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COLLECTION Identifier: 2001.7

Frederick Roelker Wulsin papers

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 feet

Biographical Sketch of Frederick Roelker Wulsin:

  1. Born July 8, 1891
  2. Died February 26, 1961
  3. A.B. Harvard, 1913
  4. PhD, Harvard 1929
  5. Zoological collecting in East Africa, Madagascar , 1914; China, Mongolia, Kokonor, Indo-China 1921-1924
  6. Archaeological travels to Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, 1927-1928; Persia, 1930-1931
  7. Tutor in anthropology, Harvard, 1926-1927
  8. Research, 1932-1941
  9. Lecturer in anthropology, Boston University, 1935-1936
  10. 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

  1. Series I includes 2 notebooks of African anthropological notes, 1927-1928
  2. Series II consists of 4 volumes of and African Journey Journal, 1927-1928
  3. 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.

Related Peabody Museum Collections:

2004.8 Mabel H.Cabot: Research and Production Materials relating to Vanished Kingdoms book and exhibition.

#56-55 F.R. Wulsin Photograph Collections [National Geographic Expedition to Central China; negatives from F. Wulsin's expedition to Africa; negatives of Persia; negatives of Vietnam and Laos

#56-55 Frederick R. Wulsin and Janet Elliott Wulsin Papers

#50-24 Photographs from Peabody Museum Harvard Expedition to Near East

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Title
Wulsin, Frederick Roelker (1891-1961) Papers : A Finding Aid
Author
Peabody Museum Archives
Language of description
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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.

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