James McKeen Cattell papers, 1835-1948 (bulk 1896-1948).
- 49,000 items. 189 1 containers plus oversize. 7 microfilm reels. 76 linear feet.
- Part I is arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Journals, 1874-1880; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1884-1944; Series 3: Family Correspondence, 1880-1944; Series 4: Subject File; Series 5: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1874-1946; Series 6: Photographs; Series 7: Miscellany; Series 8: Printed Matter, 1869-1948; and Series 9: Certificates, Diplomas, Charts, Graphs, and Tables, 1880-1937. Part II is arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1835-1922; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1880-1940; Series 3: Subject File, 1890-1936; Series 4: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1875-1935; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1839-1940.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches, lectures, articles, notes, financial records, biographical and genealogical material, family papers, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Cattell's professional affiliations with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Psychological Corporation, American Association of University Professors, Century Club, and Columbia University; and his writings and editorial work for Science, Popular Science Monthly, School and Society, American Naturalist, Science Press, and American Men of Science. Correspondents include James Rowland Angell, Charles E. Bessey, Franz Boas, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Nicholas Murray Butler, Otis W. Caldwell, John Dewey, Asaph Hall, W.J. Humphreys, Ellsworth Huntington, William James, Joseph Jastrow, David Starr Jordan, Vernon L. Kellogg, Burton E. Livingston, Jacques Loeb, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Raymond Pearl, Charles S. Peirce, Carl E. Seashore, Edward L. Thorndike, Edward Bradford Titchener, and John B. Watson.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.
Educator, editor, and psychologist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010157
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Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949 --Correspondence. Bessey, Charles E. 1845-1915 --Correspondence. Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 --Correspondence. Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968 --Correspondence. Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 --Correspondence. Caldwell, Otis W. 1869-1947 --Correspondence. Dewey, John, 1859-1952 --Correspondence. Hall, Asaph, 1859-1930 --Correspondence. Humphreys, W. J. 1862-1949 --Correspondence. Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947 --Correspondence. James, William, 1842-1910 --Correspondence. Jastrow, Joseph, 1863-1944 --Correspondence. Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 --Correspondence. Kellogg, Vernon L. 1867-1937 --Correspondence. Livingston, Burton E. 1875-1948 --Correspondence. Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924 --Correspondence. Lovejoy, Arthur O. 1873-1962 --Correspondence. Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945 --Correspondence. Pearl, Raymond, 1879-1940 --Correspondence. Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 --Correspondence. Seashore, Carl E. 1866-1949 --Correspondence. Thorndike, Edward L. 1874-1949 --Correspondence. Titchener, Edward Bradford, 1867-1927 --Correspondence. Watson, John B. 1878-1958 --Correspondence.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Association of University Professors. Century Club (New York, N.Y.) Columbia University. Psychological Corporation. Science Press.
American men of science. American naturalist. Popular science monthly. School and society. Science.
American periodicals. Psychology--Periodicals. Psychology--Study and teaching. Science--Periodicals. Scientists--Biography.