COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, diaries, travel albums and journals, accounts, financial and legal papers, post cards and photographs, published and unpublished stories and articles by Edgar Price, advertising copy and other writing, and genealogical material concerning the Price family, primarily Edgar Dayton Price, Paul D. Price, Arthur B. Price, Francis Smith Price (Mrs. Edgar D.), and Florence Price Beeson, and including letters and a silk color sample book from her dressmaking establishment in Shanghai, China.
Also, correspondence from Paul and Hazel Price to David Price, 1943-1982; correspondence, notes, notebooks, population data, and other material written by David Price in the 1950s and typescript field notes by David Price on Nambiquara (Satones) (Nambicuara) Indian groups in Brazil, 1967-1970. Notes, tape recordings, memos, and published and unpublished reports used to prepare his book about Nambiquara; and autobiographical writing by David Price,1998.
Also, Master's thesis that David Price wrote at the University of Chicago, "A Traditional and Transformational Analysis of Sherente Kinship Terminology," 1967, Bd. Ms. 1.
Dates
- 1881-1982.
Creator
- Price family. (Family)
- Price, David, 1940-1999. (Title of work: Traditional and transformational analysis of Sherente kinship terminology..) (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
15.5 cubic feet. (15.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Published and unpublished stories and articles by Edgar Price and genealogical material concerning the Price family. Correspondence from between family members. Typescript field notes by David Price on Nambiquara (Satones) Indian groups in Brazil. Notes, tape recordings, memos, published and unpublished reports used to prepare book about Nambicuara Indians of Brazil; and autobiographical writing by David Price.
Physical Description
Audio Recordings, Correspondence, Diaries, Manuscripts, Photographs, Research Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- Various
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, March 2010
- Advertising.
- Beeson, Florence Price.
- Brazil -- Description and travel.
- China -- Description and travel.
- Dressmaking -- China.
- Families.
- Genealogies.
- Huichol Indians.
- Indians of South America -- Brazil.
- Nambicuara Indians -- Social conditions.
- Photographs.
- Price, Arthur B.
- Price, David, 1940-1999.
- Price, Edgar Dayton.
- Price, Francis Smith.
- Price, Hazel.
- Price, Paul D.
- Voyages and travels.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- March 2010
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu