, vice president, and secretary of state; diplomat, architect, inventor, planter, and philosopher. Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm book, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and...
Franz Boas papers, 1878-1943
44 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anthropologist, linguist, ethnologist, educator, and curator. Microfilm of originals held by the American Philosophical Society of personal and professional correspondence, diaries, and family papers relating chiefly to Boas’s career as an anthropologist and social scientist.
Rhoda Bubendey Métraux papers, 1905-1980
49,000 items ; 128 containers plus 4 oversize ; 56.2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Anthropologist and author. Correspondence, lectures and writings, field notes and notebooks, reports, proposals, minutes, programs, interview transcripts, questionnaires, statistical analyses, drawings, photographs, financial records, and printed matter pertaining to Métraux's career as an anthropologist and her professional and personal relationship with anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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Miguel Covarrubias papers, 1871-1948
100 items ; 3 containers ; 1.2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Mexican author, artist, and anthropologist. Drafts of his writings and notes on the peoples and cultures of Bali, Indonesia, and Tehuantepec, Mexico.
E.G. Squier papers, 1841-1888
2,500 items ; 12 containers ; 4.8 linear feet ; 14 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Archaeologist, diplomat, author, editor, and businessman. Correspondence, business records, diplomatic records, articles, lectures, and other writings, reference and bibliographic notes, drawings, maps, scrapbooks of clippings, and other papers relating to Squier's diplomatic career as U.S. chargé d'affairs in Central America (1849-1858), U.S. commissioner to Peru (1863-1865), and Honduran...