Franz Boas Papers

Mss.B.B61

Date: 1862-1942 | Size: 59 Linear feet
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Abstract

During the half century leading up to the Second World War, Franz Boas helped to define academic anthropology in the United States. Trained as a geographer at the University of Heidelberg, Boas worked initially on the Inuit of Baffin Island and subsequently on the cultures of the Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, becoming a leading figure in American anthropology by the first decade of the twentieth century. As Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, Boas made significant theoretical contributions to ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology, helping to ingrain the four fields approach in his discipline and introducing the concept of cultural relativism into wide currency. He was, as well, a committed Socialist and an ardent opponent of both racism and fascism. This collection includes correspondence that Boas carried on with his colleagues in anthropology, as well as with those in the other social sciences and sciences. This correspondence is rich as a source for twentieth-century historians interested in "radical" social causes, since Boas was a socialist and an outspoken voice for progressive social causes.

Background note

Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States.

At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completing a doctorate in physical geography at Kiel in 1881. Intending on testing then-current theories of environmental determinism, he signed on to an anthropological expedition to Baffin Island in 1883-1884, expecting that he would document the close adaptative fit of Central Eskimo cultures to their extreme climate. His experiences in the arctic, however, led him to the contrary conclusion: that social traditions, not environmental, exerted a dominant influence over human societies, and from this point onward, he was led to pursue the cultural over than physical dimensions of humanity.

Although he returned to Berlin after the expedition, Boas emigrated to the United States in 1885 to assume an editorial position with the journal Science, hoping to use it as a stepping-stone to an academic appointment. In 1886, he embarked upon a second major field excursion into what would become his most famous ethnographic project, working among the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Indians of the Northwest Coast, after which he secured his first academic position in 1889, at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. After three years at Clark and a failed appointment at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1892 (during which he played a part in organizing the anthropological exhibits for the Columbian World's Fair), Boas moved to New York City.

The restless activity of Boas's early years slowed in New York. Hired by the American Museum of Natural History (1895-1905), which became the recipient of the amazingly rich anthropological collections he accumulated on the Northwest Coast, Boas began to teach classes at Columbia University in 1896, where three years later he was appointed Professor of Anthropology. For the next 37 years, Boas ruled the anthropological roost at Columbia, accruing unprecedented power in his discipline, wielding grants, recommendations, and appointments with remarkable dexterity, and collecting about him a remarkable group of younger scholars as students and colleagues.

Distancing himself from some of the main currents of contemporary anthropological thought in the United States, and particularly from the evolutionist assumptions that riddled the discipline, Boas championed an anthropology that viewed human cultures as shaped more by historical "tradition" than biological propensity. Claiming to resist any overarching, synthetic theories of human relations, and particularly evolutionary theories of sociocultural development, Boas laid the theoretical groundwork for what became modern cultural relativism. In the process, he helped to clarify the demarcation between the concepts of culture and race and its expression in the divergence of the four fields in anthropology -- linguistics, ethnography, physical anthropology, and archaeology.

Boas's relatively few forays into physical anthropology included a pioneering anthropometric study in 1910-1911, demonstrating that the alleged mental and physical inferiority of immigrants disappeared statistically by the second generation. Opposed to immigration quotas and disdainful of the claims to science used to justify them, Boas was a consistent, strident opponent of racial determinism in intellect or behavior. A committed, politically active Socialist, he was frequently an outspoken critic of American policy. During the First World War, he spoke out against the treatment of German Americans and "enemy aliens" -- to the point of putting himself at risk -- and the rise of the Nazi party in Germany proved an even greater crusade. Despite his age, Boas took an active role in the anti-fascist struggle in the United States and was involved with numerous committees to assist refugee scholars. He was equally ardent in his efforts to criticize racial and ethnic bigotry in the United States.

As a mentor, Boas had a reputation of being directive, at times overbearing, and at the same time of doing too little to prepare his students for the rigors of fieldwork. The extraordinary number of students coming out of Columbia under his care, however, has arguably done as much to extend the Boasian approach than Boas's own writing. Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Elsie Clews Parsons, Alfred Kroeber, Frank Speck, Edward Sapir, Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Deloria, Melville Herskovits, Leslie Spier, Paul Radin, and Ashley Montagu are all students of Boas. Many continued in the same intellectual stream, some diverged, yet all bore traces of Boas's influence. He left a mark as well on the institutions of the discipline, as one of the founders of the American Anthropological Association and of the International Journal of American Linguistics.

