Chemist, mathematical instrument maker, artist, photographer, and traveler. Journals kept by artist Benajah Jay Antrim while on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mexico; and an overland journey through Mexico to California.

Anthropologist, linguist, ethnologist, educator, and curator. Microfilm of originals held by the American Philosophical Society of personal and professional correspondence, diaries, and family papers relating chiefly to Boas’s career as an anthropologist and social scientist.

Americanist and linguist. Chiefly files comprised of copies of documents from various repositories, original manuscripts, and notes based on Schuller's linguistic research in Mexico and Central and South America, including archaeological and ethnographic material, clippings, maps, and photographs.