This small collection consists of a series of ten lectures in anthropology given by Robert Redfield (1897-1958, APS 1947) at the University of Chicago and Uppsala University in the summer and fall of 1953. Redfield revised the lectures and printed them two years later in a book titled The Little Community: Viewpoints for the Study of a Human Whole (University of Chicago Press, 1955). The lectures are typed in longhand, with pencil notations.

The papers of anthropologist Ward Goodenough cover his whole career, most of it spent in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. After service in army during WW II, Goodenough received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1949. He conducted field research from 1947 to 1965, working at Chuuk (Truk), the Gilberts, Papua New Guinea, and New Britain. The collection is particularly important in showing how linguistic theory can help further anthropological theory.

The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers include correspondence to and from 20th century anthropologists, ethnologists, historians, linguists, and psychiatrists and provides a wealth of resources for the study of technological and social change, American Indians, culture and personality, revitalization movements, the anthropological study of religion, and the cultural and biological bases of behavior. In addition to Wallace's correspondence, research notes, and drafts, the collection includes Wallace family correspondence and photographs, as well as Wallace's writings from childhood through recent years.