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| | 1 | Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | | Title: | Letter to John S. Jenks
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 December 1943 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Pre-Columbian gold artifacts | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| 2 | Author: | Putnam, Frederick Ward, 1839-1915 | | | | | Archaeologist, naturalist, museum administrator. Curator of ichthyology, Boston Society of Natural History; superintendent, Museum of East India Marine Society, Salem, 1867-1869; director, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 1869-1873; curator, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1874-1909; Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 1886-1909, emeritus professor, 1909-1915; curator of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1894-1903 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 May 1886 - 2 July 1886 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | A collection of human artifacts | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| 3 | Author: | Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 | | | | | Naturalist. Apprentice watchmaker, 1838-1839; assistant surveyor, 1839-1844, surveyor, 1846-1848; master, Leicester Collegiate School, 1844-1846; travels to Amazonia, 1848-1852, Malay Archipelago, 1854-1862; writer, public lecturer on evolution, natural history, politics, and social reform, 1862-1913 | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Rollo Russell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 29 June 1913 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Bournemouth Museum | | | | Source: | Francis Albert Rollo Russell Papers (B R913) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Personal matters | |
| 4 | Author: | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | | | | | Ethnologist. Assistant ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900-1903, ethnologist, 1903-1944; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1910, 1912-20, editor, 1911, 1921-1923 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1924, 1931 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Response to Hallowell about questionnaire - customs and beliefs about bears; list of references regarding fish nets in the Gulf area | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
| 5 | Author: | Tozzer, Alfred M., 1877-1954 | | | | | Anthropologist, archaeologist. Instructor, Anthropology, Harvard University, 1905-1912, assistant professor, 1912-1920, associate professor, 1912-1920, professor, 1921-1945; John E. Hudson professor of archaeology, 1945-1947, professor emeritus, 1947-1954; curator, Middle American Archaeology, Peabody Museum, 1905-1947 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Tozzer and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 September 1927 - 19 October 1951 | | | | Extent: | 75 letters | | | | Abstract: | 75 letters (42 to Mason, 33 to Tozzer). Museum collections; expeditions; American Anthropological Association; conferences; publications | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 6 | Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Tozzer and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 September 1927 - 19 October 1951 | | | | Extent: | 75 letters | | | | Abstract: | 75 letters (42 to Mason, 33 to Tozzer). Museum collections; expeditions; American Anthropological Association; conferences; publications | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 7 | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969 | | | | | Anthropologist. Anthropologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1911-1948, consultant, 1948-1969; professor, Loyola University, 1945-1955, emeritus professor, 1955-1969; lecturer, Montreal University; co-editor, Journal of American Folklore, 1916-1969 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 January 1941 - 15 July 1954 | | | | Extent: | 18 letters | | | | Abstract: | 16 letters (8 to Mason, 8 to Barbeau) + 2 letters to Frank Speck, Paul Fejos. American Anthropology; museum collections; Northwest coast material culture. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 8 | Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Charles Barbeau and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 January 1941 - 15 July 1954 | | | | Extent: | 18 letters | | | | Abstract: | 16 letters (8 to Mason, 8 to Barbeau) + 2 letters to Frank Speck, Paul Fejos. American Anthropology; museum collections; Northwest coast material culture. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 9 | Author: | Peale, Benjamin Franklin, 1795-1870 | | | | | Medallist, collector. Operated cotton mill near Philadelphia, 1812-?; manager, Peale Museum until 1833; U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, 1833-1854, chief coiner, 1840-1854; president, Hazelton Coal and Railway Co.; president, Pennsylvania Institution for Instruction of the Blind. Peale was an avid antiquarian, collector of stone age artifacts, and author of numerous papers on prehistory | |
| | | Title: | Letters of Benjamin Franklin Peale
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 31 March 1855 - 29 November 1866 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | 12 letters to Isaac Hayes, Titian Peale, George Escoll Sellers + 1 letter from Charles Adolphe Morlot concerning Peale's collection of stone age artifacts and Indian skulls and implements | | | | Source: | Peale-Sellers families correspondence (B P31) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 10 | Author: | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, sociology and anthropology, University of Buffalo, 1927-1928, assistant professor, 1928-1930; assistant professor, anthropology, University of Michigan, 1930-1932, associate professor, 1932-1943, professor, 1943-1970, chairman of department, 1945-1957; visiting professor, anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973-1975; curator, anthropology, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1927-1930 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1947-1956 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Teaching; seminar "Kinship and Social Organization" - request for reprints of "Recent Changes in the Kinship Terminology of St. Francis Abenaki"; inquiry about where to obtain correspondences between Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian, Lewis Henry Morgan, and a printing house; personal | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 11 | Author: | Hallowell, Alfred Irving, 1892-1974 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1922-1927, assistant professor, 1927-1936, associate professor, 1936-1939, professor, 1939-1944, department chairman, 1941-1944; professor, Northwestern University, 1944-1947; professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1947-1971, professor of anthropology, department of psychiatry, Medical School, and curator, social anthropology, University Museum, 1956-1971; emeritus professor and curator, 1971-1974. