INVENTORY OF
THE PAPERS OF EARNEST A. HOOTON

 SERIES DESCRIPTION AND CONTAINER LISTS

CORRESPONDENCE OF EARNEST A. HOOTON

The correspondence is listed alphabetically.
A B C D E-F G H I J-K L M N O-P Q-R S T-U V-W X-Z

BOX 1 (A)
"A" General correspondence
"A" General correspondence [professional societies]
American Defense-Harvard Group
American Eugenics Society
American School of Prehistoric Research: correspondence & report, 1931-41
Angel, John Lawrence
The "Angel" (Maurice Tillet)
American Anthropologist
American Association of Physical Anthropologists: correspondence, 1937-38

BOX 2 (A-B)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists: correspondence, 1941-42
1939-53
Arizona/Andean Expedition
Ashley-Montague: correspondence, 1931-49
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (C.G. Woodson)
[see also "Negro" for additional Woodson correspondence]
"B" General correspondence

BOX 3 (B)
"Ba-Bi" General correspondence
"Bl-Bu" General correspondence
Benthall, Gotty (re: "Indian skull" PM acc.#39-73)
Birdsall, Joseph B.
Birthright, Inc. (C.M. Goethe)
Blackwood, Beatrice
Blom, Frans
Boaz, Franz

BOX 4 (B-C)
Bowles, Gordon
Boyd, William C.
Brues, Alice
"C" General correspondence

BOX 5 (C)
"C" General correspondence
Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study
Canada re: "Indians & Eskimos," 1935
Case Institute of Technology
Century of Progress, 1934
Ceylon (males, anthropometric data)
Chase, Thurston -Commonwealth Fund
Congres International des Sciences Anthropologiques

BOX 6 (C-D)
Constitutional Project (Commonwealth Fund)
Coolidge, Harold
Coon, C.S.: correspondence and portrait
Cornwall, George
Count, Earl W.
-correspondence, 1940-53
-draft
Crawford (re: Geo. Grant MacCurdy obituary by Hooton)
"D" General correspondence

BOX 7 (D)
Day, Caroline Bond
Denis, A. (Anthropoid Ape Research)
Du Bois, Cora
Dupertuis, C.W.
"D" General correspondence
Division of Anthropology: Plans for lab (re: development of Rm. 55 as osteo lab/exhibit area, 1926-30
Dept. of Anthropology: correspondence, 1941
Davenport, C.B., 191-44
Damon, Albert
De Terra, Hellmut

BOX 8 (E-F)
Ehrich, Robert
Embree, Edwin- Julius Rosenwald Fund
Encyclopedia Americana
Epes, T.F.
Eugenics (Sterilization League and Dept. of Genetics)
"F" General correspondence
Field, Henry

BOX 9 (G)
"G" General correspondence
Garn, Stanley M.
Gates, R. Ruggles- International Eugenics Congress
Gaul, Mrs. Harvey

BOX 10 (G)
Gaul, James H.
Gillen, John
Gillen, John (re: Caribbean study)
Gladwin, W.W.
Goff, Charles W.
Grant Study
Graves, Wm. W. (re: criminal study)
Green, Addision L.
Gregory, Wm.-American Museum of Natural History

BOX 11 (H)
"H" General correspondence

BOX 12 (H)
Haeseler
Handy, Edward
Hansberry, William Leo
Hansen, C.L.
Harley, George
Harvard Alumni Association
Harvard Bureau of International Research (re: Day's study, etc.)
-Day's study
-"Research in progress"
-"Research & Applied Anthropology at Harvard"
-Expenses
Harvard Club-various
Harvard Crimson
Harvard Dept. of Anthropology - see "Dept. of Anthropology"
Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin
Harvard University- General
Harvard University Press
Herskovitz-Northwestern University
Heywood-Wakefield Co.

