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| | • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
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| | • | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 |
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| | • | Biology, genetics, eugenics |
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| | • | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 |
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| | • | Delaware Indians |
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| | • | Folklore -- Jamaica |
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| | • | Indians of North America -- British Columbia |
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| | • | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 |
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| | • | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 |
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| | • | Reconstruction |
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| | • | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |
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| | • | Achumawi language |
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| | • | Africa |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights |
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| | • | Agriculture -- Jamaica. |
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| | • | Akwesasne Counselor Organization |
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| | • | Allegany Reservation (N.Y.) |
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| | 3 | Author: | Willis, William Shedrick,1921- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Shedrick Willis papers, [ca. 1940-1983]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1940-1983 | | | | Abstract: | In addition to providing insight into the life of an African American scholar during the civil rights era, this collection may afford students of African American history useful information in a number of areas of interest. Of special note are the lecture materials on the courses Willis taught in anthropology, history of anthropology, and African American studies, while at SMU and at summer sessions at Columbia University during the 1960s-1970s. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.30 | | | | Extent: | 13 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African Americans -- Study and teaching | Anthropology | Anthropology -- History | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Civil rights | Columbia University -- Faculty. | Columbia University -- Students. | Culture, community, organizations | Herzog, George, 1901-1983 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Labor, industrialization | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | Mahon,, J.K. | Mintz, Sidney Wilfred | Plantations | Race, race relations, racism | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Segregation | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Southern Methodist University -- Faculty. | Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972 | Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1 | Sturtevant, William C. | Wagley, Charles | Weltfish, Gene | White, Leslie A., 1900-1972 | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975. | Willis, William Shedrick,1921- | |
| 4 | Author: | Snyderman, George Simon, 1908-2000 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George S. Snyderman Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1758-1995 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains at least one item which may be of interest to students of African American history: Frobenius, Leo. "Early African Culture as an Indication of Present Negro Potentialities." n.d. 9 pages. The cultures of the people of Africa vary greatly across the African continent. The paper examines the differences and commonalities of various historical African cultures and their effect on the "potentialities of present-day Negroes in Africa and America." | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.51 | | | | Extent: | 3 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Africa | Akwesasne Counselor Organization | Allegany Reservation (N.Y.) | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Cayuga Indians | Culture, community, organizations | Delaware Indians | Ethnohistory | Ettawageshik, Fred, 1896-1969 | Gelatin silver prints | Haudenosaunee | Indians of North America -- New York (State) | Iowa -- Maps | Iroquois Indians | Iroquois Indians -- Dwellings | Iroquois dance | Maps. | Missouri -- Maps | Mohawk Indians -- Social life and customs | Ohio -- Maps | Oneida Indians -- Wisconsin | Parrish, John | Phillips, John | Photographic prints -- Color | Photographs | Postcards | Seneca Indians -- Missions | Seneca Indians -- New York (State) | Seneca Indians -- Religion | Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs | Seneca masks | Snyderman, George Simon, 1908-2000 | Society of Friends -- Missions | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Wampum | |
| 5 | Author: | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque Papers, 1808-1840
