Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding proposed open-air theater; D. Holdridge expedition to Amazon; Education Department classes; School Service Project, Carnegie Corporation; International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Science; staff; Washington Memorial exhibit; Kahn lectures, Princeton; Korean installation; space allocations; Culin library; Emergency Relief projects; changes in job description away from research (restricted). Correspondence regarding objects, including Peruvian textiles;...

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Correspondence, including regarding removal of Herbert Spinden books and papers. Memorial statement on death of former director William H. Fox, including memo by Mrs. William H. Good.

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Correspondence with potential lenders; queries to Latin American consulates and referrals from them. Correspondence with Spinden during South American lecture/collecting tour. Object lists, including valuations. Research notes.

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Correspondence with potential lenders. Correspondence with Spinden during South American tour, regarding customs difficulties; missing shipment. Post-exhibition correspondence regarding purchase of objects; requests for exhibition handbook; congratulatory notes. Bibliography of material available in library collection. Object lists with valuations.

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Object lists, including photography; purchases; valuations. Correspondence regarding possible loan of Pizarro collection, Stendahl Gallery. Notes for labels. Installation sketches. Statement of scope of exhibition.

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Object lists, some with valuations. Press release. Bibliography. Notes on Mexican glass, tiles, costume by Rene d'Harnoncourt. Installation sketches. Typescript: "Bibliography of Colonial Architecture in Latin America."

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Installation.

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Correspondence regarding Spinden's appointment as delegate to the inauguration of William A. Boylan, President of Brooklyn College. Reports on National Bureau of Standards, Fakes and Forgeries, Growth Hormones in Plants, Science and National Welfare; treasurer's report; meeting minutes.

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Correspondence regarding post-war removal of paintings from Germany, including copies of responses from Department of State and the White House. Includes proposal to organize craft industries in Alaska; report on reorganization of the Association.

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Appeals for funding; announcements; invitations.