BOX 13 (H-I)
Hertzberg, H.T.E. - U. of Kentucky
E.A. Hooton- vitae, appointment letters, etc.
Hooton- verse
Hooton family-photos of marker
Howard, Edgar
Hrdlicka, Ales- Smithsonian
Hughs, Bryon
Hulse, Frederick
Hunt, Edward
Hunter College
Huntington, Ellsworth
"I" General correspondence
IBM
Indian affairs
Irish survey
Irish Philosophical Society grant

BOX 14 (J-K)
"Ja-Je" General correspondence
"Jo-Ju" General correspondence
Jayne, Horace-Univ. of Pa
Jenks, A.E.-Univ. of Minn.
Judd, Neil- Smithsonian
"K" General correspondence

BOX 15 (K)
Keeler, C.
Keith, Sir Arthur
Kelly, Arthur
Kidder, A.V. (also H.H. Kidder, Alfred Kidder II)
Kluckhohn, Clyde
Krauss, Bertram S.
Kroeber, A.
Krogman, Wilton M.

BOX 16 (L)
"L" General correspondence
Lasker, Gabriel-American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Lowell Lectures, 1938

BOX 17 (M)
"M" General correspondence

BOX 18 (M-N)
MacMillan Co.
Margolis, Herbert
Martin, Paul S.
Mechling (re: PM elevator)
Movie (MGM): correspondence, script
"N" General correspondence

BOX 19 (N)
National Academy of Sciences (re: population studies)
National Research Council
Nissen, Henry L. -Yale Lab of Primate Biology

BOX 20 (O-P)
"O" General correspondence
Oppenheimer, Harold L.
Orthopedic Surgeon Council
"P" General correspondence

BOX 21 (P-R)
Pathe' (from 1929)
Phillips: "What Shall We do With Germany & Japan?" mss. by Hooton
Planned Parenthood
"Primate Book" (Man's Poor Relations )
"Q" General correspondence (includes E.M. Quinby), 1944-1947
"R" General correspondence, 1934-47

BOX 22 (R)
Rogers, Frederick Rand
Remington Arms Company: correspondence 1944

BOX 23 (S)
"Sa" General correspondence
"Sc" General correspondence
"Se" General correspondence
"Sh" General correspondence
"Si" General correspondence
"Sk-Sl" General correspondence
"Sm" General correspondence
"Sn" General correspondence
"So-Sp" General correspondence
"Sr" General correspondence
"St" General correspondence
"Su-Sy" General correspondence
Sapir, Edward: correspondence and draft of eulogy, 1938-39
Sayles, E.B. correspondence and report, re: Cochise study, 1940
Schultz, Adolph correspondence, 1935-51
Seltzer, Carl: correspondence, 1934-52
Senyurek, Muzaffer Suleyman: correspondence, 1937-52
Shapiro, Harry: correspondence, 1940-50

BOX 24 (S)
Sharp, Lauriston: correspondence, 1934-39
Sheldon, William H.
Shimkin, Demitri: correspondence, 1948-54
Snow, Charles: correspondence, 1942-46
Social Science Research Council
-- proposal for criminal study, 1929-1938
-- budgets, invoices, payrolls, etc. 1928
Stagg, F.L.
Starett Company
Stanford University (re: Raymond Fred West lectures)
State Dept. (US): correspondence, 1946-48
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (see "Grants files" under Stefansson)
Steggerda, Morris: correspondence, 1945-50
Stevens, David H. (Rockefeller Fdn.): correspondence, 1933-37
Stewart, T.D. (Smithsonian Institution): correspondence, 1937-41
Study of Sex Variants, Committee for

BOX 25 (T-U)
"T" General correspondence
Thomas, Sidney -US Dept. of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs (re: mixed race study on
Cheyenne River Sioux, 1935-36)
Tildesley, M.L. -Congres International des Sciences Anthropologiques et Ethnologiques
Trevor, J.C. -Galton Laboratory: correspondence, 1935-38
Tufts College: correspondence, 1951
"U" General correspondence
Up From the Ape

