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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81032441
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Margaret Mead, anthropologist, author, and educator, were bequeathed to the Library of Congress by Mead, 1979-1980. The South Pacific Ethnographic Archives was given to the Library by the Institute for Intercultural Studies in 1980. Additions to the collection were made in a series of gifts by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, 1981-1988, and by gifts and purchases from various donors, 1980-2008. A series of deposits from Bateson, 1992-1999, was converted to gift in 2000, and additional gifts were received from her, 2001-2005.
The papers of Margaret Mead and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives were arranged and described by Mary M. Wolfskill, with the assistance of Paul Colton, Patrick Doyle, Leonard Hawley, Paul Ledvina, Sherralyn McCoy, Michael McElderry, Susie Moody, Harold Nakao, Janice Ruth, Joseph Sullivan, Allan Teichroew, and Audrey Walker, in 1983. Additional material received between 1984 and 1992 was processed as Additions I and II in 1993. Material received between 1996 and 2001 was processed as Addition III in 2001. Addition IV was processed in 2009 and includes material received in 2005 and 2008. These additions were processed by Donna Ellis and Michael McElderry, with the assistance of Kathleen Kelly and Tammi Taylor.
Addition V constitutes digital surrogates of 31,604 original 35mm nitrate negatives from Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson's Bali and New Guinea expedition. Beginning in the 1980s and into the 1990s, the negatives were re-housed and a relational database (Paradox) to describe the images was compiled by Prints and Photographs Division staff. The film was removed from the original film cans and stored on two-inch plastic cores secured with archival microfilm reel tags. Descriptions of individual images or groups of images were compiled from various sources within the collection including, but not limited to, books and publications by Mead, Bateson, and others; Mead's and Bateson's Leica catalogs; their Cine catalog; a numbered card index; typed indexes to their field notes, etc. Most pf these sources can be found in the original Fieldwork (N) series and the original Photographic File (P) series. Library staff involved in processing these original negatives included: Katherine Blood, Donna Collins, Carl Fleischhauer, Barbara Lemmen, Pat Loughney, Doris Hamburg, Rebecca Molholt, Merilee Oliver, Mary Wolfskill, and Helena Zinkham, with outside assistance from Rhoda Métraux. The original negatives were digitized for preservation and access purposes circa 1997, and the database was eventually converted to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Manuscript Division staff who further processed the digital surrogates include Eleanor McConnell and Christopher Copetas, with assistance from Elizabeth Novara and Janice Ruth. The digital surrogates were transferred to the Manuscript Division to facilitate researcher access.
The Mead Papers are described in
An appendix to Addition V: Photographic File is a spreadsheet providing descriptions of individual images or groups of images compiled from various sources within the collection.
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Some maps have been transferred to the Geography and Map Division. Motion picture films, sound recordings, and related material have been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Some photographs, including four containers of negatives and diapositives taken by Jane Belo removed from the collection in 2004, have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Margaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives. Patrons are encouraged to contact these divisions in advance of a research visit.
Circa 2009, the Prints and Photographs Division transferred 32,000 digital image surrogates of original 35mm nitrate negatives from Mead's and Bateson's Bali and New Guinea expedition to the Manuscript Division to facilitate researcher access. The original negatives remain in the Prints and Photographs Division in cold storage and are not accessible to researchers.
Related collections in the Manuscript Division include the papers of Rhoda Métraux at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008041.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Margaret Mead in these papers and in other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress is reserved. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for further information.
Restrictions apply governing the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division for information concerning these restrictions. In addition, many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use. Addition V is composed entirely of digital files and is accessible onsite only via Stacks at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms009117stacks.mss32441.
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on one reel. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Part of the Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives is available on
the Library of Congress website at
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000115 and onsite via Stacks at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms009117stacks.mss32441.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Margaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Margaret Mead span the years 1838-1980, and bulk largest from about 1911, when her earliest writings begin, to 1978, the year of her death. Mead's personal and professional activities are documented by correspondence, field data, research material, office files, publications, papers of colleagues, and other matter. The collection is divided into twenty-two series, which reflect, as far as possible, Mead's own filing order. Similar material may be found in more than one series and inconsistencies in filing are not uncommon due to the complexity of Mead's schedule and the frequency with which her office assistants (mostly students) came and went over a span of nearly fifty years.
