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Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

A - Z: misc., 1951 - 1952

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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.

Dates: 1951 - 1952

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs: Committee for Cultural and Commercial Relations, 1941 - 1942

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Correspondence regarding Spinden handbook; exhibitions. Includes correspondence with Henry Allen Moe, Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations.

Dates: 1941 - 1942

Departments: American Indian Art, 1944 - 1945

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Correspondence regarding collections; Laboratory of Anthropology travelling exhibition; loans; letter from Herbert Spinden regarding collecting trip to Mexico; grant application to the Guggenheim Foundation.

Dates: 1944 - 1945

Departments: Primitive Art (1), 1953 - 1954

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Principal respondent: Pleasants, Frederick R. Correspondence regarding exhibitions; H.J. Spinden materials. Proposal, 'Masterpieces of African Art.'

Dates: 1953 - 1954

Museums: New York Historical Society, 1946 - 1947

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Correspondence regarding Egyptian Department collection. Spinden report. Cooney report. Expenditures on maintenance. Report on source of Assyrian reliefs. Minutes of special committee on future development of Wilbour Collection. Copy of 1937 agreement.

Dates: 1946 - 1947

Wise, John (legal-size folder), 1934 - 1935

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Correspondence regarding purchase of Minor C. Keith Collection of Peruvian, Columbian and Costa Rican objects. Arbitration agreement. List of objects. Report, H.J. Spinden. Deposition.

Dates: 1934 - 1935