Kline Science Library

The Kline Science Library houses the Anthropology Library, which is primarily a print collection of over 20,000 volumes. The collection emphasizes anthropological method and theory, physical anthropology, medical anthropology, human evolution, archaeology, museology, and some area studies materials, particularly Oceania and Mesoamerica. Publications from the major anthropology museums, institutions, associations and societies are collection in the Anthropology Library. Most anthropology journals may be found there as well.

Many foreign language monographs and journals are housed in Sterling and many manuscript collections (including Malinowski's field notes) are available in Manuscripts and Archives. Related electronic resources and materials are available in the Social Sciences Library and Divinity has many collections of missionary work various countries. Researchers in anthropology may want to visit a number of locations depending on their interests.

Faculty also collected "offprints" during the years 1850-1980 and these are housed in the Anthropology Library. Older offprints are in Green binders and a small card catalog references the pamphlets by author name and subject, new ones (post 1900) are in Black boxes. Unfortunately, water in the Kline Science Library caused some of these boxes to be damaged. A project in 1999 checked all the boxes, discarded items either damaged beyond help or otherwise duplicated in the collection. A list of the remaining articles held in the Black boxes is available online.

Related Collections:
Related publications on natural history, evolution and primatology are most likely to be collected at the Kline Science Library. Paleontology collections are housed in the Geology Library. Various library collections incorporate environmental studies, including Kline, Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Sterling Memorial Library. The Medical Library contains extensive collections of interest to anthropologists, including a rich historical collection. Resources on the history of science are collection at Sterling Library.

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Sterling Memorial Library
Social Science and Humanities Collections

Anthropological materials are also collected at the Sterling Memorial Library, which houses the manuscript and archive collections for anthropology, the area studies collections, microforms, and general social science and humanities resources. The Sterling collections consist of the more general anthropology, socio-cultural, and humanities-based materials; anthropology titles related to the area studies collections (Africa, East Asia, Judaica, Latin America, Near East, Slavic, and Southeast Asia) are likely to be found at Sterling Library.

Original text contributed by Joyce L. Ogburn; revised and edited by Martha L. Brogan; current updates are being entered by Emily Horning, Librarian for Anthropology.

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Manuscripts and Archives Department

Holdings:
32,000 linear feet of manuscript material, 300,000 photographs.

References:
In addition to the Guide To The Primary Sources For the Study of Native Americans Including: Indians of North America and South America, Hawaiians, and Eskimos (available for purchase from the department), collection level descriptions of our holdings are continuously entered into the Archives and Manuscripts Control file of the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) bibliographic database of the Research Libraries Group. There the researcher will find descriptions of collections with materials related to anthropology.

Description:
The Manuscripts and Archive collection contains numerous resources of value to research in anthropology. Resources includes archival material and also many microfilm editions of unique collections found elsewhere. The most notable collections are described below.