BOX 26 (V-W)
"V" General correspondence
"W" General correspondence

BOX 27 (W-Z)
Washburn
White-NAACP
Woodson, C.G.
"XYZ" General correspondence
RESTRICTED: Letters of recommendation

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MANUSCRIPTS AND DATA FILES

• BOX 1: Manuscripts of lectures and writings
• BOX 2: Manuscripts (with Stagg & Dupertuis), etc.
• BOX 3: Grant Study & contracts with Army-Air Force, Quartermaster General, etc.
• BOX 4: A. Damon, J. Stefansson, and Hooton Research Records, 1927-63
• BOX 5: Century of Progress data
• BOX 6: Anthropometric data, compiled by Carl Seltzer, 1934
• BOX 7: Anthropometric data, 1934
• BOX 8-16:Criminal Study
• BOX 17: Somatotypes from various studies
• BOX 18-20: Lecture notes
• BOX 21: Central European Expedition, Irish Survey
• BOX 22: Miscellaneous
• MAP CASE IV: Drawer 5: Oversize illustrations

BOX 1: Manuscripts of lectures and writings

• "Yourself"
• "The Negro in Human Evolution and American Civilization"
• "The Future Quality of the American People"
• Hooton lectures
• "Our Ancestors, or What One Anthropologist Does Not Know About Growth"
• "Evolution and Devolution of Face"
• "Diverse Shapes of Men"
• "Man's Organism and Behavior-State Dept."
• "Anthropology and Orthodontia"
• "Science and Youth"
• "Rise and Decline of Man'
• "Human Herdity - or Forbidden Fruit on the Tree of Knowledge"
• "Normal Types of Men and How to Spot Them" (Ladies Home Journal)
• "The Pathology of Nations"
• "An Anthropologist Ruminates on Dentition and Devolution"
• "The Rise and Decline of Man" (unused"The Wages of Biological Sin"
• "Future Quality of the American People"
• "Human Biology in Post-War Education"
• "A Scientist Looks at the Race of Supermen"
• "Litters of Illiterates"
• "Noses, Knowledge, and Nostalgia"
• "Swords into Ploughshares" (Woman's Home Companion)
• "Man's Debt to the Ape"
• "An Anthropological Appraisal of the Jewish People"
• "Should Racial Differences be Denied or Disregarded in a Democracy"
• "Anthropology of the European Belligerents"
• "War" (Associated Press feature, 101/10/39
• "The Skeleton of the Devil" (Boston Book Fair)
• "Prospect for the Study of Human Constitution" (Am. Health Assoc., Boston, 3/26/40)
• "The Present Human Depression-Is it Biological?" (Sterilization League of NJ)
• "Our Physical Fitness for Defense" (Am. Defense, Harvard Group, 1941)
• "The Anthropological Prospect of the Survival of Human Liberty" (Harvard Discussion Group)
• "Plain Statements About Race"
• "Abstract of Homo-Sapiens- Whence and Whither?"
• "Roland B. Dixon"
• "The Biology of Primitive Human Societies"
• "Notes on Five Texas Crania"
• "Marett Festshrift" article
• "The Age of Man"
• "An Anthropologist Looks at Medicine"
• "Stature, Head Form, and Pigmentation of Adult Male Irish"
• "Vanuxem Princeton Lectures"
• "Anthropology and Democracy"
• "The Lantern of Diogenes"
• "The Good Shepherd of Maya Studies" and "The Little Children of the Sacred Cenote"
• "Change and Decay in Americans"
• "What an Anthropologist Does Not Know About Man" (NY Times Book Fair)
• "Why is an Author?" (WEEI - Author Program Radio broadcast)
• "What Shall We do to be Saved?" (Kansas City, Feb. 19, 1937""Hip-Hip-Hippocrates! or An Anthropological Cheer for Medical Science"
• "Proposal of an Institute for the Study of Well Human Beings"
• "The Simian Basis of Human Mechanics Ape to Engineer"
• "Biology and Fossil Man"
• "The Harvard Anthropological Survey of Ireland"
• "Apology for Man"
• "Man as Director of Human Evolution"
• "Apes, Men, and Teeth"
• "The Anthropology of the Invalid"
• "The Upstart of the Animal Kingdom"
• "What is an American?"
• "The Harvard Anthropometric Lab at a Century of Progress Exposition"
• "The Biology of Primitive Human Societies
• "Preliminary Remarks on the Anthropology of the American Criminal"
• "The Stone Age Races of Kenya"
• "Development and Correlation of Research in Physical Anthropology at Harvard"
• "The Relation of Physical Anthropology to Cultural Anthropology"

