Guide to the Records of the Department of Anthropology, 1901-[ongoing]

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Guide to the Records of the Department of Anthropology, 1901-[ongoing]

Collection number: CU-23

University Archives, The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Records of the Department of Anthropology,

Date (inclusive): 1901-[ongoing]

Collection Number: CU-23

Creator: Department of Anthropology

Extent: 211 boxes

Repository: The Bancroft Library. University Archives.

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research, EXCEPT for the student files in Series 6. Only student files of individuals no longer living will be made available.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Records of the Department of Anthropology, CU-23, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Departmental History

The Department of Anthropology was established by the Regents on September 10, 1901, and the first course, one in North American ethnology, was given in the spring semester of 1902 by Alfred L. Kroeber. An introductory course providing a general survey of anthropology, including physical anthropology, ethology, and archaeology, was introduced in 1905-06.

The teaching staff of the department increased slowly. By the time of the first World War, there were, in effect two and a half teaching positions. Another was added in 1927 and still another ten years later. One more position was added in 1946 and one in 1948. Since 1958 the department has expanded explosively because of enrollment increases and growing demand for teachers of anthropology and for anthropologists willing to serve in development programs. The department had 24 teaching positions in 1964-65.

The first master's degree in anthropology was granted in 1904 and the first Ph.D. in 1908. A second Ph.D. was granted in 1911, but the third was not granted until 1926. Since that date, graduate instruction has been a major part of the department's activity, and it has become one of the major suppliers of professional anthropologists in the country.

The Department of Anthropology grew out of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst's interest in establishing a program of anthropological research at the University, a program which began in 1899. Mrs. Hearst supported University archaeological expeditions in Egypt, Italy, and Peru and research on archaeology, ethnology, and native languages in California; she provided all funds for salaries, facilities, and research in the department until 1906, when support of anthropology was taken over by the Regents on a much reduced scale. Another outgrowth of Mrs. Hearst's program was the ROBERT H. LOWIE MUSEUM of Anthropology, which has become one of the greatest anthropological museums in the country and constitutes an important asset to the department's teaching program.

Under the leadership of the department's first chairman, Frederic Ward Putnam, an anthropology library was started, and Pliny Earle Goddard, the second instructor on the staff, was appointed librarian. The library remained small until it was reorganized in 1952. It became a branch of the general library in 1956 and by 1964 contained more than 16,000 volumes.

After functioning for over half a century in temporary quarters, the department, museum and library were housed permanently in a new building in 1959. The new building is named in honor of Kroeber, whose distinguished career in anthropology was almost entirely identified with the Berkeley department and museum.

The department has always emphasized research, and particularly field research. It began a program of research publication in 1903, when the first number of the University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology appeared. A second series, Anthropological Records, was established in 1937. The work of the department has, since 1939, been reported regularly in the Annual Report of the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology.

In 1948 a University of California Archaeological Survey was organized under the direction of R. F. Heizer to carry out research in the archaeology of California. The survey began publication of a series of reports in its first year of operation. In 1960 the survey was reorganized on a broader geographical basis as the ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH Facility of the department, serving all the department's archaeological programs.

--John H. Rowe

from The Centennial Record of the University of California, compiled and edited by Verne A. Stadtman and the Centennial Publications Staff (Berkeley: University of California, 1967)

Scope and Content

The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence files maintained by the Department of Anthropology for the period of A.L. Kroeber's career, although it includes others prominent in the department throughout this period. These files reflect the professional and research interests of the department, as evidenced by this departmental correspondence, which includes interoffice memoranda, correspondence with professional colleagues, information from individuals interested primarily in Indian groups in California, including native informants, and simple letters of inquiry about anthropology, objects found, etc. There is often overlap between the correspondence in these departmental files and correspondence in individual's personal papers.

The collection also includes some early reports and accounts, some correspondence about museum acquisitions, and syllabi and exam questions. Transfers of later material includes personnel rosters, minutes of meetings, visiting scholar and research associate files, budget materials, and student files (which are restricted).

Indian Informants, Partial List:

See entries in main body of index under these names for dates and subjects of correspondence.

