Robert J. Smith papers
Scope and content
Correspondence, research, articles, course material and lectures pertaining to Dr. Smith's study of Japan. Including articles and information about Japanese emperors, ancestor worship, the Japanese in Brazil, historical demography and material concerning the student protests at Cornell in 1969, correspondence with David Nathan Meyerson, and scrapbooks with newspaper clippings from World War I and World War II, material concerning Smith's participation in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program and programs from various plays from the 1940s.
Includes correspondence with Ella L. Wiswell concerning the study of the Japanese village of Suye-mura.
Dates
- 1950-2016
Creator
- Smith, Robert J. (Robert John), 1927-2016. (Person)
- Meyerson, David Nathan. (Person)
- Wiswell, Ella Lury. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Cornell University.
Extent
42.5 cubic feet. (42.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, research, articles, course material and lectures pertaining to Dr. Smith's study of Japan.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
Arranged by subject.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Correspondence Boxes 1-8Box 43 Folders 11, 13-19
Series II. Historical Demography (includes Data Card Sets) Boxes 9-11
Series III. Course Material Box 12Box 22 Folders 3-6
Series IV. Committee Files, Awards Box 13
Series V. Japanese Emperors Box 14
Series VI. Morgan Lectures Box 15
Series VII. Japanese in Brazil Boxes 16-17Box 43 Folder 9
Series VIII. Ancestor Worship Boxes 18-19Box 25 Folders 1-12
Series IX. Cornell 1969 Box 20
Series X. Reprints Box 21
Series XI. Clippings -- Japan Boxes 23-24Box 26 Folders 1-16Box 43 Folder 8
Series XII. Subject Files Box 22 Folders 1-2, 7-16 Box 36 Folders 1-4
Series XIII. Calendars Box 25
Series XIV. Book - Kurusu Boxes 27-29Box 36 Folders 18-19
Series XV. Scrapbooks Boxes 30-32
Series XVI. Newspapers Boxes 33-35
Series XVII. Army Specialized Training Reserve Program (ASTRP) Box 37Box 45
This material covers the years from Robert Smith's enlistment in the US Army Reserve in July 1944 to his service in the occupation of Japan in 1946. In the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program (ASTRP) and Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) at Carnegie Tech, University of Minnesota and Yale University
Series XVIII. David Meyerson Material Box 36
Series XIX. The W.W. Curtis Ainu Collection Box 43 Folders 1-7
Series XX. Other Material Boxes 37-38Box 44
Series XXI. Suye-Mura Material Boxes 46-47
Physical Description
Correspondence, research, articles, course materials.
Processing Information
Boxes 34 and 35 have been removed from the collection.
- Ancestor worship -- Japan.
- Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)
- Cornell University -- : Faculty.
- Demography -- Japan.
- Emperors -- Japan
- Japan -- Politics and government.
- Japan -- Social life and customs.
- Japan -- Study and teaching.
- Japanese -- Brazil.
- Programs (documents).
- Scrapbooks
- Slides (Photography).
- Student movements -- United States -- History.
- Students -- Political activity.
- Suye-mura (Japan)
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Eileen Keating
- Date
- January 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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