BOX 2: Manuscripts (with Stagg & Dupertuis), etc.

• Andover Pecos Expedition: report on shipping skeletons, spring 1918
• Hooton: "Man's Poor Relations," (photos & plates)
• S. Garn: hair distribution, blank for MGH survey
• Hooton & Dupertius: "Age Changes & Selective Survival in Irish Males," 1952
• Hooton-Stagg: "Harvard Manuscript"
• Hooton-Dupertuis: "Ireland Manuscript"
• Hooton: manuscript from study on criminals

BOX 3: Grant Study & contracts with Army-Air Force, Quartermaster General, etc.

• Harvard University's Grant Study: "Short Interview Method for Selection of Army Officers," 1942
• Army-Air Force Material Center: memos, reports re: anthropometric studies, ca. 1940s (A. Damon's copy)
• "Frequency Tables for Anthropometric Survey of Aviation Cadets & Gunners," 155 pages (A. Damon's copy)
• US Army-Air Corps: correspondence, 1941-42
• C. Kluckhohn memos, incl. "Anthropology During the War and After," 1943-59
• Hooton's correspondence and HU contracts, 1946-56 with Quartermaster General's Office re: classification of photos of Army recruits (ca. 49,500) by Statistical Lab, Division of Anthropology
• "Handbook of Body Types in the US Army, White Males," volumes 1 & 2 (Hooton's copies)
• "Practice Album 1: Album Illustrating Body Build in Relation to Military Function," (incl. somatotypes)
• "Body Build in Relation to Military Function in a Sample of the US Army," Contract, 2 volumes, 1948 (copies belonging to Statistics Lab)
• "Foot Dimensions of Soldiers," Project report, No.T013, Armored Medical Research Lab, 1946 (Hooton's copy)
• (8) project reports for Armored Force Med. Research Lab, 1943-47
• Quartermaster Survey: documents, 1945
• Quartermaster Corps projects: agreements, etc., 1947
• Air Force somatotype project: correspondence, financial statements, 1952-53
• Somatotype photography: instructions, ca. 1950
• US Army Air Corp- punch & code instructions, broken down by "female" and "male"
• Somatotype cards (blank)-criteria, 1947
• Measurements-Quartermaster General report

BOX 4: A. Damon, J. Stefansson, and Hooton Research Records, 1927-63
(SOMATOTYPES ARE RESTRICTED)