See also list of EWG's informants in Kroeber correspondence file, 1954, Box 86

Bell, Tony
Benjamin, William
Bennett, Charlie
Benson, William
Bigmouth, Parcy
Bradford, M.E.
Braine, Wm. and Molly
Brown, David
Brown, Sam
Burns, Sam
Carpenter, James (Crow)
Charlie, Philip
Cleanso, Tom
Cochise, George
Cooney, Jane (Walapai)
Cooper, Condrey
Costo, Juan M.
Cox, Lena
Curo, Nocindo
Davis, Gilbert
Effman, Nicholas
Fuller, Wm.
Gavin, Eugene
Grant, Sampson
Green, Charley
Gunther, Charles
Happy Camp
Honga, Mrs. Jacob
Horne, Jerry
James, Herman W.
Johnson, Robert
Johnson, Tom
Joseph, William - see Uldall
Kelly, John
Lafonso, Elmer N.
Lamecio
Makwee, Dick
Morongo, Ben
Mitchell, Jim Thomas
Moore, Ralph
Natches, Gilbert (Paiute-Nixon, Nevada) see Ring, Mildred; Severence, C.E.; Severence, Kenfall
Neil, Tom (Antler, Shasta County)
Numana, Capt. Dave
Odoch, Thomas
Offield, Mamie
Oscar, Lewis
Parker, Rupert
Sambo, Sargent
Sanchez, Leslie
Sanderson, Grover
Sashavaya, Claude
Sebastian, Carl
Snooks, Jackson
Spott, Robert
Stacey, Johnson
Suehead, Thompson
Talieji, Paul (Walapai)
Taxac, John (Eskimo)
TeCube, Norman (New Mexico)
Thompson, Lucy (Humboldt County)
Towndolly, Grant (Upper Soda Springs)
Treaties, Many (Blackfoot)
Trout, Wutchpic
Tripp, Violet (Klamath?)
Williams, Tom
Yellowtail, Robert

Series 1: Syllabi and exam questions, 1902-1948

Physical Description: Box 1, 1a-1c

Scope and Content Note

Mainly copies of syllabi and examinations pasted into scrapbook volumes.

Boxes 1-1c

Syllabi and exam questions.

Additional Note

Mainly pasted into scrapbook volumes

Series 2: Reports, 1901-1908

Physical Description: Box 2

Scope and Content Note

Narrative annual reports of the activities of the department and the museum.

Box 2

1901-1908

Series 3: Museum and department financial accounts, 1901-1939

Physical Description: Box 2-7

Scope and Content Note

Early departmental and museum account books, files of general accounts, and files of some special accounts, including A.L. Kroeber's and P.E. Goddard's research accounts, 1901-1909.

Box 2

Account books, 1901-1913

Cash and Ledger, 1901-08

Revolving Fund, 1903-13 (3 volumes)

Box 3

Historical accounts

1901-1909

Box 4

1909-1914

Box 5

1914-1920

Box 6

1920-1939

Box 7

Special accounts and comptroller's files

A.L. Kroeber research account, 1901-09

P.E. Goddard research account, 1901-05

Cost of publications, to 1908

Crocker fund for research in Mexico, 1904-09

Hearst reconstruction account, 1910-12

Comptroller, 1912-14 (3 folders)

Accountant, 1914-16

Series 4: Correspondence, 1901-1957

Subseries 1: Letterpress copy books, 1901-1911

Physical Description: Vol. 1-13

Scope and Content Note

Contain outgoing correspondence, in chronological order, primarily written by A.L. Kroeber. Related incoming correspondence is in subseries 2.

volume Vol. 1

Sept. 1901 - Nov. 1902

volume Vol. 2

Dec. 1902 - Dec. 1903

volume Vol. 3

Oct. 1903 - Aug. 1904

volume Vol. 4

Aug. 1904 - Feb. 1905

volume Vol. 5

Feb. 1905 - Mar. 1906

volume Vol. 6

Mar. - Dec. 1906

volume Vol. 7

Jan. - July 1907

volume Vol. 8

July 1907 - Mar. 1908

volume Vol. 9

Mar. - Sept. 1908

volume Vol. 10

Sept. 1908 - Sept. 1909

volume Vol. 11

Sept. 1909 - June 1910

volume Vol. 12

June 1910 - Feb. 1911

volume Vol. 13

Feb. - Nov. 1911

Subseries 2: Incoming correspondence

Physical Description: Box 8-20

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Related outgoing correspondence is in subseries 1.

Box 8

A - AM (miscellany)

AN - AZ

Aiken, Charles S.

Albañas, Jose O.

Allen, A. H.

Allen, James T.

Amelineau, Emile

American Museum of Natural History

Angel, Myron

Angelus Motion Picture Co.

Arnold, Mary E.

BA - BD (miscellany)

BE - BK

BL - BN

BO - BQ

BR - BZ

Bagley, Henry N.

Bakewell, Charles M.

Box 9

Barrett, Samuel A.

1903 - Sept. 1906

Oct. - Dec. 1906

Jan. - June 1907

July - Oct. 1907

Nov. 1907

Dec. 1907, undated 1907

Jan. - Feb. 1908

March 1908

April - May 1908

June - Dec. 1908

1909

Jan. - March 1910

April - Dec. 1910

1911

Box 10

Barrows, David Prescott

Batwi, Sam

Bidwell, Annie E.K.

Boas, Franz

Boulitte, Charles

Boyle, David

Brady, John G.

Brewer, William A.

Brizard, A.

