Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | W J McGee papers, 1880-1916 |
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Span Dates | 1880-1916 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1885-1905) |
ID No. | MSS32128 |
Creator | McGee, W J, 1853-1912 |
Extent | 7,000 items |
Extent | 31 containers plus 1 oversize |
Extent | 12.4 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78032128 |
Summary | Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes correspondence when he was director of the anthropological and historical exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. |