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1Author:  Combe, George, 1788-1858
 Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. 


 Title:  Letters to Samuel Morton     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  4 April 1838 - 4 November 1840 
 Extent:  20 letters 
 Abstract:  20 letters to Morton. Phrenology; craniology 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution 
2Author:  Gliddon, George Robbins, 1809-1857
 Egyptologist, controversialist. Gliddon was co-author of Types of Mankind (1854) with Josiah Nott and wrote several other essays on race and ethnology. While serving as American vice-consul in Cairo in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he collected skull specimens for S.G. Morton, described in the latter's published works. 


 Title:  Letters to Samuel G. Morton     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  31 March 1839 - 24 May 1840 
 Extent:  2 letters 
 Abstract:  Egyptian craniology; skull collections 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution 
3Author:  Hodgkin, Thomas, 1798-1866
 Physician, philanthropist. Hodgkin was a practicing physician and pathologist/museum curator for Guy's Hospital in London. A founder of the Aborigines Protection Society in 1838, Hodgkin was also an active member of the London Ethnological Society 


 Title:  Letters to Samuel George Morton     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  30 June 1822 - 11 December 1839 
 Extent:  12 letters 
 Abstract:  9 letters to Morton, 1 letter to John Norton, and 2 letters to Hodgkin from J. C. Prichard and James Sowerby. Medical and personal matters; the education in England of young Indians; Aborigines Protection Society; crania. 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters 
4Author:  Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943
 Physical anthropologist. Research intern, Middletown State Hospital, New York, 1894-1896; associate anthropologist, New York State Pathological Institute, 1896-1899; physical anthropologist, Hyde expedition, American Museum of Natural History, 1898-1903; assistant curator, division of physical anthropology, Smithsonian Institute, 1903-1910, curator, 1910-1942; founder and editor (1918-1942), American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 


 Title:  Letter to Edward J. Nolan     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  2 May 1911 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:   none  
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Publishing, publications, miscellaneous 
5Author:  Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
 Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-1851; professor of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-1843; member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity 


 Title:  Samuel George Morton Papers     
 Type:  Collection 
 Format:  Manuscripts 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  1819-1850 
 Extent:  1.75 linear feet (approximately 600 items) 
 Abstract:  Correspondents include Thomas Hodgkin, Benjamin Silliman, John Bachman, George Combe, J.C. Prichard, George Gliddon. Race; craniology; human hybridity 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution 
6Author:  Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
 Physician, naturalist. Practicing physician, Philadelphia, 1826-1851; professor of anatomy, Pennsylvania Medical College, 1839-1843; member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; researcher and writer in paleontology, geology, zoology, medicine, and physical anthropology. Morton, a noted polygenist, wrote on craniology and human hybridity 


 Title:  Craniological sketches     
 Type:  Still Images 
 Format:  Sketches 
 Dates:  Circa 1838 
 Extent:  11 items 
 Abstract:  Sketches of human skeletons, primarily American Indians 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution 
7Author:  Prichard, James Cowles, 1786-1848
 Physician, ethnologist. Practiced medicine at Bristol, England, 1810-1845; elected physician, St. Peter's Hospital, 1811; physician Bristol Infirmary, 1814-1845; commissioner in lunacy, London, 1845-1848. Prichard was a leading monogenist, president of the Ethnological Society, and published extensively on the physical history of man 


 Title:  Letters to Dr. Thomas Hodgkin and Samuel G. Morton     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  20 May 1839 - 17 February 1840 
 Extent:  3 letters 
 Abstract:  Prichard to Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (20 May 1839) and Prichard to S.G. Morton (23 August 1839 to 17 February 1840). Aborigines Protection League; the study of primitive peoples; Crania Americana 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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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 
8Author:  Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
 Explorer, ethnologist. U.S. Indian agent for the Lake Superior region, 1822-1836; superintendent of Indian affairs, Michigan, 1836-1841; 0ffice of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1847-1864. Schoolcraft published numerous studies of the geology, mining, and ethnology of the Great Lakes area 


 Title:  Letter to Samuel Morton     
 Type:  Text items 
 Format:  Correspondence 
 Language:  English 
 Dates:  5 May 1838 
 Extent:  1 letter 
 Abstract:  Observations on mental and physical traits of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians 
 Source:  Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) 
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 Subjects:  Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution 
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