Brown, James

Butte County Sheriff

CA - CG (miscellany)

CH - CN

CO - CQ

CR - CZ

Central Pacific Railway

Christman, Peter

Columbia Phonograph Company

Costo, Ignacio

Culin, Stewart

DA (miscellany)

DE - DH

DI - DZ

Davidson, George

Davis, Edward H.

Dennison Manufacturing Co.

Box 11

Dixon, Roland, B.

1904-1906

1907

1908-1909

1910

1911

Dolores, Juan

Du Bois, Constance, Goddard

1904-1906

1907

1908-1911

EA - EO (miscellany)

EP - EZ

Eisen, Gustin

Emerson, Alfred

Engelhart, Zephyrin

FA - FH (miscellany)

FI - FQ

FR - FZ

Field, Ethel G.

Fletcher, Alice C.

Frank, Robert

Fryer, John

Box 12

GA - GH (miscellany)

GI - GN

GO - GQ

GR - GZ

Gifford, Edward W.

Goddard, Pliny E.

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905

Jan. - April 1906

May - Dec. 1906

Jan. - April 1907

May - Dec. 1907

Jan. - May 1908

June - Dec. 1908

1909

1910

1911 and n.d.

Box 13

HA - HD (miscellany)

HE - HN

HO - HZ

Hall, Harvey Monroe

Harrington, John P.

Hart, Mary E.

Hawver, J. C.

Hearst, Phoebe A.

1901-1902

1903-1904

1905-1911

Hewett, Edgar L.

Hirsch, Louis

Hodge, F. W.

Holmes, W. H.

Howard, John Galen

Hrdlicka, A.

Hussey, E. M.

I (miscellany)

JA - JN

JO - JZ

James, George Wharton

Jepson, Willis L.

Johnson, Tom

Jones, C. J.K.

Jones, Jack (Captain Jack)

Jones, Philip Mills

Box 14

K (miscellany)

Kelsey, C.E.

Kofoid, Charles Atwood

Kroeber, A.L., 1901-1903

Kroeber, A.L., 1906

L (miscellany)

Lafonso, Elmer N.

Lange, Alexis F.

Library Bureau

Lloyd, Edith Van Allen

Loud, L. L.

Lummis, Charles Fletcher

MAA - MAC/MC (miscellany)

MAD - MD

ME - MN

MO - MZ

McLeod, E.L.

McNab, John L.

Mason, John Alden

Mason, O.

Matthews, Washington

Matzke, John E.

Merriam, John C.

1901-1904

1905-1911

Moore, Ralph

Moore, William H.

Box 15

N (miscellany)

Nelson, N.C.

New York Academy of Sciences

Newcombe, C.F.

Nicholson, Grace

Nuttall, Zelia

O (miscellany)

PA - PD

PE - PN

PO - PZ (miscellany)

Peet, Stephen D.

Peterson, Joseph

Price, Clifton

Putnam, F.W.

1902-1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911 and n.d.

Q (miscellany)

RA - RN

RO - RZ

Radin, Paul

Records of the Past Exploration Society

Reed, George W.

Reisner, George A.

Ritter, William E.

Rumsey, C.E.

Rust, Horatio

Box 16

SA - SB (miscellany)

SC - SD

SE - SJ

SK - SO

SP - ST

SU - SZ

San Francisco Department of Education

San Francisco Gas & Electric Company

Sell, W.M.

Sinclair, William J.

Smith, Harlan

Smithsonian Institution

Sparkman, P.S.

Spencer, D.L.

Spring Valley Water Company

Starr, Frederick

Swanton, John R.

TA - TN (miscellany)

TO - TZ

Traber, Cornelia

Trask, Blanche

U (miscellany)

Uhle, Max

United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of the Interior

Box 17

University of California

Department of Mining & Metallurgy

Grounds and Buildings

Library

Medical Department

University of California, President

1901-1903

1904

1905

January - May 1906

June - December 1906

January - May 1907

June - December 1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

Box 18

University of California

Printing Office

Purchasing agent

Recorder of the Facilities

1904-1908

1909-1911

Regents

1901-1903

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

Box 19

University of California

Regents

1909

1910

January - August 1911

September - December 1911

Special Committee on University Exhibit at St. Louis Exposition

Students' Co-Operative Society

Summer Session

University Farm

University Press

1904-1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

Miscellany

Box 20

V (miscellany)

WA - WD

WE - WH

WI - WN

WO - WZ

Wallis, Wilson D.

Waterman, T.T.

1907

1908

January - July 1909

August - December 1909

1910

1911

Weitchpec Frank

Wells Fargo & Company

Wier, Jeanne Elizabeth

Wilcomb, C.P.

Woodcock, Fidella F.

Y (miscellany)

Yates, M.M.

