Melville Herskovits films
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from the National Anthropological Archives in 1998.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Positive rolls
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously part of Melville Herskovits collection, Northwestern University Library. Later given to the National Anthropological Archives, and subsequently the Human Studies Film Archives.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1998.19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Positive rolls
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Twenty rolls of what appears to be film strips on motion picture film as well as paper prints.  Given to NAA by Northwestern University Library from the Melville Herskovits collection.

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