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| | 1 | Author: | Haddon, Alfred Cort, 1855-1940 | | | | | Anthropologist. Professor, zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1880-1901; lecturer, physical anthropology, Cambridge University, 1894-1898; university lecturer in ethnology, 1900-1909; reader in ethnology, 1909-1925. Haddon also served in various curatorial positions at the Science and Art Museum, Dublin; the Horniman Museum, London, and the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. | |
| | | Title: | Postcard to Charles Davenport
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1908 | | | | Extent: | 1 postcard | | | | Abstract: | Inheritance of hair form and eye color in man | | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 2 | Author: | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | | | | | Biologist, eugenicist. Instructor, zoology, Harvard University, 1892-1899; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1899-1891, associate professor, 1901-1904; director, summer biological lab, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1898-1923; director, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, 1904-1934; director, Eugenics Record Office, 1910-1934 (1920-1934, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution). Davenport was a central figure in American eugenics and, secondarily, in genetics research, from the founding of the Cold Spring Harbor Station in 1904 to the 1930s. He frequently found himself in serious disagreement with Boas and his supporters over the role of environment versus heredity in shaping racial morphology and social behavior. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Alfred I. Hallowell
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 11 September 1935 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Indian stature in Labrador | | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 3 | Author: | Hoffman, Frederick Ludwig, 1865-1946 | | | | | Statistician. Agent, Metropolitan and Virginia Life Insurance Companies, 1887-1894; statistician, Prudential Life Insurance, 1894-1918, third vice-president, 1918-1922; dean of advanced research, Babson Institute, Wellesley Hills, Mass., 1922-1927; consultant, Biochemical Research Foundation, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1934-1938. Hoffman made extensive statistical studies of the physical characteristics, diseases, and mortality rates of the American Negro and Indian. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Frederick Hoffman and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 January 1919 - 7 January 1921 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropometry | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 4 | 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 Frederick Hoffman and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 January 1919 - 7 January 1921 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropometry | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 5 | Author: | Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954 | | | | | Anthropologist. Instructor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1913-1921, assistant professor, 1921-1927, associate professor, 1927-1930, professor, 1930-1954; curator of somatology, Peabody Museum, 1913-1954. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Earnest Hooton and Albert F. Blakeslee
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 28 August - 7 December 1951 | | | | Extent: | 7 letters | | | | Abstract: | Anthropometry | | | | Source: | Albert Francis Blakeslee Papers (B B585) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 7 | Author: | 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 Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 August 1904 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | California Indian skull | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 8 | Author: | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | | | | | Anthropologist, linguist. Research assistant, anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1907-1908; instructor, anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908-1910; chief of division, anthropology, Canadian National Museum, 1910-1925; associate professor, anthropology, University of Chicago, 1925-1927, professor, anthopology and general linguistics, 1927-1931; Sterling professor, anthropology and linguistics, Yale University, 1931-1939 | |
| | | Title: | American Indian Grammatical Categories
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1929 | | | | Extent: | 6 leaves | | | | Abstract: |
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| | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 9 | Author: | Shapiro, Harry Lionel, 1902-1990 | | | | | Physical anthropologist. Tutor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1925-1926; assistant curator, American Museum of Natural History, 1926-1931, associate curator, 1931-1943, curator and chairman, 1942-1970, emeritus chairman, 1970-1990; professor, anthropology, Columbia University, 1939-1973 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Harry Shapiro and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 January 1936 - 12 October 1942 | | | | Extent: | 24 letters | | | | Abstract: | 23 letters (13 to Boas, 10 to Shapiro) + 1 letter from E.P. Boas. Physical anthropology; anthropometric data | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 10 | 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 Harry Shapiro and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 January 1936 - 12 October 1942 | | | | Extent: | 24 letters | | | | Abstract: | 23 letters (13 to Boas, 10 to Shapiro) + 1 letter from E.P. Boas. Physical anthropology; anthropometric data | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 11 | Author: | Bachman, John, 1790-1874 | | | | | Natural historian, clergyman, monogenist | |