Z (miscellany)

Subseries 3: Correspondence, 1912

Physical Description: Box 21-22

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

Box 21

A - Miscellaneous

List of gifts received at Museum of Anthropology, June 30, 1911-June 30, 1912

Anthropos, letter to ALK, illegible signature (in German)

Americanistas, Congresos Internacionales

Archaeological Institue of America, Bulletin no.4

Allen, A.H., Manager of The University Press

Allen, J.T., Secretary of the Archaeological Society

Allen Press Clipping Bureau

Alliott, Hector

Alsberg, Carl

letter of introduction for F.B. Sumner

Aydelotte, Minna A.

collector and donor of specimens

program of her play, "An Indian Wooing"

B - Miscellaneous

Barr, James A.

asks ALK to secure for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition the 1915 meetings of the learned societies to which he belongs

Barron, George

letter of introduction for H. Leibes

Barrows, David P., Chairman, Committee of Fellowships

re fellowship for William H. Mechling

Becker, A.H.

thanks for the cards and general news

Benham, G.B.

re anecdote about Inca gold

Berkeley Public Library

please post lecture notices

Berkeley Public Schools

list of schools with locations

Beyer, H. Otley

thanks for copy of Ifugao Mourning Ceremony and re exchange of publications

Blake, Moffitt & Towne

re bills

Blakeslee, G.H.

re ALK article on race endowment for the Journal of Race Development

Boon, William

wants to know if Ishi will come with ALK to lecture

Bowman, J.N.

re membership in Pacific Association of Scientific Societies for anthropological societies

Boylan, E.C.

wants money to interpret writings on Picairn Island

refused

Briscoe, John

invites ALK and Ishi to Fiesta Arborea at Chico

Brown, Calvin S.

re lecture on Southwest archaeology

Browne, Warner

refers to ALK a letter in which George Chambers offers to lecture on a new theory of creation on which both science and religion can agree

Browne, William

order postcard pictures of Ishi

Burger, Frank, museum employee

Burridge, W.J. D.D.S.

re photographing skulls

Barrett, S.A., Milwaukee Public Museum

Boas, Franz

C - Miscellaneous

Calac,F.

date of fiesta at Valley Center

California State Library

request for "News Notes"

The Call

Carlisle Indian Press

The Chronicle

Carroll, Mitchel, General Secretary, A.I.A.

Cattell, J. McKeen, Popular Science Monthly editorial department

Chappel, H.G., D.D.S.

re study of skulls

Christman, Peter, Indian, Tule River Reservation

Cilker, Jennie

teacher thanks ALK for visit with class of Chinese boys and sends two of their compositions

ALK replies that he is sending the compositions to Mrs. Hearst

Clapp, E.B.

invitation to meeting to form new archaeological organization

Clewe, Frido

re paper on Washo language

Cochran, A.

order for postcards of Ishi

Collett, Albert J.

applies for museum job

Cordova, Rudolp de

request for pictures of Ishi from London

California Academy of Sciences Museum Report, 1911

Comptroller, U.C.

D - Miscellaneous

D'Ancona, A.A.

re bill

Davies, C.A.

Yana words

Davis, E.H.

thanks for info on fiestas

Davis, Horace,

ALK asks him to serve on Committee on Exploration and Excavation of the Archaeological Society

accepts

deVeer, D.W.

assistant curator of Oakland Public Museum asks about mortuary customs of Paiutes

ALK says nothing published on them

Dean, W.M. Mrs.

all University publications on Southern California are held by the San Diego Society of the Archaeological Institute and the Ethnological maps of San Diego will be copied and placed in the San Diego Public Library

Dunne, B.B., editor, California Topics

re ALK article

Davis, E.H.

inquires about publication of Sparkman's work on Luisaño language

ALK says work delayed by Ishi

procures Indian informant Rocendo Curo to meet ALK at San Diego

Diamond Patent Showcase Company

Dixon, Roland B.

Dolores, Juan

E - Miscellaneous

Eastman, C.A.

wife asks if lecture tour would be profitable

ALK doesn't know

Easton, Theodore

inquiry re Ishi and his tribe

references given

Edmonson, A.P., Superintendent of Tule River Indian School

gives news of Indians

Eels, Walter C.

asks ALK to make critical examination of his Master's thesis on number systems of Indians

Elkus, Charles deY.

ALK gives info on museum

Estee, Elsie L.

ALK describes course on Indian languages and suggests books

Examiner

Edes, W.C., Chief Engineer of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad

asks for Indian names suitable for stations on the Eel River line

ALK reply

Erdland, B.A.

re Marshall Island language

F - Miscellaneous

Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Buenos Aires

request for publication

Fairclough, H.R.

asks ALK cost of shipping from Athens

reply

Farrand, Livingston

ALK tells of fellowship opportunity here

LF has no one to suggest

Faulkner, R.D.

principal of grammar school is asked opinion of circulating set

Fitler, Daniel

thanks for pamphlet on Indian languages

Ford, G.B., Mrs

requests photo of Ishi's hut

Foster, A.W.

re program for meeting of AIA in San Diego

Franklin Printing

bids on museum postcards

French, Harold

invites ALK and Ishi to join Sierra Club group in walk from Golden Gate Park to the museum

ALK will try to arrange it

Fuller, W.P.

mix up on shipment of glass

Flinn, J.W., Superintendent of U.C. Printing Office

G - Miscellaneous

Gardiner Bros.

re celluloid sheets

Gardiner, Cornelius Col.

