Guide to Anthropological Fieldnotes
and Manuscripts in Archival Repositories

 

Robert Leopold
National Anthropological Archives
Human Studies Film Archives
Smithsonian Institution

Last updated: May 31, 2009 | Credits

This continually revised guide provides the location of more than 850 collections of ethnographic fieldnotes and manuscripts in non-Smithsonian archives. It complements Guide to the Collections of the National Anthropological Archives, which describes more than 650 collections in the Smithsonian's anthropological archives. A directory of the records of anthropological expeditions, field schools, conferences and associations follows the list of personal papers.

Many anthropologists have donated their fieldnotes and professional papers to more than one archival repository; when the National Anthropological Archives is one of them, NAA appears in the entry.

Please submit notes on additional collections to Robert Leopold (leopold@si.edu).

 

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A

Abbie, Andrew Arthur, 1905-1976
Barr Smith Library Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

Abraham, Roy Clive, 1890-1963
School of Oriental and African Studies, Archives & Manuscripts Division

Adam, Virginia, 1938- 
British Library of Political and Economic Science, London

Adams, Inez (Dorothy Inez), 1904-1969
Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

Adams, Robert McCormick, 1926-
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C.

Adams, William Y. (William Yewdale), 1927-
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Adlam, Robert Glen
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Aginsky, Burt W., 1906-2000
Mendocino County Museum, Willits, California

Aginsky, Ethel G., d. 1990
Mendocino County Museum, Willits, California

Aitken, Barbara
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Akin, David
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971
American Philosophical Society Library

Ames, David W.
Hoover Instititution Archives, Stanford, California
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Ames, Michael M., 1933- 
University of British Columbia Archives

Anderson, Robert, 1914-
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Ardrey, Robert
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago

Arima, E. Y. (Eugene Yuji), 1938-
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Armstrong, W.E. (Wallace Edwin)
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section

Ayres, James E.
Arizona State University Library

Ayres, Mary Clifton, 1953- 
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

B

Baker, Paul T. (Paul Thornell), 1927-2007 
Department of Anthropology, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, Columbus
Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts

Balfour, Henry, 1863-1939
Pitt Rivers Museum Photographic and Manuscript Collections, Oxford Uiversity

Balikci, Asen
National Archives of Canada

Bandelier, Adolph Francis, 1840-1914
Center for Southwest Research University of New Mexico

Barbeau, Charles Marius, 1883-1969
American Philosophical Society Library
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Barker, George C. (George Carpenter), 1912-1958
University of Arizona. Southwest Folklore Center Manuscript Collection

Barnes, Harry Elmer
University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center

Barnett, H.G. (Homer Garner), 1906-1985
University of British Columbia. Library. Special Collections
NAA

Barrett, Samuel
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Bascom, William Russell, 1912-1981
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
South Australian Museum, Anthropology Archives

Basehart, Harry Wetherald, 1910-1988
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Bates, Daisy May, 1859-1951
Library and Information Service of Western Australia, JS Battye Library of West Australian History
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section
South Australian Museum, Anthropology Archives

Bates, Oric, 1883-1918
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980
American Philosophical Society Library
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
University of California, Santa Cruz

Beals, Ralph, 1901-1985
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
NAA

Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King), 1918-
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Beauchamp, William M, 1862-1944
New York State Library, Albany

Belshaw, Cyril S., 1921-  
University of British Columbia Archives

Benedict, Burton
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948
American Philosophical Society Library [Margaret Mead Papers]
Vassar College, Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries

Benet, Sula, d. 1982
Research Institute for the Study of Man, New York

Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953
American Museum of Natural History

Berlandier, Jean Louis, circa 1805-1851
Smithsonian Institution Archives

Bernheimer, Charles Leopold, 1864-1944
American Museum of Natural History

Beveridge, Peter, 1829-1885
State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Library, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Beyer, Henry Otley, 1883-1966
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section

Beynon, William, 1888-1958
American Museum of Natural History

Bidney, David, 1908-1987
Manuscripts Division, Lilly Library, Indiana University

Bird, Junius, 1907-1982
American Museum of Natural History

Birdsell, Joseph B., 1908-1994
South Australian Museum, Adelaide

Black, Glenn A., 1900-1964
Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University

Blackman, Margaret B. (Margaret Berlin), 1944-
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Blackwood, Beatrice Mary, 1889-975
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section
Pitt Rivers Museum Photographic and Manuscript Collections, Oxford Uiversity

Bleeker, Sonia, 1909-1971
McCain Library and Archives, Uiversity of Southern Mississippi

Blom, Frans, 1893-1963
Latin American Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library
NAA

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
American Philosophical Society Library
Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University

Bohrer, Vorsila L.
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Bonvillain, Nancy, 1945-
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Borden, Charles E., 1905-1978
University of British Columbia Archives

Bose, Jyotsna
American Museum of Natural History

Bowles, Gordon T., 1904-1991
Bishop Museum, University of Hawaii

Bradley, Lee
Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University

Brand, Donald D.
Archives of the University of Texas, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collection, University of Texas at Austin

Brandes, Ray, 1924-
Arizona Historical Society, S Arizona Division

Brew, J. O. (John Otis), 1906-1988
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Brokensha, Peter
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section

Brugge, David M., 1927-
Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico

Brown, George, 1835-1917
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Bulmer, R. N. H.
Cambridge University Library, Dept of Manuscripts and University Archives

Burridge, Kenelm O.L., 1922- 
University of British Columbia Archives

Bushnell, D.I., Jr., (David Ives), 1875-1941
College of William and Mary
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
NAA

Butler, Amos W., 1860-1937
Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Buterfield, Ira W., 1915-1995
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Butterworth, Douglas S.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University Archives

C

Campbell, Thomas Draper, 1893-1967
Anthropology Archives, South Australian Museum

Campbell, T.N. (Thomas Nolan)
Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Carpenter, C. Ray (Clarence Ray), 1905-1975
University Archives, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University

Carpenter, Edmund Snow, 1918-
American Philosophical Society Library

Carroll, Alan, 1823-1911
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Carter, Jeanette Ellen, 1942-
Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University

Carter, John Galen
American Museum of Natural History

Casagrande, Joseph B, 1915-1982
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University Archives

Chadwick, Robert, 1930-
Latin American Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Champe, John L. (John Leland), 1895-
Nebraska State Historical Society Library/Archives, Lincoln
University Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Chapman, Carl H.(Carl Hailey), 1915-1987
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia

Chapman, Kenneth Milton, 1875-1968
Museum of New Mexico Library

Chauncy, Philip Lamothe Snell, 1816-1880
State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Library, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Chewings, Charles, 1859-1937
Anthropology Archives, South Australian Museum

Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892-1957
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
London University: Institute of Archaeology
University Archives, University of Sydney

Chilver; Elizabeth Millicent (Sally), 1914-
British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives

Chinnery, E. W. Pearson (Earnest William Pearson), 1887-1972
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section

Chowning, Ann (Martha Ann)
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Clarke, Edith, 1896-1979
British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives

Cleland, J.B. (John Burton), Sir, 1878-1971
Australian Medical Association, Victorian Branch
South Australian Museum, Anthropology Archives

Cobb, W. Montague, 1904-1990
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Codere, Helen
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Cohen, Ronald
University Archives, University of Florida

Cohn, Bernard S., 1928-
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library

Cohn, Werner, 1926- 
University of British Columbia Archives

Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library

Collier, John, Sr., 1884-1968
Yale University Library

Collier, John, Jr.
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Collomn, Henri
Bibliothèque Eric-de-Dampierre, Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative,
Maison René-Ginouvès, Université Paris X Nanterre

Colson, E.A
South Australian Museum - Anthropology Archives

Condominas, Georges
Bibliothèque Eric-de-Dampierre, Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative,
Maison René-Ginouvès, Université Paris X Nanterre

Conklin, Harold C., 1926-
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Connolly, Cornelius Joseph
Catholic University, Dept of Archives, Manuscripts, and Museum Collections

Cook, Edwin Aubrey, 1932-1984
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958
American Philosophical Society Library

Cooper, John Montgomery, 1881-1949
Catholic University, Dept of Archives, Manuscripts, and Museum Collections
NAA

Count, Earl W., 1899-1996
Department of Anthropology, Hamilton College

Courlander, Harold, 1908-
Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University

Craig, Barry
National Gallery of Australia

Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Crouch, J.W.C.
State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Library, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Crowley, Daniel J., 1921-1998
University of California, Davis. Library

Crumrines, N. Ross
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Culin, Stewart (Robert Stewart), 1858-1929
The Brooklyn Museum

Cunnison, Ian George, 1923-
Archives and Special Collections, Durham University Library, Durham, England

Currie, John Lang, 1856-1898
State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Library, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Brooklyn Museum
Huntington Free Library, Bronx, New York
Southwest Museum
NAA

D

Damon, Albert, 1918-1973
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Danson, Edward Bridge., 1916-
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona
University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center

Daugherty, Richard Deo, 1922- 
Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries

Davenport, Charles B., 1866-1944
American Philosophical Society Library

Davenport, William, 1922-2004
University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives

Davis, Allison, 1902-1983
Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Day, Gordon M., 1911-1993
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

d'Azevedo, Warren L. (Warren Leonard), 1920-
Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
University Archives, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries

Deacon, Arthur Bernard, 1903-1927
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section

De Laguna, Frederica (Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo), 1906-2004 
American Philosophical Society
Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
University of Pennsylvania Museum
NAA

Deluz, Ariane, 1931-
La bibliothèque du Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Collège de France and CNRS

Denniston, Carter
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
Goodhue County Historical Society, Red Wing, Minnesota
Minnesota Historical Society
Oberlin College Archives
NAA

Deterra, Helmuth, 1900-
Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico

Devereux, George, 1908-1985
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, France

Diamond, Stanley, 1922-
University Archives, Fogelman Library, New School University

Dixon, Roland B., 1875-1935
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Dobyns, Henry
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Doniger, Wendy
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library

