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| Title: | Thomas, Evan A. Papers |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1895-1991 |
| Accession Number: | 2020-031 |
| Size: | 3 linear feet (2 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Evan Ames Thomas is Professor-Emeritus of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. This collection contains documents and notes relevant to Thomas’ unpublished dissertation “The Sociology of William I. Thomas in Relation to The Polish Peasant.” |
This collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Thomas, Evan A. Papers, Acc#, Box #, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Evan Ames Thomas is Professor-Emeritus of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he taught from 1987 to 2016. Raised in the South Side of Chicago, Thomas earned his Bachelor of Science in Education at Chicago State University in 1971 and completed graduate work in History at the University of Iowa, where he earned his Master of Arts in 1973 and his PhD. in 1986. This collection contains documents and notes relevant to Thomas’ unpublished dissertation “The Sociology of William I. Thomas in Relation to The Polish Peasant,” an “enormous and overwhelmingly documented” project according to his colleagues Andrew Abbott and Rainer Egloff. The bulk of the collection is composed of photocopies of articles, unpublished documents, and correspondence written by the American sociologist William Isaac Thomas (1863-1947) and his Polish-American contemporary Florian Witold Znaniecki (1882-1958) in the first decades of the twentieth-century, along with essays and selections from monographs by various scholars responding to the work of these two men. The articles collected reflect Evan Thomas’ interest in the collaboration between Thomas and Znaniecki on the 1918-1920 work The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, considered a classic of American sociology. The collection also includes Evan Thomas’ personal notes and annotations on these articles, his extensive inquiries to Special Collections departments concerning archival material, and his research on Fair Use copyright law.
Writings by W. I. Thomas |
| Box 1 | Thomas Bibliography (undated) |
| Box 1 | Thomas Book Reviews 1896-1928 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Scope and Method of Folk Psychology,” 1896 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “On a Difference in the Metabolism of the Sexes,” 1896 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Sex and Primitive Social Control,” 1898 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Psychology of Modesty and Clothing,” 1899 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Gaming Instinct,” 1901 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Ursprung der Exogamie,” 1902 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Sexual Element in Sensibility,” 1904 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Psychology of Race-Prejudice,” 1904 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Province of Social Psychology,” 1905 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Significance of the Orient for the Occident,” 1907 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Review of James: Energies of Men,” 1907 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Psychology of the Yellow Journal,” 1908 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Older and Newer Ideals of Marriage,” 1908 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Psychology of Women’s Dress,” 1908 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “The Mind of Woman,” 1908 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Votes for Women,” 1909 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Eugenics: The Science of Breeding Men,” 1909 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Women and the Occupations,” 1909 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Prussian-Polish Situation,” 1914 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Race Psychology,” 1914 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Persistence of Primary Group Norms,” 1917 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, Correspondence with Lawrence Frank 1925-1926 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Problem of Personality in the Urban Environment,” 1926 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “To the American Council of Learned Societies,” 1926 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Problem of Personality,” 1926 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Participation and Social Assimilation,” 1927 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Behavior Pattern and the Situation,” 1927 (American Sociological Society Papers) |
| Box 1 | Thomas, Configurations of Personality,” 1927 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, Child in America (excerpts), 1928 |
| Box 1 | Proceedings from the “First Colloquium on Personality Investigation,” American Psychiatric Association, 1928 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Behavior Pattern and the Situation,” 1929 |
| Box 1 | Proceedings from the “Second Colloquium on Personality Investigation” (selections), 1929 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, “Relation of Research to the Social Process,” 1931 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, Introduction to “Report to the Social Science Research Council,” 1933 |
| Box 1 | Thomas, Appendices to “Report to the Social Science Research Council,” 1933 |
Writings about W. I. Thomas |
