Correspondence Files
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
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content: Department of Anthropology records
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content: Department of Anthropology records / Series 1: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1956-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0311, Subseries 1.10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series includes incoming and outgoing letters, memoranda, and telegrams. It also includes some manuscript articles for publication, research proposals, administrative forms, and printed and processed material. There are many outgoing letters for which there are no related incoming letters included. 

The materials broadly concern the operations of the department, including staffing and personnel matters, review of manuscripts to be published by staff members, services and personnel matters, services to the general public, arrangements for visiting research, professional activities of the staff, and facilitation of staff research. Some of the material concerns efforts to reorganize anthropology at the Smithsonian and special programs of the department. Other material concerns the chairman's professional relations with colleagues.

Most of the outgoing correspondence is that of Waldo R. Wedel, Saul H. Riesenberg, and Richard B. Woodbury. Selected correspondents include Lawrence Angel, William M. Bass, John H. Brandt, J. O. Brew, John L. Cotter, Warren W. Caldwell, Marian Cavendish, Henri G. Coutais (restoration of the Catlin paintings), William O. Douglas, Robert C. Euler, Kent V. Flannery, Don D. Fowler, Melvin L. Fowler, Henry W. Hamilton, Robert F. Heizer, Eva Horner, Aleš Hrdlička (concerning the Hrdlička Fund), Robert B. Johnson, Marvin F. Kivett, Herbert W. Krieger, Alex D. Krieger, Robert M. Laughlin, Donald J. Lehmer, Alejandro Mendez, Thomas H. Koehler, Richard K. Meyer (donation of Spiro Mound material), Harold McCracken, Charles A. Reed, Charles M. Schwarz (regarding drawings by John Webber), Ralph S. Solecki, Robert L. Stephenson, Frank M. Setzler, and Sol Tax.