Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967
Dates
- Existence: 1879 - 1967
Occupations
Places
- Huron (S.D.) (Place of Birth)
- United States (Associated Country)
Topics
Languages Used
- Language: English. Script: Latin
Found in 179 Collections and/or Records:
Congresses and conventions [01], 1933 - 1943
Correspondence and announcements regarding meetings, conventions, symposiums and congresses of professional societies. Includes agendas and programs.
Conservation Council, 1962
Correspondence regarding conservation techniques; conservation personnel. Includes information on climate control products; report on expansion of department; report on radio-carbon dating; list of private "primitive" [original word from era of creation] collections.
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs: Committee for Cultural and Commercial Relations, 1941 - 1942
Correspondence regarding Spinden handbook; exhibitions. Includes correspondence with Henry Allen Moe, Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations.
Correspondence with notables, 1937-1944
Correspondence with Charles Lindbergh regarding request for pictures of Yucatan expedition; with Albert Einstein regarding Dr. Werner Wolff's work on Maya codices; letter from Helen Keller requesting donations for the American Foundation of the Blind.
Departments: American Indian Art, 1936 - 1937
Principal respondent: Spinden, Herbert J. Correspondence; lists of objects; exchanges, National Museum of Mexico; accessioning status, Jane Garrison; new department title chosen.
Departments: American Indian Art, 1937 - 1938
Principal respondent: Spinden, Herbert J. Memos and correspondence regarding textile conservation; purchases; Mayan models. Report on expedition to Colombia.
Departments: American Indian Art, 1942 - 1943
Principal respondent: Spinden, Herbert J. Correspondence and memos regarding collections, acquisitions, opening of Latin American galleries; loan of Crocker watercolors. List of Latin-American colonial folk art. Spinden bibliography.
Departments: American Indian Art, 1944 - 1945
Correspondence regarding collections; Laboratory of Anthropology travelling exhibition; loans; letter from Herbert Spinden regarding collecting trip to Mexico; grant application to the Guggenheim Foundation.
Departments: American Indian Art, 1945 - 1946
Principal respondent: Spinden, Herbert J. Correspondence and memos regarding Carl von Hoffman expedition; Fleischman donation, Peruvian materials; department name change.
Departments: American Indian Art, 1946 - 1947
Principal respondent: Spinden, Herbert J. Correspondence regarding Spinden Visiting Professorship, Mexico; exchanges, Mexico and Carl Clausen. Proposal and correspondence regarding foundation support for Institute of Primitive Art, Paul S. Wingert; new name, Department of Primitive and New World Cultures.