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Nels Anderson papers, 1923-1981
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986
- Title
- Nels Anderson papers
- Dates
- 1923-1981 (inclusive)19231981
- Quantity
- 6.5 linear feet
- Collection Number
- MS 0122
- Summary
- The Nels Anderson papers (1923-1981) consist of the personal, family, and professional papers of Nels Anderson (b. 1889), a renowned sociologist.
- Repository
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University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860
Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu - Access Restrictions
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Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Nels Anderson was born in Chicago in 1889. His family moved quite often, exposing Anderson to many societies, including the Nez Perce Indians. He attended high school at Brigham Young Preperatory School and the St. George Academy. He received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University in 1920. In 1925, he graduated with an M. A. degree from the University of Chicago, then received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1930. Anderson was a teacher, writer, military man, and sociologist.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Nels Anderson papers (1923-1981) consist of the personal, family, and professional papers of Nels Anderson (b. 1889), a renowned sociologist. Autobiographical accounts, legal papers, correspondence, articles, lectures, book reviews, publications, and manuscripts are included.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Preferred Citation
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in a series.
Separated Materials
Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0122).
Acquisition Information
Boxes 1-9 were donated in 1977 (3.5 linear feet).
Boxes 10-15 were donated in an unknown year (3 linear feet).
Processing Note
Processed by Richard A. Dalby in 1977.
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Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Personal PapersReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | "The Private and Last Frontier," Autobiographical Essay |
1969 |
| 1 | 2 | Biographical Material |
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| 1 | 3 | American Sociological Association, Certificate |
1959 |
| 1 | 4 | Army Enlistment and Discharge Papers
Includes birth certificates.
|
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| 1 | 5 | Marriage Certificate |
1970 |
| 1 | 6 | Passports and Certificate of Registration |
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| 1 | 7 | Government Service in Germany |
1948-1953 |
| 1 | 8 | Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists, Conference |
1977 |
| 1 | 9-16 | University of New Brunswick
Application, degree, memos, minutes, reports, and other papers.
|
1972-1977 |
| 1 | 17 | Estate Papers
Includes will.
|
1970-1977 |
| 1 | 18 | Diaries of Helen Merchel Anderson
Regarding trips to Canada and United States.
|
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| 1 | 19 | Estate of Helen Merchel Anderson |
1976 |
| 1 | 20 | Hilda Anderson, Divorce and Property Settlement |
1953-1970 |