Dorsey, George Amos
Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University

Douglas, Mary (Margaret Mary Tew), 1921-
British Museum, Ethnography Division
Northwestern University, University Archives

Douglass, Susan C., 1945-
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Dozier, Edward P., 1916-1971
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Drake, St. Clair, 1911-
Schomburg Center, New York Public Library

Du Bois, Constance Goddard
Huntington Free Library, Bronx, New York

Du Bois, Cora, 1903-1991
Tozzer Library, Harvard University
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Indian, Indonesian materials
Joseph Regenstein Library, Chicago, Orissa, India

Du Bois, David Victor, 1932-1983
Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

Duff, Wilson, 1925-76
University of British Columbia. Museum of Anthropology Archives

Dunham, Katherine, 1909-
Manuscript Division, Library of CongressSouthern Illinois University at Carbondale, Morris Library, Special Collection

Dunn, Leslie C., 1893-1974
American Philosophical Society Library

Dunning, R. W.
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives Collection

Dupertius, C. Wesley (Clarence Wesley), 1907-
Case Western Reserve University Archives

Dusenberry, J. Verne, 1906-1966
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Montana State University Libraries, University Archives

Dustin, Fred, 1866-1957
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Duvall, David Charles, 1877-1911
American Museum of Natural History

E

Ebihara, May Mayko, 1934-2005
Northern Illinois University
NAA

Edel, May Mandelbaum, 1909-1964
American Museum of Natural History
American Philosophical Society
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
University of Washington Libraries and Special Collections
NAA

Edwards, Robert, 1930-
South Australian Museum, Anthropology Archives

Eggan, Dorothy Way, 1901-1965
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library

Eggan, Fred Russell, 1907-1991
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library

Eiseley, Loren Corey, 1907-1977
University of Pennsylvania Archives

Elkin, A.P. (Adolphus Peter), 1891-1979
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
University of Sydney, University Archives

Ellis, Catherine J. (Catheirne Joan), 1935-1996
National Library of Australia, Manuscripts Section

Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939
University of California, Los Angeles

Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay)
University of Florida

Embree, John F. (John Fee), 1908-1950
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

Emmons, George Thornton, 1852-1945
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library
British Columbia Archives

Emory, Kenneth Pike, 1897-1991
Bishop Museum Archives

Epstein, A.L. (Arnold Leonard), 1924-1999
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Epstein, T. Scarlett (Trude Scarlett), 1922- 
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Erickson, Edwin E.
Kevin Barry Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture, University of Virginia

Euler, Robert and Elizabeth
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Ezell, Paul Howard, 1913-1988
University of Arizona

F

Fagg, William B. (William Buller), 1914-1992
Royal Anthropological Institute, London
Ryerson and Burnham Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago

Fairservis, Walter, 1923-1994
American Museum of Natural History

Fallers, Lloyd A., d.1974
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago

Farmer, Malcolm F.
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Feinberg, Richard
Bishop Museum Library

Fenner, F.J.
South Australian Museum, Anthropology Archives

Fenton, William N., 1908- 
American Philosophical Society Library
Indiana University
Library of Congress

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
Smithsonian Institution Archives
NAA

Field, Henry, 1902-1986
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Firth, Raymond William, Sir, 1901-2002
London School of Economics Archives
Manuscript Section, National Library of Australia

Fison, Lorimer, 1832-1907
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section
State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Library, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Fleischmann, Eug�ne
Bibliothèque Eric-de-Dampierre, Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative,
Maison René-Ginouvès, Université Paris X Nanterre

Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
Museum of New Mexico. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
University of New Mexico Library (School of American Archaeology Records)
NAA

Fogelson, Raymond David, 1933-
American Philosophical Society Library

Fontana, Bernard
Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona

Forbis, Richard G., 1924-1999
American Museum of Natural History

Ford, James A., 1911-1968
American Museum of Natural History
NAA

Forge, Anthony, 1929-1991
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Fortes, Meyer, 1906-1983
Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Fortune, Reo, 1903-1979
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Fougeroux de Bondaroy, Auguste Denis, 1732-1789
American Philosophical Society Library

Fowke, Gerard 1855-1933
Ohio Historical Society

Fox, George R.., 1880-1963
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Fox, Robert B
American Philosophical Society Library

Freeman, Ethel Cutler, 1886-1972
Seminole Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
NAA

Freeman, Derek
Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego

Freedman, Maurice, 1920-1975
British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives

French, David, 1918–1994
Special Collections Division, Suzzallo Library, University of Washington–Seattle

French, Kathrine S. (Kay), 1922–2006
Special Collections Division, Suzzallo Library, University of Washington–Seattle

French, Marcus Leon, 1876-1942
South Dakota State Archives

Friedrich, Paul, 1927-
Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library

Fry, Henry Kenneth, 1886-1959
Anthropology Archives, South Australian Museum
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, SA Branch

Fryxell, Roald, 1934-1974
University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center

Furman, MacDonald (Charles James McDonald), 1863-1904
South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995
School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London

 

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