Living informants are not to be mentioned in publications. No material is to be used to defame any individual. Formerly an employee with the United States National Museum, he has worked more recently in various capacities with United States government agencies concerned with health. The correspondence concerns publications, professional organizations, special projects relating to museums and racial attitudes, and personal relations with colleagues. Correspondents include J. Lawrence Angel, Juan Comas, George C. Marius Engerrand, Henry Field, Stanley M. Garn, Khwaja Arif Hasan, Wilton M. Krogman, Gabriel W. Lasker, Alexander Lesser, Howard V. Meredith, Marshall T. Newman, and Harry L. Shapiro.
Correspondence is restricted during the correspondent's lifetime.
For brief notes on Marcus S. Goldstein's career, see the preceding description. The locale for most are the University of Texas and Louisiana State University. Included are informal portraits of Alex D. Krieger, Charles Kelly, William B. Newell, and Goldstein. There are also views of the University of Texas Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, a site at Marshall Ford, and an Indian mound on the LSU campus. In 1929-1932, James Reid Graham was Presbyterian missionary at Gordon College, Rawalpindi, in the Punjab.