Overview
These papers contain two notebooks of anthropological notes, 1927-1928; four volumes of an African journal, 1927-1928 and a bound typescript, "National Geographic Society Central China Expedition Report for 1923"
Dates
- Creation: 1927-1929 (inclusive)
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions on access: none
Conditions Governing Use
Restrictions on use: none
Extent
1.5 linear feetBiographical Sketch of Frederick Roelker Wulsin:
- Born July 8, 1891
- Died February 26, 1961
- A.B. Harvard, 1913
- PhD, Harvard 1929
- Zoological collecting in East Africa, Madagascar , 1914; China, Mongolia, Kokonor, Indo-China 1921-1924
- Archaeological travels to Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, 1927-1928; Persia, 1930-1931
- Tutor in anthropology, Harvard, 1926-1927
- Research, 1932-1941
- Lecturer in anthropology, Boston University, 1935-1936
- Lecturer in sociology and anthropology, Tufts College (now Tufts University,) 1945-1947; professor, 1947-1957; professor emeritus, 1957
Source: Smithsonian Institution Research Information Systems at http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!218427!0
Arrangement
- Series I includes 2 notebooks of African anthropological notes, 1927-1928
- Series II consists of 4 volumes of and African Journey Journal, 1927-1928
- Series III consists of a bound typescript report on Wulsin's central China expedition, 1923
Physical Location
Peabody Museum Archives
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2001.7
These papers were transferred from the Tozzer Library, Harvard University in 2001.
General note
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- Title
- Wulsin, Frederick Roelker (1891-1961) Papers : A Finding Aid
- Author
- Peabody Museum Archives
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- pea00050
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.