ALK asks permission to excavate shellmound at Presidio

referred to higher military authority

later granted

Garraga, Father, Mission, San Luis Obispo

ALK supplies name of black calla lily

Gifford, E.W.

TTW asks for gummed letters

Goldenweiser, A. A.

asks that Bruhl in Paris be placed on list to get publications

ALK explains that supply is inadequate

Gray, Walter S.

bills for phonograph blanks

Green, Mr., Santa Cruz

supplier of sticks for Ishi

Gregory, Caspar Rene

ALK offers to be of service

Gifford, E.W.

Gigneux, Claude

Gist, Frank

re sale of collection

Goddard, P.E.

Golder, F.A., Professor of Economics and History, Pullman, Washington

Goll, George Philip, Curator of the Santa Barbara Society of Natural History Museum

Gordon, G.B., Director, University of Pennsylvania Museum

Griffiths, Farnham, secretary to the president of U.C.

Grinnell, J., Director of the U.C. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

H - Miscellaneous

Hagers, Harry W., Mrs.

thanks for lecture on Peru

Baker & Hamilton Hardware

re chain blocks

Harvey, M.G.

wants info on Ishi

referred to publications

Hawver, J.C.

re cave near Auburn

Herriott, Clarence

invites ALK to Presbyterian conference on Indian problems

ALK was out of town

Hill-Tout, Charles

re attendance at San Diego meeting

Hope, Frances

asked to post notice of lectures at California Development Board

Hovey, E.O., Acting Director of the American Museum of Natural History

gives ALK data on the Museum Journal

Howard, Eudora

wants to visit museum on some other day except Sunday

Howell, T.F.

re a sighting of Ishi prior to the university's expedition

Howerth, I.W.

proposed list of ALK extension lectures

Hrdlicka, A.

[unsigned] letter of appreciation for his "Early Man of South America"

Hutchinson, Lincoln, Dean of the Lower Division

asks heads of departments to recommend courses for sophomores planning to major in their department

Harrington, John P.

Hart, J.P.

re Lovelock Cave excavation

Hawkes, E.W.

re possible graduate work here

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson

Henderson, Victor, Secretary of the Regents

Hewett, Edgar L.

Hodge, F.W.

Holum, M.J., Assistant secretary of the department

Hugill, E.A., Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds

Box 22

J - Miscellaneous

Jesperson, Otto

papers on phonetics sent to him

Joeckel, C.B.

librarian asks for list of reserved books

Johnsone, Otto T.

ALK thanks publisher for a book

Johnston, J. Kemp

request for TTW's address

reply

Jones, Captain Jack

re visit here as informant

Junod, H.A.

return of unrequested book

K - Miscellaneous

Karstens & Thomas

re sign for museum

Kissell, Mary Louise

re loan of slides

Kofoid, C.A.

re gift of shells

Korski, Bernard

Kemp, Edward H.

maker of lantern slides

L - Miscellaneous

Linn, Hugh

arrangement to meet EWG

Lippincott, J.B. Co.

ad for book on statistics

Love, Earnest C.

with ALK re unidentified inscriptions

Lucas

ALK asks Director of the American Museum of Natural History for data on their Journal

LaFonso, Elmer N.

Indian informant suggests others

Laufer, B.

ALK admires book on Chinese jade and suggests a work outlining periods of Chinese culture

reply

Leupp, Harold L., Associate Librarian

Loud, L.L.

re work at Mountain View and Lovelock Cave

Lummis, Charles F., Secretary of the Southwest Society, AIA

M - Miscellanous

MacCurdy, George Grant

ALK reports on the years activities for the American Yearbook

McNab, James

grants permission to excavate on grounds of Panama Pacific International Exposition

letter reports results

McNab & Smith Draying

bills

McNutt-Kahn & Co.

re demonstration of Schapirograph

McQuaide, Joseph P.

returns musical scores loaned by ALK

Macrichelmann, Werner v.

in German

Markham, G.H.

re Indian attitudes toward ground squirrels

Martin, F.J.

EWG regrets that he can not supply a copy of his lecture on dress and adornment

Marvin, B.K.

