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The Consortium’s collections provide many opportunities to learn more about the history of anthropology, museums and the collection of human remains.
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Some archival materials related to this topic include:
Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943, Smithsonian Institution
Fletcher/La Flesche Papers, Smithsonian Institution
Correspondence (Franz Boas and others), American Philosphical Society
University Museum Archives, University of Pennsylvania
Edward Anthony Spitzka and Edward Charles Spitzka Papers, Huntington Library
Richard H. Kern Correspondence Files, Newberry Library
James Aitken Meigs Papers, Newberry Library
American Surgical Association Curatorial Files, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Records of the Mütter Museum 1887 - 2006, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
See also recent work from our fellows:
Rosanna Dent, Studying Indigenous Brazil: The Xavante and the Human Sciences, 1958-2015
Christopher Heaney, Andean Afterlives: the Hemispheric Circulatio n of the Pre-Columbian Dead and Peruvianist Anthropology, 1780-1948
Paul Mitchell, Human Remainders: the Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection
Joanna Radin, Life on Ice: Frozen Blood, Human History, and Biodiversity in a Genomic Age
College Librarian, College of Physicians of Philadelphia