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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thompson, Laura, 1905-2000
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content: Laura Thompson papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1983-51, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arranged alphabetically by document type, chronologically therein; notes and photographs arranged alphabetically by subject. Dates non-inclusive. Index files, maps and photographs are located at the end of the series.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Between 1934 and 1937, Thompson lived in Germany with her husband, Bernhard Tuting, and his family. After returning to the United States in 1938, Thompson delivered lectures about life in Nazi Germany which are included in this series. Correspondence during this period includes letters from Thompson to her family; few outgoing letters are included. Annotations in pencil on these letters were added at a later date when Thompson edited the material for an intended book based upon her personal letters sent from the field. Manuscript versions of "Letters from Germany" are included with Thompson's Germany manuscripts. Original letters between 1934 and 1935 are absent from the collection. Thompson maintained her interest in German culture throughout her professional life. In 1952 and again in 1960, she returned to Germany to conduct the research which formed the basis for her book-length manuscript about Saxon values. Drafts for the book are filed alphabetically under the heading, "Saxony core values." Related values manuscripts may be found in Series 7. Manuscripts in this series also include papers that Thompson wrote in the 1940s but later edited and may have submitted for the Human Relations Area Files. Notes in this series include index reference files as well as research materials.