• A. Damon: Somatotypes VA-AD ratings vs. Sheldon, reprints, 1960s
• RESTRICTED: Damon: Somatotypes: men & women (unidentified) re: Mennieres disease & otoschlerosis
• RESTRICTED: Damon study re:cholesterol, blood pressure; somatotypes, ca. 1960S
• RESTRICTED: Damon: Somatotypes of young males, Holloman AFB, 1963
• RESTRICTED: Damon: Somatotypes of Boston City Hospital interns, 1967
• A. Damon: Somatotype Reliability (using Sheldon's technique), 1959-61
• A. Damon: Somatotype measurements
• V. Stefansson-American Institute of Meatpackers grant, 1927-30
• V. Stefansson-Icelandic investigation: correspondence, 1931-53
• V. Stefansson-Icelandic investigation: drafts of papers
• V. Stefansson's measurements of Icelandic skulls in the Peabody Museum, 1956
• Random sample-Women
• E.A. Hooton: US Army Air Corps anthropological survey: analysis & classification
• RESTRICTED: E.A. Hooton: Somatotype- General Theory, E.A. Hooton
• E.A. Hooton: Outline for general morphological description, etc.
• Frequency distributions-Theoretic
• Coefficient of Correlation
• Keys: starvations series (Lasker paper), 1946
• Statistical Lab-Services performed: "Memo for Hooton," 1946
• Costs of Army project, 1946-47
• Stature-As somatotype component (W.H. Sheldon)
• Leg somatotypes (pilot & tests)
• Photo count (Ft. Dix, Bragg recruits)
• TOT Somatotypes- first tests, 1946
• Bragg sample: white male, 1947
• Arm somatotype tests
• Conversion figured-Statistical Lab (Peabody) from white male Fort Bragg samples, 1947
• Legs- Somatotype Comp Correlations, 1947
• Army- serial number check, by Statistics Lab, ca. 1947
• Region I-Criteria-Head and neck, by Stagg & Hooton, 1940s
• Criteria-Torso
• Region III-Criteria-Arms and hands
• Region IV - Criteria - Abdominal and trunk
• Region V-Criteria -Legs, feet and buttocks, instructions and scale for rating, Hooton, 1946
• Quartermaster General report, no.180: Reference Anthropometry of Army Men, 1951

BOX 5: Century of Progress data

• Measurements of 3,000 visitors to the Field Museum's Hall of Science of the Century of Progress Exhibit, 1933-4 (Hooton gathered data for study of population of the Middle West, for the Field Museum in Chicago)
• Century of Progress: tables
• Barama Caribs, Central Caribs: data and letters from Jack Gillin, 1933-34
• St. Helena men & women (3 folders) #3
• Unpublished data, "Differences of Means," #4
• Unpublished data, #6
• Cochise paper, by A.M. Brues, #7
• Thickness of Soft Parts: Races, #8
• Observations on skulls & drawings, by Coon, Newman, Angel, Lasker, & Birdsell, #11
• Misc.: drawing of primate family tree, notes on bone preservation, notes on Christ Church skeleton, Herzberg's eye-colour form (Negro series), & Snow's N. Mexican skull #12
• Lucien Carr, "Measurements of a few skulls for first comparative study with the Shrewsbury; California crania; Ohio Mound sites, etc., #13
• C.C. Abbott: notes of measurements of head, 1886 #14
• Recording of Century of Progress, 1933

BOX 6: Anthropometric data, compiled by Carl Seltzer, 1934

• Hopi
• Yaqui
• Navajo

BOX 7: Anthropometric data, 1934

• British Guiana, compiled by Jack Gillin, 1932
• Ecuador, compiled by Jack Gillin, 1934
• Cameroun, compiled by George Schwab, 1934

BOX 8: Criminal Study

• Crime and the Man, (Harvard U. Press): correspondence, 1936-41
• Publication possibilities re: American criminal
• Inquiries on criminal volume

BOX 9: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data, ca. 1920-29:

• "Defective Delinquints -0001-00190"
• New Mexico State Penitentiary
• Taunton State Hospital
• Colored colleges (information incomplete)
• Coldsboro, NC State Hospital" (incomplete)
• Wisconsin State Prison (includes photos)

BOX 10: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data:

• Wisconsin State Prison (continued)
• Misc.
• Bridgewater State Farm
• Missouri State Farm

BOX 11: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data:

• Colorado State Penitentiary (includes some photos)
• Arizona State Prison
• Colorado State Hospital

BOX 12: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data:

• County Jail (Massachusetts?)

