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| | • | Abolition, emancipation, freedom |
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| | • | Akwesasne Counselor Organization |
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| | • | Indians of North America -- Nunavut |
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| | • | Inuit -- Greenland |
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| | • | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 |
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| | • | Negatives |
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| | • | Northwest Coast Indians |
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| | • | Plantations |
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| | • | Postcards |
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| | • | Race, race relations, racism |
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| | • | Seneca Indians -- Religion |
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| | • | Slaves, slavery, slave trade |
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| | • | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform |
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| | • | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 |
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| | • | Tlingit Indians |
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| | • | Watercolors |
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| | • | World War, 1939-1945 |
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| | • | Africa -- Description and travel |
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| | • | African Americans -- West Virginia |
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| | • | Airplanes |
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| | • | Albumen prints |
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| | • | Allegany Reservation (N.Y.) |
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| | • | American Anthropological Association |
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| | • | American Eugenics Society |
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| | • | American ginseng |
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| | • | Americans Abroad |
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| | 1 | 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 | |
| 2 | 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 | |
| 3 | Author: | American Eugenics Society | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Eugenics Society Records
| | | | Dates: | 1916-1973 | | | | 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 records in this collection may prove useful to students of African American history in this regard. | | | | Call #: | Mss.575.06.Am3 | | | | Extent: | 12 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | American Eugenics Society | Behavioral genetics, IQ | Biographical and personal data | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Business | Business -- Newsletters | Carnegie Corporation | Committee activities | Committee activities -- Massachusetts | Committee activities -- Pennsylvania | Committee activities -- Utah | Conferences and symposia | Congratulations, greetings, thanks | Educational matters -- Research programs | Embryology, developmental genetics | Eugenics | Eugenics -- Societies, etc. | Eugenics -- United States | Fellowships, assistantships | Fellowships, assistantships -- University of Michigan | Fitter Family Contests | Genetics -- Societies, etc. | Graduate study | Harvard University | History of biology, especially genetics | Human evolution, physical anthropology | Human genetics | Human genetics -- Pedigrees | Human genetics -- Race | International Congress of Eugenics -- Second Congress | Lectures, public speaking -- Sermons | Maps | National Research Council | Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981 | Photographs | Political issues | Political issues -- Birth control | Population Council | Population genetics | Population, demography | Princeton Conferences | Publication | Race, race relations, racism | Research support | Research support -- Bajema, Carl Jay | Reviews | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Population Council | Scientific organizations, meetings, programs -- Society for the Study of Social Biology | Solicitations for support or contribution | Unpublished manuscripts, notes, etc. | Whitney, Leon Fradley, 1894-19 | World War II -- Impact on science | |
| 4 | 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 | |
| 5 | Author: | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1920-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Wallace Papers contain at least one set of materials which may be of interest to students of African American History: Lott, Steve. [Student at West Chester State College.] "Slavery." 1972. Photocopied introduction to Lott's paper "Industrialization and the Black Population in S.E. Penna., 1780-1840." Includes 36 bibliographic index cards pertaining to sources in African American history in Pennsylvania, focusing on slavery and abolitionism. Also includes a photocopy of Joseph E. Walker's "A Comparison of Negro and White Labor in a Charcoal Iron Community" from the journal Labor History, volume 10, number 3 (1969). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.64a | | | | Extent: | 103.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Akwesasne Counselor Organization | American Anthropological Association | American Philosophical Society | Anishinaabe | Anthracite coal industry -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Anthropology -- Methodology | Anthropology -- Research | Anthropology -- Study and teaching. | Arctic hysteria | Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912 | Blacksnake, Governor, ca. 1753 | British Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill County | Broomall, John Martin, 1816-18 | Carey family | Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Carte de visite photographs | Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Chester County (Pa.) -- History | Chittibhol, Bancha (Thai stude | Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 | Coal -- Geology -- Pennsylvania | Coal mine accidents -- Pennsylvania -- History | Coal trade -- Pennsylvania -- History | Cognition and culture | Congdon, Charles E. (Charles