Scope and content

The Boas Collections at the APS are the key resource for documenting the transformations in American ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology in the period between the 1880s and 1940s. The Boas Papers (Mss B B61) consist of the main body of Franz Boas's professional correspondence, including particularly extensive and important correspondence with Edward Sapir, Gladys Reichard, Elsie Parsons, Leo Frachtenburg, John Alden Mason, M. J. McGee, Frederick W. Hodge, Alfred Kroeber, George Hunt, and Alfred M. Tozzer, and material relating to Boas's involvement in professional and other organizations. This collection provides richly detailed coverage of every facet of Boas's career from the time of his emigration to America in the mid-1880s until his death in 1940, shedding light on the development of ethnography, anthropological linguistics, and anthropological approaches to archaeology. His correspondence was highly diverse, including not only his fellow anthropologists, but geneticists, evolutionary biologists, social scientists, and social activists.

The Boas collections are also a rich resource for historians interested in "radical" social causes in the twentieth-century through Boas's participation in socialist political circles and progressive social movements. There is significant material on the Germanistic Society of America and for German National Socialism and the expulsion of European scholars, as well as the efforts to reestablish them in British and American institutions.

This collection also contains photographs of Boas and members of his family from his childhood to the time of his death. Links to the digital versions of the pages are included in the inventory. You may also view a gallery of all images here.

Native American Images note : Nearly 3,000 sketches, albumen prints, black and white silver gelatin photographs, photomechanical prints, postcards, and maps of Baffinland Inuit and Northwest Coast Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw). Taken and drawn by Boas during his Northern Canadian expeditions of 1883-84 and 1886, images include native clothing, dwellings, totem figures, tools and kayaks. Of note, hand-drawn maps of Inuit tribal territories. Includes images sent to Boas from anthropologist John Alden Mason (Mayan), Amelia Susman and William Beynon (Tsimshian) of sculptures, carvings, and totems. Sketches are in the correspondence and field notebook series of B B61; B B61p; B B61.ru; B B61.5. The finding aid contains an inventory of all photographs housed in the Photograph Collection and on Film 1427. See also the American Council of Learned Society papers (497.3 B63c) for more Native American images by Boas.

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Physical description

59 lin. feet

59 lin. feet

Provenance

Gift of Helene Boas Yampolsky, 1961-1962; and Dr. Cecil Yampolsky, 1964, with many later additions from Norman F. Boas.

Preferred citation

Cite as: Franz Boas Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Alternate formats available

This collection has been microfilmed (film 1308) in chronological order.

Reel 1 February 24, 1878-January 31, 1889
Reel 2February 1, 1889-April 30, 1894
Reel 3May 1, 1894-December 30, 1898
Reel 4January 5, 1899-March 26, 1903
Reel 5April 2, 1903-December 30, 1904
Reel 6January 2, 1905-January 24, 1906
Reel 7January 24, 1906-January 4, 1907
Reel 8January 4, 1907 -December 10, 1907
Reel 9December 11, 1907-December 4, 1908
Reel 10December 5, 1908-November 30, 1909
Reel 11December 1, 1909-February 17, 1911
Reel 12February 17, 1911-September 12, 1912
Reel 13September 13, 1912-June 14, 1913
Reel 14June 11, 1913-February 20, 1914
Reel 15February 20, 1914-April 16, 1915
Reel 16April 16, 1915-October 15, 1916
Reel 17October 16, 1916-May 31, 1917
Reel 18June 1, 1917-March 31, 1918
Reel 19April 1, 1918-April 2, 1919
Reel 20April 3, 1919-February 19, 1920
Reel 21February 19, 1920-July 31, 1920
Reel 22August 1, 1920-November 26, 1920
Reel 23November 26, 1920-December 29, 1922
Reel 24January 9, 1923-February 29, 1924
Reel 25March 1, 1924-April 13, 1925
Reel 26April 13, 1925-April 12, 1926
Reel 27April 13, 1926-March 21, 1927
Reel 28April 4, 1927-January 16, 1928
Reel 29January 17, 1928-January 14, 1929
Reel 30January 15, 1929-October 29, 1929
Reel 31November 1, 1929-September 15, 1930
Reel 32September 16, 1930-May 11, 1931
Reel 33May 12, 1931-January 15, 1932
Reel 34January 16, 1932-February 27, 1933
Reel 35March 7, 1933-November 6, 1933
Reel 36November 7, 1933-August 10, 1934
Reel 37August 11, 1934-September 6, 1935
Reel 38September 8, 1935-June 14, 1936
Reel 39June 15, 1936-April 23, 1937
Reel 40April 24, 1937-March 7, 1938
Reel 41March 8, 1938-February 18, 1939
Reel 42February 19, 1939-January 11, 1940
Reel 43January 12, 1940-February 10, 1941
Reel 44February 10, 1941-May 3, 1943

Other finding aids

This collection is thoroughly inventoried in Franziska Boas, Guide to the Microfilm Collection of the Professional Papers of Franz Boas (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1972), 2 vols. This guide forms the basis of the inventory below.

