Projects
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spencer, Frank, 1941-1999
label: Collection Creator
content: Langham, Ian, 1942-1984
setName: label: See more items in
content: Frank Spencer Papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.85 Linear feet (6 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1858-1884
label: Date
content: 1897-1909
label: Date
content: 1919-1929
label: Date
content: 1939-1999
label: Date
content: bulk 1982-1995
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2002-21, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in 11 sub-series: (5.1) Brixham Cave Project, 1858-1884, 1897-1901, 1929, 1939-1942, 1954-1962, 1977-1998; (5.2) American Journal of Physical Anthropology—Jubilee Issue, 1981; (5.3) Anthropometry and Photography, 1909, 1981-1990; (5.4) Chromosomes, 1970-1973; (5.5) Crohn's Disease, 1976-1995; (5.6) Ecce Homo, 1983-1986; (5.7) Fallen Idols, 1991-1998; (5.8) French Anthropology, 1919-1927, 1980-1990; (5.9) Manuscripts & Papers, 1942-1998; (5.10) Illustrations, 1964-1966, 1992-1999; (5.11) Miscellaneous Projects, 1968-1969, 1982-1997
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Sub-series 5.11: Miscellaneous was created by the archivist as a catch-all for the files that did not fall into the other sub-series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series is organized by projects undertaken by Spencer throughout his career. In the late '80s and early '90s, Frank Spencer fastidiously researched the Brixham cave affair, believing it to be a predecessor to the Piltdown hoax. Another project is Fallen Idols, his unpublished book on the history of scientific attitudes towards human origins. Copies of the Physical Anthropology News, which Spencer co-founded and edited, are also contained in this series. The illustrations in this series are unidentified and may belong to different projects. Correspondence and questionnaires for Spencer's research on Crohn's disease are restricted.  

Additional materials relating to his projects can be found in Series 8: Coded Files and Series 11: Notebooks.