Papers relating to research grants and contracts
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lehmer, Donald Jayne, 1918-1975
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content: Donald Jayne Lehmer papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1973
label: Date
content: 1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1979-48, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged alphabetically by sponsoring organization
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are diaries, correspondence, progress reports, final reports, and contracts for research work Lehmer undertook while on the staff of Dana College. Some of the projects were undertaken conjunction with other institutions. For example, Dana College cooperated with the University of Missouri on the Northern National Gas Company grant. Most of the research is concerned with cultural ecology and culture process of the Northern Plains Villagers. A notable exception was Lehmer's contract with the National Park Service to write a history of salvage archeology in the Missouri River Basin. The research for this project drew heavily from his experiences with the Smithsonian's River Basin Surveys in the early 1950s.

The 1977 material is a letter dated January 20, 1977 from Lehmer's colleague, W. Raymond Wood, asking Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to allow him to continue Lehmer's work on "Epidemics Among the Missouri Valley Indians" which was not completed at the time of his death in 1975.

See also series 7 for notes that were probably accumulated in preparation for, or as a result of some of these contracts and grants.