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| | 61 | 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 | |
| 62 | 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 | |
| 64 | 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: | Letters to E. Adamson Hoebel
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1970, 1973 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | White declining to read article; personal | | | | Source: | E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Ms. Coll. 43) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Personal matters | |
| 65 | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Brinton Memorial Series Materials
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1939-1943 | | | | Extent: | 6 folders | | | | Abstract: | Publication and distribution of the Brinton Memorial series by the Philadelphia Anthropological Society. | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 66 | 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 Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1959, 1964 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Sent "The Concept of Culture" and "The Concept of the Evolution in Cultural Anthropology" to Montagu; personal | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 67 | Author: | Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 | | | | | Physical anthropologist, social biologist. Research associate, British Museum of Natural History, 1926-1927; curator, physical anthropologist, Wellcome History of Medicine Museum, 1929-1930; assistant professor, anatomy, New York University, 1931-1938; associate professor, anatomy, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1938-1949; chairman, department of anthropology, Rutgers University, 1949-1955; senior lecturer, VA post-graduate training program, 1946-; lecturer, New School for Social Research, 1931, 1948-1959; lecturer, Princeton University, 1978-1982 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Ashley Montagu
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1959, 1964 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | Sent "The Concept of Culture" and "The Concept of the Evolution in Cultural Anthropology" to Montagu; personal | | | | Source: | Ashley Montagu Papers (Ms. Coll. 109) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 68 | 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 Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1927?]-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 5 folders | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnography; informants; societies; ceremonies; San Felipe notes; the Kachina cult notes; migration; interview with Miss Roberts and Mr. Reuter of Pecos; Taos notes - men and curing, doctoring, language, map, society chiefs, folklore, ceremonies, training; anthropology paper - "An Anthropological Appraisal of the Russian Revolution" by White; publishing and publications; education; clan/lineages; masks; various anthropological work by White, Sia, San Domingo, Taos, San Felipe, Acoma; genealogy; comments on lecture "The Disintegration of Pueblo Culture" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 69 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1927?]-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 5 folders | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnography; informants; societies; ceremonies; San Felipe notes; the Kachina cult notes; migration; interview with Miss Roberts and Mr. Reuter of Pecos; Taos notes - men and curing, doctoring, language, map, society chiefs, folklore, ceremonies, training; anthropology paper - "An Anthropological Appraisal of the Russian Revolution" by White; publishing and publications; education; clan/lineages; masks; various anthropological work by White, Sia, San Domingo, Taos, San Felipe, Acoma; genealogy; comments on lecture "The Disintegration of Pueblo Culture" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 70 | 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: | Hopi notes
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1929, 1932, n.d. | | | | Extent: | 1 folder | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers, Series IV (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | |
| 71 | 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: | Letter to Anthony F. C. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1968 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Education/course - employment of new professor to teach courses on North American natives | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection I, Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | |
| 72 | Author: | Willis, William Shedrick, 1921-1983 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1958-1959, 1960-1965; lecturer, CCNY, 1959-1960; assistant professor, Southern Methodist Univeristy and Bishop College, 1965-1966, Southern Methodist University, 1966-1968; associate professor, 1968-1972 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between William Willis and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 2 October 1952 - 8 October 1952 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | American Indian guns and medals | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 73 | 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 William Willis and J. Alden Mason
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 2 October 1952 - 8 October 1952 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | American Indian guns and medals | | | | Source: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 74 | Author: | Willis, William Shedrick, 1921-1983 | | | | | Anthropologist. Lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1958-1959, 1960-1965; lecturer, CCNY, 1959-1960; assistant professor, Southern Methodist Univeristy and Bishop College, 1965-1966, Southern Methodist University, 1966-1968; associate professor, 1968-1972 | |
| | | Title: | William Shedrick Willis, Jr. Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1940s-1983 | | | | Extent: | 7 linear feet (approximately 7,000 items) | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, lecture notes, drafts of articles, research notes, and document photocopies, Includes lecture notes on graduate courses at Columbia in the 1950s taught by Ruth Benedict, Julian Steward, Ralph Linton, Leslie White, and others. Notes include materials on Southeastern American Indians and the career of Franz Boas | | | | Source: | William Shedrick Willis, Jr. Papers (Ms. Coll. 30) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 75 | 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: | Letter to Oliver Baker
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 22 September 1933 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Agriculture and population | | | | Source: | Oliver Edwin Baker Papers (B B171p) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 76 | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Translation of "The Walam Olum, or Red Score of the Lenape"
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1885 | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Abstract: |
none
| | | | Source: | C. F. Voegelin Papers (Ms. Coll. 68) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 77 | 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 Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 May 1903 - 17 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 45 letters (5 to Boas, 40 to Wissler) + 11 letters to/from American Anthropological Association; W. Jochelson; B. Laufer; T. Michelson; W.K. Moorehead; C. Rau; E. Sapir; E.R. Seligman. Anthropology at Columbia University; anthropology teaching; American Museum of Natural History; relations between Columbia University and AMNH; museum collections; NRC; Berthold Laufer; fieldwork funding; American Anthropologist; congresses; Jesup North Pacific expedition; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 78 | Author: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant, Royal Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, 1885-1886; privat-dozent, University of Berlin, 1885-1886; docent, Clark University, 1889-1892; assistant, department of anthropology, Columbian Exposition, 1892-1894; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1895-1900, curator, 1900-1905; lecturer, anthropology, Columbia Univeristy, 1896-1899, professor, 1899-1936, emeritus professor, 1936-1942. Boas was interested in a broad spectrum of cultural and physical studies and was a central figure in American anthropology from the early 1900s until his death in 1942. His students include (among others): Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Melville Herskovits, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Alexander Goldenweiser, Paul Radin, M. F. Ashley Montagu, Frank Speck, and Elsie Clews Parsons. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 15 May 1903 - 17 April 1942 | | | | Extent: | 56 letters | | | | Abstract: | 45 letters (5 to Boas, 40 to Wissler) + 11 letters to/from American Anthropological Association; W. Jochelson; B. Laufer; T. Michelson; W.K. Moorehead; C. Rau; E. Sapir; E.R. Seligman. Anthropology at Columbia University; anthropology teaching; American Museum of Natural History; relations between Columbia University and AMNH; museum collections; NRC; Berthold Laufer; fieldwork funding; American Anthropologist; congresses; Jesup North Pacific expedition; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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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 | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 79 | 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 L. C. Dunn
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 December 1929 - 8 January 1930 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Galton Society luncheon | | | | Source: | Leslie Clarence Dunn Papers (B D917) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 80 | Author: | Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 1893-1974 | | | | | Geneticist. Geneticist, Connecticut Agricultural Station, Storrs, 1920-1928; professor, zoology, Columbia University, 1928-1962, emeritus professor, 1963-1974; director, Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 1952-1958. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and L. C. Dunn
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 December 1929 - 8 January 1930 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Galton Society luncheon | | | | Source: | Leslie Clarence Dunn Papers (B D917) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
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