04467cpcaa2200781 4500 mm 78032128 DLC 20260227111625.0 cr ||||||||||| 790515|||||||||||| eng mm 78032128 ms 62004622 DLC dacs DLC DLC S lcmd McGee, W J, 1853-1912. W J McGee papers, 1880-1916 (bulk 1885-1905). 7,000 items. 31 containers plus 1 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. Open to research. 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. Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 Correspondence. Call, Richard Ellsworth, 1856-1917 Correspondence. Colby, Frank Moore, 1865-1925 Correspondence. Hay, Robert Correspondence. Hayward, Florence, 1865- Correspondence. Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941 Correspondence. Johnson, Jerome F. Correspondence. Johnson, Lawrence C. Correspondence. Johnson, Willard D. Correspondence. Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 Correspondence. McCowan, Samuel M. Correspondence. Skiff, F. J. V. (Frederick James Volney), 1851-1921 Correspondence. Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933 Correspondence. Williams, George Huntington, 1856-1894 Correspondence. Williams, Henry Shaler, 1847-1918 Correspondence. Geological Survey (U.S.) Saint Louis Public Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. International Geographical Congress. Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Anthropology. Anthropology Exhibitions. Coastal plains. Ethnology United States. Geography. Geography Congresses. Geological surveys Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Geology Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Geology United States. History. History Exhibitions. Exhibitions Missouri Saint Louis. Museums Missouri Saint Louis. United States Surveys. Anthropologists. itoamc Ethnologists. itoamc Geologists. itoamc Hydrologists. itoamc Scientists. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181.3 39954 39954