Separated material

Photographs have been separated for storage with the library's photographic collection.

Related material

The American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics ( Mss 497.3.B63c ) is a large collection of primary materials on Native American languages assembled, in part, under Boas's supervision, and including a large quantity of material written by Boas himself.

Boas appears as a correspondent in numerous APS collections, and in addition to its rich collections for the history of anthropology, the library houses the papers of several of Boas's former students and proteges, including Frank Speck ( Mss. Ms. Coll. 126 ), Elsie Clews Parsons ( Mss. Ms. Coll. 29 ), John Alden Mason ( Mss. B M384 ), Paul Radin ( Mss. 497.3 R114 ), and Ashley Montagu ( Mss. Ms. Coll. 109 ).

The APS also houses a microfilm (372.3, reel 1) of original materials in the Office of Anthropology Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., relating to Boas's trips to Baffin Island (N.W.T.) and British Columbia, during which he studied and collected cultural materials, 1885-1909.

The papers of Boas's son Ernst Boas ( Mss. Ms. Coll. 10 ) are housed at the APS. A physician, Ernst Boas shared his father's liberal political outlook and activist social views.

Other Franz Boas Collections
Franz Boas Professional Papers, ca. 1860-1942 (Mss B B61p) View Collection
Boas Family Papers, 1862-1942 (Mss B B61f) View Collection
Boas-Rukeyser Collection, 1869-1940 (Mss B B61ru) View Collection
Franz Boas Anthropometric Data and Early Field Notebooks, 1883-1912 (Mss B B61.5) View Collection

Bibliography

Rohner, Ronald P., ed., The Ethnography of Franz Boas: Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas, Written on the Northwest Coast from 1886 to 1931 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1969). Call no.: B B61e.r

Stocking, George, ed., The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911: A Franz Boas Reader (N.Y.: Basic Books, 1974). Call no.: 572.081 B63s

Cole, Douglas, Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1859-1906 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington, 1999).

Boas, Franz, The Mind of Primitive Man (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1911). Call no.: 572 B63m

Boas, Franz, Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (Washington, D.C.:Government Printing Office, 1921). Call no.: 572.97 B63e

Boas, Franz, Primitive Art (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1927). Call no.: 571.7 B63p

Boas, Franz, ed., General Anthropology (Boston: D.C. Heath, 1938). Call no.: 572 B63g.r

Boas, Franz, Race, Language and Culture (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1940). Call no.: 572.081 B63r

African American History Note

This collection has the potential to be rich for students of attitudes toward race in the United States. Among the many topics covered are the study and teaching of anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, progressive social causes, and the expulsion of European scholars under German national socialism.

Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Note

Scholars of physiology, biochemistry, or biophysics may find the following items of interest:

AuthorFormatDateLanguage
Levene, P. A. (Phoebus Aaron), 1869-1940 Correspondence (3 items)1921English
Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924 Correspondence (5 items)1920English

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • Germanistic Society of America

Genre(s)

  • Albumen prints
  • Cabinet cards
  • Gelatin silver prints
  • Maps
  • Negatives
  • Photomechanical prints
  • Postcards
  • Sketches.

Occupation(s)

  • Anthropologists -- United States.

Personal Name(s)

  • Andrews, H. A.
  • Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959
  • Boas, Ernst P. (Ernst Philip), 1891-1955
  • Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
  • Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
  • Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936
  • Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921
  • Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934
  • Bumpus, Hermon Carey, 1862-1943
  • Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
  • Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944
  • Chávez, Ezequiel Adeodato, 1868-1946
  • Crane, M. E.
  • Dixon , Roland Burrage, 1875-1934
  • Engerrand, George C., 1877-1961
  • Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968
  • Franchtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930
  • Gordon, George Byron, 1911-
  • Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
  • Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
  • Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
  • Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943
  • Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937
  • Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943
  • Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
  • Laufer , Berthold, 1874-1934
  • McGee, W. J., 1853-1912
  • Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
  • Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941
  • Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
  • Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
  • Sargent, H. E.
  • Seler, Eduard
  • Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929
  • Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
  • Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
  • Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954.
  • Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
  • Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940