| Box 1 | Dewey, “Savage Mind,” 1902 |
| Box 1 | Reviews of Thomas, Polish Peasant, 1918-1960 |
| Box 1 | Harry Barnes, from Some Contributions, 1925 |
| Box 1 | Ellsworth Faris, “Concept of Social Attitudes,” 1925 |
| Box 1 | Charles Ellwood et al, Recent Developments in the Social Sciences (selections), 1927 |
| Box 1 | John Markey, “Trends in Social Psychology,” 1929 |
| Box 1 | P. Sorokin, Contemporary Sociological Theories (selections), 1928 |
| Box 1 | Dorothy Gary, “Developing Study of Culture,” 1929 |
| Box 1 | Theodore Abel, Review of Polish Peasant, 1929 |
| Box 1 | Robert Park, “Sociological Methods,” 1931 |
| Box 1 | D. Droba, “Nature of Attitude,” 1933 |
| Box 1 | Floyd House, “The Development of Sociology” (selections), 1936 |
| Box 1 | Ethel Dummer, Why I Think So (selections), 1936 |
| Box 1 | Harry Barnes, “William Isaac Thomas,” 1948 |
| Box 1 | Harvey Locke, “Research Methods as Viewed by W. I Thomas,” 1948 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “William Thomas as a Collaborator,” 1948 |
| Box 1 | Young, “William I. Thomas (1863-1947),” 1948 |
| Box 1 | Emory Bogardus, “Sociology of William I. Thomas,” 1949 |
| Box 1 | John Thomas, “Marriage Prediction in The Polish Peasant,” 1950 |
| Box 1 | Marvin Bressler, “Selected Family Patterns in W. I. Thomas’ Unfinished Study of the Bintl Brief,” 1952 |
| Box 1 | Gisela Hinkle, “’Four Wishes’ in Thomas,” 1952 |
| Box 1 | William Kolb, “Development and Clarification of the Valve Concept,” 1954 |
| Box 1 | Bogardus, “W. I Thomas and Social Origin,” 1959 |
| Box 1 | Young, “Contributions of W. I Thomas to Sociology,” 1962 |
| Box 1 | Donald Fleming, “Attitude: History of a Concept,” 1967 |
| Box 1 | K. Symmons-Symonolowicz, “Polish Peasant in Europe and America: Its First Half-a-Century of Intellectual History,” 1968 |
| Box 1 | Volkart, Entry on Thomas, Intl. Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, vol. 16, 1968 |
| Box 1 | Dorothy Thomas, “Contribution to Wold Festschrift,” 1970 |
| Box 1 | John Petras, “Changes of Emphasis in the Sociology of W. I. Thomas,” 1970 |
| Box 1 | Viola Klein, The Feminine Character (selections), 1971 |
| Box 1 | Paul Baker, “Life Histories of W. I. Thomas,” 1973 |
| Box 1 | Hayes/Petras, “Images of Persons in Early American Sociology,” 1974 |
| Box 1 | Rosalind Rosenberg, “In Search of Woman’s Nature,” 1975 |
| Box 1 | Hugh MacLachlan, “Thomas, Znaniecki, and Popper on Falsification,” 1976 |
| Box 1 | Evan Thomas, “Herbert Blumer’s Critique of The Polish Peasant,” 1978 |
| Box 1 | P. Wrobel, Our Way (selections), 1979 |
| Box 1 | Judith Balfe, “Thomas and the Sociology of Sexual Difference,” 1981 |
| Box 1 | Mary Jo Deegan, “W. I. Thomas and Social Reform,” 1981, and sociology abstracts |
| Box 1 | Ruth Cavan, “Chicago School of Sociology, 1918-1933,” 1983 |
| Box 1 | P. Sorokin, “Sociocultural Dynamics and Evolution,” 1984 |
| Box 1 | E. H. Volkart, “Comparison and the Definition of the Situation” (essay draft), 1984 |
| Box 1 | Stephen Murray, “W. I. Thomas, Behaviorist Ethnologist,” 1988 |
| Box 1 | Kivisto/Swatos, “Weber and Interpretive Sociology in America,” 1990 |
| Box 1 | Rudolf Haerle Jr., “William Isaac Thomas and the Helen Culver Fund for Race Sociology,” 1991 |
Writings by F. Znaniecki |
| Box 1 | F. Znaniecki: Bibliography (Eubank) (undated) |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Principle of Relativity and Philosophical Absolutism,” 1915 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Intellectual America by a European,” 1920 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Object Matter of Sociology,” 1927 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Sexual Relation as a Social Relation,” 1928 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Group Crises Produced by Voluntary Undertaking, 1931 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Analysis of Social Process” citation information, 1932 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Social Groups as Products of Participating Individuals,” 1939 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Controversies in Doctrine,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Social Organizations and Institutions,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Proximate Future of Sociology,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “European and American Sociology,” 1950 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Basic Problems of Contemporary Sociology,” 1954 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Dynamics of Social Relations,” 1954 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Social Groups,” 1954 |
| Box 1 | Znaniecki, “Criminological Research in Poland” archive materials |
Writings about F. Znaniecki |
| Box 1 | Abel, Znaniecki: Social Actions (review), 1937 |
| Box 1 | Eileen Znaniecki, “Eastern European Sociology,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Robert MacIver, “Social Causation and Change,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Howard Becker, “Interpretive Sociology and Constructive Typology,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Claude Levi Strauss, “French Sociology,” 1945 |
| Box 1 | Abel, “Nature and Use of Biograms,” 1947 |
| Box 1 | Ernest Burgess, “William I. Thomas as a Teacher,” 1948 |
| Box 1 | Bierstadt/Burgess correspondence re: Znaniecki, 1950 |
| Box 1 | Farir, Review of Volkart: Social Behavior and Personality, 1951 |
| Box 1 | Becker/Barnes, Social Thought from Lore to Science (selections), 1952 |
| Box 1 | Abel, Social Behavior (review), 1952 |
