Nels Anderson papers - Archives West

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: 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: 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 Note

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.

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Content Description

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.

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Use of the Collection

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.

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Administrative Information

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 Collection

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Personal Papers
- Description: "The Private and Last Frontier," Autobiographical Essay
  
  Dates: 1969
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Biographical Material
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: American Sociological Association, Certificate
  
  Dates: 1959
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Army Enlistment and Discharge Papers
  
  Includes birth certificates.
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Marriage Certificate
  
  Dates: 1970
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Passports and Certificate of Registration
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Government Service in Germany
  
  Dates: 1948-1953
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists, Conference
  
  Dates: 1977
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: University of New Brunswick
  
  Application, degree, memos, minutes, reports, and other papers.
  
  Dates: 1972-1977
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 9-16
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Estate Papers
  
  Includes will.
  
  Dates: 1970-1977
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Diaries of Helen Merchel Anderson
  
  Regarding trips to Canada and United States.
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Estate of Helen Merchel Anderson
  
  Dates: 1976
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Hilda Anderson, Divorce and Property Settlement
  
  Dates: 1953-1970
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  
  Location: Personal Papers
- Description: Business Papers
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  
  Location: Personal Papers
Family Correspondence
- Description: Charles Anderson
  
  Dates: 1965-1967
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  
  Location: Family Correspondence
- Description: Frank Anderson
  
  Dates: 1974-1976
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  
  Location: Family Correspondence
- Description: Helen Merchel Anderson
  
  Dates: 1965-1971
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 3-19
  
  Location: Family Correspondence
- Description: Hilda Anderson
  
  Dates: 1950-1952
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 20
  
  Location: Family Correspondence
- Description: Martin Anderson, Hattie Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson, Nels Anderson, and Hassel Anderson
  
  Dates: 1950-1976
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 21
  
  Location: Family Correspondence
General Correspondence
- Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: A, General
    
    Dates: 1968-1972
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Edward J. Allen
    
    Dates: 1970-1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: The American Hobo
    
    Dates: 1973-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: American Journal of Sociology
    
    Dates: 1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: American Sociological Association
    
    Dates: 1972
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: American Sociologist
    
    Dates: 1974-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
    
    Dates: 1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Appleton-Century-Crofts
    
    Dates: 1969-1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 8-11
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Leonard J. Arrington
    
    Dates: 1972-1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 12
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: The American Hobo
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 13
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: B, General
    
    Dates: 1964-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 14
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Stephen L. Barrett
    
    Dates: 1970
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 15
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Herbert Blumer
    
    Dates: 1975
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 16
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: E. J. Brill
    
    Dates: 1969-1975
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 17
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: George Britt
    
    Dates: 1965-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 18-20
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Thomas W. Brown
    
    Dates: 1972
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 21
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: C, General
    
    Dates: 1967-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 22
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Gordon R. Cavana
    
    Dates: 1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 23
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Dean Chamberlin
    
    Dates: 1967
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 24
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Ione T. Clark
    
    Dates: 1966-1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 25
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Columbia University
    
    Dates: 1970
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 26
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Alice H. Cook
    
    Dates: 1967-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 27
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Everett L. Cooley
    
    Dates: 1975-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 28
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: D, General
    
    Dates: 1969-1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 29
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Da Capo Press, Inc.
    
    Dates: 1973-1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 30
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: John N. Edwards
    
    Dates: 1968-1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 31
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Carol Eldridge
    
    Dates: 1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 32
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Engineers in the Industrial Society
    
    Dates: 1969-1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 33-34
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: F, General
    
    Dates: 1966-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 35
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: Carolyn Kierstead Fear
    
    Dates: 1970-1976
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 36
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: G, General
    
    Dates: 1970-1974
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 37
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
  - Description: S. Colum Gilfillan
    
    Dates: 1971
    
    Container: Box 3, Folder 38
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, A-G
- Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: H, General
    
    Dates: 1966-1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Han-sheng Lin
    
    Dates: 1968-1976
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2-3
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Borje Hanssen
    
    Dates: 1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Robert H. Hinckley
    
    Dates: 1967-1976
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Everett C. Hughes
    
    Dates: 1970-1972
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 6
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Norman D. Inkster
    
    Dates: 1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 7
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: K. Ishwaran
    
    Dates: 1966-1977
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 8-12
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: J, General
    
    Dates: 1964-1973
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 13
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Morris Janowitz
    
    Dates: 1970
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 14
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: K, General
    
    Dates: 1969-1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 15
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Max Kaplan
    
    Dates: 1969-1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 16
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: L, General
    
    Dates: 1966-1976
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 17
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Ernst Liebermann
    
    Dates: 1965-1973
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 18-21
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: M, General
    
    Dates: 1965-1976
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 22
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Man's Work and His Leisure
    
    Dates: 1973-1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 23
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Don Martindale
    
    Dates: 1976
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 24
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Mormon Church
    
    Dates: 1969-1970
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 25
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: MSS Modular Publications
    
    Dates: 1973-1974
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 26
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Ramkrishna Mukherjee
    
    Dates: 1968-1973
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 27
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Lowry Nelson
    
    Dates: 1975
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 28
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Newsweek
    
    Dates: 1972-1973
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 29
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: O, General
    
    Dates: 1966-1972
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 30
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: P, General
    
    Dates: 1968-1976
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 31
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
  - Description: Penguin Books, Inc.
    
    Dates: 1972-1973
    
    Container: Box 4, Folder 32
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, H-P
- Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: R, General
    
    Dates: 1967-1974
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 1
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Random House, Alfred A. Knopf
    
    Dates: 1968-1969
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 2
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Winifred Raushenbush
    
    Dates: 1966-1974
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 3-4
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Gordon Robinson
    
    Dates: 1969-1974
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 5
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: James Rorty
    
    Dates: 1970-1972
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 6
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Dennis Rowley
    
    Dates: 1975-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 7
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: S, General
    
    Dates: 1948-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 8-9
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Sal Oppenheim Jr. and Cie.
    
    Dates: 1964-1970
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 10
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Guy Sautter
    
    Dates: 1966
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 11
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Sewanee Review
    
    Dates: 1968-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 12
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Pauline Smith
    
    Dates: 1968-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 13
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Kaare Svalastoga
    
    Dates: 1969-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 14
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: T, General
    
    Dates: 1951-1973
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 15
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Unesco Institute
    
    Dates: 1964-1970
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 16-17
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: University of Chicago Press
    
    Dates: 1965-1975
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 18-20
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: University of New Brunswick
    
    Dates: 1965-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 21-23
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: United States Civil Service Commission
    
    Dates: 1953-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 24-25
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Joseph S. Vandiver
    
    Dates: 1973
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 26
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: W, General
    
    Dates: 1965-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 27
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Ernest L. Wilkinson
    
    Dates: 1965-1976
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 28-29
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Robert A. Wilkinson
    
    Dates: 1967-1968
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 30
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Chester S. Williams
    
    Dates: 1969-1974
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 31
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Frank R. Wilson
    
    Dates: 1968-1974
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 32
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
  - Description: Gerda Zellentin
    
    Dates: 1967
    
    Container: Box 5, Folder 33
    
    Location: General Correspondence / Correspondence, R-Z
Articles and Writings
- Description: "Diverse Perspectives of Community"
  
  Dates: 1961
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 1
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "Implications of Work and Leisure"
  
  Dates: 1970
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 2
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "Pontifex Babbitt"
  
  Dates: 1926
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 3
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "Western Urban Man Faces Leisure"
  
  Dates: 1960
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 4
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Alice H. Cook, "Women and American Trade Unions"
  
  Dates: 1968
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 5
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Christian de Laet, "Environmental Quality"
  
  Dates: 1969
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 6
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: C. Hartley Grattan, Checklist of Writings
  
  Dates: 1924-1974
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 7
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: S. C. Gilfillan, Articles on Inventions and Inventing
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 8
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Han-sheng Lin, "Problems of Chinese Immigrants in the United States"
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 9
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Borje Hanssen, "Common Folk and Gentlefolk"
  
  Dates: 1973
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 10
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Don Martindale, "American Sociology Before World War II"
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 11
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: F. A. McGrand, Brigham Young Material
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 12
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "The Mormon Relief Plan," Memo from Dearn R. Brimhall to Harry Hopkins
  
  Dates: 1936
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 13
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "Early Years of the Chicago School of Sociology," Lecture
  
  Dates: 1972
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 14
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "The Changing Image of the Engineer"
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 15
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Book Reviews by Nels Anderson
  
  Dates: 1973-1975
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 16
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Review of The American Hobo: An Autobiography
  
  Dates: 1975
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 17
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Reviews of Urban Sociology, Studies in Multilingualism, and Our Industrial Urban Civilization
  
  Dates: 1964-1969
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 18
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Reviews of Work and Leisure
  
  Dates: 1962
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 19
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: News Clippings on Hobos
  
  Dates: 1972-1976
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 20
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Honorary Doctrate, News Clippings
  
  Dates: 1972
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 21
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: News Clippings
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 22
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Silurian News
  
  Dates: 1972
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 23
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: Verse by Anderson
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 24
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: James Rorty, Poetry
  
  Dates: 1930-1970
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 25
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
- Description: "Mormonism in America and Canada," Review
  
  Container: Box 6, Folder 26
  
  Location: Articles and Writings
Manuscripts
- Description: Manuscripts
  
  Of Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah and "The Education of a Sociologist."
  
  Container: Box 7
  
  Location: Manuscripts
Books by and Belonging to Nels Anderson
- Description: 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.
  
  Dates: 1923-1973
  
  Container: Box 8
  
  Location: Books by and Belonging to Nels Anderson
- Description: 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."
  
  Dates: 1956-1975
  
  Container: Box 9
  
  Location: Books by and Belonging to Nels Anderson
Addendum
- Writings
  - Description: The Education of a Sociologist
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 1-7
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Democracy in Chicago"
    
    Dates: 1927
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 8
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Measurement of Values and Future Leisure"
    
    Dates: 1969
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 9
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "The Mission Mill"
    
    Dates: 1926
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 10
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Mormonism in America and Canada: Accommodation to the Nation State"
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 11
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "National Stereotypes"
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 12
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Old Whitey"
    
    Dates: 1927
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 13
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "On My Being a Mormon"
    
    Dates: 1980
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 14
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "On Workers and Their Culture"
    
    Dates: 1980
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 15
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Pontifex Babbitt"
    
    Dates: 1926
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 16
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "The Private and Last Frontier"
    
    Dates: 1969
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 17
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "The Professions and the Community"
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 18
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Social Implications of Engineering"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 19
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Sociology Has Many Faces"
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 20
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Stir Slaves"
    
    Dates: 1928
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 21
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
  - Description: "Urbanism and the American Frontiers"
    
    Dates: 1965
    
    Container: Box 10, Folder 22
    
    Location: Addendum / Writings
- Articles
  - Description: Leonard Blumberg, "Remarks on The Hobo, by Nels Anderson, and Suggestions for Future Skid Row Studies"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 1
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Paul Buhle, "Worker Cultures/Radical Cultures"
    
    Dates: 1980
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 2
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Theodore Caplow, "Nels Anderson's Sociological Paradise"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 3
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Camilla A. Collins, "Traditional Character Types as Indicators of Worker's Values in the Hosiery Mill Industry"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 4
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Frederick C. Gamst, "On the Job Interpretations of Safety in Railroad Work: Railroaders' Applications of Formal Rules for Operations"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 5
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Everett C. Hughes, "The Humble and the Proud: The Comparative Study of Occupations"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 6
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Helen MacGill Hughes, "Robert Ezra Park, the Philosopher Newspaperman Sociologist"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 7
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Noel Iverson, "Homage to a Pioneer"
    