ALK sorry to have missed him when South, general news

Maxwell, S.S.

announcement of meeting of the Biological Group

Mechling, William H.

offer of fellowship turned down

Meinhof, Carl

publications on phonetics sent to him

Mell, W.B.

re attendence of the museum furnace

Merrill, Harriet

re class visit to museum

Merrill, W.A.

invitation to organizational meeting of a new archaeological socirty

Mitchell, Jim Thomas

Indian asks ALK about opportunities for dancing at 1915 Fair

ALK says it's too soon to know, gives news of Ralph Moore and invites him to stay at the museum

Moise-Klinker Co.

re bill

Monroe, A.R.

request that he return borrowed books

Moodie, Roy L.

letter recommends John Sterling for a fellowship

Moore, J.J. & Co.

re coal bill

Mott, Charles T.

inquires meaning of Gagoopa, Tehachapi and Kaweah

ALK reply

Mason, J. Alden

Merriam, John C.

Moore, Ralph, Indian informant

collector of Indians stories

N - Miscellaneous

Neandros, Sigurd

wants work making life casts

no funds

Newell, Gwendolan

re Ishi's unauthorized visits to the Medical School

Nichols, William Ford, Bishop

ALK asks him to serve on Archaeological Society Committee for Exploration and Excavation

declines

Newhall, C.C.

[unsigned] tells principal of Oriental Public School that his classes have been well behaved at the museum

Noyes, G.R.

re listing of language and linguistic courses

Nelson, N.C. and Mrs.

re shellmounds and work in New Mexico

O - Miscellaneous

O'Brien, Anna Louise

asks material for article on Indian village

P - Miscellaneous

Pacific Telephone

re bills

Paetow, L.J.

re requisition cards and cataloging of slides

Papey, Joe

does not think that the Indian he saw last year was Ishi and thinks some of his tribe still remains

Peabody, Charles

thinks it might be possible for the American Folklore Society to meet in S.F. in 1915

Peake-Monr Co.

re mortgage payments for L.L. Loud

Peck-Judah Co.

re distribution of museum information pamphlets

Perthes, Justus

printed notice

Peterson, [illegible first name]

writes of finding bones and relics near Morro Bay

Popper, William

invitation to come to organizational meeting of new archaeological society

Power and Pike Sheet Metal Works

re order for tin boxes

Poyser, Arthur and Mrs., museum employee

letter from vacation in London and re his paycheck

Prince, J. Dyneley

request for info on Sumerian and thanks for his reply which is not here

Purcell, Jessie Livinstone

thanks ALK for?

Pugh, Samuel

re Lovelock Cave

Putnam, F. W.

R - Miscellaneous

Rainey, Edward

thanks for postcards

Rea, Robert, S.F. Public Library

please post lecture notices

Recorder of the Faculties

Records of the Past

notice of exhibit for magazine

The Red Man (magazine)

request for copies

Reid, John

thanks for postcards

Remington Typewriter Company

re repair

Reynolds, Charles L.

reports a mound on land settled by his grandfather

Richards, John E.

asks meaning of word coyote

reply

Richardson, Leon

contributions to list of learned societies

invitation to organizational meeting of new archaeological society

Richmond Development Co

offer to let U.C. excavate shellmounds

Rieber, C.H.

report to him re summer session classes

Rogers, John W.

thanks for postcards

Roncovieri, Alfred

details of arrangements for lectures and visits for S.F. grammar school classes

Rousselot, l'Abbé

publications on phonetics sent to him for review

Rowell, J.C., U.C. Librarian

re transfer of coin collection to library

Rust, Mrs.

personal note to ALK

Richardson, Isaac T.

re relics from Lovelock Cave

Riedman, J.W.

missionary at Round Valley doing work on Indian languages

S - Miscellaneous

Salz, H.A.

re excavating mound in his orchard at Benicia

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

re literature on S.F.

San Francisco Laundry

bill

Sanborn, Vail & Co.

re bills

Scher, Philip G.

missionary wants info on Tache Indians

ALK sends publications and advice on language

Schilling, Hugo K.

re conflict over use of phonetic apparatus

Schweizer, Herman

wants photos for use on postcards

Scott, A.W.

announcement of lecture on dress and adornment sent to principal of Girls' High School

Sierra Art and Engraving Co.

bid

Smith, Eugene Ferry

invites ALK to Indian fiestas near San Diego

Smith, Harlan

two letters from Ottawa

Instituts Solvay

asks info on ALK's activities

Southard, F.D.

order for Ishi postcards

Southern Pacific Operator at Lovelock

please accept anything consigned by L.L. Loud

Sprague, Lucy, Dean of Women

wants to borrow an amphora for the Partheneia

Spring Valley Water Co.

re bills

Stafford, W.G. & Co.

solicits coal business

Stefansson, V.

re Eskimo tale

Stellman, Louis J.

he is asked to return a negative loaned for a newspaper story

Sterens, Elinor

referred to Harvard for an outline for the study of anthropology

Sterling, John

requests a fellowship

he is ineligible

Stilson, J. Mc.