Subject(s)

  • Anthropology -- Research -- United States
  • Anthropology -- United States -- History.
  • Anthropology -- United States.
  • Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork
  • Arctic Indians
  • Ethnology -- North America
  • Indians of North America -- British Columbia
  • Indians of North America -- Ethnology
  • Indians of North America -- Languages
  • Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast
  • Indians of North America -- Nunavut
  • Inuit
  • Jewish scientists
  • Kwakiutl Indians
  • Northwest Coast Indians
  • Race, race relations, racism
  • Refugees, Political
  • Scientists, Refugee
  • Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform
  • Socialists -- United States
  • Tlingit Indians

Collection overview

 Series I. Correspondence
1862-194259 linear feet

Letters to Franz Boas, copies of his replies, and related papers. The collection includes family papers, diaries, and personal correspondence, but the majority of the items are professional letters pertaining to the following subjects: the development of anthropology in America as both a science and a profession; the founding and later activities of the International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology in Mexico; international meetings of anthropologists; the study of American Indian linguistics; the study of physical anthropology and of race; field work of students. The papers also deal with the advancement of science, academic freedom, and public and political activities of Boas.

Due to the size of the collection, the content for Series I has been divided into multiple inventories. Please follow the links below to browse the contents.

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Correspondents A
Correspondents B
Correspondents C
Correspondents D
Correspondents E-G
Correspondents H
Correspondents I-K
Correspondents L
Correspondents M
Correspondents N-Q
Correspondents R
Correspondents S
Correspondents T-V
Correspondents W-Z

 Series II. Photographs
1869-1940 ca. 147 photograph(s)
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Detailed Inventory

 Series I. Correspondence
1862-194259 linear feet

Letters to Franz Boas, copies of his replies, and related papers. The collection includes family papers, diaries, and personal correspondence, but the majority of the items are professional letters pertaining to the following subjects: the development of anthropology in America as both a science and a profession; the founding and later activities of the International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology in Mexico; international meetings of anthropologists; the study of American Indian linguistics; the study of physical anthropology and of race; field work of students. The papers also deal with the advancement of science, academic freedom, and public and political activities of Boas.

Due to the size of the collection, the content for Series I has been divided into multiple inventories. Please follow the links below to browse the contents.

View correspondents beginning with:

Correspondents A
Correspondents B
Correspondents C
Correspondents D
Correspondents E-G
Correspondents H
Correspondents I-K
Correspondents L
Correspondents M
Correspondents N-Q
Correspondents R
Correspondents S
Correspondents T-V
Correspondents W-Z

General physical description: 59 linear feet

 Series II. Photographs
1869-1940 ca. 147 photograph(s)
F8.1.3 Franz Boas with Marie, Helene, and Ernst at piano.
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F8.1.4 Franz Boas with wife Marie in study.
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F8.1.5 Minden Views 5: Dom, Minden
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F8.1.6 Goldstein, Emma.
Minden Views 6: Market, Minden
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F8.1.7 Goldstein, Emma.
Minden Views 7: Old house am Domhof.
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F8.1.8 Goldstein, Emma.
Minden Views 8: Domhof, inn where students drank beer during vacations
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F8.1.9 Goldstein, Emma.
Minden Views 9: Rathaus, haus von Emilie Boas, aunt of Franz
ca. 1900emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.10 Goldstein, Emma.
Minden Views 10: Old house, am Poos (Heinrich Weber store)
ca. 1900emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.11 Goldstein, Emma.
Minden Views 11: Old house, am Poos (Magazn building)
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F8.1.12 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Cabin (Franz Boas') on the Germania.
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F8.1.13 Wenzel, Theodor.
Wilhelm Weike and wife Mathilde, c. 2 (reproduction)
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

For original see image U5.1.18

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F8.1.14 Wenzel, Theodor.
Wilhelm Weike and wife Mathilde, c. 2 (reproduction).
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.15 Franz Boas, "on board the Germania on trip to Arctic".
1883-1884emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.16 Heliotype Co..
Franz Boas, "age 49."
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F8.1.18 Becker & Maass.
Franz Boas, portrait (profile)
circa 1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.19 Franz Boas, at desk, 3/4 view, 3/4 length, c. 1 (original).
ca. 1935emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.20 Franz Boas at desk, 3/4 view, 3/4 length, c. 2 (reproduction).
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F8.1.21 Franz Boas, at desk, 3/4 view, 3/4 length, c. 3 (reproduction)
ca. 1935emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
F8.1.22 Franz Boas, at desk in Grantwood, N.J., c. 1 (original).
ca. 1942emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.1.23 Franz Boas, at desk in Grantwood, N.J., c. 2 (reproduction)
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F8.2.1 Americanist Congress, The Hague, 17th
ca. 1924emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.2.2 Franz Boas at American Association for Advancement of Science as incoming president, with Thomas Hunt Morgan, outgoing president.
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F8.2.3 Becker & Maass.
Meier Boas, portrait, 3/4 view, with white hair and mustache
circa 1880emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Father of Franz Boas.