BOX 13: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data:

• Texas Prison

BOX 14: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data:

• Tennessee Prison
• Kentucky Reformatory

BOX 15: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Anthropometric data (forms: MA.Dept. of Mental Diseases & HU. Division of Anthropology):

• Tennessee College Negroes
• Non-college Negroes
• Mass. Militia
• Mass. Non-college Negroes
• Tenn. firemen
• Mass. General
• Mass.-White sample
• Schwab white sample
• Social data on the criminal insane, 1927
• Women-county jail
• [prisoners]

BOX 16: Criminal Study (RESTRICTED)

Photographs:

• Kentucky
• North Carolina and New Mexico
• Tennessee

BOX 17: Somatotypes from various studies (RESTRICTED)

• E.A. Hooton: somatotype cards and photos, probably from Handbook of Body Types,
• ca. 1947
• A. Damon somatotypes and data cards from various studies, including Forsythe Dental Infirmary Growth Study, intern study, Harvard School of Public Health, etc., 1941-65

BOX 18: Lecture notes

• African Ethnology Course

BOX 19: Lecture notes

• Old World Archaeology Course

BOX 20: Lecture notes

• Physical Anthropology Course(s) re: race mixture, criminal types, etc.

BOX 21: Central European Expedition, Irish Survey

• Central European Expedition (V.J. Fewkes)
• Irish Survey (Hencken), 1932-36
• Rockefeller reports, correspondence, etc., 1931-

BOX 22: Miscellaneous

• Codes for criminal data, Irish sociological data
• Codes for Shapiro's Chinese and Hawaiian studies
• Harvard Class measurements, 1860-81, from Fathers and Sons Study
• Yap, Caroline Islands data
• Syrian/Lebanese Study-questionnaires
• Birdsell's Australian Project

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• Illustrations from Up From the Ape, and other Hooton publications

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PHOTOGRAPHS

For information about Photographs included in this finding aid, please contact Photographic Archives.

BOX 1
1) Photo album of Liberia, 1928, from George Schwab, with name "E.A. Hooten" inscribed on cover. Shows President King, Mr. Firestone and views of company, etc.
(apparently some photos were reproduced in a Hooton article about Schwab, published
in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.)

2) Portraits of Liberians(?), taken by Harley & Schwab

3) Photos accompanying anthropometric data from Kabylia, Algeria, 1927, for Dr. Hooton.
Sent by H.H. Kidder. (Data was not found with photos.)

4) Portraits of Hawaiians, taking by Louis R. Sullivan, noting race mixture on verso of prints.

5) Somatotypes, identified on verso of prints, probably of Europeans.

6-7) Portraits (various ethnic), used for exhibit purposes. Includes some labels.

8) Photos of an ethnographic exhibit. Sent by Schwab to Peabody Museum in 1928 (to Hooton)

9) Somatotypes of Liberians, with notes by Schwab on verso that they were measured. Also
village scenes.

10) Photos of facial views, identified and numbered. Used for Century of Progress exhibit, 1934
Also box of 35 mm negatives that appear to correspond to prints.
Listing of photos.

BOX 2

Negatives for use in Hooton's published studies (Up From the Ape, etc.), including the following categories (people are unidentified, except for ethnicity/race):

• Somatotypes for Handbook of Body Types in the US Army, vol.2 , plates
• Photos of Australian aborigines, Harvard-Adelaide Expedition, 1936?
• Teeth (plates for book)
• North Chinese (taken by Lasker)
• Chinese (taken by Bowles)
• Japan (taken by Lasker, Bowles?)
• Anthropoid skulls, other skulls, various primates in the flesh & lemur skeletons
• Minnesota Man, fossil skulls, etc.
• Neanderthal site
• Sinanthropus
• Leakey in Kenya, South African fossil ape material
• Somatotypes labeled "African negroes and Bushmen"
• "Skinned orang, gorilla, chimp, man"
• "American negroes"
• Copy negatives of illustrations from Archiv fur Rassenbilder
• "Hitler and German officers"
• "Various physical types in Alaska" (Charlene Craft)
• "Misc. physical types: Australoid, Amer. Indian, European, Polynesian, etc." (identified as Sitting Bull, Navajo, Dakota, etc.)

BOX 3

Hooton measuring heads
"Old Photos" 2 folders

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