Ethnogeographic Board Dissolved

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Summary

In mid-1945 the Ethnogeographic Board is dissolved because its importance declined after 1944. At the outset of World War II, the Board, head quartered at the Smithsonian, provided ethnographic and geographic information to the military about remote regions of the world where the military were engaged in combat.

Subject

Ethnogeographic Board

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Guide to Smithsonian Archives. Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution Number 4. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 168.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1945
  • Military
  • 1933-1945

Topic

  • Geography
  • WW II
  • Wartime Activities
  • Science
  • Ethnology
  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Government policy
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Science and state
  • United States--History

Place

United States

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