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F8.2.4 Becker & Maass.
Sophie Boas, portrait, 3/4 view, with dark blouse, lace trim. Note from researcher Julie Liss of Scripps College, 12/4/98 regarding misidentification as Sophie Meyer.
ca. 1880emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Mother of Franz Boas.

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F8.2.5 Salomon Meyer, portrait, "Onkel Mons" (uncle of Franz Boas), brother of Sophie Boas.
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F8.2.6 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Nors Head von Suden, no. 2
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F8.2.7 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Dunnet Head, von Nord gesehen, 27th Juni 1883, no. 3
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F8.2.8 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 28th Juli 1883, no. II, no. 5
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F8.2.9 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 28th Juli 1883
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F8.2.10 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Laftspiegelungen 2 August, Motlag (?), no. 12
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F8.2.11 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 29th Juli 1883, no. 8
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F8.2.12 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 28th Juli 1883, No. IIb (No. 6)
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F8.2.13 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 28th Juli 1883
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F8.2.14 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 28th Juli 1883, no. 10
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
F8.2.15 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eis im Luftspiegelungen am 30 Juli, no. 11
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
F8.2.16 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Cap Merry und dunk Luftspiegelung venenter Parker 1 August 1883 3 1/2 Morgen, no. 8
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
F8.2.17 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Cap Merry und dunk Luftspiegelung venannter Parker, 1 August 1883 3 1/2 Morgen, no. 14.
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.2.18 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
K'exertalukdjuax Fiord
1884-06emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.2.19 Boas family
1881 or 1882emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.2.20 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
View of a glacier, looking out toward fjord or bay.
undatedemph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F8.32.9 Kachodluin, Koakdjuk, Kautak, von Plack Lead aus gesehen
1883Size: 14.5 x 19 cm. Format: 1 drawing
F8.32.10 Iceberg in ocean
1893Size: image 11 x 18.5 cm., 12.5 x 20 cm. mount Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33
F8.32.11 Franz Boas' snow boots in cabin on ship
1883Size: image 12 x 16 cm., mount 18 x 22 cm. Format: 1 photoprint
F8.32.12 Alibi Hafen . Netternaburg, Katinguijang (Horse Block), Kangersloaping, Ujaraspingdjuling
1883Size: 11.5 x 19 cm., mount 16 x 23 cm. Format: 1 photoprint
F8.32.13 Hafen von Kekerten, view of building along shoreline and ships in water.
1883Size: 11.5 x 18.5 cm., mount 14.5 x 20 cm. Format: 1 photoprint
F8.32.14 Icebergs in ocean.
1893Size: 11.5 x 18.5 cm., mount 12.5 x 20.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33
F8.32.15 Boas Glacier, Neeta Lucosita, Watts Bay, Frobisher Bay
undatedSize: 9.5 x 11.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33

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F8.32.16 Two kayaks with Inuit paddling toward shore.
undatedSize: 11.5 x 17 cm., mount 15 x 20 cm. Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33
F11.1.1 Franz Boas, about age 12, school group portrait
ca. 1870emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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F11.1.2 Korber v. Freytag.
Altes Gymnasium, zu Minden i.W. (school of Franz Boas).
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F11.1.3 Cajetan, L..
Jonas Meyer. Father of Sopie Boas
1853emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
F11.1.4 Cajetan, L..
Henriette Menke Meyer. Mother of Sopie Boas.
1855emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
F11.1.5 Cuchaben
1883 June 21Size: 19 x 28.5 cm. Format: 1 drawingLH-B-33
F11.1.6 Eisberg, 23 Juli 1883. No. 4
1883 July 23Size: 29 x 19 cm. Format: 1 watercolorLH-B-33
F11.1.7 Eisberg, 28th of Juli 1883. No. 13
1883 July 28Size: 29 x 19.5 cm. Format: 1 watercolorLH-B-33

