MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1890
Call #:
Mss.Film.1066
Extent:
1 microfilm_reel(s)
Subjects:
Subject
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
IMAGE
Title:
Franz Boas, portrait (profile)
Creator:
Becker and Maass
Publication:
Berlin, Germany, Becker and Maass, ca. 1920
Call #:
F8.1.18
Extent:
1 photoprint : developing out print ; image 11 x 15.5 cm., mount 20 x 24 cm.
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1862-1942
Abstract:
This is part of the large inventory for the Franz Boas Papers (Mss B B61). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the
Collection Description
.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61.inventory14
Extent:
1 section
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
The Franz Boas enigma: Inuit, Arctic and sciences
Creators:
Müller-Wille, Ludger. | Müller-Wille, Ludger
Publication:
Baraka Books, Montreal, [c2014]
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:
B B61mw
Extent:
186, [1] p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
n.d.
Abstract:
Xerox copy of translation from original German by Dietrich Bertz.
Call #:
Mss.398.2.B631i.e
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1862-1942
Abstract:
This is part of the large inventory for the Franz Boas Papers (Mss B B61). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the
Collection Description
.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61.inventory04
Extent:
1 section
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
n.d.
Abstract:
This item is the first working draft of the book published in 1959. Arrangement is different from published version, and lacks correspondence with Edward Sapir. More letters, fuller texts, fuller identification of references in this version, however. Includes correspondence of Ruth Benedict with Franz Boas, Reo Fortune, and Margaret Mead.
Call #:
Mss.B.B428.mx
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1939-1950
Abstract:
These papers concern the investigation into Boas' alleged connections with the Communist party. The continuation of the files beyond the date of Boas' death most likely resulted from similar investigations into the activity of Boas' outspoken son, Ernst Boas.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61.f
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1972
Abstract:
Reminiscences of her father, Franz Boas (1858-1942). Portions of her life are highlighted but the primary focus is on her father, Franz Boas, with numerous comments on his students and colleagues.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61re
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1920-1962
Abstract:
Head of the Historical Division of the Carnegie Institution, the archaeologist Alfred V. Kidder specialized in the cliff dwelling cultures of the American Southwest, and is best remembered for work at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, and Pecos del Arroyo.
Primarily personal in nature, the exchange of letters between Kidder and his colleague and friend Neil M. Judd provides some details on their work on the archaeology of the Southwest. The 68 letters include sporadic references to excavations at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, and other archaeological sites, with a few references to other archaeologists and anthropologists.
Call #:
Mss.B.K53
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1885-1909
Abstract:
This correspondence refers to his trips to Baffin Island (N.W.T.) and British Columbia, during which he studied and collected materials on Northwest Coast languages among the Eskimos.
Call #:
Mss.Film.372.3
Extent:
1 microfilm_reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
Circa 1900-1920
Abstract:
These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh, Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920).
Call #:
Mss.Film.687
Extent:
2 microfilm_reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1500-2000
Abstract:
This online guide brings together photographs, engravings, lithographs, and paintings from a legacy APS collection known as the Prints and Photographs collection. The guide was created to provide online access to descriptive information for prints and photographs that were not associated with manuscripts collections. Some of these items are also described in the APS online public access catalog for printed materials. An in-house Print Collection card file arranged by name and subject provides item-level access to some of the items below and additional prints and photographs that do not yet have online descriptions. Former designations for these included the following: Persons, Places and things, Group pictures, Collections (manuscripts); Oversize--Persons, Oversize--Places and things, and Oversize--Collections (manuscripts). When researching at the library, please consult with reference staff to locate these items.
Call #:
Mss.Prints
Extent:
1000 item(s)
Subjects:
View Subjects
Albumen prints | Algonquian Indians | Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893 | Cheyenne Indians | Creek Indians | Dakota Indians | Delaware Indians | Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875 | Engravings. | Eskimos -- Greenland -- Social life and customs | Gelatin silver prints | Indians of North America | Iroquois Indians | Isleta Indians | Kiowa Indians | Lithographs. | Narraganett Indians | Negatives | Omaha Indians | Osage Indians | Plains Indians | Posters | Powhatan Indians | Shawnee Indians | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Wallace, Paul A. W. | Wallace, Paul A. W. | West, Benjamin, 1730-1813
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1874-1908
Abstract:
The letters concern a variety of topics, the most significant being Canada, geography, Indigenous peoples, paleontology, geology, and the Geological Survey of Canada. Correspondents include Franz Boas, Elliot Cones, William Isbister, J. M. LeMoine, James C. Pilling, and E. F. S. J. Petitot.
