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Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996

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BOX R15-R16 Addition II: Fieldwork, 1925-1976
Correspondence, reports, financial papers, notebooks, and research material.
Arranged alphabetically by geographical location and therein chronologically by name of field trip.
BOX R15 American Samoa, Mead field trip, 1925-1926
Bali, Mead and Gregory Bateson field trip, 1936-1938, 1976, undated
Papua New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
1928-1929, Mead and Reo Fortune field trip to Manus
1952-1953, Mead, Theodore Schwartz, and Lenora Schwartz field trip
(2 folders)
1965, Mead, Theodore Schwartz, and Lola Romanucci Schwartz field trip
1971, Mead field visit
BOX R16 Miscellany, 1928, undated
(3 folders)
New Guinea
Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli peoples, Mead and Reo Fortune field trip, 1931-1933, 1976, undated
(2 folders)
Iatmul people, Mead and Gregory Bateson field trip, 1938
BOX R16 Addition II: Papers of Colleagues, 1937-1957
Correspondence and writings of Ruth Benedict and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux.
Arranged alphabetically by name of colleague.
BOX R16 Benedict, Ruth, correspondence, 1937-1945, undated
Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, life history, 1957
BOX R16-R17 Addition II: Photographic File, 1891-1954
Drawings and photographs of Mead, family members, friends, colleagues, and field trips.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein alphabetically by subject.
BOX R16 Drawings, 1891
Photographs
Family
Bateson, Gregory, and family, 1900-1927, undated
(2 folders)
Bateson, Mary Catherine, undated
Cressman, Luther Sheeleigh, 1917-1918
Fogg family, undated
Kirkpatrick family, undated
Mead, Edward Sherwood, undated
Mead, Frederick, undated
BOX R17 Mead, Richard Ramsay, 1918, undated
Sherwood family, 1920, undated
Upton family, undated
Friends and colleagues, 1953-1954, undated
Fieldwork
Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, 1928-1929
Unidentified, undated
Mead, Margaret, with others, 1930, 1940
Negatives
Psychological test, undated
Unidentified, undated
Unidentified, undated
(3 folders)
BOX S1-S2 Addition III: Family Papers, 1913-1996
Correspondence of family members, speeches and writings, drawings, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family member.
BOX S1 Bateson, Caroline Beatrice, 1939-1940
Bateson, Gregory
Correspondence
Bateson, Caroline Beatrice, 1913, undated
Benedict, Ruth, 1933-1937
Fortune, Reo, 1934-1935, undated
Mead, Margaret, 1934-1940, 1949-1951, undated
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous, 1930-1939, undated
Miscellany, 1934-1935, undated
Speeches and writings, undated
Bateson, Mary Catherine, 1991-1996, undated
Cressman, Luther Sheeleigh, 1926, undated
Fortune, Reo
Correspondence
Benedict, Ruth, 1930-1936
Mead, Margaret
1927-1928, June
(2 folders)
BOX S2 1928, July-1936, 1951
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous, 1924-1929, undated
Other family members, 1929
Miscellany, 1925-1935, undated
Mead, Edward Sherwood, 1950-1956, undated
Mead, Elizabeth See same container, Steig, Elizabeth Mead
Mead, Emily Fogg, 1933-1941, undated
Mead, Priscilla, 1928, 1935, undated
Mead, Richard Ramsay, 1935-1936, 1971
Other family members, circa 1950, 1957, undated
Steig, Elizabeth Mead
Correspondence, 1928-1935, 1951, undated
Drawings
HATP project, 1959 See Oversize
“Image of the Scientist” project, 1959-1960
Masks, 1955, undated See Oversize
Mosaics, 1960
BOX S2-S7 Addition III: Special Correspondence, 1923-1977
Correspondence with friends and associates.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
BOX S2 Adams, Léonie, 1925-1926, 1937, undated
BOX S3 Benedict, Ruth
Letters from Mead
1923-1932, Sept.
(9 folders)
BOX S4 1932, Oct.-1949, Oct.
(5 folders)
Letters to Mead
1923-1926, May
(4 folders)
BOX S5 1926, June-1947, Aug., undated
(9 folders)
BOX S6 Bogan, Louise, 1925-1926, undated
Bull, Charles, 1951-1952
Eichelberger, Marie, 1932-1936, 1951-1952, undated
Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1926
Gorer, Geoffrey, 1950-1952, 1960, undated
Guillebaud, Claudia and Philomena, 1949-1951, undated
Kelly, Caroline Tennant, 1951, undated
Lowenfeld, Margaret, 1952
McPhee, Colin and Jane, 1937, 1951-1952, undated
Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey
1948, Aug.-1964, Feb.
(9 folders)
BOX S7 1964, Mar.-1977, July, undated
(8 folders)
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald, 1935
Rosenblatt, Louise M., 1932-1939, undated
Steele, Eleanor, 1925-1933, undated
BOX S7 Addition III: General Correspondence, 1929-1972
Letters sent and received including miscellaneous attachments and enclosures.
Arranged chronologically.
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