| 1 | 21 | Business Papers |
Family CorrespondenceReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 2 | 1 | Charles Anderson |
1965-1967 |
| 2 | 2 | Frank Anderson |
1974-1976 |
| 2 | 3-19 | Helen Merchel Anderson |
1965-1971 |
| 2 | 20 | Hilda Anderson |
1950-1952 |
| 2 | 21 | Martin Anderson, Hattie Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson, Nels Anderson, and Hassel Anderson |
1950-1976 |
General CorrespondenceReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
Correspondence, A-G |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 3 | 1 | A, General |
1968-1972 |
| 3 | 2 | Edward J. Allen |
1970-1971 |
| 3 | 3 |
The American Hobo
|
1973-1976 |
| 3 | 4 |
American Journal of Sociology
|
1974 |
| 3 | 5 | American Sociological Association |
1972 |
| 3 | 6 |
American Sociologist
|
1974-1976 |
| 3 | 7 |
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
|
1974 |
| 3 | 8-11 | Appleton-Century-Crofts |
1969-1971 |
| 3 | 12 | Leonard J. Arrington |
1972-1974 |
| 3 | 13 |
The American Hobo
|
|
| 3 | 14 | B, General |
1964-1976 |
| 3 | 15 | Stephen L. Barrett |
1970 |
| 3 | 16 | Herbert Blumer |
1975 |
| 3 | 17 | E. J. Brill |
1969-1975 |
| 3 | 18-20 | George Britt |
1965-1976 |
| 3 | 21 | Thomas W. Brown |
1972 |
| 3 | 22 | C, General |
1967-1976 |
| 3 | 23 | Gordon R. Cavana |
1971 |
| 3 | 24 | Dean Chamberlin |
1967 |
| 3 | 25 | Ione T. Clark |
1966-1971 |
| 3 | 26 | Columbia University |
1970 |
| 3 | 27 | Alice H. Cook |
1967-1976 |
| 3 | 28 | Everett L. Cooley |
1975-1976 |
| 3 | 29 | D, General |
1969-1974 |
| 3 | 30 | Da Capo Press, Inc. |
1973-1974 |
| 3 | 31 | John N. Edwards |
1968-1971 |
| 3 | 32 | Carol Eldridge |
1971 |
| 3 | 33-34 |
Engineers in the Industrial Society
|
1969-1974 |
| 3 | 35 | F, General |
1966-1976 |
| 3 | 36 | Carolyn Kierstead Fear |
1970-1976 |
| 3 | 37 | G, General |
1970-1974 |
| 3 | 38 | S. Colum Gilfillan |
1971 |
Correspondence, H-P |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 4 | 1 | H, General |
1966-1974 |
| 4 | 2-3 | Han-sheng Lin |
1968-1976 |
| 4 | 4 | Borje Hanssen |
1974 |
| 4 | 5 | Robert H. Hinckley |
1967-1976 |
| 4 | 6 | Everett C. Hughes |
1970-1972 |
| 4 | 7 | Norman D. Inkster |
1974 |
| 4 | 8-12 | K. Ishwaran |
1966-1977 |
| 4 | 13 | J, General |
1964-1973 |
| 4 | 14 | Morris Janowitz |
1970 |
| 4 | 15 | K, General |
1969-1974 |
| 4 | 16 | Max Kaplan |
1969-1974 |
| 4 | 17 | L, General |
1966-1976 |
| 4 | 18-21 | Ernst Liebermann |
1965-1973 |
| 4 | 22 | M, General |
1965-1976 |
| 4 | 23 |
Man's Work and His Leisure
|
1973-1974 |
| 4 | 24 | Don Martindale |
1976 |
| 4 | 25 | Mormon Church |
1969-1970 |
| 4 | 26 | MSS Modular Publications |
1973-1974 |
| 4 | 27 | Ramkrishna Mukherjee |
1968-1973 |
| 4 | 28 | Lowry Nelson |
1975 |
| 4 | 29 |
Newsweek
|
1972-1973 |
| 4 | 30 | O, General |
1966-1972 |
| 4 | 31 | P, General |
1968-1976 |
| 4 | 32 | Penguin Books, Inc. |
1972-1973 |
Correspondence, R-Z |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 5 | 1 | R, General |
1967-1974 |
| 5 | 2 | Random House, Alfred A. Knopf |
1968-1969 |
| 5 | 3-4 | Winifred Raushenbush |
1966-1974 |
| 5 | 5 | Gordon Robinson |
1969-1974 |
| 5 | 6 | James Rorty |
1970-1972 |
| 5 | 7 | Dennis Rowley |
1975-1976 |
| 5 | 8-9 | S, General |
1948-1976 |
| 5 | 10 | Sal Oppenheim Jr. and Cie. |
1964-1970 |
| 5 | 11 | Guy Sautter |
1966 |
| 5 | 12 |
Sewanee Review
|
1968-1976 |
| 5 | 13 | Pauline Smith |
1968-1976 |
| 5 | 14 | Kaare Svalastoga |
1969-1976 |
| 5 | 15 | T, General |
1951-1973 |
| 5 | 16-17 | Unesco Institute |
1964-1970 |
| 5 | 18-20 | University of Chicago Press |
1965-1975 |
| 5 | 21-23 | University of New Brunswick |
1965-1976 |
| 5 | 24-25 | United States Civil Service Commission |
1953-1976 |
| 5 | 26 | Joseph S. Vandiver |
1973 |
| 5 | 27 | W, General |
1965-1976 |
| 5 | 28-29 | Ernest L. Wilkinson |
1965-1976 |
| 5 | 30 | Robert A. Wilkinson |
1967-1968 |
| 5 | 31 | Chester S. Williams |
1969-1974 |
| 5 | 32 | Frank R. Wilson |
1968-1974 |
| 5 | 33 | Gerda Zellentin |
1967 |
Articles and WritingsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 6 | 1 | "Diverse Perspectives of Community" |
1961 |
| 6 | 2 | "Implications of Work and Leisure" |
1970 |
| 6 | 3 | "Pontifex Babbitt" |
1926 |
| 6 | 4 | "Western Urban Man Faces Leisure" |
1960 |
| 6 | 5 | Alice H. Cook, "Women and American Trade Unions" |
1968 |
| 6 | 6 | Christian de Laet, "Environmental Quality" |
1969 |
| 6 | 7 | C. Hartley Grattan, Checklist of Writings |
1924-1974 |
| 6 | 8 | S. C. Gilfillan, Articles on Inventions and Inventing |
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| 6 | 9 | Han-sheng Lin, "Problems of Chinese Immigrants in the United States" |
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| 6 | 10 | Borje Hanssen, "Common Folk and Gentlefolk" |
1973 |
| 6 | 11 | Don Martindale, "American Sociology Before World War II" |
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| 6 | 12 | F. A. McGrand, Brigham Young Material |
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| 6 | 13 | "The Mormon Relief Plan," Memo from Dearn R. Brimhall to Harry Hopkins |
1936 |
| 6 | 14 | "Early Years of the Chicago School of Sociology," Lecture |
1972 |
| 6 | 15 | "The Changing Image of the Engineer" |
|
| 6 | 16 | Book Reviews by Nels Anderson |
1973-1975 |
| 6 | 17 | Review of The American Hobo: An Autobiography
|
1975 |
| 6 | 18 | Reviews of Urban Sociology, Studies in Multilingualism, and Our Industrial Urban Civilization
|
1964-1969 |
| 6 | 19 | Reviews of Work and Leisure
|
1962 |
| 6 | 20 | News Clippings on Hobos |
1972-1976 |
| 6 | 21 | Honorary Doctrate, News Clippings |
1972 |
| 6 | 22 | News Clippings |
|
| 6 | 23 |
Silurian News
|
1972 |
| 6 | 24 | Verse by Anderson |
|
| 6 | 25 | James Rorty, Poetry |
1930-1970 |
| 6 | 26 | "Mormonism in America and Canada," Review |
ManuscriptsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
| Box | |
| 7 | Manuscripts
Of Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah and "The Education of a Sociologist."
|
Books by and Belonging to Nels AndersonReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 8 | Books
The Urban Community, Studies in Multilingualism, Urban Sociology, Work and Leisure, Our Industrial Urban Civilization, Cree Narrative, Man's Work and Leisure, The Hobo, and Unsere Lieder.
|
1923-1973 |
| 9 | Books
Studies of the Family, The American Hobo, The Right to Work, Struktur und Funktion, "Some Comparisons of Bilingual Communities," and "Urbanism and the American Frontiers."