• African collection, 1850-1987.
  52.75 linear ft. An artificial collection of pamphlets, printed material, correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, postcards, posters, calendars, and microforms, relating to Africa and South Africa.
• American Indian Collection, 1647-1940.
  .75 linear feet. An artificial collection of correspondence, writings, photographs, and miscellanea relating to American Indians, including the Mohegan Indians of Connecticut, 1740-1750.
• William Sully Beebe Papers, 1844-1898.
  .75 linear feet. Largely writings on Biblical subjects and on the Indians of South and Central America to support Beebe's theory that "a great philosophical cult once occupied all the Americas, originating in Peru" and that there is a relationship between the phonetic values of their pictographs and those of the semitic languages. He also believed that their legends resemble those of the Genesis cycle, which, Beebe thought, had their origin in America.
• Beecher Family Papers, 1704-1964.
  40 linear feet. Includes the papers of Annie Beecher Scoville (1866- 1953), teacher and worker that contain an extensive collection of photographs of Native American family life.
• Millicent Todd Bingham Papers, 1865-1968.
  Emily Dickinson scholar, teacher of French, and geographer, particularly of Peru. 82 linear feet. Papers related to her work on Emily Dickinson; correspondence, research notes, publications and other papers on her professional life, including her work on Peru; personal papers, including journals, diaries, notebooks, and scrap books; papers on nature conservation.
• Bingham Family Papers, 1811-1974.
  48.50 linear feet. Correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellane a documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. Includes materials documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary efforts, and family matters; and Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) and his academic career, his South American explorations, including the discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, and his political career as lieutenant governor, governor, and United States Senator from Connecticut.
• Leonard Bloomfield Papers, 1909-1950.
  2 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, and notebooks entirely related to his professional interest in languages and linguistics. The largest part of the papers consists of a sequence of forty-four notebooks, each devoted to a language or linguistic problem. The phonology and morphology of twenty-one languages are covered in these volumes.
• Herman Haupt Chapman Papers, 1881-1963.
  Professor of Forestry at Yale University, president of the Society of American Foresters, a director of the American Forestry Association, and chairman of the Connecticut State Park and Forest Commission. 41 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, minutes, research data files, printed material, and photographs, including documentation on his interests in national and state parks, forests, and wilderness areas; and his lifelong research on the problems of forest protection and silviculture in the southern pines.
• John Collier Papers, 1910-1987.
  Specialist in American Indian Affairs. 52.25 linear feet. Correspondence, subject files, writings, memoranda and reports, research materials, and miscellanea.
• Maurice Rea Davie Papers, 1914-1975.
  Sociologist, specialist in Child welfare, immigration, and William Graham Sumner. 5.5 linear feet. Correspondence, primarily with Albert G. Keller, writings, subject files and photographs.
• Dwight Family Papers, 1713-1937.
  5.5 linear feet. Included are the travel journals of Timothy Dwight, which form a comprehensive survey and collection of historical observations of Indian culture in New England in the early 18th century.
• Edwin Rogers Embree Papers, 1903-1956.
  Executive officer with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. 4 linear feet. Personal and professional correspondence; family journals (1918-1949) of trips to Europe, China, Samoa, Java and Central America; and articles, book reviews and speeches on cultural anthropology (particularly on the Pacific), education, medicine, American race relations, and philanthropic institutions.
• John Fee Embree Papers, 1908-1950.
  Sociologist and anthropologist. 2 linear feet. Miscellaneous papers, including two journals of trips to the Far East, 1926 and 1947-1948.
• Evarts Family Papers, 1753-1960.
  24 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, legal and financial material, congressional papers, family memorabilia, and other papers of various members of the Evarts family of Vermont, Boston, and New York. Includes papers of Jeremiah Evarts and his work and writings on Congregational orthodoxy, his travels for the American Board of Foreign Missions, and his efforts on behalf of American Indians.
• Wilfred Thomason Grenfell papers, 1855-1986.
  Medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, 1892-1940; established the Labrador Medical Mission and the International Grenfell Association. 31.50 linear feet. Correspondence, diaries, ships' logs, notebooks, writings, speeches, and legal and financial papers.
• George Bird Grinnell Papers, 1859-1939.
  Editor-in-chief of Forest and Stream magazine, conservationist, authority on the Blackfeet, Cheyenne, and Pawnee Indians, and prolific writer on Indian folklore and life. 16.5 linear feet. Letterbooks, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and writings.
• Harold D. Gunn Papers, 1918-1982.
  Anthropologist. 9 linear feet. Reports and memoranda from the files of the British colonial administration in Nigeria, used in an ethnographic survey of Africa south of the Sahara for the International African Institute.
• Elizabeth Merwin Page Harris Papers, 1808-1978.
  Author. 53.25 linear feet. Correspondence, family papers, writings, printed works, photoprints, and other materials, including extensive materials on the International Grenfell Association.
• Loomis Havemeyer Papers, 1886-1971.
  Professor of anthropology and geology at Yale University. 14 linear feet. Correspondence, account books, diaries (1904-1970), writings, photographs, official records, and printed matter related to Yale.
• Ellsworth Huntington Papers, 1876-1952.
  Geographer, professor of Geology-Geography at Yale University, author. 136 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, notes and notebooks covering his numerous field trips around the world, clippings, printed matter, and other papers.
• Albert Galloway Keller Papers, 1874-1956.
  Sociologist, author, and student and colleague of William Graham Sumner. 26.5 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, student and teaching files, and miscellanea.
• Raymond Kennedy Papers, 1935-1950.
  School teacher in the Philippines, field representative for General Motors in Java and Sumatra, taught sociology at Yale University, served with Military Intelligence, consultant to the Department of State and Office of Strategic Services, author. 5 linear feet. Writings, maps, photographs, and teaching and field trip materials relating to Southeast Asia and particularly to Indonesia, including notes and drafts for his unpublished four-volume work, "Peoples and Cultures of Indonesia."
• Latin American Manuscripts Collection, 1521-1975.
