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 Author:  Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959
 Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University 


 Title:  Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and Franz Boas     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  15 December 1924 - 12 May 1939 
 Extent:  114 letters 
 Abstract:  111 letters (66 to Boas, 45 to Olbrechts) + 3 letters from Olbrechts to Commission for Relief in Belgium, Educational Foundation, J.W. Fewkes, W.W. Long. Olbrechts' matriculation at Columbia; fieldwork; Indian linguistics; museum work; teaching 
 Source:  Franz Boas Papers (B B61) 
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 Subjects:  Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Personal matters 
 Author:  Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959
 Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University 


 Title:  Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and J. Alden Mason     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  6 March 1937 - 10 March 1937 
 Extent:  2 letters 
 Abstract:  2 letters (1 to Mason, 1 to Olbrechts). Personal 
 Source:  John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) 
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 Subjects:  Personal matters 
 Author:  Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959
 Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University 


 Title:  Correspondence between Frans Olbrechts and William Fenton     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1937-1939 
 Extent:  4 letters 
 Abstract:  Thanking Fenton for reprint of "Seneca Society of Faces"; Iroquois work and papers; peers; academics. Fenton collection also includes notes on Olbrechts writings 
 Source:  William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) 
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 Subjects:  Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous 
 Author:  Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959
 Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University 


 Title:  Ethiopic and Cherokee Syllabaries -- A Case of Parallelism     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  Ethiopic | Cherokee 
 Dates:  n.d. 
 Extent:  8 leaves 
 Abstract:  A formal paper with manuscript corrections. The author finds the syllabaries similar in principle, but different in intent; the Ethiopic is a complication of the Minaeo-Sabaean, while the Cherokee is an attempt at simplification. Phonetic equivalences of the two syllabaries are arranged tabularly at the end 
 Source:  American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, I2.1) 
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 Subjects:  Linguistics and philology 
 Author:  Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1959
 Linguist, anthropologist. Olbrechts spent a year studying under Boas at Columbia before doing linguistic fieldwork among various Indian tribes. A native of Belgium, Olbrechts worked successively as a museum curator in Brussels and as a faculty member at Ghent University 


 Title:  Frans M. Olbrechts Papers on the Iroquois Indians     
 Type:  Collection 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  English | Iroquois 
 Dates:  Circa 1910-1930 
 Extent:  46 folders and volumes 
 Abstract:  Field notes, grammars, ethnographic notebooks, vocabulary lists, lexical files, correspondence. Materials refer to Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora Indians 
 Source:  Frans M. Olbrechts Papers on the Iroquois Indians (497.3 OL2) 
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 Subjects:  Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters 
 Author:  Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981
 Businessman, eugenicist. Treasurer and vice-president in charge of traffic, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, Detroit, 1914-1917, president, 1920-1921; partner, G.M.P. Murphy and Co., New York City, 1921-1938; research associate in anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1934-1953; executive vice president, Population Council, 1953-. Writer on eugenics, race, and population issues; member and officer, American Eugenics Society, Eugenics Research Association, Galton Society 


 Title:  Correspondence between Frederick Osborn and Charles Davenport     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1928-1941 
 Extent:  6 folders 
 Abstract:  American Eugenics Society; Eugenical News race and biology; eugenics publications 
 Source:  Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous 
 Author:  Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981
 Businessman, eugenicist. Treasurer and vice-president in charge of traffic, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, Detroit, 1914-1917, president, 1920-1921; partner, G.M.P. Murphy and Co., New York City, 1921-1938; research associate in anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1934-1953; executive vice president, Population Council, 1953-. Writer on eugenics, race, and population issues; member and officer, American Eugenics Society, Eugenics Research Association, Galton Society 


 Title:  Correspondence between Frederick Osborn and Franz Boas     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  27 November 1933 - 7 November 1940 
 Extent:  48 letters 
 Abstract:  43 letters (26 to Boas, 17 to Osborn) + 5 letters to/from E.A. Hooton, F.P. Keppel, Frank Lorimer. Eugenics; heredity and environment; race; population studies; publications 
 Source:  Franz Boas Papers (B B61) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous 
 Author:  Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981
 Businessman, eugenicist. Treasurer and vice-president in charge of traffic, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, Detroit, 1914-1917, president, 1920-1921; partner, G.M.P. Murphy and Co., New York City, 1921-1938; research associate in anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1934-1953; executive vice president, Population Council, 1953-. Writer on eugenics, race, and population issues; member and officer, American Eugenics Society, Eugenics Research Association, Galton Society 


 Title:  Correspondence between Frederick Osborn and L. C. Dunn     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  4 January 1952 - 1 May 1952 
 Extent:  6 letters 
 Abstract:  6 letters (2 to Dunn, 4 to Osborn). Eugenics; race and biology; publications 
 Source:  Leslie Clarence Dunn Papers (B D917) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous 
 Author:  Osborn, Frederick, 1889-1981
 Businessman, eugenicist. Treasurer and vice-president in charge of traffic, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, Detroit, 1914-1917, president, 1920-1921; partner, G.M.P. Murphy and Co., New York City, 1921-1938; research associate in anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1934-1953; executive vice president, Population Council, 1953-. Writer on eugenics, race, and population issues; member and officer, American Eugenics Society, Eugenics Research Association, Galton Society 


 Title:  Frederick Henry Osborn Papers     
 Type:  Collection 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  Circa 1903-1980 
 Extent:  8.5 linear feet (approximately 6,000 items) 
 Abstract:  Correspondence, diaries, reports, article drafts, speeches, photographs. Includes records of Osborn's business career; work in eugenics; race and population research; and government service. Correspondents include Boas, Dobzhansky, Julian Huxley, William Schockley, SSRC, Society for Study of Social Biology, Association for Research in Human Heredity 
 Source:  Frederick Henry Osborn Papers (Ms. Coll. 24) 
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 Subjects:  Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters