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Dale-Patterson Family collection

Creator:: Dale, Dianne Search this; Polk, P. H., 1898-1985 Search this

Names:: Barry, Marion, 1936-2014 Search this; Dale, Almore M., 1911-1984 Search this; Dale, Dianne Search this; Dale, John Henry, Jr., 1888-1973 Search this; Dale, Lucille Emma Patterson, 1889-1973 Search this; Dale, Marie Howard, 1914-2011 Search this; Dale, Norman Edward, 1908-1991 Search this; Garner, Araminta Dale, 1913-1987 Search this; Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988 Search this; Patterson, Wilhelmina Bessie, 1888-1962 Search this

Extent:: 6 Linear feet (9 boxes)

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Photographs; Programs; Clippings; Correspondence; Ephemera; Postcards

Place:: Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Date:: 1866 - 1990.

Summary:: The Dale-Patterson family papers, which date from 1866 to 2010 and measure 6 linear feet, document the personal and professional lives of the Dale-Patterson family who came to live in Hillsdale, Anacostia, area of Washington, D.C., in 1892.

Scope and Contents note:: The Dale-Patterson family papers, which date from 1866 to 1990 and measure 6 linear feet, document the personal and professional lives of the Dale-Patterson family who came to live in Hillsdale, Anacostia, area of Washington, D.C., in 1892. The collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.

Arrangement note:: The collection is arranged in four series:

Series 1: Dale-Patterson Family papers Series 2: Charles Qualls papers Series 3: Community Organizations Series 4: Subject Files

Biographical/Historical note:: The Dale family came to Washington, DC in 1886 when John Henry Dale, Sr., a gifted self-taught man, obtained a position as clerk in the newly contracted Pension Bureau building at 5th and G Streets, NW. First they lived near 13th Street and Florida Avenue, NW, then moved to Howard Road in Anacostia. Dale built a house at 2619 Nichols Avenue, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, drawing the plans and supervising the construction. The Dales and only one other family lived in this solidly built house for 100 years before it was sold to a church group and demolished.

General Note:: Finding Aid Note: This finding aid is associated with a MARC collection-level record.361883

Provenance:: The Dale-Patterson Family collection was donated to the Anacostia Community Museum on April 07, 2013.

Restrictions:: Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.

Rights:: The Dale-Patterson Family collection is the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.

Topic:: African Americans Search this; African American families Search this

Genre/Form:: Photographs; Programs; Clippings; Correspondence; Ephemera; Postcards

Citation:: Dale-Patterson Family collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Dianne Dale.

Identifier:: ACMA.06-074

See more items in:: Dale-Patterson Family collection

Archival Repository:: Anacostia Community Museum Archives

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EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-acma-06-074

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The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modern Histories of Prosthetics

Author:: Ott, Katherine Search this

Editor:: Ott, Katherine Search this; Serlin, David Search this; Mihm, Stephen Search this

Object Type:: Smithsonian staff publication

Year:: 2002

Citation:: Ott, Katherine. 2002. "The Sum of Its Parts: An Introduction to Modern Histories of Prosthetics." In Artificial Parts and Practical Lives; Modern Histories of Prosthetics. Ott, Katherine, Serlin, David, and Mihm, Stephen, editors. 1–42. New York: New York University Press. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814762431.003.0003.

Identifier:: 119128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814762431.003.0003

ISBN:: 9780814761977

Data source:: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:slasro_119128

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[Correspondence N-P]

Collection Creator:: Rich, Doris L. Search this

Container:: Box 7, Folder 4

Type:: Archival materials

Date:: 1984-1990

Scope and Contents:: Naval Academy; NBC; Nelson, Lois; New York Times; New York University; Ninety-Nines [99s]; Nisewaner, Edna Whiting; Noyes, Charles P. [Blanche Noyes]; Nykile, Linda; Osborne, Carol [Bobbi Trout]; Peck, Edward; Pellegreno, Ann Holtgren; Purdue University; Putnam-Trefelner, Cynthia; Putnam, David Binney