  29 linear feet. An artificial collection of correspondence; government documents including reports, commissions, decrees, and awards; church documents; and essays, poems, engravings, volumes, and miscellanea from the Latin American region on civil, military, religious, and social topics.
• Latin American Pamphlet Collection, 1568-1949.
  128 linear feet. A collection of pamphlets from Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela, the West Indies, and other Latin American and South American countries. The pamphlets document the agricultural, economic, legal, military, political, religious, and social activities in these countries.
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh Papers, 1906-1988. Access Restricted
  Observer of various primitive cultures. 111.5 linear feet. Correspondence, diaries, writings, childhood, school and college materials, housekeeping and social records, reports, memoranda and correspondence from the many organizations in which Anne Morrow Lindbergh took an active interest.
• Charles Augustus Lindbergh Papers, 1830-1987. Access Restricted
  Observer of various primitive cultures. 534.25 linear feet. Correspondence concerning Charles Lindbergh's extensive political and scientific activities; files in military and civilian aviation; correspondence and related materials on conservation; a large file of writings, speeches, statements, and diaries; and family correspondence.
• Charles Templeman Loram Papers, 1779-1940.
  Educator and professor of education in South Africa and at Yale. 5 linear feet. Correspondence, articles, reports, notes, lectures, memorabilia, and other papers.
• Bronislaw Malinowski Papers, 1869-1946 . Access Restricted
  Cultural anthropologist, teacher, author. 12 linear feet. Correspondence, manuscripts of writings and lectures, fieldwork notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers.
• Morse Family Papers, 1779-1868.
  8 linear feet. Includes papers of Jedidiah Morse, minister, educator, missionary, author of Geography Made Easy, with documentation of his missionary work among the Indians and his concern for their condition.
• Page Family papers, 1828-1948.
  15.5 linear feet. Includes papers of Elizabeth Merwin Roe Page, author of In Camp and Tepee, which described the Indian mission activities of the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America, and of her daughter, Elizabeth Merwin Page Harris, teacher, Y.M.C.A. volunteer in World War I, employee of the International Grenfell Association, and author.
• Theophil Mitchell Prudden Papers, 1872-1925.
  Pathologist and bacteriologist. 2 linear feet. Chiefly correspondence relating to medicine, public health and details on laboratory techniques at the turn of the century; also includes notebook from scientific expedition to the West in 1873.
• Helen Heffron Roberts Papers, 1916-1963.
  Ethnomusicologist and research assistant in anthropology at Yale University. 8 linear feet. Correspondence, research materials, notebooks, musical scores and transcripts, photographs, and printed material.
• Roe Family Papers, 1802-1977.
  77.25 linear feet. Includes the papers of Henry Roe Cloud (1886-1950), a Winnebago Indian and adopted son of Mary and Walter Roe, graduated from Yale University in 1910 and received a B.D. from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1913. He founded and headed the Roe Indian Institute from 1915-1930; was special regional representative for the office of Indian Affairs, 1931-1933; served as superintendent of Haskell Institute, 1933- 1936; and was assistant supervisor of Indian education-at-large, 1936- 1947.
• Michael Ivanovitch Rostovzeff Papers, 1870- 1952.
  13.25 linear feet. Professor of ancient history at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, where he also served as director of archaeological research and curator of ancient art. Includes extensive works on the Dura Europos excavations in Syria. Contains manuscripts, notes, lectures, photographs, and miscellanea.
• Southeast Asia Collection, 1912-1984.
  9.75 linear feet. An artificial collection of pamphlets, papers, letters, speeches, songs, printed material, posters, photographs, and miscellanea relating to the politics, culture, and life of the Southeast Asia region.
• William Graham Sumner Papers, 1863-1946.
  Sociologist, professor at Yale University. 60.25 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, notes and research materials, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and financial records.
• Terry Family Papers, 1795-1939.
  5 linear feet. Family papers, including correspondence and military papers related to the Indian campaigns (1870s), and drawings supposedly done by Sitting Bull.
• Richard Christian Thurnwald Papers, 1895-1936.
  German sociologist. 2 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, printed material relating to Thurnwald's foreign expeditions, teaching positions, and literary works.
• David Peck Todd Papers, 1862-1939.
  Astronomer, teacher, writer, aeronautical enthusiast, inventor. 46 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers.
• James Hammond Trumbull Papers, 1649-1897.
  Historian, philologist, bibliographer. 1.5 linear feet. Correspondence, writings, notes and other papers pertaining to Connecticut and New England history and American Indians.
• Herman Landon Vaill Collection, 1821-1952.
  .25 linear feet. Papers concerning Elias Boudinot, an Indian whose original name was Galagina, or Buck Oowatie, and who became editor of the "Cherokee Phoenix," New Echota, Cherokee Nation. Early correspondence relates chiefly to Boudinot's marriage to Harriet Gold, and the Gold family controversy over intermarriage with an Indian. Other correspondence relates to the dispute between the Cherokee Nation and the state of Georgia, the Supreme Court decision of 1832, President Jackson's refusal to halt Georgia's annexation of the Cherokee Nation and Boudinot's support of John Ridge, who favored withdrawal of the Cherokee Nation to the West.
• Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen Papers, 1932-1954.
  Author, explorer. 5.5 linear feet. Correspondence, research materials, typescripts, and galley proofs for ten books written by Von Hagen relating to Central and South American history.
• Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers, 1914-1957.
  Linguist. 6 linear feet. Correspondence; writings on linguistics, science and religion; miscellaneous biographical material; and lantern slides.
• Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1701-1987.
  27.50 linear feet. An artificial collection of correspondence, writings, diaries, and memorabilia relating to Yale University, its officials and employees, faculty, students, and related topics. Includes the journals of John Henry Lefroyo on Native Americans in the Northwestern Territories of Canada, 1843-1844.
• Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) Papers, 1908-1948.
  16.25 linear feet. Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915.
• Yale University. Anthropology Club Records, 1901-1917.
  .25 linear feet. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, accounts, and lists.
• Yale University. Institute of Human Relations Records, 1928-1960.
  Established in 1929 as an interdisciplinary center for cooperative research on problems of human welfare. 26 linear feet. Administrative and subject files, annual reports, financial records, publications, and correspondence.
  