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1947-1956 | | | | Extent: | 6 letters | | | | Abstract: | Teaching; seminar "Kinship and Social Organization" - request for reprints of "Recent Changes in the Kinship Terminology of St. Francis Abenaki"; inquiry about where to obtain correspondences between Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian, Lewis Henry Morgan, and a printing house; personal | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 12 | Author: | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | | | | | Anthropologist, psychologist, museum curator. Assistant, psychology. Indiana University, 1895-1897; instructor, psychology and education, Ohio College, 1897-1899; assistant, psychology, Columbia University, 1899-1900; instructor, pedagogy, New York University, 1901-1902; assistant, ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, 1902-1905, curator, 1905-1907, curator of anthropology, 1907-1942, editor, anthropology publications, 1907-1942, emeritus curator, 1943-1947; assistant, anthropology, Columbia University, 1903-1904, lecturer, 1904-1909; professor, Institute for Human Relations, Yale University, 1924-1940, emeritus professor, 1940-1947 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 13 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and William Fenton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1935-1947 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; museum pieces; Seneca; Iroquois "burying the hatchet" expression; Jesse Cornplanter; publications. See also: Cornplanter, Jesse J | | | | Source: | William N. Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 14 | Author: | Dyk, Walter, 1899-1972 | | | | | Linguist. Fieldwork on grant from National Research Council; fellow Harvard Psychological Clinic; professor Simmons College, Brooklyn College | |
| | | Title: | Walter Dyk Collection
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1931-1956 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | The Dyk Collection consists of copies of Dyk's MA thesis and dissertation, some fields notes and related publications on Wishram, and commentary by Mary Haas, C. F. Voegelin, and Dell Hymes | | | | Source: | Walter Dyk Collection (497.3 H998m) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 15 | Author: | Fenton, William N., 1908-2005 | | | | | Anthropologist. U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937; instructor in sociology and anthropology, St. Lawrence University, 1937-1938; visiting instructor to various universities; lecturer; associate anthropologist, Smithsonian, 1939-1943; ethnologist, 1943-1951; National Research Council, 1952-1954; New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968; professor, SUNY-Albany, 1968-1974; professor emeritus, 1979-2005 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Fenton and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1946-1969 | | | | Extent: | 15 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; Frank Speck's work after his passing; Senate Committee on Appropriations hearings; thanks for review of "American Indian and White Relations to 1830"; publishing/publications; comments on "The Movement for the Indian Assimilation, 1860-1890" by Henry E. Fritz; teaching/employment at SUNY-Albany; Hallowell as guest lecturer; plans/arrangements/travel and response to visit and lecture; donations of anthropology books to library at SUNY-Albany; personal. See also: Beck Horace P., Jr. | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 16 | Author: | Hallowell, Alfred Irving, 1892-1974 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1922-1927, assistant professor, 1927-1936, associate professor, 1936-1939, professor, 1939-1944, department chairman, 1941-1944; professor, Northwestern University, 1944-1947; professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1947-1971, professor of anthropology, department of psychiatry, Medical School, and curator, social anthropology, University Museum, 1956-1971; emeritus professor and curator, 1971-1974. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Fenton and Alfred Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1946-1969 | | | | Extent: | 15 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropological work; Frank Speck's work after his passing; Senate Committee on Appropriations hearings; thanks for review of "American Indian and White Relations to 1830"; publishing/publications; comments on "The Movement for the Indian Assimilation, 1860-1890" by Henry E. Fritz; teaching/employment at SUNY-Albany; Hallowell as guest lecturer; plans/arrangements/travel and response to visit and lecture; donations of anthropology books to library at SUNY-Albany; personal. See also: Beck Horace P., Jr. | | | | Source: | Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 17 | Author: | Gifford, Edward Winslow, 1887-1959 | | | | | Ornithologist, anthropologist, museum curator. Assistant curator, ornithology, California Academy of Sciences, 1904-1912; assistant curator, director, Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1912-1954; lecturer in anthropology, University of California, 1920-1938, associate professor, 1938-1945, professor, 1945-1954; associate editor, American Anthropologist. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Gifford and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 May 1927 - 8 March 1951 | | | | Extent: | 23 letters | | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (7 to Mason, 14 to Gifford) + 2 letters to/from Froelich G. Rainey and Linton Satterthwaite. Museum collections; archaeological excavations and collecting; verb lists; American Anthropologist. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 18 | Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Edward Gifford and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 May 1927 - 8 March 1951 | | | | Extent: | 23 letters | | | | Abstract: | 21 letters (7 to Mason, 14 to Gifford) + 2 letters to/from Froelich G. Rainey and Linton Satterthwaite. Museum collections; archaeological excavations and collecting; verb lists; American Anthropologist. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 19 | Author: | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | | | | | Ethnologist. Instructor, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1901-1906, assistant professor, 1906-1909; assistant curator, anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1909-1910, associate curator, 1910-1914, curator, 1914-1928; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1915-1928. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Pliny Goddard and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 January 1926 - 13 June 1928 | | | | Extent: | 25 letters | | | | Abstract: | 25 letters (13 letters to Mason, 12 to Goddard). 23rd Congress of Americanists; museum collections; archaeology; publications. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 20 | Author: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, Mexican and South American archaeology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1917-1924; assistant curator, Mexican archaeology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1924-1925; curator, American archaeology, and ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1955, curator emeritus, 1955-1967; editor, American Anthropologist, 1945-1948 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Pliny Goddard and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 January 1926 - 13 June 1928 | | | | Extent: | 25 letters | | | | Abstract: | 25 letters (13 letters to Mason, 12 to Goddard). 23rd Congress of Americanists; museum collections; archaeology; publications. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
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