|
1956-1975 |
AddendumReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
Writings |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 10 | 1-7 |
The Education of a Sociologist
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| 10 | 8 | "Democracy in Chicago" |
1927 |
| 10 | 9 | "Measurement of Values and Future Leisure" |
1969 |
| 10 | 10 | "The Mission Mill" |
1926 |
| 10 | 11 | "Mormonism in America and Canada: Accommodation to the Nation State" |
|
| 10 | 12 | "National Stereotypes" |
1959 |
| 10 | 13 | "Old Whitey" |
1927 |
| 10 | 14 | "On My Being a Mormon" |
1980 |
| 10 | 15 | "On Workers and Their Culture" |
1980 |
| 10 | 16 | "Pontifex Babbitt" |
1926 |
| 10 | 17 | "The Private and Last Frontier" |
1969 |
| 10 | 18 | "The Professions and the Community" |
|
| 10 | 19 | "Social Implications of Engineering" |
1981 |
| 10 | 20 | "Sociology Has Many Faces" |
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| 10 | 21 | "Stir Slaves" |
1928 |
| 10 | 22 | "Urbanism and the American Frontiers" |
1965 |
Articles |
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| Box | Folder | ||
| 11 | 1 | Leonard Blumberg, "Remarks on The Hobo, by Nels Anderson, and Suggestions for Future Skid Row Studies" |
1981 |
| 11 | 2 | Paul Buhle, "Worker Cultures/Radical Cultures" |
1980 |
| 11 | 3 | Theodore Caplow, "Nels Anderson's Sociological Paradise" |
1981 |
| 11 | 4 | Camilla A. Collins, "Traditional Character Types as Indicators of Worker's Values in the Hosiery Mill Industry" |
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| 11 | 5 | Frederick C. Gamst, "On the Job Interpretations of Safety in Railroad Work: Railroaders' Applications of Formal Rules for Operations" |
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| 11 | 6 | Everett C. Hughes, "The Humble and the Proud: The Comparative Study of Occupations" |
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| 11 | 7 | Helen MacGill Hughes, "Robert Ezra Park, the Philosopher Newspaperman Sociologist" |
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| 11 | 8 | Noel Iverson, "Homage to a Pioneer" |
1977 |
| 11 | 9 | Sven Lindqvist, "Culture and the Workplace: a Swedish Perspective" |
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| 11 | 10 | Robert McCarl, "Describing the Critical Center: Approaching Work Cultures From an Applied Ethnographic Perspective" |
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| 11 | 11 | Ronald J. Miller, "Nels Anderson and the Chicago Tradition: The Hobo" |
1980 |
| 11 | 12 | David J. Pittman, "Skid Row From Nels Anderson to Now: Changing Social Policies and Social Inventions" |
1981 |
| 11 | 13 | Bernice J. Reagon, "Black American Work and Workers" |
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| 11 | 14 | James F. Rooney, "Skid Row: From Frontier to Multiple Urban Life Styles" |
1981 |
| 11 | 15 | Earl Rubington, "Status Reduction: Some Continuities in Skid Row Studies" |
1981 |
| 11 | 16 | Arthur J. Vidich, "Nels Anderson" |
1979 |
| 11 | 17 | Samuel E. Wallace, "Skid Row Research Since Anderson" |
1981 |
| 11 | 18 | Stan Weir, "The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures" |
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| 11 | 19 | Jacqueline P. Wiseman, "After Decades of Stability: A Different Skid Row" |
1981 |
| 11 | 20 | Reviews of Anderson's Man's Work and Leisure
|
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Books |
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| Box | |||
| 12 | Books by Nels Anderson
Includes Desert Saints, Industrial Society and the Engineers, and Men on the Move.
|
1942-1974 | |
Books by Others |
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| Box | Volume | ||
| 13 | 1 | H. Warren Dunham, Homeless Men and Their Habitats: A Research Planning Report
|
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| 13 | 2 | Winifred Raushenbush, Robert E. Park: Biography of a Sociologist
|
1979 |
| 13 | 3 | Rivijera, Primorje, Kotar, and Otoci, Rijeka
|
1960 |
| 13 | 4 | Nathaniel H. Rogg, Urban Housing Rehabilitation in the United States
|
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| 13 | 5 | Dean Stiff, The Milk and Honey Route
|
1930 |
| 13 | 6 | University of New Brunswick Yearbook |
1970 |
News Clippings and Personal |
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| Box | |||
| 14 | Correspondence |
1962-1981 | |
| Folder | |||
| 15 | 1-3 | News Clippings |
1971-1981 |
| 15 | 4 | Helen Merchel Anderson, Personal Materials |
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| 15 | 5 | Nels Anderson, Personal Materials |
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| 15 | 6 | Financial Materials |
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| 15 | 7-8 | Miscellaneous |
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Latter Day Saints
- Sociologists--Manuscripts
Personal Names
- Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986--1889-1986--Manuscripts
Finding aid created by Richard A. Dalby.
1977 (last modified: 2019)
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