  Contributed by Chris Weideman, Assistant Head, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library. Questions can be directed to mssa.assist@yale.edu.

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Microfilm Collections in the Microform Reading Room

Description:
The Microform Reading Room contains numerous resources of value to research in anthropology. The most notable microform collections are described below.

• Edward C. Baker. Tanganyika Papers, 1914-1957.
  Oxford, England, Oxford University Press. (microfilm, 2 reels). The papers contain tribal histories, extensive notes on social life and customs, genealogies, vocabulary lists, and a typed manuscript on the North Mara, 1935, written and compiled by Edward Conway Baker.
• Vivien F. Ellenberger Papers, 1920-1969.
  (microfilm, 1 reel). Resident magistrate in Bechuanland. Includes reports, notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
• Machakos District (Kenya) Records, 1904-1915.
  London, England, Recordak Microfilm Service. (microfilm, 3 reeds). The files include correspondence, reports, and memoranda by British administrators on questions of land policy, forest boundaries, settlement of Swahilis, and other problems of local government in Ukamba province in Kenya. Documents related to archaeology, the history of law, etc. published in Africa are systematically collected. These include items in African languages.

Official publications by colonial government anthropologists, administrators, and military or police officers that deal with indigenous peoples are still being actively acquired. Collections of African materials are primarily located in the Sterling Memorial Library, but some may be found in other Yale libraries.

Besides original manuscript collections there are very extensive holdings of private papers and archives of organizations in microform. The preponderance of these deals with southern Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zaire but there is at least one such collection on almost every other country.