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F11.1.8 Camp in arctic. three boats in water. Four kayaks in a row on land.
undatedSize: mount 31 x 23 cm, print 20 x 11.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33
F11.1.9 View of water with ice flows in Arctic
undatedSize: mount 31 x 21.7, image 19.2 x 9.2 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.1.10 View of water with ice bergs in Arctic No. 7
undatedSize: mount, 27 x 19 cm., image 19.8 x 11.5 cm. Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33
F11.1.11 View of water with iceberg in Arctic
undatedSize: mount 27.5 x 19.2 cm., image 20 x 11.6 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.1.12 Camp with tents and four people beside inlet of water and mounds of snow in Arctic
undatedSize: mount 31 x 22.5 cm., image 20 x 11.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.1.13 Two or three people in row boat/canoe on land beside water in Arctic
undatedSize: mount 31 x 22.5 cm., image 19.3 x 11.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.1.14 Four people sitting in front of large rock formations in Arctic
undatedSize: mounted: 31 x 21.8 cm., image 19.2 x 11.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.1.15 View of water with ice berg in Arctic
undatedSize: mounted 31 x 22.8 cm., image 19.5 x 11.6 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33
F11.1.16 View of water with iceberg in Arctic
undatedSize: mounted 29.2 x 21.7 cm., image 19.2 x 12 cm. Format: 1 photoprintLH-B-33
F11.1.17 Franz Boas at banquet table with unidentified men, Mexico, 1912.
 Size: mount 30 x 23.5, print 24.1 x 18.2 cm. Format: 1 mounted photoprintLH-B-33

Other Descriptive Information: Photographer: H. J. Gutierrez, Mexico City

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F11.1.18 Franz Boas formal portrait
undatedSize: image 35 x 27.5 cm. Format: 1 photoimage
F11.1.19 Marie Krackowizer Boas
undatedSize: mount 35 x 27.5 cm., image 23.5 x 18 cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Arrangement: Moved from box F11.21 to F11.1.19

F11.1.20 Bust in bronze of Franz Boas by Jacob Epstein
undatedSize: mount 36 x 27.5 cm., image 24.5 x 21.5cm. Format: 1 photoimageLH-B-33

Arrangement: Moved from box F11.21 to box F11.1.20

U4.1.17 Stucken, Ferd..
Franz Boas, about age four, standing, with hand on pedestal
1862emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U4.1.18 Stucken, Ferd..
Franz Boas, about age four, standing next to railing, holding hat.
1862emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.19 Franz Boas, about age eight, standing in front of chair no.1.
1866emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.20 Franz Boas, about age eight, standing in front of chair no. 2
1866emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U4.1.21 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas, age 10, standing with hand on small table
1868emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.22 Haack, Friedrich.
Franz Boas, age 15, standing with arms on chair, Hete and Anne sitting.
1873emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.23 Laufs, Toni.
Franz Boas as student, bust, three-quarter view, wearing uniform jacket and hat.
1878-1879emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.24 Franz Boas as student, bust, with mustache, three-quarter view, age 23
1881emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.25 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas, "Franz as Freivillager"
1881-1882emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.26 Rice, F.H..
Franz Boas with Marie and Helene, reproduction
1890emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U4.1.27 Hering, Ernst.
Wilhelm Weike, bust, three-quarter view
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Boas' companion on Arctic expedition

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U4.1.28 Sweers, M..
Wilhelm Weike, standing, arm on pedestal, in Inuit caribou hide garment
circa 1885-1886emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U4.1.29 Die Germania am 20. August
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

News clipping of engraving. Notation on clipping: "in Kikkerton Harbor"

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U4.1.30 Die Station kurz vor dem Verlassen derselben
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

News clipping of engraving. Notation on clipping: German Weather St---Cumberland Sound 1883."

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U4.1.31 Boas, Franz, Oxford, England, 1912
1912emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.32 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Olden Times House 1
1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Front end of the house finished to show the painting of killer whale and two true whales...

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U4.1.33 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Olden Times House 2
1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Show the side of the house how the Boards held up by two poles tied together and the Roof according to seoset (?) story

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U4.1.34 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Olden Times House 3
1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Side ways fram(e) of the house

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U4.1.35 Chow, Yucho.
George Hunt and Jonathan Hunt
1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.36 George Hunt standing in front of building at Fort Rupert, B.C.
1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.37 Bishop, Giles, 1826-1909.
Inuk girl, about age four, full length portrait, formal
circa 1880semph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Processing information: Previously misidentified as Kwakiutl or Innu.