| | | | Dates: | 1808-1840 | | | | Abstract: | The collection contains a manuscript written for a contest sponsored by the Societe de Geographie de Paris. The organization sought the best-written history of the "origins of negroes." Rafinesque was awarded a gold medal for his work. Rafinesque, Constantine S. Memoires sur l'origine des nations negres, ou introduction a l'histoire des negres indigenes d'Asie, d'Afrique, polynesie, Amerique et Europe. 1831. 1 item (106 pages). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R124 | | | | Extent: | 1.75 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Anishinaabe | Bibliographies. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Botany. | Culture, community, organizations | Delaware Indians | Essays. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Gass, Patrick, 1771-1870 | Indians of North America -- Louisiana | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Manuscript Essays | Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural history | North America -- Description and travel. | Notebooks | Ojibwa Indians | Osage Indians | Ottawa Indians | Picture-writing | Plains Indians | Political Correspondence | Race, race relations, racism | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Sketches. | Tarascon, L. A. | Travel | Wallam olum | Zoology. | |
| 6 | Author: | Wyck Association | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Wyck Association Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1663-1972 | | | | Abstract: | With emphases on religion, education, and social concerns, the correspondence in the Wyck collection contains numerous references to African Americans. These issues emerge in the correspondence of Caspar Wistar Haines I, Hannah Marshall Haines, Reuben Haines III, Jane Bowne Haines I, Robert Bowne Haines I, and Caspar Wistar Haines II.See below for more specific subject references within the letters. The collection also contains a series of writings: diaries, essays, journals, notebooks, and poetry. Of particular interest are the papers describing the exploits of a runaway slave, Henry Hudson, in 1819. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.52 | | | | Extent: | 151.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | Accounts. | Agriculture | Bills (financial). | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Culture, community, organizations | Deeds | Diaries. | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Haines family | Haines, Ann, 1793-1869 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1762-18 | Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1853-1935 | Haines, Hannah Marshall, 1765- | Haines, Jane B., 1869-1937 | Haines, Jane Bowne, 1790-1843 | Haines, Jane Reuben, 1832-1911 | Haines, John Smith, 1820-1886 | Haines, Margaret Vaux Wistar, 1831-1917 | Haines, Margaret Wistar, 1728- | Haines, Mary T., 1892- | Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793 | Haines, Reuben, 1786-1831 | Haines, Robert B., 1827-1895 | Haines, Robert B., 1893-1967 | Hartshorne, Catherine Haines, | Home economics -- United States -- Accounting | Horticulture | Institutional Records | Jansen family | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Miscellaneous | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs | Philadelphia History | Photoprints | Quakers | Race, race relations, racism | Receipts | Reconstruction | Religion, religious organizations | Science and technology | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social problems. | Trade | Wistar family | Wyck House (Philadelphia, Pa.) | |
| 7 | Author: | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Raymond Pearl Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1895-1946 | | | | Abstract: | Pearl's opposition to eugenics earned him both friends and adversaries (most notable among the latter, E. M. East), as reflected throughout the Pearl papers. His correspondence with East, Herbert Spencer Jennings, Karl Pearson, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Ira Jewell Williams, Edwin B. Wilson, F. A. E. Crew, the Rockefeller Institute, and William T. Howard (among others) touches frequently on issues of genetics, eugenics, race, and human evolution. The correspondence with the N.A.A.C.P. comprises three folders of materials for the years 1927-1936, primarily concerning a study of Harlem Hospital. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P312 | | | | Extent: | 28.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | American Association of Physical Anthropologists | Baltimore Sun | Bell, James F. | Berkson, Joseph, 1899- | Bernard, Léon | Biology | Biology -- Periodicals | Biology publishing | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Biometry | Birth Control Federation of America | Birth control. | Campbell, James A. | Cox, Eugene A. | Culture, community, organizations | Dartmouth College | Diaries. | East, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1879-1938 | Embree, Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers), 1883-1950 | Eugenics | Evolution (Biology) | Fisher, Arne | Genetics | Gini, Corrado, 1884- | Greenwood, Major, 1880- | Harrison, Ross G. (Ross Granville), 1870-1959 | Human evolution | International Statistical Institute. | Jones, Bassett, 1877-1960 | Mallet, Bernard, Sir | Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 | Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | Pearl, Ida May McDuffee | Pearl, Maud Mary DeWitt | Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 | Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936 | Population biology | Race, race relations, racism | Ritter, William Emerson, 1856-1944 | Russell, E. S. (Edward Stuart), 1887-1954 | Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 | Science publishing. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Statistics | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 | Sweeney, James Shirley, 1896- | The Quarterly Review of Biology | Thomas, Charles C., 1925- | Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949 | Wheeler, William Morton, 1865-1937 | Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861-1964 | Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964 | World War, 1914-1918 | Yerkes, Robert Mearns, 1876-1956 | Yule, G. Udny (George Udny), 1871-1951 | |