tells of his Deer Creek collection

says he is told that there are still some Indians there

asks how to preserve shell beads

ALK reply

Stratton, G.M.

asks ALK to recommend dealers in Indian curios

reply

Sumner, F.B.

re appointment with ALK

Sunset Publishing House

estimate for pictures

Seler, Eduard

orders pictures of Uhle collection

Swanton, John R.

re Algonkian map

T - Miscellaneous

Tablet and Ticket Co.

orders for gummed letters

Tassell, G.F. Mrs.

order for Ishi postcards

Taussig, R.J.

re permission to excavate on PPIE grounds

Tebbetts, Eleanor

procures an Indian to gather acorns for the museum

Teit, J.A.

requests paper on Kato language

Tilburne, E.O.

re Archaeological Institute of America

Torrey, H.B.

notice of meeting of the biological group

U-V - Miscellaneous

Uhle, Max

thanks for paper

Valuation of museum specimens and number of entries in catalogs

Van Denburgh, E.D.

sends Ishi a hand knit scarlet wool scarf

University Press

W - Miscellaneous

Wadsworth, G.B.

proposal for International Anthroposophical Society

Wallis, Wilson D.

requests for publications

Walton, Charles L.

asks info on Mohaves

not much published yet and she is asked if she knows of any Indians near Lancaster

Western Sheet Metal Works

quote on tin boxes

White Brothers Hardwood

quote on ply drawer bottoms

Whittier-Coburn Co.

order for plate glass shelving

Wicher, Edward A.

asks when Gregory is arriving

reply

Williams, O.F. & Co.

re hardware bills

Wilson, Emma A.

asks suggestions for an Indian name for a fiesta to be held at Chico

reply

Wilson, F.R.

request to see human remains at his place near Elmhurst

Winants, N.

re mound and fresh water lake at Presidio

Wood, W.C.

please distribute announcements to Alameda schools

Warburton, A.

reports museum news to absent ALK

Waterman, T.T.

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, President of the University

Wheeler, Helen V.

re insurance on museum collections

Wier, Jeanne Elizabeth, Secretary of the Nevada Historical Society

re purchase of Lovelock Cave material

Wilcomb, C.P. curator of the Oakland Public Museum

Zachert, John

re identifying spider

Subseries 4: Correspondence, 1913-1957

Physical Description: Box 23-184

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Note: museums are listed under "M" for museum, then by country, city, then by name of institution. Universities and institutes are often filed by important keyword; e.g., the University of Alaska is filed under Alaska; however, files pertaining to various office of the University of California are filed under "U."

-A-

Box 23

Abell, Emma M.

1913-1917, correspondence and unsolicited manuscripts (religious fanatic?)

Abend, Yetta

1932, 1934, ALK and RLO letters of recommendation

Aberle, David

1953, ALK suggests reviewers for book by Bidney

Aberle, Kathleen Gough

1955-1956, with DGM re career plans and DGM letter of recommendation for Guggenheim

Abbot, H.D., Mrs

1955, cover letter sent with publication by her father, C. Hart Merriam

Abbott, Clinton C.

1928-1931, Secretary of the Smithsonian, re joint work

1932-1933, Director of the San Diego Museum

1936, back at Smithsonian

Abley, Jean

1926-1927, with RLO re work in Tahiti and other matters

Abraham, Peter Ferdinand

1946-1951, re PhD. candidacy and fellowship

Academia de Ciencias Exactas Fisicas Naturales de Lima

1939, ALK elected Associate Academician

Academia Nacional de Ciencas Antonio Alzate

1931, announcement of 1930 conference, 1931, ALK elected correspondent

Academia Sinica

see Lo Ch'ang-P'el

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

see Fowler, Henry W.

Ackerknecht, Erwin H., M.D.

1942-1955, medical historian

Acta Anthropologica, publicada por la Sociadad de Alumnos de la Escuela Natioal de Antropologica de Mexico

announcement of first issue, 1945

Adair, Peter

n.d. invitation to staff to see his Appalachia films

Adam, Leonhard

1949-1954, University of Melbourne

Adams, Dorothy F.L.

1922-1926, graduate student and reader

Adams, Douglas S.

1916-1947, re possible acquisitions and visit to museum

Adams, E.P.

n.d., Professor of Philosophy thanks and comments on ALK's paper "On the Principle of Order etc."

Adams, Evelyn C.

asks RHL to promote her book, "American Indian Education"

Adams, William Howard

1962, invites MJH to exhibit of primitive art in Kansas City

MJH declines

Adams, Inez

1947-1949, re Burma

Adams, James F.

1948, RFH letter of advice

Adams, Joan

1951, request for publications

Adams, Richard

1956, asks if a position is available

Adams, Robert McCormick

1940, job offer

RHL says all graduate students are otherwise engaged

Adams, William

1950, wants works on Maya

referred to library

Adams, William Y.