Collection Restrictions:: No restrictions on access

Collection Rights:: Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests

Collection Citation:: Amelia Earhart: A Biography [Rich] Collection, Acc. NASM.1991.0003, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

See more items in:: "Amelia Earhart: A Biography" [Rich] Collection; "Amelia Earhart: A Biography" [Rich] Collection / Series 4: Book Correspondence

Archival Repository:: National Air and Space Museum Archives

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EDAN-URL:: ead_component:sova-nasm-1991-0003-ref580

Milton Wolf Brown papers

Creator:: Brown, Milton Wolf (Milton Wolf), 1911-1998 Search this

Names:: Archives of American Art Search this; Armory Show 50th anniversary exhibition (1963 : New York, N.Y.) Search this; Brooklyn College -- Faculty Search this; Century Association (New York, N.Y.) Search this; City University of New York -- Faculty Search this; Whitney Museum of American Art Search this; Brown, Blanche Search this; Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 Search this; Lozowick, Louis, 1892-1973 Search this; Lynes, Russell, 1910-1991 Search this; Meltzoff, Stanley Search this; Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968 Search this; Prendergast, Charles, 1863-1948 Search this; Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924 Search this; Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965 Search this

Extent:: 26 Linear feet; 0.225 Gigabytes

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Gigabytes; Travel diaries; Articles; Interviews; Essays; Drafts (documents); Transcripts; Photographs; Notebooks; Lectures; Scripts (documents)

Date:: 1908-1998

Summary:: The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 26.0 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student.

Scope and Content Note:: The papers of art historian and educator Milton Wolf Brown date from 1908 to 1998 and measure 25.8 linear feet and 0.225 GB. The collection documents Brown's career through scattered biographical material, correspondence with friends, publishers, colleagues, artists, museums, and art organizations, travel journals, files for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, exhibition, research, teaching, and organization files, printed and digital material, and scattered photographs. A large portion of this collection consists of writings by Brown including notebooks, draft writings for books and other publications, lectures, and his writings as a student.

Biographical material includes academic records, travel documents, financial documents, Brown's military records, and a transcript of a 1997 interview. Correspondence is with students, museums, universities, publishers, art organizations, and others. The bulk of these letters document Brown's professional activities, but also found are scattered letters from friends, artists, and colleagues such as Russell Lynes, Stanley Meltzoff, Louis Lozowick, Erwin Panofsky, and Paul Sachs.

This collection also contains 33 detailed travel journals written primarily by Milton Brown's wife, Blanche, documenting their travels in Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. Within the writings series are notebooks from the period that Brown was a student and while traveling in Europe in 1959 and 1960; book project files, which include draft writings as well as related correspondence, research material, notes, photographs and other material. Files are found for American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography (1979), American Painting, From the Armory Show to the Depression (1955), The Story of the Armory Show (1963, 1988 2nd ed.), and other books. Among the writings are files for lectures written by Brown; essays, articles, and scripts written for various publications; general research notes and student writings; and writings by others sent to Brown for review and feedback.

Brown maintained a set of files documenting his work on the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, which consist of correspondence, drafts, reports, and research materials, including notes on twenty meetings with Mrs. Prendergast. Exhibition files document Brown's work as curator on several major exhibitions, including a Jacob Lawrence exhibition at the Whitney Museum, and his contributions to others. Also found here are three interviews of Milton Brown and Marcel Duchamp concerning the 50th Anniversary of the Armory Show and anniversary exhibition. Research files include notes, research material, and printed material on various art-related subjects that were maintained by Milton and Blanche Brown for regular use for lectures, teaching, and writing projects. Brown's teaching files contain scattered lecture notes, syllabi, correspondence, faculty records, and other materials from his time at CUNY, Brooklyn College, and other visiting professorships. Organization Files contain correspondence, reports, planning documents, and event materials. These records document his membership or advisory role in various organizations such as the Archives of American Art and Century Association.

This collection also contains printed material, such as exhibition announcements, newsletters, brochures, journals, event programs, and magazine and newspapers clippings compiled by Brown. Scattered photographs include nine photographs of Milton Brown, a few photographs of friends, and photographs of artwork.

Arrangement:: The collection is arranged as 11 series:

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Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1932-1998 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908, 1934-1998 (Boxes 1-3; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 3: Travel Journals, 1941-1996 (Boxes 3-4; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 4: Writings, circa 1929-1990s (Boxes 4-13, 25; 8.7 linear feet)

Series 5: Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project, circa 1952-1990 (Boxes 13-14, 25; 1.8 linear feet)

Series 6: Exhibition Files, 1962-circa 1997 (Boxes 14-16, 28; 2.0 linear feet, ER01; 0.225 GB)

Series 7: Research Files, circa 1930s-1986 (Boxes 16-19; 3.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Teaching Files, circa 1946-1993 (Boxes 19-21; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 9: Organization Files, 1959-1995 (Boxes 21-22; 1.3 linear feet)

Series 10: Printed Material, 1925-1990s (Boxes 22-24, 26, 27; 3.2 linear feet)

Series 11: Photographs, circa 1956-1990s (Boxes 25, 27; 0.2 linear feet)

Biographical Note:: Milton Wolf Brown (1911-1998) was an art historian and educator in New York City.

Known to his friends as "Mainey," Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1911. At a young age he intended to be a painter and studied with Louis Lozowick. However, instead of attending art school, he entered New York University to study education and eventually received his master's and doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts. While there he took courses with Walter Friedlander, Erwin Panofsky, and Mayer Schapiro. He also received fellowships to the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1934 and Brussels in 1937, and studied from 1938-1939 at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. In 1938 he married fellow student Blanche Levine. After serving in World War II, he began teaching in the art department at Brooklyn College in 1946. There he developed a specialization in American art history and his doctoral dissertation, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression, was published in 1955. In 1963 he participated in the fiftieth anniversary exhibition of the 1913 Armory Show. The publication of his book Story of the Armory Show coincided with this event.

In 1971 Brown established the graduate program in Art History at the City University of New York, which became preeminent in the areas of modern art and American art history. During the 1980s he remained a resident professor at CUNY, though he retired in 1979, and he held visiting professorships at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. From 1983 to 1987 he had a senior fellowship at Williams College for the Prendergast Catalogue Raisonne Project.

Over the course of his career Brown curated exhibitions, including an exhibition on the works of Jacob Lawrence and The Modern Spirit: American Painting and Photography, 1908-1935, and wrote for numerous publications. He also served as an active member of several professional societies. Brown was close friends with art scholars and artists, such as Jack Levine, Moses and Raphael Soyer, Ad Reinhardt, and Paul Strand. In 1991 he returned to painting landscape watercolors, and had the opportunity to exhibit his work before his death in 1998.

Related Material:: Also at the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Milton Wolf Brown, conducted in 1976 by Paul Cummings.

Provenance:: The Milton Wolf Brown papers were donated in 2000 and 2001 by Blanche R. Brown, Brown's widow. Three reel-to reel sound recordings were lent for duplication to cassette and transcript in 1986 by Milton Brown. A cassette copy of the Martha Deane interview was donated in 2006 by Milton Brown's estate, via Naomi Rosenblum. Additional material was donated in 2002 and 2004 by Naomi Rosenblum, executor for the estate of Blanche R. Brown, who died in 2002.

Restrictions:: Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:: The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:: Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this; Educators -- New York (State) -- New York Search this; Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York Search this

Topic:: Art, American History Sources Search this

Genre/Form:: Travel diaries; Articles; Interviews; Essays; Drafts (documents); Transcripts; Photographs; Notebooks; Lectures; Scripts (documents)

Citation:: Milton Wolf Brown papers, 1908-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:: Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Identifier:: AAA.browmilt

See more items in:: Milton Wolf Brown papers

Archival Repository:: Archives of American Art

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EDAN-URL:: ead_collection:sova-aaa-browmilt

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Ruth Landes papers

Correspondent:: Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 Search this; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 Search this; Wallis, Ruth Sawtell, 1895-1978 Search this; Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991 Search this; Lopez, Salvador Search this; Little, Kenneth Search this; Wilson, Maggie Search this; Whitecloud, Thomas St. Germain Search this; Henry, Jules, 1904-1969 Search this; Hellman, Ellen Search this; Haugen, Einar Search this; Gough, Kathleen Search this; Lewis, Oscar Search this; Kaberry, Phyllis Mary, 1910- Search this; Imes, Elmer Samuel, 1883-1941 Search this; Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962 Search this; Steyn, Anna F. Search this; Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961 Search this; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 Search this; Solecki, Ralph S. Search this; Sparta, Francisco Search this; Rubin, Joan Search this; Rubin, Vera Search this; Rodnick, David Search this; Rogers, Edward S. Search this; Ritzenthaler, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1911-1980 Search this; Roberts, Robert W. Search this; Ramo, Arthur Search this; Richards, Audrey Search this; Preston, Richard J. Search this; Verger, Pierre Search this; Vennum, Thomas Search this; Topash, Mary Search this; Topash, Joe Search this; Teskey, Lynn Search this; Taylor, Beryl Search this; Tanner, Helen Hornbeck Search this; Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957 Search this; Quain, Buell H. (Buell Halvor), 1912-1939 Search this; Dunning, William Search this; Douglas, William A. Search this; Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 Search this; Edmondson, Munro S. Search this; Black, Mary B. Search this; Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 Search this; Domengeaux, James Search this; Feldman, Albert G. Search this; Feder, Norman Search this; Gacs, Ute Search this; Franklin, John Hope Search this; Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997 Search this; Erickson, Vincent O. Search this; Falk, Minna R. Search this; Faitlovitch, V. Search this; Alberto Torres, Heloisa Search this; Buck, Pearl Search this; Bruce, Harold E. Search this; Borri, Rina Search this; Boggs, Stephen Taylor Search this; Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997 Search this; Baldus, Herbert Search this; Barnouw, Victor Search this; Bateson, Mary Catherine Search this; Lurie, Nancy Oestreich Search this; Malherbe, E. G. (Ernst Gideon), 1895- Search this; Marks, Eli S. Search this; Masha, Louise Search this; Maslow, Will Search this; Masquat, Joseph M. Search this; Mayer, Kurt B. Search this; McWilliams, Carey Search this; Bunche, Ralph J. Search this; Carneiro, Edison Search this; Chilver, E. M. Search this; Chilver, Richard Search this; Clifton, James A. Search this; Colson, Elizabeth F. Search this; Daveron, Alexander Search this; Lowenfeld, Margaret, 1890-1973 Search this; Officer, James E. Search this; Odum, Howard W. Search this; Park, Alice Search this; Paredes, Anthony Search this; Paton, Alan, 1903-1988 Search this; Park, George Search this; Prado, Idabel do Search this; Peschel, Keewaydinoquay M. Search this; Merwe, Hendrik W. van der Search this; Murphy, Robert Francis Search this; Messing, Simon D. Search this; Neumann, Anita Search this; Nef, Evelyn Stefansson Search this; Nocktonick, Louise Search this; Neumann, Walter Search this

Creator:: Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991 Search this

Names:: Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures Search this; Committee on Fair Employment Practices Search this; Fisk University Search this; Johnson, Charles S. Search this; Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991 Search this; Park, Robert E. Search this

Extent:: 26.5 Linear feet ((63 document boxes and 1 oversized box))

Culture:: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Search this; Dakota (Eastern Sioux) Search this; African Search this; Acadians Search this; Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this; Indians of North America -- Northeast Search this; Jews -- American Search this; Latinos -- California Search this; Brazilians Search this; Basques Search this; American Indians Search this; Afro-Brazilians Search this; Africans Search this