Mead's early life, education, and interests can be traced in diaries and notebooks, 1911-1920, and in other material included in the Family Papers series. Papers from her college years at DePauw, Barnard, and Columbia, 1919-1925, include class notes, exercises, writings, memorabilia, and yearbooks. Correspondence with her immediate family, which included Mead's paternal grandmother, Martha Adaline Ramsay Mead, indicate the cultural environment in which Mead was raised. Exchanges with her parents, Edward Sherwood Mead and Emily Fogg Mead, are frequent and informative, focusing on family matters and occasionally on contemporary events. Writings, research material, teaching files, general correspondence, clippings, and other items exist for these and other family members. The earliest material in the Family Papers, dated in the 1830s, consists primarily of the correspondence of Mead's ancestor Fanny Fogg Clary. Other significant nineteenth-century family letters are found in the papers of Mead's grandparents, Giles F. Mead and Martha Mead, both of whom were educators. For later years, there is correspondence with many other family members including Mead's husbands Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson, daughter Mary Catherine Bateson, sisters Priscilla Mead Rosten and Elizabeth Mead Steig, brother Richard Ramsay Mead, and aunt Fanny Fogg McMaster.
The Special Correspondence series, 1914-1979, includes letters sent and received primarily from professional colleagues who were also associated with Mead on a personal level. Collaboration on projects and publications or shared interest in anthropological field areas often characterized these relationships. Among the correspondents are Jane Belo, Ruth Benedict, Edith Cobb, Wilton Dillon, Marie Eichelberger, Milton H. Erickson, Erik H. Erikson, Lenora Foerstel, Lawrence K. Frank, Geoffrey Gorer, Barbara Honeyman Heath, Margaret Lowenfeld, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux, G. Frederick Roll, Lola Romanucci-Ross, Theodore Schwartz, and Martha Wolfenstein. Additional papers of many of these individuals are found elsewhere in the collection, notably in the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives or the Papers of Colleagues series described below.
Mead's own arrangement of the General Correspondence series, 1909-1979, has been retained so that readers can follow her work chronologically while being able to locate letters from specific correspondents in the alphabetical file within each year or group of years. Some correspondents of particular relevance to Mead's life and work were college roommates and friends such as Léonie Adams, Leah Josephson Hanna, Eleanor Pelham Kortheuer, Louise M. Rosenblatt, and Katharine Rothenberger; important contacts in anthropological fieldwork such as Sir Frederick Beaumont Phillips and E. W. Pearson Chinnery, government anthropologist from New Guinea; Peter Henry Buck and Kenneth Pike Emory of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii; and Katharane Edson Mershon, Walter Spies, and Madē Kalēr, who assisted Mead and Bateson in their initial fieldwork in Bali in the 1930s. Other professional colleagues represented include John Dollard, Mary Shattuck Fisher, Raymond William Firth, Frank Fremont-Smith, Margaret E. Fries, Clifford Geertz and Hildred Geertz, Herbert Ian Hogbin, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Phyllis Mary Kaberry, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alfred L. Kroeber, Harold Dwight Lasswell, Robert Harry Lowie, Philip E. Mosely, William Fielding Ogburn, Douglas L. Oliver, and John Wesley Mayhew Whiting.
The Curriculum Vitae file, 1925-1979, contains biographical information and letters of recommendation in support of educational, employment, grant, and fellowship applications by students, colleagues, friends, and family. Items related to the achievements and qualifications of applicants are supplemented by correspondence.