| Box 1 | Joseph Gidynski, “Florian Znaniecki,” 1958 |
| Box 1 | Obrebska, “Florian Znaniecki,” 1958 |
| Box 1 | Roscoe Hinkle, “Antecedents of the Action Orientation,” 1962 |
| Box 1 | Z. A. Jordan, “Philosophy and Ideology,” 1963 |
| Box 1 | Lopata, “On the Humanistic Coefficient,” 1970 |
| Box 1 | Lopata, “Life Record of an Immigrant,” 1975 |
| Box 1 | Lopata, “Florian Znaniecki,” 1976 |
| Box 1 | Robert Bierstedt, American Sociological Theory (selections), 1981 |
| Box 1 | Martin Kohl, “Wie es zur ‘biographischen Methode’,” 1981 |
| Box 1 | J. Markiewicz-Lagneau, “Florian Znaniecki,” 1982 |
| Box 1 | Luschen, “Florian Znaniecki Symposium,” 1982 |
| Box 1 | Luschen/Tibbetts, “Florian Znaniecki’s Sociological Methodology,” 1982 |
| Box 1 | Robert Merton, “Florian Znaniecki: A Short Reminiscence,” 1983 |
| Box 1 | Jeffrey Alexander, “Social Structural Analysis: Some Notes on Its History and Prospects,” 1984 |
Evan Thomas: Personal Archive and Miscellany |
| Box 1 | Copyright law, fair use source material resources |
| Box 1 | Evan Thomas: Correspondence with Special Collections departments re: source material |
| Box 1 | Misc. unpublished source material |
| Box 1 | Evan Thomas: Material request to Institute for Scientific Information |
Historical Documents Relevant to W. I. Thomas |
| Box 2 | Chicago Tribune, 1915 (Thomas on suffrage) |
| Box 2 | “Thomas scandal” materials, 1918 |
| Box 2 | New School course listings, 1919-1920 |
| Box 2 | W. I. Thomas Abstracts, Rockefeller, 1924-1928 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Child study fellowships, 1925-1926 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Transcribed remarks at SSRC, 1926 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Notes on General Electric, 1926 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Statement on juvenile delinquency, 1927 |
| Box 2 | Dorothy Thomas, Child research at Columbia, 1928 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Transcribed remarks at SSRC, 1928 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Unidentified notes to a seminar, 1928 |
| Box 2 | Periodicals recommended by W. I. Thomas, 1928 |
| Box 2 | Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Materials, 1928 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Collated psychopathology works, 1928 |
| Box 2 | Rockefeller Foundation collaborations, 1930-1931 |
| Box 2 | W. I. Thomas, Report on criminology research projects, 1931 |
| Box 2 | SSRC, Committee on Personality and Culture documents, 1931-1938 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Swedish unemployment project, 1932 |
| Box 2 | Thomas materials donated to Regenstein by Conrad Taeuber, 1935-1973 |
| Box 2 | SSRC minutes, 1938 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Research list, “Unadjusted Girl” (undated) |
| Box 2 | Thomas, “Races and Nationalities” study (undated |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Cincinnati Criminological study (undated) |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Report to Social Science Research Council (undated |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Criminology report (undated) |
| Box 2 | W. I. Thomas notes, Rockefeller (undated) |
| Box 2 | W. I. Thomas, Proposal for behavior study (undated) |
| Box 2 | Thomas, “Efficiency and the Values of Diversities of National Organizations” (undated) |
W. I. Thomas Correspondence |
| Box 2 | Herbert Miller papers (Temple University), Inquiry, 1979 |
| Box 2 | UChicago Archives, Thomas Collection , 1980 |
| Box 2 | Swarthmore College documents, Inquiry, 1980 |
| Box 2 | W. I. Thomas correspondence, Oberlin College 1895-1896, Oberlin College catalogue 1889-1890 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Marion Talbot, 1898 |
| Box 2 | W. I. Thomas/Franz Boas correspondence, 1907-1914 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to McLaughlin, 1908 |
| Box 2 | Thomas correspondence from Swarthmore Library, 1909-1931 |
| Box 2 | UC Berkeley W. I. Thomas correspondence 1909-1939, E. Thomas Inquiry, 1977 |
| Box 2 | Samuel Harper/W. I. Thomas correspondence re: Thomas, 1912-1914 |
| Box 2 | Thomas/Park correspondence from UChicago “Park Papers Addenda,” 1912-1931 |
| Box 2 | John Hopkins W. I. Thomas correspondence, 1916-1933, Inquiry, 1977 |
| Box 2 | Shailer Matthews/Thomas correspondence, 1917 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Harper, 1919-1920 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Robert Park re: “Memorandum,” 1919-1923 |
| Box 2 | John M. Manly/Thomas correspondence, 1925-1929 |
| Box 2 | “Types of Criminals,” collected by W. I. Thomas, 1925-1929 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to L. Frank, Hiring of Dorothy Thomas, 1926 |
| Box 2 | Thomas/Dunham correspondence, 1926-1934 |
| Box 2 | Wallace Craig to W. I. Thomas, 1927 |
| Box 2 | Thomas/Lawrence Frank correspondence, 1927-1929 |
| Box 2 | Thomas, Correspondence re: Karl Myrdel, 1932 |
| Box 2 | Correspondence re: Sweden, 1933-1937 |
| Box 2 | Sheldon Glueck papers, 1933-1936, Inquiry to Harvard Law library, 1979 |
W. I. Correspondence with Ethel Sturges Dummer |
| Box 2 | Indices to Dummer letters (undated) |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas notes on Thomas/Dummer correspondence, 1984 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, June 1915 |
| Box 2 | Thomas/Dummer correspondence, 1919-1920 (old world traits) |
| Box 2 | Dummer to Thomas, March 1920 (response to work) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dumer, March 1920 and July 1924 (methodological beliefs) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1920-1921 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1920-1923 (women’s subordination) |