Edwin) | Cornplanter, 1732-1836 | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Counterinsurgency -- Thailand | Cross-cultural studies | Cults | Culture | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Delaware County (Pa.) -- History | Delaware Indians -- New York (State) -- History | Delaware Indians -- Pennsylvania -- History | Disasters | Disasters -- Psychological aspects | Disasters -- Social aspects | Domestic relations -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century | Du Pont de Nemours family | Du Pont family | Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 | Ethnicity -- Pennsylvania -- History | Ethnohistory | Ethnopsychology | Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Foster, Michael K. | Gelatin silver prints | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Germans -- Pennsylvania | Goodenough, Ward Hunt | Gouaches -- Color | Gowen, Franklin B. (Franklin B | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 | Haudenosaunee | Hsu, Francis K. | Hypocalcemia | Hypoglycemia | Indians of North America -- Claims | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- Missions | Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History | Industrialization -- Pennsylvania -- History | Industries -- Pennsylvania -- History | Inuit -- Greenland | Irish -- Pennsylvania | Iron industry and trade -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Civilization and social life | Iroquois Indians -- Folklore | Iroquois Indians -- Government relations | Iroquois Indians -- History | Iroquois Indians -- Religion | Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions | Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs | Jackson, Halliday,1771-1835. | Jennings, Francis P. | Kehoe, John, 1837-1878 | Kinzua Dam | Labor and laboring classes -- Pennsylvania -- History | Labor movements -- History | Labor, industrialization | Lammot family | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Lowell (Mass.) -- History | Maps. | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Millenialism | Mills and millwork | Mohawk nation at Akwesasne | Molly Maguires | National Science Foundation | Nativistic movements | Negatives | Newspaper clippings. | Nutrition -- Psychological aspects | Onondaga Indians | Paranoia | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Pennsylvania -- History | Personality and culture | Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Piblokto | Postal cards. | Power (Social sciences) | Prophets | Psychiatric hospital care | Psychiatry | Psychobiology | Psychology | Psychology and religion | Psychotherapy patients | Quakers -- Pennsylvania | Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- History | Religion | Religion and science | Revitalization movements | Richter, Daniel (two letters, | Rockdale (Pa.) -- History | Rorschach test | Rorschach tests | Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects | Schizophrenia -- Physiological aspects | Schizophrenics | Schuylkill County (Pa.) -- History | Scrapbooks. | Sellers family | Seneca Indians | Seneca Indians -- History | Seneca Indians -- Religion | Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs | Siney, John, 1835-1881 | Six Nations Indian Museum | Sketches. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Slides. | Smith Family | Social change | Social movements | Social sciences -- Methodology | Society of Friends | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Spiro, Melford Elliott | St. Clair (Pa.) -- History | Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- United States -- Pennsylvania | Sturtevant, William C. | Technological innovation | Technology -- Social aspects | Textile industry | Textile machinery | Textile manufacturers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Textile workers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County | Tintypes | Transportation -- Pennsylvania -- History | Tuscarora Indians | Tuscarora Indians -- Social life and customs | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Woodcuts -- Color | Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century | World War, 1939-1945 | |
| 6 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Franz Boas Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1862-1942 | | | | Abstract: | This collection has the potential to be rich for students of attitudes toward race in the United States. Among the many topics covered are the study and teaching of anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, progressive social causes, and the expulsion of European scholars under German national socialism. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B61 | | | | Extent: | 59 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Albumen prints | Andrews, H.A. | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology -- Research -- United States | Anthropology -- United States -- History. | Anthropology -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Arctic Indians | Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959 | Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 | Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 | Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 | Cabinet cards | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946 | Crane, M. E. | Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961 | Ethnology -- North America | Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 | Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Gelatin silver prints | Germanistic Society of America | Gordon, George Byron, 1911- | Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- Ethnology | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 | Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 | Maps | McGee, W. J., 1853-1912 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Negatives | Northwest Coast Indians | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Photomechanical prints | Postcards | Race, race relations, racism | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Refugees, Political | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sargent, H. E. | Scientists, Refugee | Seler, Eduard | Sketches. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Socialists -- United States | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Tlingit Indians | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940 | |
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