Mead's activities in a wide range of organizations are documented in both the Organizations File and Special Working Group series, chiefly dated 1940 to 1978 and revealing involvement with professional associations as well as other groups ranging in concern from health and nutrition to cybernetics and ekistics. Mead's American Anthropological Association (AAA) files include correspondence with Gregory Bateson, Eliot Dismore Chapple, A. Irving Hallowell, Melville J. Herskovits, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alfred L. Kroeber, Kurt Lewin, Robert Harry Lowie, Sol Tax, and others. In addition to correspondence, there are drafts of presentations given at AAA functions as well as programs and administrative papers, particularly for 1960 when Mead served as president of the organization. The most voluminous files in these series are for Mead's work with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Particularly significant are her contributions to the Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare. The materials are most extensive for the years 1975-1976, when Mead served first as president and later as chair of the Board of Directors. These files provide insight into Mead's philosophy on race, technological change, population, and world peace.
Beginning in 1934 with the Hanover Seminar, Mead became involved with interdisciplinary work study groups, the most notable of which are represented by files in the Special Working Group series, 1931-1978. She and Gregory Bateson applied their anthropological field training to culturally related problems of World War II, joining with other concerned social scientists to form the Committee for National Morale under the direction of Arthur Upham Pope. However, most of Mead's wartime contributions evolved from her duties as executive secretary of the National Research Council's Committee on Food Habits. In later years she worked with professionals from other disciplines in such groups as the World Federation for Mental Health, the World Health Organization, and the World Society for Ekistics. Following the death of Ruth Benedict in 1948, Mead became coordinator of the Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures projects, in which interdisciplinary teams were assembled to study world cultures from sources available primarily in the United States. Through analysis of literature, film, interviews with immigrants, and other research material, thousands of documents were amassed on the cultural traits of the peoples of China, Czechoslovakia, France, Poland, Russia, Syria, Turkey, and other countries. There were also cross-cultural studies on Jewish culture and on children. Documents for this project and its successor studies on Chinese political character and human ecology, Soviet culture and communication, and German national character are in the Projects in Contemporary Cultures series.
The Scheduling File, 1928-1979, includes appointment books and memoranda and folders containing correspondence, abstracts of lectures, and related items for speaking engagements, personal appearances, conferences, office appointments, and other activities. Mead's practice of conducting office business while on her trips resulted in unrelated material being filed with scheduling papers. A list of folder headings is filed in the first box of the folders.
Mead continued to publish prolifically throughout her life. The Publications and Other Writings series, 1923-1980, includes a nearly complete set of her published and unpublished work. Interviews with Mead are found here as well as in the Scheduling File, and writings by others, often about Mead, follow the year-by-year arrangement. Full bibliographic details of Mead's publications are available in
Teaching was an important part of Mead's life. At Columbia University her courses included culture and communication and the methods and problems in anthropology. She was also instrumental in establishing the Department of Anthropology at New York University and chaired the Social Sciences Division at Fordham University's Liberal Arts College at Lincoln Center. The Teaching File, 1927-1978, includes material concerning these and other institutions where Mead lectured both graduates and undergraduates, training students to become more active observers of their environment. Course descriptions, bibliographies, student papers and projects, and correspondence document her approach to education and teaching style.
For more than fifty years Mead was a member of the professional staff of the American Museum of Natural History, where she served successively as assistant and associate curator, curator, and curator emeritus of ethnology. Papers relating to her work at the museum and office memoranda for other activities constitute the first part of the Office File, 1925-1980. Following these administrative papers are a series of subject files for areas of continuing interest. Among the more personal items relating to Mead are awards, biographical clippings, financial papers, notebooks, wills, and other items in the Miscellany series, 1924-1979. Meriting special attention are 180 personal notebooks, 1940-1978, in which Mead recorded various items of information from schedule reminders to detailed transcriptions of conference proceedings and personal interviews.
A separate series documents the activities of the Institute for Intercultural Studies, 1937-1980, formerly the Council on Intercultural Relations, founded in 1941 by Lawrence K. Frank, Edwin R. Embree, Gregory Bateson, and Margaret Mead. Another war-related activity, this group focused originally on national character studies of countries antagonistic to the United States, notably Germany and Japan. The institute continued to conduct other national character studies as well as related research after World War II and later became a source of grant funding for culturally oriented research projects.
