© 2010 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Price family papers,
1881-1982.
Collection Number:
4082
Creator:
Quantity:
15.5 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Audio Recordings, Correspondence,
Diaries, Manuscripts, Photographs, Research Materials
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Published and unpublished stories and
articles by Edgar Price and genealogical material concerning the Price family.
Correspondence from between family members. Typescript field notes by David
Price on Nambiquara (Satones) Indian groups in Brazil. Notes, tape recordings,
memos, published and unpublished reports used to prepare book about Nambicuara
Indians of Brazil; and autobiographical writing by David Price.
Language:
Collection material in
English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, diaries, travel albums and journals, accounts,
financial and legal papers, post cards and photographs, published and
unpublished stories and articles by Edgar Price, advertising copy and other
writing, and genealogical material concerning the Price family, primarily Edgar
Dayton Price, Paul D. Price, Arthur B. Price, Francis Smith Price (Mrs. Edgar
D.), and Florence Price Beeson, and including letters and a silk color sample
book from her dressmaking establishment in Shanghai, China.
Also, correspondence from Paul and Hazel Price to David Price,
1943-1982; correspondence, notes, notebooks, population data, and other
material written by David Price in the 1950s and typescript field notes by
David Price on Nambiquara (Satones) (Nambicuara) Indian groups in Brazil,
1967-1970. Notes, tape recordings, memos, and published and unpublished reports
used to prepare his book about Nambiquara; and autobiographical writing by
David Price,1998.
Also, Master's thesis that David Price wrote at the University of
Chicago, "A Traditional and Transformational Analysis of Sherente Kinship
Terminology," 1967, Bd. Ms. 1.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Price family.
Beeson, Florence Price.
Price, Arthur B.
Price, David, 1940-1999.
Price, Edgar Dayton.
Price, Francis Smith.
Price, Hazel.
Price, Paul D.
Subjects:
Nambicuara Indians--Social
conditions.
Indians of South
America--Brazil.
Huichol Indians.
Families.
Advertising.
Voyages and travels.
Dressmaking--China.
Indians of South
America--Brazil.
Places:
China--Description and
travel.
Brazil--Description and
travel.
Form and Genre Terms:
Genealogies.
Photographs.