Title:

Jane Richardson Hanks collection on Alfred Kroeber, 1951-2002

Creator/Contributor:

Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1908-, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006

Creator/Contributor:

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Kroeber, Theodora, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009, correspondent.

Letters, articles, notes, and correspondence relating to noted anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, his wife Theodora, and son Karl, from a former graduate student of his at the University of California, Berkeley. Three small handwritten notes (3 p.) on University of California, Department of Anthropology letterhead stationery stamped "A.L. Kroeber, 1325 Arch Street, Berkeley 8, California" are signed "Alfred" (dated 1951 and 1957), one handwritten letter (2 p.) is from Theodora (dated Feb. 6, 1961), and a typewritten letter (1 p.) on Columbia University letterhead stationery signed by Karl Kroeber (dated Dec. 6, 1999). Includes pages 3-6 from Anthropology News (Oct. 1999), containing a letter from Ursula K. Le Guin and an article by George M. Foster. Both pieces rebutt a previous article in the same publication called "Assuming Responsibility for Ishi" (May 1999). Also includes a 17 x 12 cm photomechanical print of Alfred Kroeber [age 45?], photocopies of newspaper articles about Ishi, and a movie portrayal of Kroeber and Ishi played by Jon Voight and Graham Greene (in "The Last of His Tribe," 1992), photocopy of correspondence from Hanks to the Berkeley Department of Anthropology on her memories of Phoebe Hearst, and a photocopy of Hanks's personal recollection of the longshoreman's strike in 1934 and her experience asking the carpenter's union for help to defend a teacher being fired in Eureka, and observations on John Steinbeck padlocking a San Francisco theater. Also includes Hanks' notes about Kroeber made in preparation for a commemorative lecture she gave at the State University of New York, Albany, upon his death.

Date:

1951 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis) -- 1876-1960 -- Correspondence

Hanks, Jane Richardson -- 1908- -- Correspondence

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis) -- 1876-1960

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis) -- 1876-1960 -- Portraits

Steinbeck, John -- 1902-1968

Ishi -- -1916

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson -- 1842-1919

Anthropologists -- United States

Longshoremen's Strike, San Francisco, Calif., 1934 -- Personal narratives

Jane Richardson Hanks collection on Alfred Kroeber, BANC MSS 2008/79, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Transfer; Anthropology Library, University of California, Berkeley; 20080815.

Additions: Gift; of Jane Richardson Hanks; 2005.

In English.

Photograph transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC xxx).

Transfer; Anthropology Library, University of California, Berkeley; 20080815.

Type:

Photographs.

Letterheads.

Clippings.

print

1 folder.

English

BANC MSS 2008/79

Origin:

California