The extensive field research of Margaret Mead and other anthropologists with whom she worked, including, Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Reo Fortune, Lola Romanucci-Ross, and Theodore Schwartz and Lenora Foerstel has been assembled in the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives series, 1925-1978. Field expeditions to American Samoa, Bali, and present-day Papua New Guinea are well documented by correspondence, diaries and notebooks, notes, catalogs, indexes, and other items. Mead and Fortune's field expedition among the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska in 1930 is placed at the end of this series. Census data, linguistic notes, psychological testing material, and other descriptive items exist for many of the peoples represented in the archives. The Manus of Pere Village in the Admiralty Islands, to which Mead returned five times after her initial expedition with Reo Fortune in 1928, are thoroughly documented, and there is significant research data for other Indigenous groups of Papua New Guinea, including the Iatmul, Arapesh, Biwat (Mundugumor), Chambri (Tchambuli), Baining, and Sulka peoples. Notes on the latter two are from Gregory Bateson's earliest field trips in the late 1920s. The Balinese and Iatmul material from Mead and Bateson's expedition from 1936 to 1939 indicates their use of the innovative field technique of capturing cultural traits on still and moving picture film.
The Papers of Colleagues series, 1908-1978, includes personal material of Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Ruth Benedict, Edith Cobb, Margaret Lowenfeld, and Martha Wolfenstein. Mead acquired these papers primarily through her efforts to promote publication of studies derived from the research of these individuals.
The Photographic File, 1878-1978, contains approximately fifty thousand images, the bulk of which forms part of the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives field data. Photographs exist for nearly every field area and are most numerous for the Manus people of Pere Village. In addition to field photos, there are images of family and friends, a chronological file documenting many of Mead's other activities, and photographs used to illustrate
Five separate additions plus a Restricted series and an Oversize series are also included in the collection. Additions I and II, both arranged in 1993, document Mead's personal and professional activities and include correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, field data, photographs, writings, and miscellaneous items. Addition III, arranged in 2001, contains similar material including significant correspondence files of Ruth Benedict and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux. Addition IV, arranged in 2009, includes additional Benedict correspondence, family papers, and various textual and photographic documentation of Mead's field trip to the Admiralty Islands, 1953-1954, with Lenora Foerstel and Theodore Schwartz. The additions complement the original collection and are arranged in conformity with it. As in the original collection, similar material may be found in more than one series.
Addition I spans the years 1861-1987, with the bulk of the material dating from 1920 to 1978. The addition contains material relating to thirteen of the collections original sixteen series including Family Papers, Special Correspondence, General Correspondence, Curriculum Vitae, Organizations File, Scheduling File, Publications and Other Writings File, Teaching File, Office File, Miscellany, Institute for Intercultural Studies, Fieldwork, and Photographic File, a portion of which has been relocated to the Restricted series. The Family Papers series of Addition I contains material relating to Mead's mother, Emily Fogg Mead, including correspondence, diaries, financial papers, research notes, speeches, writings, and other items, as well as papers from Mead's childhood and adolescence. The series further includes correspondence between various family members and between Mead and her three husbands, Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson.
Addition I: Special Correspondence and Addition I: General Correspondence contain letters exchanged between Mead and various friends and colleagues. A large Photographic File series includes personal and professional photographs of Mead, her family, and her friends, as well as documentary photographs taken during her anthropological field trips.
Addition II spans the period 1875-1979, with the bulk of the items concentrated in the years 1920 to 1978. The addition contains material relating to eleven of the original series including Family Papers, Special Correspondence, General Correspondence, Curriculum Vitae, Publications and Other Writings File, Teaching File, Office File, Miscellany, Fieldwork, Papers of Colleagues, and Photographic File. Highlights include letters exchanged between Mead and her second and third husbands, Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson, in the additional Family Papers series. Material documenting Mead's research in the South Pacific in the Fieldwork series consists of correspondence, field notes, reports, and financial records and relates to trips to American Samoa, Bali, and present-day Papua New Guinea.
