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Frederick Starr (1858-1933) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. He taught biology at Coe College and geography at Chautauqua University and worked as a classifier in the Dept. of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1891 he taught geology and anthropology at Pomona College and the following year organized the Anthropology Dept. at the University of Chicago where he taught until his retirement in 1923. Collection consists of correspondence, reports, lectures, vocabularies, documents, and related materials of Starr and others. Bulk of the papers deals with Starr's work as an anthropologist among the Indian tribes of southern Mexico and includes Spanish translations of poetry and folk tales, vocabularies of Spanish works with Indian translations, anthropometrical data, and Mexican government documents of the 1860s. Also, lectures, studies, reports, and thesis by others; materials concerning Starr's work in Liberia and the Congo; and miscellaneous items relating to China, Japan and Korea. less