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Vladimir Fewkes papers, 1921-1962 (inclusive)

Extent:

1.5 linear feet

Abstract:

Vladimir Jaroslav Fewkes was born in Czechoslovakia on March 23, 1901. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1921. In 1926 the Wharton School awarded Fewkes a B.S. degree; he then went on to achieve a M.A. in 1928 and a Ph.D. in 1930. During most of his graduate study, he was an Instructor in the Anthropology department, and a research associate in the University Museum. He has conducted field work in Prague, the Danube Valley and Yugoslavia. The textual records from the personal papers of Vladimir J. Fewkes consist of 1.5 linear feet of correspondence, fieldwork and research notes and catalogues, published and unpublished writings, and school notes.

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Furness, Harrison and Hiller Expedition records, 1895-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:

4.4 linear feet

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Between 1895 and 1901, William Furness, III., Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and Hiram M. Hiller made a series of extended trips to Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Furness, Harrison, and Hiller all donated or sold substantial collections of ethnographic, archaeological, and skeletal material acquired on the voyages to the Penn Museum. The Furness, Harrison, and Hiller collections, particularly those from Oceania, are extensive and reasonably well-documented for their time.

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Anne Bowbeer Alexander Scott Collection, 1920-1936 (bulk) 1883-2014 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.2 linear foot

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Alexander Scott was born in 1854 in Camberwell, Surrey, the son of the famed British portrait painter for the Illustrated London News, Thomas Dewel Scott. He became known as a world traveler, landscape painter and collector of Asian antiquities. This collection was donated to the Penn Museum in 2011 by Anne Bowbeer, the wife of Alexander Scott's nephew, following the death of Mabel Scott Hall, Alexander Scott's widow

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Chanhu-daro Pakistan records, 1935-1936 (bulk) 1934-1939 (inclusive)

Extent:

4.1 linear foot

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Ward H. Goodenough papers, 1951-1954 (inclusive)

Extent:

11.0 linear feet

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Charles A. Valentine Personal Papers, 1954-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.4 linear foot

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Charles A. Valentine was born in 1929 and attended fraduate School at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1950s. He was selected by Ward A. Goodenough to join a group of students accompanying him to Papua, New Guinea to assist with ethnographic study of the culture and linguistics of the inhabitants. The collection of Charles A. Valentine Papers consists of one folder of documents divided into three series: Correspondence (1), Field Notes (5), and Publication (1).

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Edward Avery McIlhenny Alaska Expedition records, 1897-1899 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.1 linear feet

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In 1897, Edward Avery McIlhenny pursued an agreement with Dr. William Pepper, President of the Museum of Anthropology and Archeaology at the University of Pennsylvania to gain the museum's support for his own expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. In return. he agreed to give the museum all of the specimens recovered. McIlhenny worked in Alaska from 1897 to 1899. The Point Barrow Collection consists of three folders of correspondence and catalogues and two boxes of mounted photographs.

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Wendell P. Roop papers, 1935-1950 (inclusive)

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0.3 linear feet (collection consists of one manuscript box containing 12 folders and one card file box.)

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Records of the Stewart Culin Wanamaker Expeditions to the Western United States, 1900-1902 (inclusive)

Extent:

2 linear feet

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The Stewart Culin Wanamaker Expeditions to the Western United States were financed by department store owner, John Wanamaker who was a generous contributor to the museum. Planned as a "field collecting" expedition, Culin chose George A. Dorsey of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago as his companion. The three expeditions were conducted in 1900, 1901 and 1902. The Wanamaker Expedition collection is housed in five archival boxes, mostly the extensive Culin Catalogue of artifacts from the expedition.

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Samuel W. Pennypacker II Papers, 1932-1969 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.4 linear foot

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Samuel W. Pennypacker, II was the son of Bevan Pennypacker and Mary Ferguson Pennypacker born in 1911. The grandson of Samuel W. Pennypacker, noted attorney and judge and former Pennsylvania governor from 1903-1907. S. W. Pennypacker II was an auditor at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his daily work, Samuel took multiple archaeology courses and studied the North American Indian under Frank G. Speck. Speck is a noted anthropologist, professor, and the first Department of Anthropology chair at the University of Pennsylvania. The Samuel W. Pennypacker Personal papers consists of one box of correspondence, notes on the collection and details of his coursework in archaeology.

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