Addition III spans the years 1912-1996 although, as in the previous additions, most of the items date from 1920 to 1978. The material relates to nine of the collections original series including Family Papers, Special Correspondence, General Correspondence, Projects in Contemporary Culture, Publications and Other Writings, Miscellany, Fieldwork, Papers of Colleagues, and Photographic File. Correspondence between Mead and Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson in the Family Papers reflect their personal satisfactions and disappointments as well as the marital pressures encountered during long periods of separation while engaged in research trips in the field. Further insights into Mead's personal and professional life are included in her correspondence with Ruth Benedict and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux in the Special Correspondence series. Extensive files for both women, noted anthropologists in their own right, reveal the specifics of their personal and romantic relationships with Mead, the level of professional encouragement and assistance each provided the other, and their shared concern for the development and advancement of anthropology as a social science.
Addition IV spans the years 1877-1978 with most of the items dating from 1900 to 1954. The addition contains material relating to seven of the collection's original series including Family Papers, General Correspondence, Publications and Other Writings, Miscellany, Fieldwork, Papers of Colleagues, and Photographic File. Family Papers contain letters and other items of Bateson and Mead family members. Numerous letters exchanged between Gregory Bateson and his mother, Caroline Beatrice Bateson, outline his research trips to Bali and New Guinea, his marriage to Mead, and the birth of their daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, in 1939, providing a portrait of life in the field and at home in England in the years leading up to World War II. Copies of diaries, notebooks, and other data in the Fieldwork series document Mead's expedition to the Admiralty Islands in 1953-1954 with Lenora Foerstel and Theodore Schwartz, and offer variant readings of related items in the original collection. Additions to Ruth Benedict's correspondence in the Papers of Colleagues series include letters exchanged with friend and colleague Edward Sapir and with Mead, whose letters are similar in tone and content to those described in Addition III.
Addition V: Photographic File spans the years 1936-1939. The addition contains 31,604 digital image surrogates of 35mm nitrate negatives, listed chronologically, relating to the collection's original Photographic File (P) series, and documenting Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson's field expedition in Bali and among the Iatmul people of New Guinea. An attached spreadsheet provides descriptions of individual images or groups of images compiled from various sources within the collection including, but not limited to, books and publications by Mead, Bateson, and others; Mead's and Bateson's Leica catalogs; their Cine catalog; a numbered card index; typed indexes to their field notes, etc., most of which can be found in the original Fieldwork (N) series and the original Photographic File (P) series.
This collection is arranged in fifty-nine series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81032441
Correspondence of family members, scrapbooks, school papers, diaries, notebooks, research material, financial and legal papers, writings, and other material, including Mead's childhood and college papers.
Arranged alphabetically by name of relative.
Correspondence of Mead with close friends and associates.
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual.
Letters sent and received, memoranda, and miscellaneous attachments and enclosures.
Arranged alphabetically by writer or subject.
Biographical information, letters of recommendation, and general correspondence with related material for students, colleagues, friends, and family.
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual.
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related material concerning organizations in which Mead participated.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization.
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, research material, and related items for interdisciplinary study groups with which Mead was associated.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization and therein by topic or type of material. Organizations include:
Research material, correspondence, financial papers, reports, minutes of meetings, questionnaires, writings, interviews, clippings, notes, and other items.
Arranged by name of project and therein alphabetically by topic or type of material. Projects include:
Correspondence, research material, and reports relating to Studies in Soviet Communication and German National Character.
Arranged by name of project and therein by type of material.
Appointment books, calendars, scheduling memoranda, correspondence, abstracts of lectures, interviews, and other material relating primarily to speaking engagements and personal appearances.
Arranged in an appointment books and scheduling file and a chronological file. The appointment file is organized chronologically, and the chronological file is arranged by date of activity.
Correspondence, handwritten and typewritten drafts, proofs, printed copies, notes, interviews, comments, statements, and other material relating to publications by Mead and others.
Arranged chronologically by date of publication or by date of writing if unpublished. The arrangement within each year is based upon the arrangement in
Correspondence, memoranda, course descriptions, bibliographies, student papers and projects, class rosters, and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of institution.