| | | Title: | Letters to John Audubon, Samuel Morton, and John Torrey
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1836-1854 | | | | Extent: | 16 letters | | | | Abstract: | The Bachman correspondence includes letters to John Audubon, Samuel G. Morton, and John Torrey, almost exclusively on natural history. Included in the Morton correspondence (B M843) is a letter of 17 March 1837 discussing Indian craniology. | | | | Source: | John James Audubon Papers (B Au25) Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) John Torrey Papers (B T63.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 12 | Author: | 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 | |
| 13 | Author: | 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: | Letter to Isaac Hays
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 February 1839 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Phrenology | | | | Source: | Isaac Hays Papers (B H334) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 14 | Author: | 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 William Hutton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 April 1836 - 27 April 1836 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Phrenology | | | | Source: | William Hutton Papers (B H978) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 15 | Author: | Galton, Francis, 1822-1911 | | | | | Explorer, independent scientific writer and scholar, founder of eugenics. Galton was an important participant in the councils of 19th-century British science, and his writings on the inheritance of intellectual skills influenced many human biologists and physical anthropologists. In particular, Galton's researches into the comparative roles of human nature and nurture in shaping social behavior and achievement led to the founding of the eugenics movement. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Francis Galton and Charles Davenport
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 April 1897 - 14 October 1910 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | 13 letters (1 to Davenport, 12 to Galton). Correlation statistics; the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor. | | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 16 | Author: | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | | | | | Biologist, eugenicist. Instructor, zoology, Harvard University, 1892-1899; assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1899-1891, associate professor, 1901-1904; director, summer biological lab, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1898-1923; director, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, 1904-1934; director, Eugenics Record Office, 1910-1934 (1920-1934, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution). Davenport was a central figure in American eugenics and, secondarily, in genetics research, from the founding of the Cold Spring Harbor Station in 1904 to the 1930s. He frequently found himself in serious disagreement with Boas and his supporters over the role of environment versus heredity in shaping racial morphology and social behavior. | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Francis Galton and Charles Davenport
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 April 1897 - 14 October 1910 | | | | Extent: | 13 letters | | | | Abstract: | 13 letters (1 to Davenport, 12 to Galton). Correlation statistics; the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor. | | | | Source: | Charles Benedict Davenport Papers (B D27) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 17 | Author: | Galton, Francis, 1822-1911 | | | | | Explorer, independent scientific writer and scholar, founder of eugenics. Galton was an important participant in the councils of 19th-century British science, and his writings on the inheritance of intellectual skills influenced many human biologists and physical anthropologists. In particular, Galton's researches into the comparative roles of human nature and nurture in shaping social behavior and achievement led to the founding of the eugenics movement. | |
| | | Title: | Letter from Francis Galton to Miss Goodrich
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 19 June 1899 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Eugenics | | | | Source: | E. M. Moore Autograph Collection (B M781) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 18 | Author: | Galton, Francis, 1822-1911 | | | | | Explorer, independent scientific writer and scholar, founder of eugenics. Galton was an important participant in the councils of 19th-century British science, and his writings on the inheritance of intellectual skills influenced many human biologists and physical anthropologists. In particular, Galton's researches into the comparative roles of human nature and nurture in shaping social behavior and achievement led to the founding of the eugenics movement. | |
| | | Title: | Letters from Francis Galton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 27 September 1873 - 5 August 1898 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Human memory; scientific men and inheritance of talent | | | | Source: | Sir James Paget Letters (B P212) | | | | |
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| 19 | Author: | 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 | |
| 20 | Author: | 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: | Correspondence between Ales Hrdlicka and Simon Flexner
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 6 October 1921 - 18 October 1921 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | 3 letters (2 to Flexner, 1 to Hrdlicka). Venereal disease among pre-Columbian Indians. | | | | Source: | Simon Flexner Papers (B F365) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
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