There are at least six pamphlet collections--including some manuscript material--on Nigeria; for example the Simon Ottenberg collection on eastern Nigeria and the University of Ibadan Library's Nigerian pamphlets (including several private collections loaned for filming); the latter is particularly strong on western Nigeria and the Yoruba in particular. Similar collections containing ethnographic material are held on the Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and sever al other countries.

Ethnographic photographs are held by the Divinity Library, the Sterling Memorial Library's Manuscripts and Archives Dept., and the Anthropology Division of the Yale Peabody Museum. Notable is the Basel missionary Friedrich R. Ramseyer's album on the Ashanti kingdom. There are also large postcard collections showing costumes, domestic architecture, ceremonies, weapons, and the like.

Contributed by Moore Crossey, former African Curator, Sterling Memorial Library. Send questions to the current curator, Dorothy Woodson.

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Latin American Collection

Areas of specialization:
Research material in the fields of the humanities and social sciences that document the history and culture of South America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

Holdings:
400,000 printed volumes, including monographs, serials, newspapers, and government documents. In addition to printed matter the collection is rich in manuscript material, as well as such non-book resources as photographs, documentary film, sound recordings, sheet maps, musical scores, archaeological artifacts and paintings.

Description:
Yale's first published catalog of library holdings, printed by T. Green in New London in 1743 shows two Latin American items: The Royal Commentaries of Peru and a copy of Hans Sloane's A Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica. By 1907, however, Professor Hiram Bingham, historian, explorer, politician and curator of Yale's Collection of Latin American History, 1908-1930, was able to state that the Yale Library had one of the best collections of Latin American material in the country. Today this statement remains true. As one of the oldest Latin American collections in the United States, it offers a wide variety of research opportunities and is one of the country's leading resource centers for Latin American studies.

The collection's anthropological interest can be found in its large collections of manuscripts, the largest of which is The Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (16.25 linear feet, Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives). The Yale Peruvian expeditions of 1911, 1912 and 1914-15 were organized and led by Hiram Bingham III, professor of Latin American History at Yale. These expeditions performed extensive archaeological, geological and topographical exploration, and conducted important studies of Peruvian flora, fauna, and native inhabitants. The most significant accomplishments of the expedition were the discovery, excavation and investigation of the Inca city at Machu Picchu.

Other manuscript collections with substantial documentation that would be of interest to anthropologists include the Latin American Manuscript Collection (29 linear feet) that contains an extremely rich and varied assortment of original documents detailing the history and culture of the native peoples of Latin America. The Latin American Pamphlet Collection (128 linear feet, Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts and Archives; also available on microfiche, 10,500 fiche) provides first-hand documentation of the social, political and economic conditions in Latin America from the 17th to the early 20th century. The pamphlets offer a vivid picture of what life was like in Latin America for 300 years. The Benjamin Lee Whorf Pant cultures, community studies, and urbanization.

Contributed by Cesar Rodriguez, Latin American Curator, Sterling Memorial Library.

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Western Americana Collection
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Major resources:
The Yale Collection of Western Americana opened in 1952, moving to its current quarters in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1963.

Areas of specialization:
The history and culture of Native American communities as well as the European and American exploration, settlement, and development of the Trans-Mississippi West from Mexico to the Arctic Circle.

Holdings:
40,000 printed works, 2000 catalogued manuscript collections, thousands of vintage photographs, and hundreds of prints, watercolors, and paintings.

References:
The collection is described in The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; A Guide to its Collections (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994). Two catalogues of the manuscript collections have been published: Mary C. Withington's A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Collection of Western Americana Founded by William Coe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952) and A Catalogue of the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Collection of Western Americana. Volume One: Manuscripts, compiled by Jeanne M. Goddard and Charles Kritzler (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965). Though outdated, these remain useful guides. Most Western Americana materials are listed in ORBIS. Additionally, many finding aids for Western Americana manuscript collections are accessible through the Yale University Library web page.

