| | Author: | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elisha Kent Kane Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1953 | | | | Abstract: | Among the most popular of American explorers of the mid-nineteenth century, Kane visited Africa in 1846 aboard the frigate United States. The Kane collection contains a variety of fascinating materials relating to the slave trade and plight of African Americans in the nineteenth century. The papers consist of manuscript materials entitled "Journal of a Trip to Africa," "Slave voyage notebook," and "Whydah slave trade." Also, there are two "Africa: miscellaneous" folders which include an essay on the commercial policy and history of the Gold Coast, along with quantitative data for the years 1820-1843 regarding the repatriation of African Americans to Liberia. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.K132 | | | | Extent: | 6.75 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Africa | Africa -- Description and travel | Americans Abroad | Arctic Indians | Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration | Arctic regions-Pictorial works | Asia Minor -- Description and travel | Bills. | Blockley Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.) | China -- Foreign relations -- United States | Colonization, repatriation | Cracroft, Sophia, 1816-1892 | Egypt -- Description and travel | Engravings. | Exploration | Exploration. | Explorers -- United States | Family Correspondence | Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893 | Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 | General Correspondence | Geometry -- Study and teaching | Grinnell Expedition, 1st, 1850-1851 | Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 | Grinnell, Henry, 1799-1874 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | International Travel | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Inuit -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island | Journals (notebooks) | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Jane Duval Leiper | Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795- | Lectures | Letterbooks | Liberia -- Description and travel | Logbooks | Maps. | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine -- Practice -- Pennsylvania | Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania | Meteorology -- Arctic Regions | Mexico -- Description and travel | Mineralogy -- Study and teaching | North Carolina -- Description and travel | Northwest Passage | Notebooks | Obstetrics | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Hospitals | Philadelphia. General Hospital | Plantations | Receipts | Silhouettes | Sketches. | Slave trade -- Africa | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Foreign relations -- China | United States. Navy | Watercolors | |
| | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1880-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Of particular interest to scholars of African American history is Parson's research in folklore. Parson produced three major monographs on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands (1923), Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, S.C. (1924), and Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (3 volumes, 1933-1943). Materials which may be of interest in the collection include: correspondence (e.g. with Melville Herskovits, Anson Phelps Stokes, and Franz Boas); several manuscripts -- "Arabic elements in Negro Folk Tales," "Folklore from Georgia," 1934, "Negro Folklore" (5 folders), "Old signs in Alabama" and "Spirituals in Alabama," "Provenience of certain Negro folk-tales" (6 folders) in Series III; and research notes on African American folklore (Series IV). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.29 | | | | Extent: | 38.25 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | American Anthropological Association | American Folklore Society | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Balch, Ernesto | Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985 | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birth control. | Blacks -- Jamaica -- Folklore | Boardman, Ruth | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bourne, Randolph | Bovey, Charles | Brice, Kirkpatrick | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | Camody, Mary | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Culture, community, organizations | Day, Clarence | Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Feminism. | Fitz, Reginald | Folklore | Folklore -- Jamaica | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Gelatin silver prints | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | Greece -- Description and travel -- 20th century | Hackett, Francis | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hare, Peter | Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hopi Indians | Hughes, Larry | Illustrations. | Indians of Central America | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America -- Arizona | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- New Mexico | Indians of South America -- Ecuador | Isleta Indians | Johnson, Alvin | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | La Farge, G. Grant | La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963 | Law, George | Lewis, Margaret | Looking Elk, Albert | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Nitrate negatives | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 | Pacificism | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Parsons, John E. | Peace movements -- 20th century | Phillipine Islands -- Description and travel -- 20th century | Pueblo Indians | Quechua Indians | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sketches. | Southwest Indians | Spier, Leslie | Stephen, Alexander M. | Taft, William Howard, 1857-193 | Taos Indians | Tewa Indians | Thompson, Stith | Titiev, Morris | True, Clara | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department. | Watercolors | White, Leslie A. | World War, 1914-1918 | Young, George | Zuni Indians | |
| | Author: | Eugenics Record Office | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugenics Record Office Records
| | | | Dates: | 1670-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Eugenics was inevitably entangled in many aspects of American social and political life, and particularly in setting and supporting national policy with regard to immigration and the treatment of ethnic and racial minorities. The ERO Records reflect the eugenical fascination with identifying race-based traits and with locating clear lines of demarcation between the races in terms of behavior, intelligence, and physical characteristics. Race is a particularly clear factor in several files in the Trait Files Series I (documenting the inheritance of purportedly discrete genetic characteristics): "Jamaica anthropometry" (Box 4), "Race suicide and childlessness" (Box 7), "Twins, Negro" (Box 13), "Skin color," "Spotted skin," and "Mulattoes" (Box 26), "Finger prints - Jamaica schoolchildren" and "Woolly hair" (Box 27) and several files under the heading "Race," "Race crossing," and "Negro" (Box 61, 62, 64). The Fitter Family Studies (Series VI) displays an equal concern for racial demarcation, and include some correspondence with the Race Betterment Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.77 | | | | Extent: | 330.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Algonquin Indians | American Eugenics Society | Apache Indians | Aztecs. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Carib Indians | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Cuna Indians | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Eskimos | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Office | Evolution | Gelatin silver prints | Genetics | Heredity | Human genetics | Indians of Central America -- Panama | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880 | Photomechanical prints | Plains Indians | Pueblo Indians | Race, race relations, racism | Sioux Nation | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. | Station for Experimental Evolution | |
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