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Anthropology

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

Sherman Lee Pompey collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 649
Abstract

Microfilmed collection of materials dealing with regions of the Pacific.

Dates: 1774-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Sherman Lee Pompey collection

The Omaha Indian : their history, environment, and culture

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239291989]
Identifier: MSS 9256
Content Description

Text written by Francis Waring Robinson for Professor Joseph Green's Princeton University history course Introduction to History, Politics, and Economics in 1926, bound in a green volume.

Dates: approximately 1926
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The Omaha Indian : their history, environment, and culture

Hans Rost papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348028]
Identifier: MSS 1341
Scope and Contents

Handwritten essay and correspondence in German. The essay deals with primitive tribes. One of the letters is to Rost from his publisher. The other is from Rost and expresses interest in biblical studies.

Dates: 1923
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Hans Rost papers

Andrew J. Russell, a visual historian [videorecording]

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225542213]
Identifier: MSS 3760
Scope and Contents

A study of Andrew J. Russell's photographic documentation of American history, people, geography, and events. Historians, a photographic archivist, Russell's biographer, and a park district locomotive engineer comment on his work. Also includes a demonstration of the laborious process of taking photographs in Russell's day.

Dates: Publication: 1983
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Andrew J. Russell, a visual historian [videorecording]

Sacred technology in American utopias : the new Mormon temple in Washington, D.C.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236900]
Identifier: MSS SC 281
Scope and Contents

Typewritten paper that was read at the annual meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeology, Charleston, South Carolina, 1975 January 8. The paper discusses the Mormon temple in Washington, D.C., and archaeological, cultural, religious, social and political issues related to Mormon temples.

Dates: 1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Sacred technology in American utopias : the new Mormon temple in Washington, D.C.

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309640]
Identifier: MSS SC 1154
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letter to James A. Pearce, chairman of the U.S. Senate library, concerning publication and distribution of Schoolcraft's work "Indian Tribes."

Dates: 1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft letter

Sherman Pompey: extracts from U.S. census records by locality, genealogical records of Sherman Lee Pompey, and Civil War-period military units in the West, 1779-1900

 Series
Identifier: MSS 649 Series 6
Scope and Contents note

Dates: Other: 1779-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 649, Sherman Lee Pompey collection

Sherman Pompey: letters, papers, journals and diaries of a coastwatcher in the British Solomon Islands during World War II (Reverend Silvester), 1942-1955

 Series
Identifier: MSS 649 Series 5
Scope and Contents note

Dates: Other: 1942-1955
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 649, Sherman Lee Pompey collection

Sherman Pompey materials on philately (Stamps and Postal History) of New Guinea and some of the Northwest Pacific (Micronesia), 1885-1970

 Series
Identifier: MSS 649 Series 2
Scope and Contents note

Dates: Other: 1885-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 649, Sherman Lee Pompey collection

Sherman Pompey materials on the history of New Guinea and Micronesia, continued, 1948-1970

 Series
Identifier: MSS 649 Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Dates: Other: 1948-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 649, Sherman Lee Pompey collection

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