George McCutchen McBride papers
name: label: Creator
content: McBride, George McCutchen, 1876-1971
place: label: Place
content: South America
label: Place
content: Peru
label: Place
content: Argentina
label: Place
content: Ecuador
label: Place
content: Guatemala
label: Place
content: Mexico
label: Place
content: Central America
label: Place
content: Chile
label: Place
content: Bolivia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Jonathan Sauer in 1978.
creator: label: Creator
content: McBride, George McCutchen, 1876-1971
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content: George McCutchen McBride papers
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: George McCutchen McBride (1876-1971) was born in Benton, Kansas.  Following college at Park College in Missouri, he attended Auburn Theological Seminary and received his D.D in 1901. Later that year he went to Chile and worked as a missionary teacher at the Presbyterian Instituto Inglés in Santiago. In 1907 McBride married Harriet Fields, and left Chile for La Paz, Bolivia, where he worked as a teacher until 1915. 

McBride's interest in the economic, social, and political aspects of the areas in which he worked and travelled led him to pursue graduate work in geography at Yale. He received his PhD in 1921 with a dissertation on the "Land systems of Mexico." In 1922, McBride joined the faculty of UCLA (then University of California, Southern Branch). There, he was instrumental in the department's expansion and went on to serve as chair from 1923 until 1942, when he was called to serve as Technical Advisor to the Ecuador-Peru Mixed Boundary Demarcation Commission. He served on the Commission until 1949, producing reports and supervising the aerial photography of the borderline by the US Army Air Force. 

McBride died in Claremont, California.

Sources consulted:

Spencer, J.E. "Obituary: George McCutchen McBride," in Geographical Review Vol. 62, No. 3 (July 1972)

Erzinger, Mitchell. Finding aid to the George McCuthen McBride papers, UCLA Library Special Collections, 2014.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1978-24
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is organized into three series: 1. Correspondence and personal, 2. Writings, and 3. Photographs.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection came to the archives largely unarranged. The archivist therefore imposed a general order to enable better access to the materials but maintained the order of groupings within the collection.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The George McCutchen McBride papers primarily document McBride's work and travels in South America. The bulk of the papers consist of McBride's writings and notes, with a small amount of correspondence and personal papers. Also included are travel diaries of McBride's wife Harriet, as well as their friend Edna Grover.

Photographs comprise about half of the collection and are mainly of people and landscapes in South America, but also include photographs of family and personal subjects.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles holds the George McCutchen McBride Papers relating to his work as Technical Advisor to the Ecuador-Peru Mixed Boundary Demarcation Commission (Collection 2240).