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© President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Object Number 58-43-00/1.7.3
Display Title "Scientific American"
Descriptions
Archival Collections/Series Southwest Africa Expeditions records > Records from accession file 58-43 > Subject files
Archival Scope and Content Correspondence and engravers' proofs relating to use of Marshall photographs in "Scientific American" 1960 for article by Marshall Sahlins called "The Origins of Human Society." This material was removed from accession file 58-43G.
Archives Archival Collection - Folder
Archival Box, Folder Box 4, Folder 15
Archival Inventory
letters 7/13/60 Dennis Flanagan to J.O. Brew permission to use "Bushman" photos in "Scientific American" to illustrate "Origins of Human Society" by Marshall Sahlins 7/20/60 Dennis Flanagan to J.O. Brew list of photo subjects 7/26/60 Lorna Marshall to Dennis Flanagan sending photos, list of photo # 7/26/60 Dennis Flanagan to J.O. Brew receipt of photos 8/3/60 Dennis Flanagan to J.O. Brew engravers proofs and captions 8/5/60 J.O. Brew to Dennis Flanagan (3 copies, 1 original) caption revisions 8/24/60 J.O. Brew to Dennis Flanagan thank you for check 8/18/60 Dennis Flanagan to J.O. Brew payment for use of photos 8/26/60 J.O. Brew to Dennis Flanagan thank you for advance copies 8/25/60 Dennis Flanagan to J.O. Brew copies of September "Scientific American" photos engravers proofs of 8 photos used in 9/60 "Scientific American" articles Marshall Sahlins, "On the Origins of Human Society"
Date 1960
Artist Marshall Sahlins
Artist Laurence Marshall
Artist Scientific American
Artist Lorna Marshall
Artist Dr. John Otis Brew
Culture
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New York / <County> / New York City
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge
Quantity 1

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40069/400690200.pdf
58-43-00/1.7.4 Lauriston Ward
Massachusetts
Namibia
Botswana
New York City
South Africa
40068/400680500.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.9 Recordings: Gilbert Rouget, Paul Collaer, Folkways
Paris
New York
Cambridge
Brussels
40068/400680000.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.4 1958 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/8/58-11/6/58
Washington
Cambridge
Namibia
Johannesburg
40069/400690000.pdf
58-43-00/1.7.2 Baboons
Cambridge
Washington
Pennsylvania
Florida
Johannesburg
40068/400680200.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.6 "Bushmen Bibliographies"
Cambridge
London
40068/400680600.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.10 Recordings: Gilbert Rouget, Paul Collaer, Folkways
Cambridge
France
40068/400680400.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.8 Recordings: L. F. Maingard
Johannesburg
Namibia
Cambridge
40068/400680300.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.7 CBS-TV episode of “Adventure”
New York
Cambridge
40067/400671500.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.1 1956 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/19/1956-9/1/1956
Angola
Cambridge
London
Namibia
40067/400671700.pdf
58-43-00/1.4.3 1957-58 Expedition records, including letters dating 1/10/57-11/27/57
Cambridge
Windhoek
Angola
Johannesburg
Washington
40068/400681200.pdf
58-43-00/1.7.1 Permits
Cambridge
Namibia
New York City
40058/400580400.pdf
58-43-00/1.3.2 1955 records, possibly from J.O. Brew, including letters dating 8/1/1955-11/28/1955
Namibia
Botswana
New Haven
New York
Washington
Boston
Cambridge