McGee, W J,  1853-1912. <br/><br/>
W J McGee papers, 1880-1916  (bulk 1885-1905). 

 - 7,000  items. 31  1  containers plus  oversize. 12.4  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 7 series.  Series 1: General Correspondence, 1880-1916; Series 2: Special Correspondence, 1903-1904; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1885-1907; Series 4: Articles and Notes, 1885-1910; Series 5: Miscellany, 1890-1910; Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1889-1912; and Series 7: Oversize, 1903-1905. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, lectures, scientific papers, articles, notes, ethnological and geological notebooks, bibliographical notes, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey primarily in charge of surveying the Atlantic Coastal Plain and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution.  Also documents his work as director of the Saint Louis Public Museum, Saint Louis, Mo.; director of the anthropological and historical exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Mo., 1904; and chairman of the committee of the International Geographical Congress, Washington, D.C., 1904.  Correspondents include Franz Boas, Richard Ellsworth Call, Frank Moore Colby, Robert Hay, Florence Hayward, Robert Thomas Hill, Jerome F. Johnson, Lawrence C. Johnson, Willard D. Johnson, S.P. Langley, Samuel M. McCowan, F.J.V. Skiff, Frederick Starr, George Huntington Williams, and Henry Shaler Williams. 
<br/><br/><br/>Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 78032128  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 --Correspondence.<br/>Call, Richard Ellsworth, 1856-1917 --Correspondence.<br/>Colby, Frank Moore, 1865-1925 --Correspondence.<br/>Hay, Robert--Correspondence.<br/>Hayward, Florence, 1865- --Correspondence.<br/>Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941 --Correspondence.<br/>Johnson, Jerome F.--Correspondence.<br/>Johnson, Lawrence C.--Correspondence.<br/>Johnson, Willard D.--Correspondence.<br/>Langley, S. P. 1834-1906 --Correspondence.<br/>McCowan, Samuel M.--Correspondence.<br/>Skiff, F. J. V. 1851-1921 --Correspondence.<br/>Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933 --Correspondence.<br/>Williams, George Huntington, 1856-1894 --Correspondence.<br/>Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918 --Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Geological Survey (U.S.)<br/>Saint Louis Public Museum.<br/>Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>International Geographical Congress.<br/>Louisiana Purchase Exposition Saint Louis, Mo.)  (1904 : 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology.<br/>Anthropology--Exhibitions.<br/>Coastal plains.<br/>Ethnology--United States.<br/>Geography.<br/>Geography--Congresses.<br/>Geological surveys--Atlantic Coast (U.S.)<br/>Geology--Atlantic Coast (U.S.)<br/>Geology--United States.<br/>History.<br/>History--Exhibitions.<br/>Exhibitions--Missouri--Saint Louis.<br/>Museums--Missouri--Saint Louis.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Surveys.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Anthropologists.<br/>Ethnologists.<br/>Geologists.<br/>Hydrologists.<br/>Scientists.