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U4.1.38 Franz Boas, in front of home in Grantwood, New Jersey
1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.39 Franz Boas in Albrechts
1929emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.40 Franz Boas, with unidentified man, portrait, informal.
1929emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Celebration in Bonn

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U4.1.41 Franz Boas, with unidentified man, full-length portrait, informal
1929emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

In Bonn

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U4.1.42 Franz Boas and Thomas Hunt Morgan, informal, shaking hands.
1931emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Year when Boas was president American Association of Advancement of Science

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U4.1.43 Franz Boas in his study in Grantwood, N.J., seated, full-length portrait, informal.
1915emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Shortly after operation on face.

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U4.1.44 Franz Boas in his study in Grantwood, N.J., 3/4 length portrait, profile view, informal
1915emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U4.1.45 Franz Boas, at Cornwall Bridge, Conn., profile view, reading at desk
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U4.1.46 Franz Boas, at Cornwall Bridge, Conn., seated in chair outdoors
1942emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.47 Boas family summer home at Bolton, Lake George, New York
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U4.1.48 Naegeli.
Franz Boas, portrait with buttoned jacket, formal
1884emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.49 Meier Boas, leaning on rail, top hat in hand, with full beard, full-length portrait, informal
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U4.1.50 Meier Boas, bust, three-quarter view portrait, formal, no.1
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U4.1.51 Meier Boas, bust, three-quarter view portrait, formal, no.2
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U4.1.52 Meier Boas with white hair, bust, three-quarter view portrait, formal
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U4.1.53 Meier Boas with white hair and glasses, bust, three-quarter view portrait, formal
1896emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U4.1.54 Sophie Boas, seated, wearing full hoop skirt, arm resting on table, full-length portrait, formal
Undatedemph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.55 Sophie Boas, seated, wearing full hoop skirt, with railing in background, portrait, formal
1888emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U4.1.56 Sophie Boas, bust, miniature portrait, formal.
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U4.1.57 Sophie Boas with brooch and fringed dress, bust, portrait, formal
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U4.1.58 Sophie Boas, bust, three-quarter view portrait, brooch and buttoned blouse, no.1
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U4.1.59 Sophie Boas, bust, three-quarter view portrait, brooch and buttoned blouse, no.2
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U4.1.110 Franz Boas on deck of S.S. Europa
1932 September Box U4.1
U5.1.4 Naegeli.
Franz Boas with wife Marie, c.1
1887emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.5 Naegeli.
Franz Boas with wife Marie, c.2
1887emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.6 Rice, F.H..
Franz Boas, with Marie and Helene, original print
1890emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.7 Rockwood, J.R..
Franz Boas with Gertrude, 3/4 view
ca. 1895emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.8 Rockwood, J.R..
Franz Boas with Gertrude
ca. 1895emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.9 Hulsenbeck, J..
Minden Views 1: House of grandparents Boas (Caroline and Feihus Boas).
ca. 1890emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.10 Minden Views 2: Rathaus, Minden i.W.
ca. 1900emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.11 Minden Views 3: Rathaus, Minden i.W.
ca. 1900emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.12 Minden Views 4: Am Dom, Minden i.W.
ca. 1900emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.13 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas in Inuit caribou hide garment (standing), c. 1 (original, encased in Mylar).
circa 1885-1886emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.14 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas in Inuit caribou hide garment (standing), c.2.
circa 1885-1886emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.15 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas in Inuit caribou hide garment (standing), c.3, reproduction.
circa 1885-1886emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.16 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas, in Inuit caribou hide garment (seated), c. 1 (original).
circa 1885-1886emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.17 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas in Inuit caribou hide garment (seated), c. 2 (reproduction).
circa 1885-1886emph: Size:; emph: Format:Lh-B-33
U5.1.18 Wenzel, Theodor.
Wilhelm Weike and wife Mathilde, c. 1 (original).
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Note on back: Wilhelm accompanied Boas on trip to arctic. Both were servants in his parents home.

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U5.1.19 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Kikkerton Harbor, Cumberland Sound.
1883-09emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.20 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Wilhelm Weike, Nachojaschi, Ssigna, Utütiak at Ujarasugdjuling Point
1883-10-16emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.21 Bogardus, A. (Abraham), 1822-1908.
Franz Boas, portrait
1887emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.22 Smith.
Franz Boas, "World's Fair," 3/4 view portrait, c. 1.
1893emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.23 Smith.
Franz Boas, "World's Fair," 3/4 view portrait, c. 2
1893emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.24 Fechner, Wilh..
Franz Boas, profile view: "Seinem lieben Wilhelm Weike zur freundlich Erinnung (?) Franz Boas Sommer 1901."
1901emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33-3

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U5.1.25 Gunther, Carl.
Franz Boas, portrait, c. 1.
1912emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.26 Gunther, Carl.
Franz Boas, portrait, c. 2
1912emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.27 Bishop, Giles, 1826-1909.
Inuit man, woman, and girl
circa 1880semph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Processing information: Previously misidentified as Kwakiutl.

