LC control no. | mm 75015412 |
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Type of material | Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection) |
Personal name | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944. |
Main title | James McKeen Cattell papers, 1835-1948 (bulk 1896-1948). |
Description | 49,000 items. 189 containers plus 1 oversize. 7 microfilm reels. 76 linear feet. |
Organized/Arranged | Part I is arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Journals, 1874-1880; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1884-1944; Series 3: Family Correspondence, 1880-1944; Series 4: Subject File; Series 5: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1874-1946; Series 6: Photographs; Series 7: Miscellany; Series 8: Printed Matter, 1869-1948; and Series 9: Certificates, Diplomas, Charts, Graphs, and Tables, 1880-1937. Part II is arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1835-1922; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1880-1940; Series 3: Subject File, 1890-1936; Series 4: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1875-1935; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1839-1940. |
Access advisory | Open to research. |
Biography/History note | Educator, editor, and psychologist. |
Summary | Correspondence, diaries, speeches, lectures, articles, notes, financial records, biographical and genealogical material, family papers, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Cattell's professional affiliations with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Psychological Corporation, American Association of University Professors, Century Club, and Columbia University; and his writings and editorial work for Science, Popular Science Monthly, School and Society, American Naturalist, Science Press, and American Men of Science. Correspondents include James Rowland Angell, Charles E. Bessey, Franz Boas, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Nicholas Murray Butler, Otis W. Caldwell, John Dewey, Asaph Hall, W.J. Humphreys, Ellsworth Huntington, William James, Joseph Jastrow, David Starr Jordan, Vernon L. Kellogg, Burton E. Livingston, Jacques Loeb, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Raymond Pearl, Charles S. Peirce, Carl E. Seashore, Edward L. Thorndike, Edward Bradford Titchener, and John B. Watson. |
Notes | Collection material in English. MSS15412 |
Finding aids | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010157> |
Acquisition source | Gift, Jaques Cattell, 1957. Gift, Mrs. Marcel Kessel, 1965. Gift, McKeen Cattell, 1972-1975. |
Additional formats | Microfilm edition of containers 50-55, 91-95, available, no. 16,305. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975. |
Subjects | Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949--Correspondence. Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915--Correspondence. Boas, Franz, 1858-1942--Correspondence. Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968--Correspondence. Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947--Correspondence. Caldwell, Otis W. (Otis William), 1869-1947--Correspondence. Dewey, John, 1859-1952--Correspondence. Hall, Asaph, 1859-1930--Correspondence. Humphreys, W. J. (William Jackson), 1862-1949--Correspondence. Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947--Correspondence. James, William, 1842-1910--Correspondence. Jastrow, Joseph, 1863-1944--Correspondence. Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931--Correspondence. Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937--Correspondence. Livingston, Burton E. (Burton Edward), 1875-1948--Correspondence. Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924--Correspondence. Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962--Correspondence. Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945--Correspondence. Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940--Correspondence. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914--Correspondence. Seashore, Carl E. (Carl Emil), 1866-1949--Correspondence. Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949--Correspondence. Titchener, Edward Bradford, 1867-1927--Correspondence. Watson, John B. (John Broadus), 1878-1958--Correspondence. American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Association of University Professors. Century Club (New York, N.Y.) Columbia University. Psychological Corporation. Science Press. American men of science. American naturalist. Popular science monthly. School and society. Science. American periodicals. Psychology--Periodicals. Psychology--Study and teaching. Science--Periodicals. Scientists--Biography. Editors. Educators. Psychologists. |
Local shelving no. | 0547B Oversize 4:1 Microfilm 16,305-7N |
Repository | Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home> |
Links | Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010157> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010157.3> |