McGee, W J 1853-1912 creator mixed material monographic eng 7,000 31 1 12.4 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. Open to research. 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 Ethnologists Geologists Hydrologists Scientists mm 78032128 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012181.3 Open to research. DLC 790515 20260227111625.0 mm 78032128