Type:: Collection descriptions; Archival materials

Place:: Quebec -- Bilingualism; United Kingdom -- colored immigration; South Africa

Date:: 1928-1992

Summary:: Most of Ruth Landes's papers relate directly or indirectly to Landes's American Indian research, her work in Brazil, and her study of bilingualism. There is also a considerable amount of material that relates to her experiences (sometimes fictionalized) at Fisk University. There is only small amount of material related to her other interests. Her collection also has material of and relating to the Brazilian folklorist and journalist Edison Carneiro. There is also noteworthy material concerning Herbert Baldus, Ruth Benedict, Elmer C. Imes, Charles S. Johnson, and Robert E. Park. There is a large amount of printed and processed materials in the collection, mainly in the form of newspaper clippings and a collection of scholarly papers.

Scope and Contents:: This collection is mainly comprised of the professional papers of Ruth Schlossberg Landes. Included are correspondence, journals, published and unpublished manuscripts of writings, research materials including field notes and reading notes, photographs, drawings, scholarly papers and publications by other scholars, and clippings from newspapers and periodicals.

Landes's field research on Candomblé in Brazil is well-represented in this collection, consisting of her field journals, writings, and photographs. Also present are Maggie Wilson's stories that were the basis for Landes's The Ojibwa Woman. Unfortunately, Landes was unable to locate her journals for her early research with the Ojibwa/Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Dakota. There are, however, field photographs of the Ojibwa/Chippewa and Potawatomi in the collection. There is also a great deal of her research on groups, especially minorities, in multilingual states with particular focus on the French of Quebec, Basques of Spain and the United States, Boers and Blacks of South Africa, the several socio-linguistic groups of Switzerland, and Acadians (Cajuns) of Louisiana. In the collection are several drafts of her unpublished manuscript on bilingualism, "Tongues that Defy the State." There is also a small amount of material about Black Jews of New York and considerable material about Landes's experience among African Americans when she taught briefly at Fisk University, including her unpublished manuscript "Now, at Athens," containing fictional and autobiographical accounts of her time at Fisk.

Reflections of other facets of Landes's professional activities are also included. Some materials concern her teaching activities, and there is also documentation of her work with the Fair Employment Practices Commission (a federal government agency during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and a similar private organization which immediately succeeded the FEPA; Gunnar Myrdal's research into the plight of African Americans ("The Negro in America"); the Research in Contemporary Cultures project at Columbia University; and the American Jewish Congress.

Among Landes's correspondents are Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ralph Bunche, Herbert Baldus, Edison Carneiro, Sally Chilver, Frances Densmore, Sol Tax, Elmer S. Imes, Charles S. Johnson, Robert E. Park, and Hendrik W. van der Merwe.

Arrangement:: The collection is organized into 6 series: (1) Correspondence, 1931-1991; (2) Research Materials, circa 1930s-1990; (3) Writings, circa 1930s-1990; (4) Teaching Materials, 1935-1975, undated; (5) Biographical and Personal Files, 1928-1988; (6) Graphic Materials, 1933-1978, undated

Biographical Note:: Ruth Schlossberg Landes was born on October 8, 1908 in New York City. Her father was Joseph Schlossberg, an activist in the Yiddish labor socialist community and one of the founders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She studied sociology at New York University (B.A. 1928) and social work at the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University (M.S.W. 1929). While in graduate school, Landes studied Black Jews in Harlem for her master's thesis, a topic that developed her interests in anthropology.

After graduating in 1929, she worked as a social worker in Harlem and married Victor Landes, a medical student and son of family friends. Their marriage ended after two years when she enrolled in the doctoral program in anthropology at Columbia against her husband's wishes. She kept his surname due to the stigma of being a divorced woman.