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Material relating to Mead's office at the American Museum of Natural History, including correspondence, reports, projects, office memoranda, assistants' logs, forms, research material, bibliographies, and related material.
Arranged in administrative and subject files and therein alphabetically by topic or type of material.
Awards, greetings, cards, clippings, financial papers, notes, passports, personal notebooks, medical concerns, wills, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
Correspondence, reports, financial papers, and other material relating to grants, special projects, and studies.
Arranged by type of material.
Correspondence, field bulletins, notebooks, notes, psychological test material, diaries, drawings, reports, financial papers, writings, transcripts of tapes, catalogs, and other files created or compiled by Mead, Reo Fortune, Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Theodore Schwartz, Lenora Schwartz, Lola Romanucci, and others.
Arranged alphabetically by geographic location and therein chronologically by field trip. Included at the end of the series is material related to Mead and Fortune's fieldwork with the Omaha Indians.
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Correspondence, subject files, speeches and writings, notes and notebooks, research projects, teaching files, and other papers donated by friends and colleagues to Mead.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague.
Letters received and copies of letters sent between family members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Letters received and copies of letters sent, telegrams, memoranda, and related enclosures.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Drafts of writings, correspondence, notes, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to articles, books, speeches, lectures, and interviews.
Arranged alphabetically by type of writing and therein chronologically. A file of miscellaneous correspondence and other material is located at the end of the series.
Printed matter, correspondence, financial and legal papers, and notes.
Arranged by type of material.
Letters received and copies of letters sent, postcards, telegrams, and related enclosures.
Arranged chronologically.
Notes, work papers, reports, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Notes and research papers, drafts of writings, correspondence, production material, proofs, and printed matter relating to books, articles, and interviews.
Arranged by type of material.
Notes and notebooks.
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Printed matter, correspondence, financial accounts, notes, cards and invitations, legal documents, poetry, and writings by others.
Arranged by type of material.
Letters sent and received including attachments.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence, biographical material, financial and legal papers, and miscellaneous material relating to Quain.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Notes and miscellaneous items.
Arranged by topic or type of material.
Diaries and diary notes with attachments.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters received from family members and general correspondence from friends and colleagues.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, project proposals, and scrapbooks.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Drafts of published and unpublished writings, galley and page proofs, memoranda, research notes, working papers, and miscellaneous material pertaining to Cobb's speeches, articles, and her book,
Arranged alphabetically by title.
Notes for case studies, bibliography cards, and published and unpublished writings by Cobb's friends and colleagues.
Arranged by type of material.
Letters to and from friends, foundations, institutions, and colleagues.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Drafts, galleys, illustrations, research material, and notes relating to Lowenfeld's articles and book,
Arranged by type of material.
Biographical information, printed matter, writings by others, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged by type of material.
Letters to and from family members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Correspondence, clippings, illustrations, interviews, memoranda, notes, project proposals, questionnaires, reports, texts, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by project.
Drafts, notes, research material, and miscellaneous material relating to articles and books.
Arranged by title.
Correspondence, memoranda, lecture notes, and student papers during Wolfenstein's tenure at Hunter College, New York, N.Y. and the New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
Arranged by name of institution.
Children's drawings, notes, student papers, and writings by others.
Arranged by type of material.
Positive and negative images, diapositives, contact sheets, 35mm slides, glass slides, and related material.
Arranged by subject or type of material.
Photographs of Mead family members.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
Photographs of Mead's friends and colleagues, including occasional correspondence and notes.
Arranged alphabetically by name.
Photographs of Mead and her family and friends.
Arranged chronologically.
Published and unpublished photographs gathered for publication by Mead and others, including correspondence, caption notes, production material, notes and related material, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by publication title.
Photographs taken during Mead's anthropological field trips, including index cards, notes, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location and therein chronologically by field trip.
Photographs of various anthropologists and related anthropological subject matter, including notes and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague or type of material.
Negative photographs, diapositives, slides, contact prints, and miscellaneous photographs relating to fieldwork, friends and colleagues, and miscellaneous subjects.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, subject, or type of material.
