J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Nels Anderson papers
Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986
MS 0122
6.5 linear feet
1923-1981
The Nels Anderson papers (1923-1981) consist of the personal, family, and professional papers of Nels Anderson (b. 1889), a renowned sociologist.
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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.
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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Boxes 1-9 were donated in 1977 (3.5 linear feet).
Boxes 10-15 were donated in an unknown year (3 linear feet).
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Anderson, Nels, 1889-1986--1889-1986--Manuscripts
Sociologists--Manuscripts
Latter Day Saints
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Personal Papers
"The Private and Last Frontier," Autobiographical Essay
1969
1
1
Biographical Material
1
2
American Sociological Association, Certificate
1959
1
3
Army Enlistment and Discharge Papers
1
4
Includes birth certificates.
Marriage Certificate
1970
1
5
Passports and Certificate of Registration
1
6
Government Service in Germany
1948-1953
1
7
Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists, Conference
1977
1
8
University of New Brunswick
1972-1977
1
9-16
Application, degree, memos, minutes, reports, and other papers.
Estate Papers
1970-1977
1
17
Includes will.
Diaries of Helen Merchel Anderson
1
18
Regarding trips to Canada and United States.
Estate of Helen Merchel Anderson
1976
1
19
Hilda Anderson, Divorce and Property Settlement
1953-1970
1
20
Business Papers
1
21
Family Correspondence
Charles Anderson
1965-1967
2
1
Frank Anderson
1974-1976
2
2
Helen Merchel Anderson
1965-1971
2
3-19
Hilda Anderson
1950-1952
2
20
Martin Anderson, Hattie Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson, Nels Anderson, and Hassel Anderson
1950-1976
2
21
General Correspondence
Correspondence, A-G
A, General
1968-1972
3
1
Edward J. Allen
1970-1971
3
2
The American Hobo
1973-1976
3
3
American Journal of Sociology
1974
3
4
American Sociological Association
1972
3
5
American Sociologist
1974-1976
3
6
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
1974
3
7
Appleton-Century-Crofts
1969-1971
3
8-11
Leonard J. Arrington
1972-1974
3
12
The American Hobo
3
13
B, General
1964-1976
3
14
Stephen L. Barrett
1970
3
15
Herbert Blumer
1975
3
16
E. J. Brill
1969-1975
3
17
George Britt
1965-1976
3
18-20
Thomas W. Brown
1972
3
21
C, General
1967-1976
3
22
Gordon R. Cavana
1971
3
23
Dean Chamberlin
1967
3
24
Ione T. Clark
1966-1971
3
25
Columbia University
1970
3
26
Alice H. Cook
1967-1976
3
27
Everett L. Cooley
1975-1976
3
28
D, General
1969-1974
3
29
Da Capo Press, Inc.
1973-1974
3
30
John N. Edwards
1968-1971
3
31
Carol Eldridge
1971
3
32
Engineers in the Industrial Society
1969-1974
3
33-34
F, General
1966-1976
3
35
Carolyn Kierstead Fear
1970-1976
3
36
G, General
1970-1974
3
37
S. Colum Gilfillan
1971
3
38
Correspondence, H-P
H, General
1966-1974
4
1
Han-sheng Lin
1968-1976
4
2-3
Borje Hanssen
1974
4
4
Robert H. Hinckley
1967-1976
4
5
Everett C. Hughes
1970-1972
4
6
Norman D. Inkster
1974
4
7
K. Ishwaran
1966-1977
4
8-12
J, General
1964-1973
4
13
Morris Janowitz
1970
4
14
K, General
1969-1974
4
15
Max Kaplan
1969-1974
4
16
L, General
1966-1976
4
17
Ernst Liebermann
1965-1973
4
18-21
M, General
1965-1976
4
22
Man's Work and His Leisure
1973-1974
4
23
Don Martindale
1976
4
24
Mormon Church
1969-1970
4
25
MSS Modular Publications
1973-1974
4
26
Ramkrishna Mukherjee
1968-1973
4
27
Lowry Nelson
1975
4
28
Newsweek
1972-1973
4
29
O, General
1966-1972
4
30
P, General
1968-1976
4
31
Penguin Books, Inc.
1972-1973
4
32
Correspondence, R-Z
R, General
1967-1974
5
1
Random House, Alfred A. Knopf
1968-1969
5
2
Winifred Raushenbush
1966-1974
5
3-4
Gordon Robinson
1969-1974
5
5
James Rorty
1970-1972
5
6
Dennis Rowley
1975-1976
5
7
S, General
1948-1976
5
8-9
Sal Oppenheim Jr. and Cie.
