03094cpcaa2200601 4500 mm 79032110 DLC 20260227111656.0 cr ||||||||||| 790515|||||||||||| eng mm 79032110 ms 62004685 DLC DLC dacs DLC G lcmd McGee, Anita Newcomb, 1864-1940. Anita Newcomb McGee papers, 1688-1932 (bulk 1869-1932). 3,000 items. 12 containers plus 1 oversize. 5.1 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, diaries, writings, scientific and medical data, family papers, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to McGee's studies of communistic societies in the United States such as the Shakers and the Bethel and Oneida communities, to her duties as acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War, and to the formation of the Women's Anthropological Society of America. Subjects include hygiene and medical matters. Family correspondents include her father, Simon Newcomb; her son, Eric McGee Newcomb; and her grandfather, Charles A. Hassler. Hassler's correspondence includes a letter from James Madison, 1832. Other correspondents include Charles Benedict Davenport, Edward Singleton Holden, Alcander Longley, and Gifford Pinchot. Anthropologist and physician. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012124 Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Correspondence. Hassler, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1810-1846 Correspondence. Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 Correspondence. Longley, Alcander, 1832-1918 Correspondence. Madison, James, 1751-1836 Correspondence. Newcomb, Eric McGee, 1902-1930 Correspondence. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 Correspondence. Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Correspondence. McGee family. Newcomb family. United States. Army Medical care. Bethel Community. Oneida Community. Women's Anthropological Society of America. Anthropology. Anthropology Societies, etc. Collective settlements. Communal living. Hygiene. Medicine. Shakers. Spanish-American War, 1898 Medical care. Anthropologists. itoamc Physicians. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012124 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012124.3 42262 42262