Alpha-Subject File
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Department of Anthropology records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.67 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1828-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0311, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes letters, memoranda, lists, reports, forms, statements, printed material and photographs. It is composed of two different types of material. Part of it is administrative in nature and concerns policies and procedures, instructions, special activities, World War II, and housekeeping matters. Other material largely concerns accessions, loans, exhibits, and special projects and programs.

Many of the outgoing letters are those of William Henry Holmes, Walter Hough, and Frank M. Setzler. Other writers include John Leonard Baer (regarding the Marsh Darien Expedition), Howard W. Bible, James H. Breasted, Harry S. Bryan, Henry B. Collins, Leonard Carmichael, John C. Ewers (filed Catlin paintings and Museum of the Plains Indian), C. E. Cummings, Chauncey J. Hamlin, Herbert Maier (Buffalo Museum of Science), Ephraim Deinard, Frances Densmore, J. E. Graf, Ella F. Hubby, Mrs. R. G. Hoes, Mrs. R. R. Hoes, Mrs. Julian James, Mary Lois Kissell, Remington Kellogg, Edward S. Morse, A. P. Rice, W. de C. Ravenal (some regarding Holmes), Ellen P. Richardson, A. C. Smith, and Gertrude B. Warren.

The rare correspondence includes material of Matthew Stirling (regarding his 1926 work on the middle Rouffaer River, New Guinea), William Henry Holmes, Thomas Wilson (concerning difficulties with the catalog of anthropological collections), Walter Hough, S. K. Lothrop, Gerard Fowke, Aleš Hrdlička, Joseph K. Dixon, William Gates (regarding the 1926 meeting of the International Congress of Americanists), H. C. Shetrone, F. S. Dellenbaugh, Thomas S. Dawson (regarding information about John Moss), John Merriam, Warren K. Moorehead (concerning Cahokia Mound), Nels C. Nelson, and Max Uhle. There are also letters dating from 1920 between W. H. Holmes and F. W. Doge concerning problems with the AAA.