    Dates: 1977
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 8
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Sven Lindqvist, "Culture and the Workplace: a Swedish Perspective"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 9
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Robert McCarl, "Describing the Critical Center: Approaching Work Cultures From an Applied Ethnographic Perspective"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 10
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Ronald J. Miller, "Nels Anderson and the Chicago Tradition: The Hobo"
    
    Dates: 1980
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 11
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: David J. Pittman, "Skid Row From Nels Anderson to Now: Changing Social Policies and Social Inventions"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 12
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Bernice J. Reagon, "Black American Work and Workers"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 13
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: James F. Rooney, "Skid Row: From Frontier to Multiple Urban Life Styles"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 14
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Earl Rubington, "Status Reduction: Some Continuities in Skid Row Studies"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 15
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Arthur J. Vidich, "Nels Anderson"
    
    Dates: 1979
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 16
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Samuel E. Wallace, "Skid Row Research Since Anderson"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 17
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Stan Weir, "The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures"
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 18
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Jacqueline P. Wiseman, "After Decades of Stability: A Different Skid Row"
    
    Dates: 1981
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 19
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
  - Description: Reviews of Anderson's Man's Work and Leisure
    
    Container: Box 11, Folder 20
    
    Location: Addendum / Articles
- Books
  - Description: Books by Nels Anderson
    
    Includes Desert Saints, Industrial Society and the Engineers, and Men on the Move.
    
    Dates: 1942-1974
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: Addendum / Books
- Books by Others
  - Description: H. Warren Dunham, Homeless Men and Their Habitats: A Research Planning Report
    
    Container: Box 13, Volume 1
    
    Location: Addendum / Books by Others
  - Description: Winifred Raushenbush, Robert E. Park: Biography of a Sociologist
    
    Dates: 1979
    
    Container: Box 13, Volume 2
    
    Location: Addendum / Books by Others
  - Description: Rivijera, Primorje, Kotar, and Otoci, Rijeka
    
    Dates: 1960
    
    Container: Box 13, Volume 3
    
    Location: Addendum / Books by Others
  - Description: Nathaniel H. Rogg, Urban Housing Rehabilitation in the United States
    
    Container: Box 13, Volume 4
    
    Location: Addendum / Books by Others
  - Description: Dean Stiff, The Milk and Honey Route
    
    Dates: 1930
    
    Container: Box 13, Volume 5
    
    Location: Addendum / Books by Others
  - Description: University of New Brunswick Yearbook
    
    Dates: 1970
    
    Container: Box 13, Volume 6
    
    Location: Addendum / Books by Others
- News Clippings and Personal
  - Description: Correspondence
    
    Dates: 1962-1981
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: Addendum / News Clippings and Personal
  - Description: News Clippings
    
    Dates: 1971-1981
    
    Container: Box 15, Folder 1-3
    
    Location: Addendum / News Clippings and Personal
  - Description: Helen Merchel Anderson, Personal Materials
    
    Container: Box 15, Folder 4
    
    Location: Addendum / News Clippings and Personal
  - Description: Nels Anderson, Personal Materials
    
    Container: Box 15, Folder 5
    
    Location: Addendum / News Clippings and Personal
  - Description: Financial Materials
    
    Container: Box 15, Folder 6
    
    Location: Addendum / News Clippings and Personal
  - Description: Miscellaneous
    
    Container: Box 15, Folder 7-8
    
    Location: Addendum / News Clippings and Personal

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Subject Terms

Personal Names

Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986--1889-1986--Manuscripts

Nels Anderson papers, 1923-1981

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Historical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Separated Materials

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Detailed Description of the Collection

Personal Papers

Family Correspondence

General Correspondence

Correspondence, A-G

Correspondence, H-P

Correspondence, R-Z

Articles and Writings

Manuscripts

Books by and Belonging to Nels Anderson

Addendum

Writings

Articles

Books

Books by Others

News Clippings and Personal

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Subject Terms

Personal Names