Description:
The collection's anthropological interest lies in its documentation of the full range of Indian-white relations west of the Mississippi. The history and culture of Native Americans are detailed in the official accounts of government-sponsored expeditions and in the private memoirs and autobiographies of missionaries, traders, and government agents. In addition to early ethno graphic works, the collection has many of the first Indian grammars, dictionaries, and texts. It features an extensive collection of Cherokee and Creek imprints from Indian Territory, as well as numerous mission imprints from the Pacific Northwest.

Graphic materials in the collection provide an often stunning visual record of western peoples, cultures and landscapes. Among the collection's most valuable holdings are sketches, paintings, prints, and books by artists and writers like George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller, James Otto Lewis, and the brothers Edward and Richard Kern. Early photographs of Native Americans by photographers such as Julius Vannerson, Samuel Cohners, Zeno Shindler, Alexander Gardner, William Soule, William Henry Jackson, John Hillers, and Edward Curtis supplement the papers of Yale alumnus Walter McClintock.

In addition to material about Native Americans, the Western Americana Collection contains accounts of Pacific voyages, especially those of the United State s Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). Expedition commander Charles Wilkes made stops on several South Seas islands, most notably Samoa, and his reports include descriptions of native laws, language and customs.

Contributed by Bridget Burke, former Assistant to Western Americana Curator, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Divinity School Library

Major resources:
The Yale Divinity Library has a strong collection of manuscripts, books, and periodicals documenting the history of Christian missionary work throughout the world. Missionaries often lived among the peoples they served and were ideally suite d to observe and record anthropologically interesting data. Missionaries were also frequently involved in developing grammars of native languages in order to translate the Bible. Photographs, engravings, letters, journals, and writings in the Library's collections document cultures in a wide range of geographical areas and time periods.

Areas of specialization:
The Library's holdings are particularly strong in documentation of the era of intensive Protestant mission work in China, 1830-195 0. The China Records Project, a project initiated in 1968, now includes records of more than 300 former China missionaries. Not all of these collections are of anthropological interest, but some of the missionaries took a particular interest in documenting the language, customs, and art of the Chinese people, particularly of the ethnic groups living on the western borders of China. Examples of papers with anthropological interest include:

• Daniel Sheets and Jane Balderston Dye Papers
  Daniel Dye taught at West China Union University from 1910 to 1949, and as an avocation, he recorded and analyzed window lattice and woven belt patterns throughout West China. He was a founder of the West China Border Research Society and of the West China Union University museum. Hundreds of lattice and woven belt patterns recorded by Dye and his Chinese assistants are available in his papers, as well as photographs and slides that illustrate costumes, artwork, and architecture of West China.
• Archives of the Border Service Department of the Church of Christ in China
  This Department concentrated its work among the Nosu (Lolo, now Yi), Ch'iang, and Chia-rung national minorities in West China. Writings and photographs document the culture of these peoples.
• Lyman Hoover Papers
  The papers of YMCA missionary Lyman Hoover contain significant material about the Muslim population of China, including photographs.
• Campbell Family Papers
  These papers include documentation of work among the Hakka people of South China.
• Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
  These archives include records of thirteen colleges and universities in China sponsored by Protestant mission agencies. Some of these schools had institutes or museums relating to Chinese culture, including the Ferguson Collection of Chinese art and artifacts and the Institute of Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of Nanking. Photographs and films in this archival collection document a range of subjects from a Sung dynasty gravesite in Shaowu to tribespeople of Sikiang.
  

  Holdings:
  100,000 monographs related to mission topics, 1000 linear feet of manuscript material related to Protestant missionary activity and the Christian Church in China.

References:
Collection level records describing the Library's manuscript groups are entered in Orbis and selected full finding aids are available through the Special Collections section of the Library's homepage. A fairly detailed description of the Divinity Library's China-related collections can be found in Christianity in China: A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States, edited by Archie R. Crouch (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989). Seven manuscript groups have been added to the China Records Project collection since the compilation of the Crouch guide.

Contributed by Martha Smalley, Curator, Day Missions, Divinity Library.

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Economic Growth Center, Social Science Library

Major resources:
Foreign governments statistical publications, development plans, and censuses with a focus on developing countries.

Holdings:
65,000 volumes, 5,000 active serial titles.

References:
Economic Growth Center. Three year report 1991-1993. New Haven, CT, The Center, [1994]. 41 p.