1950, EWG regrets no financing as yet for work in the Palau Islands

Adamson, Olive

1964, re loan of pictures of Cambodian heads

Adans, A.

1946, Belgian publishers wants pictures of Indians

referred to publications

University of Adelaide

Adler, Herman

1932, re teaching of Criminology at the university

Aedicula

see Tubbs

Africa, Africanists

International Institute for Afroamerican Studies

1944, proposal for study of Negro population

Aga-Oglu, Kamer, Mrs.

1950, re loan of porcelain fragments

Agencia Mexica

1942, solicits subscription to ARS

Aginsky, Bernard W.

1933-1938

1939-194[?]

Agrawal, Satya

1956, from DGM to Fischel re teaching of Indic languages

Aguero Y Osma, J. de la Rivam

1938, Professor of the History of Peru

Aho, Ilma Ruth

1951, [unsigned] letter of recommendation for a fellowship

Aiken, Charles

1949, congratulates RHL on Faculty Research Lectureship

Ainslee, Kate Elizabeth

[unsigned] letter of recommendation

Air World Education

1952, announcement of Middle East study tour

Aitken, Barbara

1927, re maps for Braille version of "Anthropology"

1933, re Yavapai work

See also Freire-Marreco

Aitken, Robert T.

1916, [unsigned] sends publications on Mexico

Aiyappan, A.

1949, re DGM trip to India

1955, TDMcC advises on source of anthropopometric equipment

Akehurst, Marian Smith

1954, secretary sends publications and news

See also Smith, Marian W.

University of Alabama

Box 24

Alameda County. Committee for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency

1954

Alameda County Tuberculosis Association

1947, faculty members are requested to have chest x-rays

University of Alaska

1940, sends Geist and Rainey publications to EWG

Albaugh, Reuben

1934, wants info on petroglyphs

notation answered by Steward

Albertson

1936, request that highway crew let the department know when they cut through a shell mound

Albig, J.W.

1947, ALK recommends several people for positions at U. Illinois

Albrecht, Andrew

1931-1942

Alcohol

1942-1944, Bowman research

Aldrich, Charles R.

1931, ALK discourages him from studying here

Aldridge, Marjorie

1925-1936, departmental secretary

Aldridge, William S.

1960, 1964, asks info on Indian costumes and beadwork

Alexander, Annie M.

1947, with EWG re water colors of birds of Fiji

1949, re Massey's expenses

Alexander, Frederic C.

1957, asks EWG's advice on shell collecting

Allard, Elisabeth

1944, social anthropologist visits here on way to Australia where she will be in charge of education of evacuated Indonesian children

Allchin, Bridget

1956, DGM opinion of her proposed work in India

Allen, Albert A.

1940, ALK advises he offer his stone mortar to museum at U. Oregon

Allen, Glover M.

1919-1921, loan of Canidae remains for research for his paper "Dogs of the American Aborigines"

Allen, Harold

1946, wants pictures for new edition of "Art Through the Ages"

referred to other sources

Allen, Harold B.

1940, does ALK know of any work on Chammorran language?

nothing since Safford

Allen, Hugh S.

1924, re painted rocks on Carissa Plain

Allen, James T.

1938, re loan of specimens to Greek Department

1939, re local chapter of AIA

Allen, Maude Rex

n.d., to EWG re her work

Aring, Barbara

1964, asks info on ceremonial paddle

FAN gives references

Allende, Amadeo Baez

1935, one letter in Spanish

Alliot, Hector

1914-1916, curator of the Southwest Museum

Allison, Muriel R.

1926, ALK recommendation for fellowship

Allport, Floyd H.

1928, 1934, re inclusion of study of ALK's work in case book methods in the social sciences

Alpert, Harry

1938, RHL's reaction to his review of "History"

Alpha Epsilon Sigma

minutes, correspondence, membership lists, business of the executive committee

Alsberg, Carl

1921-1943

Altieri, Radames

1939-1943

Altman, Ralph

1959-1966

Altman, Ralph Memorial Fund

1967

Altrocchi, Rudolph

1947, invitation to his lecture on Dante

Altus, W.D.

1945, asks where to publish data on heights and weights of various linguistic and racial groups among Army illiterates

RHL suggests American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Box 25

Amago, Mystica A.

1919-1920, requests copies of recordings of songs by her uncles

sent gratis along with papers on Luiseños

Amartey, Kofi

1938, wants to do graduate work here

not qualified

Ambrose, Genevieve

1923, RHL recommends her to Oxford

American Academy

1947, TDMcC supports grant application for Movius

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1939-1955, re grants

American Academy of Asian Studies

announcement of courses, 1955-1956

American Academy of Political and Social Science

1941, 1944, 1955