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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thompson, Laura, 1905-2000
setName: label: See more items in
content: Laura Thompson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1983-51, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Materials ordered alphabetically by document type and chronologically therein; notes and photographs arranged alphabetically. Index files and photographs placed at end of series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Papers in this series originated from Thompson's two field trips to Iceland in 1952 and 1960. Included are field diaries and interviews, original field notes, research notes, and Thompson's 1960 pilot study report of Icelandic values. This series also includes many manuscripts based upon Thompson's Icelandic studies and photographs taken in the field. Thompson never published any materials based upon this research. Also see Series 7 for more materials relating to Thompson's core values project. Diaries from 1952 include research notes, diary entries and interviews. Between her two field trips, Thompson kept touch with her informant and Icelandic host, Anna Gudmundsdottir. Thompson's correspondent Ann Pinson Gill was a student pursuing her graduate research in a rural township in northern Iceland. Included is her 1977 Ph.D. dissertation. One letter from Gill remains restricted. This series includes the only personal letters between Thompson and her second husband, John Collier, found in the collection.