At Columbia, Landes studied under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict, her main advisor. Under the guidance of Benedict, Landes moved away from further study of African Americans to focus on Native American communities. Upon Benedict's suggestion, Landes studied the social organization of the Ojibwa in Manitou Rapids in Ontario from 1932 to 1936 for her Ph.D. fieldwork. Her dissertation, Ojibwa Sociology, was published in 1937. Landes also contributed "The Ojibwa of Canada" in Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples (1937), a volume edited by Margaret Mead. In 1938, Landes published Ojibwa Women (1938), a book written in collaboration with Maggie Wilson, an Ojibwa interpreter and informant.

In addition to studying the Ojibwa in Ontario, Landes also conducted fieldwork with the Chippewa of Red Lake, Minnesota in 1933, working closely with shaman or midé Will Rogers. Her book, Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin (1968) was based largely on her research with Rogers and Maggie Wilson. In 1935 and 1936, she undertook fieldwork with the Santee Dakota in Minnesota and the Potawatomi in Kansas. Like Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin, her books on the Santee Dakota and Potawatomi were not published until several years later—The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Sioux was published in 1968 while The Prairie Potawatomi was published in 1970. In between her field research in the 1930s and the publication of The Prairie Potawatomi, Landes returned to Kansas to study the Potawatomi in the 1950s and 1960s.

Landes's plan to continue her studies with the Potawatomi in 1937 changed when Benedict invited her to join a team of researchers from Columbia University in Brazil. Landes was to conduct research on Afro-Brazilians in Bahia, Brazil, while Walter Lipkind, Buell Quain, and Charles Wagley studied indigenous people in the Amazons. To prepare for her research, Landes was at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and 1938 to consult with Robert Park and Donald Pierson and to use the university's library collections of African and African American materials. During that time, Landes also held a teaching position at Fisk and lived in the non-segregated women's residence on campus. Landes later wrote "Now, at Athens," an unpublished memoir containing fictional and true accounts of her experiences at Fisk.

From 1938 to 1939, Landes conducted fieldwork on the role of Afro-Brazilian women and homosexuals in the Candomblé religion in Bahia, Brazil. Unable to move freely by herself in Brazil as a single woman, Landes was accompanied by Edison Carneiro, a Bahian journalist and folklorist. With Carneiro as her companion, Landes was allowed access to rituals and people that would have been closed off to her otherwise. Due to her association with Carneiro, a member of the Brazilian Communist Party, Landes was suspected of being a communist and was forced to leave Bahia early. Publications from her research in Brazil include "A Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality" (1940) and City of Women (1947). She returned to Brazil in 1966 to study the effects of urban development in Rio de Janeiro. In 1967, a Portuguese translation of City of Women was published, a project that Carneiro had commissioned as the first director of the Ministry of Education and Culture's Special National Agency for the Protection of Folklore.

Landes returned to New York in 1939, working briefly as a researcher for Gunnar Myrdal's study of African Americans. Unable to obtain a permanent position at a university, she worked in several other short term positions throughout most of her career. During World War II, Landes was a research director for the Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs (1941) and consultant for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fair Employment Practices Committee on African American and Mexican American cases (1941-44). In 1945, Landes directed a program created by Pearl S. Buck and a group of interdenominational clergy to analyze pending New York anti-discrimination legislation. She moved to California the following year to work for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Welfare Council on a study of race and youth gangs. After her contract ended, she moved back to New York and was hired as a contract researcher for the American Jewish Congress (1948-50). She also participated in Columbia University's Research in Contemporary Cultures (1949-51), studying Jewish families. She coauthored with Mark Zborowski, "Hypothesis concerning the Eastern European Jewish Family." From 1951 to 1952, Landes spent a year in London, funded by a Fulbright fellowship to study colored colonial immigrants and race relations in Great Britain.

After her fellowship ended, Landes returned to the United States and held short term appointments at several universities. She taught at the William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution in New York (1953-54), the New School for Social Research in New York (1953-55), University of Kansas (1957, 1964), University of Southern California (1957-62), Columbia University (1963), Los Angeles State College (1963), and Tulane University (1964). At Claremont Graduate School, Landes helped to develop and direct the Claremont Anthropology and Education Program (1959-62).