1964-1970
5
10
Guy Sautter
1966
5
11
Sewanee Review
1968-1976
5
12
Pauline Smith
1968-1976
5
13
Kaare Svalastoga
1969-1976
5
14
T, General
1951-1973
5
15
Unesco Institute
1964-1970
5
16-17
University of Chicago Press
1965-1975
5
18-20
University of New Brunswick
1965-1976
5
21-23
United States Civil Service Commission
1953-1976
5
24-25
Joseph S. Vandiver
1973
5
26
W, General
1965-1976
5
27
Ernest L. Wilkinson
1965-1976
5
28-29
Robert A. Wilkinson
1967-1968
5
30
Chester S. Williams
1969-1974
5
31
Frank R. Wilson
1968-1974
5
32
Gerda Zellentin
1967
5
33
Articles and Writings
"Diverse Perspectives of Community"
1961
6
1
"Implications of Work and Leisure"
1970
6
2
"Pontifex Babbitt"
1926
6
3
"Western Urban Man Faces Leisure"
1960
6
4
Alice H. Cook, "Women and American Trade Unions"
1968
6
5
Christian de Laet, "Environmental Quality"
1969
6
6
C. Hartley Grattan, Checklist of Writings
1924-1974
6
7
S. C. Gilfillan, Articles on Inventions and Inventing
6
8
Han-sheng Lin, "Problems of Chinese Immigrants in the United States"
6
9
Borje Hanssen, "Common Folk and Gentlefolk"
1973
6
10
Don Martindale, "American Sociology Before World War II"
6
11
F. A. McGrand, Brigham Young Material
6
12
"The Mormon Relief Plan," Memo from Dearn R. Brimhall to Harry Hopkins
1936
6
13
"Early Years of the Chicago School of Sociology," Lecture
1972
6
14
"The Changing Image of the Engineer"
6
15
Book Reviews by Nels Anderson
1973-1975
6
16
Review of The American Hobo: An Autobiography
1975
6
17
Reviews of Urban Sociology, Studies in Multilingualism, and Our Industrial Urban Civilization
1964-1969
6
18
Reviews of Work and Leisure
1962
6
19
News Clippings on Hobos
1972-1976
6
20
Honorary Doctrate, News Clippings
1972
6
21
News Clippings
6
22
Silurian News
1972
6
23
Verse by Anderson
6
24
James Rorty, Poetry
1930-1970
6
25
"Mormonism in America and Canada," Review
6
26
Manuscripts
Manuscripts
7
Of Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah and "The Education of a Sociologist."
Books by and Belonging to Nels Anderson
Books
1923-1973
8
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.
Books
1956-1975
9
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."
Addendum
Writings
The Education of a Sociologist
10
1-7
"Democracy in Chicago"
1927
10
8
"Measurement of Values and Future Leisure"
1969
10
9
"The Mission Mill"
1926
10
10
"Mormonism in America and Canada: Accommodation to the Nation State"
10
11
"National Stereotypes"
1959
10
12
"Old Whitey"
1927
10
13
"On My Being a Mormon"
1980
10
14
"On Workers and Their Culture"
1980
10
15
"Pontifex Babbitt"
1926
10
16
"The Private and Last Frontier"
1969
10
17
"The Professions and the Community"
10
18
"Social Implications of Engineering"
1981
10
19
"Sociology Has Many Faces"
10
20
"Stir Slaves"
1928
10
21
"Urbanism and the American Frontiers"
1965
10
22
Articles
Leonard Blumberg, "Remarks on The Hobo, by Nels Anderson, and Suggestions for Future Skid Row Studies"
1981
11
1
Paul Buhle, "Worker Cultures/Radical Cultures"
1980
11
2
Theodore Caplow, "Nels Anderson's Sociological Paradise"
1981
11
3
Camilla A. Collins, "Traditional Character Types as Indicators of Worker's Values in the Hosiery Mill Industry"
11
4
Frederick C. Gamst, "On the Job Interpretations of Safety in Railroad Work: Railroaders' Applications of Formal Rules for Operations"
11
5
Everett C. Hughes, "The Humble and the Proud: The Comparative Study of Occupations"
11
6
Helen MacGill Hughes, "Robert Ezra Park, the Philosopher Newspaperman Sociologist"
11
7
Noel Iverson, "Homage to a Pioneer"
1977
11
8
Sven Lindqvist, "Culture and the Workplace: a Swedish Perspective"
11
9
Robert McCarl, "Describing the Critical Center: Approaching Work Cultures From an Applied Ethnographic Perspective"
11
10
Ronald J. Miller, "Nels Anderson and the Chicago Tradition: The Hobo"
1980
11
11
David J. Pittman, "Skid Row From Nels Anderson to Now: Changing Social Policies and Social Inventions"
1981
11
12
Bernice J. Reagon, "Black American Work and Workers"
11
13
James F. Rooney, "Skid Row: From Frontier to Multiple Urban Life Styles"
1981
11
14
Earl Rubington, "Status Reduction: Some Continuities in Skid Row Studies"
1981
11
15
Arthur J. Vidich, "Nels Anderson"
1979
11
16
Samuel E. Wallace, "Skid Row Research Since Anderson"
1981
11
17
Stan Weir, "The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures"
11
18
Jacqueline P. Wiseman, "After Decades of Stability: A Different Skid Row"
1981
11
19
Reviews of Anderson's Man's Work and Leisure
11
20
Books
Books by Nels Anderson
1942-1974
12
Includes Desert Saints, Industrial Society and the Engineers, and Men on the Move.
Books by Others
H. Warren Dunham, Homeless Men and Their Habitats: A Research Planning Report
13
1
Winifred Raushenbush, Robert E. Park: Biography of a Sociologist
1979
13
2
Rivijera, Primorje, Kotar, and Otoci, Rijeka
1960
13
3
Nathaniel H. Rogg, Urban Housing Rehabilitation in the United States
13
4
Dean Stiff, The Milk and Honey Route
1930
13
5
University of New Brunswick Yearbook
1970
13
6
News Clippings and Personal
Correspondence
1962-1981
14
News Clippings
1971-1981
15
1-3
Helen Merchel Anderson, Personal Materials
15
4
Nels Anderson, Personal Materials
15
5
Financial Materials
15
6
Miscellaneous
15
7-8