Description:
The Economic Growth Center Collection, which is part of the Social Science Library, is composed of 65,000 volumes of international data with a focus on materials relating to statistics, economics and planning in over 100 countries.

Particular strength resides in the holdings of over 5,000 currently received serials issued by foreign governments, research institutions and intergovernmental organizations. Of special interest to anthropologists are its collections of statistics on agriculture, economics and religion, demographic survey reports and censuses, particularly those with linguistic and ethnographic tables.

The Economic Growth Center Collection is one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind in the United States. It has its own unique classification, which is by region and country first, and then by subject. Access to the library is extended to those doing research from outside of Yale.

Contributed by Edita R. Baradi, Head of Technical Services and EGC Librarian, Social Science Library.

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Peabody Museum of Natural History

Areas of specialization:
Documentation supporting artifact collections.

Holdings:
1,300 monographs and serials, 120 linear feet of manuscript and archival material, including photographs, maps, films, field notes, and correspondence.

Access:
Open to scholars and other qualified persons. Portions of collections data may be accessed online.

References:
There is no written guide to anthropological, non-artifactual resources at the Peabody.

Established in 1866, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is one of the largest university natural history museums in the country. It houses over ten million specimens in the fields of anthropology and the natural sciences, in addition to providing facilities for collection-based teaching and research. The collections offer students and scholars a primary resource for the study of the history and diversity of life, both cultural and biotic. Through exhibits and public education programs, the museum also serves the wider regional community in which it resides.

The Division of Anthropology subsumes the archaeological, ethnological and human osteological collections of the Peabody. Acquired through the donations of Yale's alumni and friends and the scientific expeditions of Yale faculty and students, the holdings of the division number over 267,000 catalogued lots.

The majority of the Division's holdings is New World in origin, composed of extensive type collections in North American archaeology, comprehensive excavated collections from the Caribbean basin region, and significant collect ions from South America and Mesoamerica. George Grant MacCurdy's Old World archaeological study collections are also housed in the Division. Dimension is brought to the collection by a small, but rich, ethnological collection of objects made or used by Native American peoples. The ethnological collections contain significant contemporary material from Southeast Asia, which are particularly strong in the cultures of the Philippine Cordillera. A broad and representative collection of ethnological objects from Oceania rounds out the holdings.

Material held by the Division is directly related to the artifact collections, such as field notes and collector lists of artifacts, and inventories of collections. Material of this kind is represented by such archives as: the teaching, research files and correspondence of Wendell C. Bennett, 1930-1952 (11 linear feet), comprising photos, drawings, notes, maps, and field notes related to his teaching and field work in South America; site maps and photographs related to Hiram Bingham's excavations at Machu Picchu, 1911-1916 (38 linear feet); records of the town-by-town survey of Connecticut archaeological sites conducted by Froehlich Rainey in the 1920's (1.8 linear feet); field and research notes of Adam Garson pertaining to the La Calzada Archaeological Project, La Betania, Estado Barinas, Venezuela from 1967 to 1978 (1 linear foot); a narrative by George Langford detailing his excavations at the Fisher Site on the DesPlaines River near Joliet, Illinois between 1906 and 1927 (1 linear foot); Gary Vescelius' papers, including field and research notes on the archaeology, history and ecology of St. Croix, The Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean, through 1977 (2 linear feet); and field notes from excavations conducted at the Old Lyme Site in Connecticut in 1939 (.8 linear foot). Also included in the archives is a small amount of material that was acquired with artifact collections which is of general interest to ethnographers, such as; T.F. Clark's photographs and travel memorabilia from his travels through Europe, Asia and the Pacific from 1911-1919 (6 linear feet); Ethel M. Klemm's memorabilia collected in Alaska, and northern and northwestern North America between 1930-1939 while teaching and traveling among the Alaskan Eskimo and Sioux of South Dakota (1.8 linear feet); and the photographs and notes of T. Mitchell Prudden who conducted archaeological surveys in the American Southwest between 1899-1902 (3 linear feet).

Originally constructed by Martha Hill, Collections Manager, Division of Anthropology (Peabody Museum). Questions and/or comments may be directed to Emily Horning.

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