Frederick Starr papers, 1833-1925, bulk (1920-1925)

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Creator

Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933.

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division

Extent

• .8 linear foot (2 boxes).

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Note

Collection consists of correspondence, reports, lectures, vocabularies, documents, and related materials of Starr and others. Bulk of the papers deals with Starr's work asan anthropologist among the Indian tribes of southern Mexico and includes Spanish translations of poetry and folk tales, vocabularies of Spanish works with Indian translations, anthropometrical data, and Mexican government documents of the 1860s. Also, lectures, studies,reports, and thesis by others; materials concerning Starr's work in Liberia and the Congo; and miscellaneous items relating to China, Japan and Korea.

Biographical/Historical Note

Frederick Starr (1858-1933) was an American anthropologistand ethnologist. He taught biology at Coe College and geography at Chautauqua University and worked as a classifier in the Dept. of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1891 he taught geology and anthropology at Pomona College and the following year organized the Anthropology Dept. at the University of Chicago where he taught until his retirement in 1923.

Controlled Access Terms

• Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933.
• Catholic Church -- Liturgy.
• Anthropology -- Study and teaching.
• Indians of Mexico -- Anthropometry.
• Indians of North America -- Anthropometry.
• Linguistics.
• East Asia -- Social conditions.
• Anthropologists.
• Ethnologists.

Additional Creator Names

• Casswell, John.
• Castellanos, Abraham, 1868-1918.
• Ninomiya, Shigeaki.
• Palmer, Edward, 1831-1911.