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U5.1.28 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
George Hunt and family, c. 1
1894emph: Size:; emph: Format:

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U5.1.29 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
George Hunt and family, c. 2
1894emph: Size:; emph: Format:

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Other Descriptive Information: (missing corner top left; crease through center)

U5.1.30 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Kwakiutl Indians: Ceremonial masks
ca. 1930emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

On reverse, in George Hunt's hand: "shows the whey[sic] the house is"

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U5.1.31 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Kwakiutl Indians: Ceremonial masks and costumes
ca. 1930emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

Two images. On reverse of first image, in George Hunt's hand: "the way the Hamaselal dancer dressed in winter dance. I send you this mask of wasp dancer I bought from Denax'dox tribe". On reverse of second image, in George Hunt's hand: "the way ts!onoq!wa dancer dressed in winter dance".

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U5.1.32 Hulsenbeck, J..
Franz Boas and three others, all in German military uniform.
ca. 1881emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.33 Franz Boas with gathering of anthropologists: Fay-Cooper Cole, Robert H. Lowie, Robert T. Aitken, and Alexander A. Goldenweiser.
ca. 1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.34 Franz Boas, Leo Sternberg, and Waldemar Bogoras
1924emph: Size:; emph: Format:

Abstract: On verso: "Prof. Leo Sternberg, Petersburg, former member of Council of State, Russia. Prof. Franz Boas, Columbia Univ., N.Y. Bogoras, Russl." Probably taken during International Congress of Americanists at Hague and Goteburg, summer 1924, when Bogoras and Shternberg finally were permitted to travel to Western Europe. See Darnell, Regna and Frederic W. Gleach, Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 2, p. 48. Old call number: B B61 no. 11, folder 6 (Special occasions).

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U5.1.35 Franz Boas, 70th birthday, Cornwall Bridge, seated in chair outdoors.
1928emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.36 Franz Boas, 70th birthday, Cornwall Bridge, Conn., with Marie and grandchildren, outdoors (1).
1928emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.37 Franz Boas, 70th birthday, Cornwall Bridge, Conn., with Marie, children, and grandchildren, outdoors (2).
1928emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.38 Franz Boas, with grandsons Robert and Philip Yampolsky at Grantwood, N.J.
ca. 1940emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.39 Summer home at Bolton, Lake George, New York. (2).
ca. 1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.40 Summer home at Bolton, Lake George, New York. (3) Small outbuilding, "Boas' study."
ca. 1920emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33

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U5.1.41 Fechner, Wilh..
Marie Boas, about age 40, seated, 3/4 view.
ca. 1900emph: Size:; emph: Format:LH-B-33
U5.1.42 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eisberg, 28 Juli 1883
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:;LH-B-33
U5.1.43 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Fjord von Kekurtalunkdjuaki
1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:;LH-B-33
U5.1.44 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Nenelung, Angiukak von Karsak gesehen. NNW, Angiukak, 1400 meter.
1884emph: Size:; emph: Format:;LH-B-33

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U5.1.45 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Eingang zu Pagnirtung, Cumberland Sound.
ca. 1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:;LH-B-33

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U5.1.46 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Ussualung (American Harbor) von SW gesehen.
ca. 1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:;LH-B-33

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U5.1.47 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Cape Searle (Kachodluin) von S. gesehen (Katingujang and Nuvukshin)
ca. 1883emph: Size:; emph: Format:;LH-B-33

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 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Map of Baffinland
ca. 1884emph: Size:; emph: Format:;; 1 map, 71.6 x 95.25 cm [irregular]Extra Oversized
 Gnawing beaver totem
1940 

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F11.1.? Franz Boas. Bust, "quite ugly." From magazine feature on Epstein busts at London show. Reverse side has more interesting full-page Zenith radio advertisement.
ca. 1937emph: Size:; emph: Format:
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Other Descriptive Information: All of the correspondence in this collection has been digitized and can be accessed through the listings above in "Series I: Correspondence" under the alphabetical listing links ("Correspondents A," "Correspondents B," etc.) The microfilm has not been digitized. For inquiries specific to chronological listings, please contact [email protected] for suggestions on possible options.

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