Leonard Bloomfield papers
name: label: Creator
content: Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Linguistics
creator: label: Creator
content: Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
culture: label: Culture
content: Lenape (Delaware)
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Algonquin (Algonkin)
label: Culture
content: Shawnee
label: Culture
content: Mahican
label: Culture
content: Menominee (Menomini)
label: Culture
content: Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
label: Culture
content: Meskwaki (Fox)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Bloomfield was one of America's foremost scientific linguists, concerned with theoretical, descriptive, and applied aspects of his field. A teacher of German and an accomplished Indo-European scholar, he also carried out reserch on the languages of non-literated peoples on Algonquian languages.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Linear feet (6 document boxes and 13 card file boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1981-04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection concerns Bloomfield's work and the work of his students and colleagues--Charles Frederick Voegelin, Morris Swadesh, and Bernard Bloch--on Algonquian languages, particularly Menoninee, Chippewa, Shawnee, Delaware, Fox, Mahican, and Cree. Included are manuscript word lists, grammar notes, and texts together with some related printed and processed materials. In addition, the collection contains weekly summaries used in a Linguistic Institute course on (Oklahoma) Delaware, dated July-August, 1939. Voegelin was the linguist while the speaker was Willie Longbone. There are also a few letters of colleagues and informants (Ruth Landes, Joe Satterlee, Amos Striker, and Voegelin); an early draft of the 1946 publication Algonquian, Viking Fund Publications in Anthroplogy Number 6, pages 85-129; and other writings. Also included, sometimes as waste materials on the backs of newer manuscripts, are materials relating to Bloomfield's work on European languages and on Turkish.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Yale University Library and the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library hold additional Leonard Bloomfield papers.