Agency history, 1942-1945

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Subject

  • Collins, Henry Bascom 1899-1987
  • Strong, William Duncan 1899-1962
  • Social Science Research Council (U.S.)
  • American Council of Learned Societies
  • National Research Council (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian Institution

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Guide to the Smithsonian Archives, 1996
  • Guide to the Records of the Ethnogeographic Board, 1942-1945, Record Unit 87, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 1979
  • The Ethnogeographic Board, a World War II entity, was jointly sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the National Research Council, and the Smithsonian Institution. Founded in 1942, the Board was headed by William Duncan Strong until 1944. He was succeeded by Henry Bascom Collins, Jr., 1944-1945.
  • The Board served as a clearinghouse between its supporting institutions, the armed services, and government war agencies for information about the geography, languages, and cultures of non-European theaters of the war, especially Africa, Japan, and Micronesia. It also helped locate and mobilize trained personnel, especially anthropologists and linguists. After 1944 the Ethnogeographic Board's importance declined, and it was terminated in mid-1945.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1942
  • 1942-1945

Topic

  • Description and travel
  • WW II
  • Linguists
  • Ethnology
  • Anthropology
  • Society
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Micronesian languages
  • African languages
  • Japanese language
  • Anthropologists
  • Social life and customs

Place

  • Japan
  • Africa
  • Micronesia

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00363

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