James McKeen Cattell papers

LC control no.	mm 75015412
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944. » More like this
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. » More like this Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915--Correspondence. » More like this Boas, Franz, 1858-1942--Correspondence. » More like this Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968--Correspondence. » More like this Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947--Correspondence. » More like this Caldwell, Otis W. (Otis William), 1869-1947--Correspondence. » More like this Dewey, John, 1859-1952--Correspondence. » More like this Hall, Asaph, 1859-1930--Correspondence. » More like this Humphreys, W. J. (William Jackson), 1862-1949--Correspondence. » More like this Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947--Correspondence. » More like this James, William, 1842-1910--Correspondence. » More like this Jastrow, Joseph, 1863-1944--Correspondence. » More like this Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931--Correspondence. » More like this Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937--Correspondence. » More like this Livingston, Burton E. (Burton Edward), 1875-1948--Correspondence. » More like this Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924--Correspondence. » More like this Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962--Correspondence. » More like this Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945--Correspondence. » More like this Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940--Correspondence. » More like this Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914--Correspondence. » More like this Seashore, Carl E. (Carl Emil), 1866-1949--Correspondence. » More like this Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949--Correspondence. » More like this Titchener, Edward Bradford, 1867-1927--Correspondence. » More like this Watson, John B. (John Broadus), 1878-1958--Correspondence. » More like this American Association for the Advancement of Science. » More like this American Association of University Professors. » More like this Century Club (New York, N.Y.) » More like this Columbia University. » More like this Psychological Corporation. » More like this Science Press. » More like this American men of science. » More like this American naturalist. » More like this Popular science monthly. » More like this School and society. » More like this Science. » More like this American periodicals. » More like this Psychology--Periodicals. » More like this Psychology--Study and teaching. » More like this Science--Periodicals. » More like this Scientists--Biography. » More like this 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>
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