c. Charlotte Simmons field notes, 1947 - 1948
Dates
- Creation: 1947 - 1948
Creator
- Simmons, Charlotte (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions on access: None
Extent
1.25 linear feetBiographical / Historical
Charlotte Gertrude Sonenklar was born July 29, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were both from Poland and they had moved to the United States in 1922. She was their third child and the first to be born in the United States. Her father was a cantor in a synagogue in Chicago and then Detroit, where the family moved when Charlotte was a child. Charlotte Sonenklar most likely met her husband Ozzie Gordon Simmons when he was a sociology student at Northwestern University in Chicago. They were married December 9, 1942 in Tallahassee, Florida while he was in the Air Force. They had three daughters. From 1947 to 1948 she accompanied her husband to Gallop, New Mexico and San Antonio Texas to conduct sociology fieldwork among Mexican Americans and Anglo-Americans for his dissertation as a graduate student at Harvard University.
Sources:
1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 1702; FHL microfilm: 2340223. Retrieved from Ancestry.com 3/31/2020.
1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Retrieved from Ancestry.com 3/31/2020.
Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Retrieved from Ancestry.com 3/31/2020.
Detroit Free Press; Publication Date: 21/ Oct/ 1984; Publication Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. Accessed 3/31/2020.
Obituary Editor. 1988. Ozzie G. Simmons, 69, Sociology Researcher. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y., 29 Nov 1988: B12. Retrieved from ProQuest.com 3/31/2020.
State Archive, Tallahassee and clerk of courts, various counties; Tallahassee, Florida; Florida, County Marriages, 1823-1982. Florida, County Marriage Records, 1823-1982. Retrieved from Ancestry.com 3/31/2020.
Physical Location
Peabody Museum Archives
Creator
- Simmons, Charlotte (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Peabody Museum Archives Repository
Papers in the Peabody Museum Archives consist of primary source materials that document the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic research and fieldwork since its founding in 1866. More than 2,800 feet of archival paper collections contain documents, papers, manuscripts, correspondence, data, field notes, maps, plans, and other historical records that represent diverse peoples from around the world, and which were created or collected by the Museum, its individual affiliates, or related entities. The collections also document the history or provenience, as well as the creation of, many of the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic collections.