It was not until 1965 that Landes obtained a permanent faculty position at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; she was recruited for the position by Richard Slobodin. Due to Ontario's age retirement law, Landes was forced to retire in 1973 at the age of 65. She continued to teach part-time until 1977, when she became professor emerita.

Landes passed away at the age of 82 on February 11, 1991.

Sources Consulted

Cole, Sally. 2003. Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

Chronology

1908 October 8 -- Born Ruth Schlossberg in New York City

1928 -- B.A. in sociology, New York University

1929 -- M.S.W., New York School of Social Work, Columbia University

1929-1931 -- Social worker in Harlem Married to Victor Landes

1929-1934 -- Studied Black Jews in Harlem

1931 -- Began graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University

1932-1936 -- Studied the Ojibwa in Ontario and Minnesota (in field periodically)

1933-1940 -- Research Fellow, Columbia University

1935 Summer-Fall -- Studied the Santee Sioux (Dakota) in Minnesota

1935-1936 -- Studied the Potawatomi in Kansas

1935 -- Ph.D., Columbia University

1937 -- Instructor, Brooklyn College

1937-1938 -- Instructor, Fisk University

1938-1939 -- Studied Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil, especially at Bahia

1939 -- Researcher on Gunnar Myrdal's study, "The Negro in America"

1941 -- Research Director, Office of Inter American Affairs, Washington, D.C.

1941-1945 -- Representative for Negro and Mexican American Affairs, Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), President Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration

1944 -- Interim Director, Committee Against Racial Discrimination, New York

1946-1947 -- Researcher, study of Mexican American youth, gangs, and families, Los Angeles Metropolitan Council

1948-1951 -- Researcher, American Jewish Congress, New York

1949-1951 -- Research consultant, study on Jewish families in New York for Research in Contemporary Cultures Project, Columbia University

1951-1952 -- Fulbright Scholar, to study colored colonial immigration into Great Britain

1953-1954 -- Lecturer, William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution, New York

1953-1955 -- Lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York

1956-1957 -- Married to Ignacio Lutero Lopez

1957 Summer -- Visiting Professor, University of Kansas

1957-1958 -- Visiting Professor, University of Southern California

1957-1965 -- Consultant, California agencies (Department of Social Work, Bureau of Mental Hygiene, Department of Education, Public Health Department) and San Francisco Police Department

1958-1959 -- Director, Geriatrics Program, Los Angeles City Health Department

1959-1962 -- Visiting Professor and Director of Anthropology and Education Program, Claremont Graduate School

1962 -- Extension Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley

1963 -- Extension Lecturer, Columbia University Extension Lecturer, Los Angeles State College

1963-1965 -- Consultant, International Business Machines (IBM)

1964 January-June -- Visiting Professor, Tulane University

1964 Summer -- Field work with Potawatomi in Kansas Professor, University of Kansas

1965-1975 -- Professor at McMaster University

1966 -- Studied urban development in Rio de Janeiro

1968-1975 -- Studied bilingualism and biculturalism in Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, United States, and Canada (in Spain and the United States concentrated on Basques)

1975 -- Became part-time faculty member at McMaster University

1977 -- Professor Emerita, McMaster University

1978 -- Award of Merit from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

1991 February 11 -- Died in Hamilton, Ontario

1991 -- Establishment of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund at Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM)

Related Materials:: Correspondence from Ruth Landes can be found in the William Duncan Strong Papers, the Leonard Bloomfield Papers, and MS 7369. The Ruth Bunzel Papers contains a copy of a grant application by Landes.

Provenance:: These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Ruth Landes in 1991.

Restrictions:: The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.

Access to the Ruth Landes papers requires an appointment.

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Topic:: African Americans Search this; Language and languages -- Documentation Search this; Midéwiwin Search this; Bilingualism Search this; Aging Search this; Candomblé (Religion) Search this

Citation:: Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:: The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.