| 8 | 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 | |
| 9 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]
| | | | Dates: | 1853, 1882-1959 | | | | Abstract: | There are at least two items in this collection which may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Hurston, Zora Neale. " The Florida Expedition (#46)." n.d. 3 pages. Brief report by a student of Franz Boas on fieldwork in Florida studying African American folklore, story-telling, religion, and common-held beliefs. Hurston notes that "the bulk of the population now spends its leisure in motion picture theatres or with the phonograph and its blues." King, Louis E. " Negro life in a rural community (#49)." Circa 1931. 166 pages. Anthropological dissertation study of African American life in a rural community during the years 1927-1931. The work is divided into several sections: Background, Family Life, Breadwinning and Shelter, Education, Activities of the Group, Leaving Home, and Comparing Life in Different Rural Communities.. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | 'Nak'waxda'xw | 'Namgis | Achumawi language | African Americans -- Florida | African Americans -- Folklore | African Americans -- West Virginia | Airplanes | American ginseng | Anishinaabe | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Ants -- Folklore | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Awa'etłala | Babies -- Care | Banister, John, Jr. | Baptists -- North Carolina -- History | Basket making | Bears | Bella Coola Indians | Bella Coola language | Benin -- History | Betrothal | Birds -- Folklore | Cats -- Folklore | Chatino language | Chehalis language | Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions | Cherokee Indians -- Education | Cherokee Indians -- Fishing | Cherokee Indians -- Folklore | Cherokee Indians -- Funeral customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Games | Cherokee Indians -- Government relations | Cherokee Indians -- History | Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure | Cherokee Indians -- Marriage customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Material culture | Cherokee Indians -- Medicine | Cherokee Indians -- Military service | Cherokee Indians -- Music | Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government | Cherokee Indians -- Religion | Cherokee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs | Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- Tennessee | Cherokee dance | Cherokee language | Child care | Children -- Death | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity -- Africa | Chukchi -- History | Clothing and dress -- Middle East | Comox Indians | Corn -- Folklore | Creation -- Mythology | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | DEnaxdax | Da'naxda'xw | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Dogs -- Folklore | Drawings. | Dzawada'enuxw | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology -- Africa | Ethnology -- Russia | Ethnology -- United States | Face painting | Fairs -- North Carolina | Field notes. | Fijians -- Social life and customs | Fire -- Folklore | Folk music -- Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore -- Africa | Folklore -- British Columbia | Folklore -- Florida | Folklore -- Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Ghost stories | Ghosts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Gop'inuxw | Gourds | Group portraits | Gusgimukw | Gwasala | Ha'xwamis | Haida Indians | Haida language | Haudenosaunee | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Hymns | Illustrations. | Imprisonment -- North Carolina | Indians of North America -- Alaska | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kootenai language | Koskimo | Kwagu'ł | Kwakiutl language | Kwikwasutinuxw | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Ma'amtagila | Makah Indians | Mamalilikala | Mandan language | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Milky Way -- Folklore | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North Carolina | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | North Carolina | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Nuu-chah-nulth | Nuxalk Indians | Ojibwe people | Omens | Oowekeeno Indians | Owls -- Folklore | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pleiades -- Folklore | Pomo language | Powwows | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Rabbits -- Folklore | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Sarsi Indians | Sarsi language | Sermons | Shasta language | Sioux Nation | Sketches. | Slip files | Smallpox -- United States -- History | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social psychology | Sound recordings | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Swearing | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit Indians | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 | Tsetsaut Indians | Tsimshian language | Tsuut'ina language | Tunica language | Turtles -- Folklore | Twi (African people) | Tłatłasikwala | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) | Volga River Region (Russia) -- History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Witches -- Folklore | Word lists | World War I | World War, 1939-1945 | Wuikinuxv | Xuyalas | Yana language | Zapotec language | Ławit'sis | |
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