George Irving Quimby, Jr. Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Quimby, George I. (George Irving), 1913-2003
creator: label: Creator
content: Quimby, George I. (George Irving), 1913-2003
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: George Irving Quimby, Jr., a North American archaeologist and museum director, conducted fieldwork in Michigan (1935-63), Wisconsin (1936), Hudson Bay (1939), Louisiana (1940-41), New Mexico (1947), and Lake Superior (1956-61).

Chronology:

1913 -- Born May 4th in Grand Rapids, Michigan

1936 -- B.A., University of Michigan

1937 -- M.A., University of Michigan

1938-1939 -- Graduate studies, University of Chicago

1940 -- Married October 13th to Helen M. Ziehm

1939-1941 -- State supervisor, Louisiana State Archaeological Survey, Louisiana State University

1941-1942 -- Director, Muskegon County Museum, Muskegon, Michigan

1942-1943 -- Assistant Curator of North American Archaeology and Ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History

1943-1954 -- Curator of Exhibits, Anthropology, Chicago Museum of Natural History

1952 -- Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Oslo, Norway

1954-1965 -- Curator of North American Archaeology and Ethnology, Chicago Museum of Natural History

1965-? -- Research Associate, Chicago Museum of Natural History Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University Curator of Anthropology, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington

1968-1978 -- Director, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.21 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1935-circa 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1988-13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged by correspondent.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Finding aid by Robert Leopold.

Encoded by Zac Greenfield, February 2018
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists entirely of Quimby's correspondence.  Correspondents include: Glenn A. Black, Douglas S. Byers, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Fay-Cooper Cole, Claude Desgoffe, Frederick H. Douglas, Gordon F. Ekholm, Charles H. Fairbanks, R. A. Gibson, Gutorm Gjessing, John M. Goggin, E. M. Greenman, Carl E. Guthe, A. Irving Hallowell, Robert F. Heizer, Diamond Jenness, Volney H. Jones, Alfred L. Kroeber, Frederica de Laguna, Ralph Linton, J. Alden Mason, Richard G. Morgan, Robert Stuart Neitzel, Robert E. Ritzenthaler, Carl P. Russell, Carl Schuster, Cahrles E. Snow, William Snyder Webb, Ernest W. Young, and George Zak.