Call #:
Mss.B.B421
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Subjects:
View Subjects
Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 | Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899 | Geography -- Canada. | Geological Survey of Canada | Geology -- Canada. | International Congress of Americanists | Inuit | Isbister, William | Le Moine, J. M., Sir (James MacPherson), 1825-1912 | Petitot, Emile Fortune Stanislas, 1838-1917 | Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 | World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
Circa 1883-1912
Abstract:
Anthropometric data from various Native American groups, language materials from the Northwest Coast and Mexico, typescripts of papers, a diary of a field trip to Baffin Island (N.W.T.), Canada, and genealogical data
Call #:
Mss.B.B61.5
Extent:
3.0 Linear feet
Subjects:
View Subjects
Anthropology -- Research -- United States | Anthropometry -- Research. | Baffin Island (N.W.T.) | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Chatino language | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Diaries. | Indians of Mexico -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Anthropometry | Indians of North America -- Northwest Territories -- Languages | Notebooks | Pochutec language
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1862-1942
Abstract:
This is part of the large inventory for the Franz Boas Papers (Mss B B61). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the
Collection Description
.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61.inventory07
Extent:
1 section
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1862-1960s
Abstract:
Letters between various family members of Franz Boas, nearly all in German. Although the topics relate primarily to personal, familial matters, information about Boas's career and (more generally) his intellectual formation and beliefs.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61f
Extent:
12 Linear feet
Subjects:
View Subjects
Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology -- Research -- United States | Anthropology -- United States -- History. | Anthropology -- United States. | Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Communists -- United States | Ethnology -- North America | Jewish scientists | Refugees, Political | Scientists, Refugee | Socialists -- United States
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1903-1905
Abstract:
The collection includes material relating to government, history, festivals, customs, games, etc. of the Ojibwe people. Also includes comments on the language; vocabulary, some items with English glosses; lists of bands and locations; and photographs of people, activities, dwellings, canoes, etc.
Call #:
Mss.497.3.J71
Extent:
1 Linear feet
Subjects:
View Subjects
Algonquian Indians | American Museum of Natural History | Anishinaabe | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Field notes. | Gelatin silver prints | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Minnesota | Indians of North America -- Ontario | Indians of North America -- Religion | Indians of North America -- Social life and customs | Jones, William, 1871-1909 | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwe people | Sketches.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1862-1942
Abstract:
During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism.
This collection includes correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61
Extent:
59 Linear feet
Subjects:
View Subjects
Albumen prints | Andrews, H. A. | Anthropologists -- United States. | Anthropology -- Research -- United States | Anthropology -- United States -- History. | Anthropology -- United States. | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Arctic Indians | Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959 | Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 | Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 | Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943 | Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 | Cabinet cards | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946 | Crane, M. E. | Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961 | Ethnology -- North America | Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 | Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Gelatin silver prints | Germanistic Society of America | Gordon, George Byron, 1911- | Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- Ethnology | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast | Indians of North America -- Nunavut | Inuit | Jewish scientists | Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 | Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934 | Maps | McGee, W. J., 1853-1912 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Negatives | Northwest Coast Indians | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Photomechanical prints | Postcards | Race, race relations, racism | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Refugees, Political | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sargent, H. E. | Scientists, Refugee | Seler, Eduard | Sketches. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Socialists -- United States | Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Tlingit Indians | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1862-1942
Abstract:
This is part of the large inventory for the Franz Boas Papers (Mss B B61). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the
Collection Description
.
Call #:
Mss.B.B61.inventory03
Extent:
1 section
Subjects:
View Subjects
Aleuts | Archaeology -- Alaska | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Chichimeca-Jonaz language | Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) | Deg Hit'an Indians | Eyak Indians | Iglulik Inuit | Inuit -- Canada | Inuit -- Greenland | Kwakiutl Indians | Kwakwaka'wakw | Mazahua language | Nahuatl language | Netsilik | Otomi language | Sallirmiut | Sikosuilarmiut | Zuni Indians
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