| | Author: | Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 | | | | | Archaeologist, orientalist. Acting director, American School of Oriental Research, 1920-1921, director, 1921-1929, 1933-1936; W. W. Spence professor, Semitic languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1971; director, archaeological expedition, Palestine, 1922-1934. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Albright and Peyton Rous
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 March 1968 - 13 March 1968 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | 2 Letters (1 to Rous, 1 to Albright). U.S. Middle East policy | | | | Source: | Peyton Rous Papers (B R77) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 | | | | | Archaeologist, orientalist. Acting director, American School of Oriental Research, 1920-1921, director, 1921-1929, 1933-1936; W. W. Spence professor, Semitic languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1971; director, archaeological expedition, Palestine, 1922-1934. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to George W. Corner
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 29 June 1970 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Albright's research interests and hobbies | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971 | | | | | Archaeologist, orientalist. Acting director, American School of Oriental Research, 1920-1921, director, 1921-1929, 1933-1936; W. W. Spence professor, Semitic languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958, emeritus professor, 1958-1971; director, archaeological expedition, Palestine, 1922-1934. | |
| | | Title: | William Foxwell Albright Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1920-1971 | | | | Extent: | 56 boxes (49 linear feet) | | | | Abstract: | Personal and professional correspondence, business papers, records of American School of Oriental Studies, diaries and account books, manuscripts, lectures, miscellaneous records, published papers, family papers, drawings, maps, pictures, field notes on excavations in Palestine and South Arabia. This collection is not at present organized; correspondence is filed very generally by year | | | | Source: | William Foxwell Albright Papers (B AL15p) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| | Author: | American Council of Learned Societies | | | | | Committee on Research in the Native American Languages | |
| | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Correspondence
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1926-1927 | | | | Extent: | 174 items | | | | Abstract: | Subtitled "Project for a Survey of North American Indian Languages by T. Middleton, E. Sapir, and L. Bloomfield. Presented by Section L to the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Endorsed by that body." Includes correspondence to Prof. Edward C. Armstrong of the A.C.L.S., from T. Middleton, Edward Sapir, L. Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Alfred Kroeber, John Swanton, Pliny Goddard, and others. The papers cover the response to the "Survey" proposed by an A.C.L.S. committee, and correspondence organizing a standing body to establish the Survey and attract financial support. The Survey's efforts became the basis for the Franz Boas Collection of American Linguistics (497.3 B63c). | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies Correspondence (506.73 Am72co) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| | Author: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages | | | | | The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Extent: | 80 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Manuscript material on American Indian linguistics and ethnography collected by the Committee on American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies under the direction of Franz Boas. The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects, but manuscript sources in folklore and ethnography also were added. Most of the documents were collected between 1927 and 1937, but additions have been made up to the present. They include field notes, dictionaries, grammars, lexical files, and texts. An index (up to 1945) can be found in the "Supplement" to Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 21, No.3 (July-September, 1945), by C. F. Voegelin and Z. S. Harris. Individual entries, indexed by subject and author, are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: APS, 1980), and Daythal Kendall, A Supplement to A Guide... (Philadelphia: APS, 1982). The collection includes manuscripts of M.I. Andrade, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Jaime de Angulo, Roland Dixon, Reo Fortune, Leo Frachtenberg, Pliny Goddard, Herman Haeberlin, George Herzog, George Hunt, Robert Lowie, Paul Radin, Gladys Reichard, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, John Swanton, C. F. Voegelin, and others. | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
| | Author: | American Eugenics Society | | | | | The American Eugenics Society was organized in 1921, following the Second International Conference on Eugenics. At first called the Eugenics Committee of the U.S.A., its name was shortened and adopted in 1925. In 1972 the American Eugenics Society was reorganized and renamed The Society for the Study of Social Biology | |
| | | Title: | American Eugenics Society Records
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Records | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1916-1973 | | | | Extent: | 12 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Committee records, accounts, correspondence, meeting records, membership lists, legislative records, local society records, published and unpublished Society reports and memoranda, history of the Society by Frederick Osborn (1971). Particularly interesting are the records of the Selective Immigration, Legislative, and Research Committees. Most of the material deals with the period of the Society's incorporation after 1926. There is documentation interspersed throughout the collection dealing with the topic of heredity versus environment in producing cultural achievement. Material on mental and physical inheritance, differential cross-cultural fecundity, and race hybridization is also present. | | | | Source: | American Eugenics Society Records (575.06 Am3) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | American Philosophical Society | | | | | Most of these studies are the result of research supported by the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society. | |
| | | Title: | American Indian Ethnology and Linguistics
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1960-present | | | | Extent: | Approximately 30 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Starting in 1960, the reports were grouped together and numbered consecutively. Complete descriptions by author and subject are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian (1980) and in Daythal Kendall, Supplement to a Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian (1982). Some works are also listed in Whitfield J. Bell and Murphy D. Smith, Guide to the Archives and Manuscript Collections of the American Philosopical Society (1966) and in the Manuscript Guide by Stephen Catlett. Studies include Nicholas N. Smith, "Malecite words pertaining to Natural History" (1960); Charles Marius Barbeau, "The Gwenhout of Alaska" (1960); Eugene Gordon, "Miscellaneous notes of Penobscot words" (1956); John Witthoft, "A Cherokee economic botany from western North Carolina"; H. Christopher Wolfart, "Report and linguistic fieldwork among the Plains Cree" (1968); Robert Howren, "Dongrib field notes" (1970); Dennis Tedlock, "Zuni field notes" (1972); Philip Le Sourd, "Field notes on Passamaquoddy" (1977); Mary A. Druke, "Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century manuscripts in England pertaining to the Iroquois" (1977); Timothy Knab, "Manuscripts concerning the Indians of Mexico" (1972-79); Jimm G. Goodtracks, "Report on Iowa/Otoe Indian Language Dictionary" (1978); Robert Boyd, "Smallpox among the Indians of the Northwest Coast, 1854-63" (1979), etc. | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| | Author: | Anonymous | | | | | | |
| | | Title: | Notes on Mexican Antiquities
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Dates: | Circa 1785-1800 | | | | Extent: | 42 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Titles include: Algo de lengua mexicana y de la explicacion de algunos geroglifícos. Pyramide de Paplantla y Decripcion iconografica de la antiqua y famosa piramide o adoratio del Pueblo de Papantla. Varies modes de pintar. Y per geroglificos en el fresco y al temple. Notas varias y caprichosas. Tehuantepec, Tonila, etc. | | | | Source: | Notes on Mexican Antiquities (913.72 N84) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | |
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