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Jessie Taft papers, 1888-1961, bulk 1920-1961

1.5 linear feet
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Correspondence with friends and patients, manuscripts and printed copies of Taft's many scholarly articles, notes for the courses which she taught, and case histories of some of her patients. Correspondents include James R. Angell, Ruth Benedict, and Karen Horney.

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Research in Contemporary Cultures records, 1939-1962, bulk 1947-1952

19.5 linear feet
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This collection contains the records of the Research in Contemporary Cultures project (1947-1953) begun by Ruth Benedict at Columbia University, and carried out by Margaret Mead at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History after Benedict's death in 1948. The records of three successor projects, Studies in Soviet Culture (1948-1952), Studies in Contemporary Culture (1951-1952), and and Study Program of Human Health and the Ecology of Man (1954-1956) are also included. The purpose of these projects was anthropological study at a distance of global cultures inaccessible for direct observation, in an attempt to establish the "national character" of countries of geopolitical interest to the United States government.
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Department of Anthropology Records, 1930-1985

3.42 linear feet
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Documenting the operations of the Anthropology Department, these records reflect administrative and instructional or research functions of the department.
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Council for Research in the Humanities Records, 1926-1968, bulk 1926-1936; 1966-1968

2.73 linear feet
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This collection contains the minutes, correspondence, and reports of the Council for Research in the Humanities.
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Council for Research in the Social Sciences records, 1922-1970, bulk 1925-1968

8 linear feet
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This collection contains the correspondence, minutes and meetings, projects and reports of the Council for Research in the Social Sciences.
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Randolph Somerville papers, 1915-1958

28.5 linear feet
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Papers, promptbooks, photographs, lecture notes, correspondence, and theatrical files of Somerville. Included are materials from the Washington Square Players and Duke's Oak Theatre in Cooperstown, N.Y.

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Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences Records, 1927-1934

110 linear feet
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Correspondence; original manuscripts, translations and drafts of articles: organizational files and business records. Widely supported by the American European Intellectual communities, correspondents and contributors include Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Max Eastman, Felix Frankfurter, Carl J. Friedrich, Louis R. Gottschalk, Melville J. Herskovitz, Granville Hicks, Sidney Hook, John Maynard Keyes, Kenneth S. Latourette, Max Lerner, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karl Manheim, Margaret Mead, Paul Miliukov, Lewis Mumford, Joseph Needham, Frederick Law Olmstead, Henri Pirenne, Roscoe Pound, Edward Sapir, and Arthur M. Schlesinger. Note, however, that many of the more famous authors wrote only one article for the encyclopaedia, and their correspondence files are accordingly small.

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