Milo Hellman papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hellman, Milo
label: Names
content: Angle, Edward H. (Edward Hartley), 1855-1930
label: Correspondent
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
label: Names
content: Bogue, E.A.
label: Depicted
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
topic: label: Topic
content: Dentistry
label: Topic
content: Physical anthropology
creator: label: Creator
content: Hellman, Milo
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content: Milo Hellman papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Milo Hellman Papers focus on his research into the racial characteristics of human dentition and his studies on the evolution and variation of teeth, jaws, and faces. The collection contains correspondence, lecture, notes, manuscripts, notes, photographs, publications, and student exams. There is also information on the 1930 White House Conference on Child Health and Protection which Hellman attended. This collection includes photographs of eminent anthropologists and dentists including E.H. Angle, Edward A. Bogue, and Ales Hrdlicka and correspondence from Franz Boas.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Milo Hellman was born in 1872 in Romania. He came to the United States at the age of 16. He earned his D.D.S from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He was an Instructor at New York University's Dental School and a research associate in Physical Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. His research focused on racial characteristics in human teeth and the study of the evolution and variation of teeth, jaws, and faces. Milo Hellman died in 1947.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16.75 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900-1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1998-34
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The plaster casts of teeth and lantern slides from the Hellman Collection are part of the Physical Anthropology Collections.