| 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: | 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 | |
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