| Box 2 | Dummer/Thomas correspondence, 1920-1924 (“unadjusted girl” project) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1920, 1930 (Znaniecki) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1920-1931 (on Dummer’s views) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dumer, February 1921 (William James/Watson) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, February 1921 (psychoanalysis) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, March 1921 (letter in The Forward) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, August 1921 (Park) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, August 1921 (psychoanalysis) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Donovan, September 1921 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer and Von Waters, 1921-1924 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1921-1925 (consulting for Dunham) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1921, 1924, 1944 (debt to Dummer) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, May 1922 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, July 1922 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, November 1922 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, December 1922 (“Races and Cultures” study) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1922-1927 (symposium) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1923-1925 (New School) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1924-1928 (Thomas diverted from 3-volume study) |
| Box 2 | Harriet Thomas to Dummer, 1925-1927 (on W. I. Thomas) |
| Box 2 | Dummer/Thomas correspondence, 1925-1928 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, August 1926 (SSRC) |
| Box 2 | Thomas/Dummer correspondence, December 1926-January 1927 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1928-1930 (collaboration with psychiatrists and proposal for joint application) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1928-1931 (psychopathology) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, December 1929 |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, 1929-1930 (“Scandinavian study”) |
| Box 2 | Thomas to Dummer, April 1930 (Sweden) |
Historical documents relevant to F. Znaniecki |
| Box 2 | Znaniecki materials from University of Illinois, 1919-1964 |
| Box 2 | Eubank/Znaniecki Interview, 1934 |
| Box 2 | Znaniecki correspondence re: Thomas, 1950-1955 |
| Box 2 | Znaniecki correspondence, 1950-1955 (copy) |
| Box 2 | Znaniecki/A. Sorokin correspondence, 1951-1953 |
E. Thomas Research Correspondence |
| Box 2 | Herbert Blumer interview, 1972 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with Paul Baker, 1976 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Social Science Research Council correspondence, 1976 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/ Edmund Volkart correspondence, 1976-1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with Herbert Blumer, 1977 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas interview with Ruth Billingsley, 1977, transcribed 2016 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Marvin Bressler, correspondence, 1977 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Carnegie Corporation correspondence, 1977 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Elizabeth Shelton (Schlesinger Library) correspondence, 1977 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Cedric Larson correspondence, 1977 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Lewis Feuer correspondence, 1977-1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with Reinhard Bendix, 1977-1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Norbert Wiley correspondence, 1977-1987 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Calvin Schmid correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with American Sociological Association, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with Nels Anderson, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with David Bachelor, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas correspondence with J. Bernard/Margaret Derickson, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Robert Faris correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Freedom of Information Office (FBI), 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Mark Stauter (Duke University) correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Mirra Komarovsky correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | Patrick Miehe (Harvard) to E. Thomas, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Alfred Knopf correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Everett Hughes correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Helen Perry correspondence, 1978 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Rockefeller Archive Center, 1978 |
| Box 2 | Kennert Lohf (Columbia) to E. Tomas, 1979 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Mary Jahzen (Carbondale) correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Max Lerner correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/Yale Libraries correspondence, 1979 |
| Box 2 | P. Saeger (Northwestern) to E. Thomas, 1979 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/J. Verhoeven correspondence, 1980 |
| Box 2 | Edwin Southern (Duke) to E. Thomas, 1984 |
| Box 2 | E. Thomas/H. Lopata correspondence, 1987, including Znaniecki letter to W. I. Thomas, 1928 |