Correspondence of family members, biographical data, diaries, financial and legal papers, school papers, research material, writings, and printed ephemera including Mead's childhood and college papers.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
Correspondence with friends and associates.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Letters sent and received including miscellaneous attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically.
Biographical information, bibliographies, professional appointments, and research requests regarding Mead.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Correspondence and related items concerning the Scientists' Institute for Public Information.
Arranged chronologically.
Note cards, contracts, correspondence, and other items primarily related to speaking engagements.
Arranged chronologically by date of activity.
Correspondence, handwritten and typewritten drafts, printed copies, notes, interviews, and other items relating to the writings of Mead and others. Includes articles, books, fiction, poems, and reviews.
Arranged chronologically by date of publication or date of writing if unpublished.
Correspondence, memoranda, course descriptions, student papers, and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by institution.
Papers relating to Mead's office at the American Museum of Natural History, including correspondence, reports, office memoranda, and other administrative records.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Address lists, awards, financial papers, estate papers, greetings, medical concerns, newspaper clippings, notes, passports and security clearances, personality analyses, printed ephemera, and wills.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence, financial papers, and project material.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Procedures and instructions, reports, and financial papers.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location and therein chronologically by date of field trip.
Photographs of Mead, family members, friends, colleagues, and field trips consisting of positive and negative film, contact sheets, 35mm slides, glass negatives, printing accessories, film strips, correspondence relating to the production of photographs, and drawings.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein alphabetically by subject.
Correspondence of family members, diaries, writings, and miscellaneous items, including Mead's childhood and college papers.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
Correspondence of Mead with friends and associates.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Letters sent and received including miscellaneous attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically and therein alphabetically by writer.
Resumes and reports relating to Mead's colleagues and students.
Arranged alphabetically by name of individual.
Correspondence, handwritten and typewritten drafts, printed copies, and notes relating to publications by Mead and others.
Arranged chronologically by date of publication or by date of writing if unpublished.
Miscellaneous examinations and lecture notes.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence and interoffice memoranda relating to Mead's office at the American Museum of Natural History.
Arranged chronologically.
Address lists, divorce papers, estate and financial papers, greetings, newspaper clippings, notes, personality analyses, printed ephemera, and wills.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence, reports, financial papers, notebooks, and research material.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location and therein chronologically by name of field trip.
Correspondence and writings of Ruth Benedict and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague.
Drawings and photographs of Mead, family members, friends, colleagues, and field trips.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein alphabetically by subject.
Correspondence of family members, speeches and writings, drawings, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
Correspondence with friends and associates.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Letters sent and received including miscellaneous attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically.
Project manual and research paper on China.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, drafts, notes, reviews, and miscellaneous items relating to articles, poetry, and other writings by Mead and others.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Correspondence, personal notebooks, address and appointment books, notes, financial and legal records, cards and invitations, printed matter, and other items.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Field notes and notebooks, diary, correspondence, and copies of a census manuscript.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location.
Correspondence, projective test materials, manuals, printed matter, and miscellaneous items relating to Theodora Mead Abel and Ruth Benedict.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague.
Photographs and slides of Mead, family members, friends, colleagues, and field trips. Also includes film catalogs of the Iatmul of Tambunam village, Papua New Guinea.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein alphabetically by subject.
Correspondence of family members, speeches and writings, childhood papers, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
Letters received.
Arranged chronologically.
Master's thesis of Theodore Schwartz.
Notes and printed matter.
Field notes and notebooks, diaries, research material, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location and therein alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Correspondence and miscellany of Ruth Benedict.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein by name of person.
Photographs, contact prints and negatives, contact sheets, and slides of Bateson family members, friends and colleagues, and field trips.
Organized according to the subseries arrangement in the original part of the collection and therein alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Digital image surrogates of 35mm nitrate negatives of Mead's and Bateson's field expedition in Bali and among the Iatmul people of New Guinea. An attached spreadsheet provides descriptions of individual images or groups of images compiled from various sources within the collection.
Arranged chronologically according to the order of the original film negatives. Accessible onsite via Stacks at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms009117stacks.mss32441.
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