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John W. Bennett Collection
A Guide and Inventory
Spec.rare.cms.119
Boxes 111-130


Guide Compiled by Andrew Little, Kenichi Matsui, Thomas Porto, and John M. Bennett

Overview of the Collection:

Repository:Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Identification:Spec.cms.119
Creator:John W. Bennett
Title:John W. Bennett Collection
Dates:John W. Bennett, 1915-2005
Quantity:161 boxes, 1646 folders
Description:professional and personal papers, correspondence, publications, and photographs


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Box 111

Folders 1150-1153
  1. Shrinkwrapped copy of book titled, "Classic Anthropology[-] Critical Essays: 1944-1966":JWB with Contributions from Leo A. Despres and Michio Nagai; Trasaction Publishers; New Brunswick, NJ; 1998.

  2. Copy of book titled, "Agrarian Socialism[:] The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan. A Study in Political Sociology.": Seymour Martin Lipset; Anchor Books; Garden City, New York; 1968. Chapter titled, "Agrarian Pragmatism and Radial Politics" contributed by JWB and Cynthia Krueger.

  3. Copy of book titled, "Northern Plainsmen[:] Adaptive Strategy and Agragian Life": JWB;Aldine - Atherton; Chicago; IL; 1969.

  4. Copy of, "Reviews in Anthropology": Gordon and Breach Publishers; Volume 24, No. 2; 1995. JWB listed as member of editorial board. Bookmark kept on page 113.
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Box 112

Folders 1154-1157
  1. Copy of book titled, "Northern Plainsmen[:] Adaptive Strategy and Agragian Life": JWB; Aldine - Atherton; Chicago; IL; 1969. Bookmarks kept on pages 170-171 and 242-243.

  2. Copy of book titled, "Northern Plainsmen[:] Adaptive Strategy and Agragian Life": JWB; Aldine - Atherton; Chicago; IL; 1969.

  3. Copy of book titled, "Northern Plainsmen[:] Adaptive Strategy and Agragian Life": JWB; Aldine - Atherton; Chicago; IL; 1969.

  4. Copy of book titled, "Natural Resources and People[:] Conceptual Issues in Interdisciplinary Research": Edited by Kenneth A. Dahlberg and JWB; Westview Press; Boulder, Colorado; 1986. Introduction written by JWB and Kenneth A. Dahlberg and chapter titled, "Summary and Critique: Interdisciplinary Research on People-Resources Relations" contributed by JWB
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Box 113

Folders 1158-1161
  1. Copy of book titled, "Indian & White[:] Self-Image and interaction in a Canadian Plains Community": Niels Winther Braroe; Stanford University Press;Stanford, California; 1975. Dust jacket from another copy of the same book used to mark pages 12-13. Bookmarks also kept on pages 60-61, 66-67, 122- 123, 130-131, 136-137, and 152-153.

  2. Hardcover copy of book, "Northern Plainsmen[:] Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life": JWB; Aldine Publishing Company; Chicago, IL; 1969. Copy signed by JWB,"To Irv & Maggie January 1970."

  3. Hardcover copy of book, "Northern Plainsmen[:] Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life": JWB; Aldine Publishing Company; Chicago, IL; 1969.

  4. Copy of book titled, "Working Together: Women and Family in Southwestern Saskatchewan": Seena B. Kohl; Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited; Toronto, Montreal; 1976. Supplementary essay titled, "A Comparison: Hutterite Women and Their Families" contributed by JWB.
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Box 114

Folders 1162-1167
  1. Copy of a book titled, "Minority Canadians 1[:] Native Peoples": Edited by Jean Leonard Elliott.Prentice Hall of Canada Limited; Scarborough, Ontario; 1971. Chapters titled, "A Cree Indian Reserve" and, "The Hutterites: a Communal Sect" contributed by JWB. Book's packing slip kept inside front cover.

  2. Copy of a book titled, "Minority Canadians 1[:] Native Peoples": Edited by Jean Leonard Elliott.Prentice Hall of Canada Limited; Scarborough, Ontario; 1971. Chapters titled, "A Cree Indian Reserve" and, "The Hutterites: a Communal Sect" contributed by JWB. Book's packing slip kept inside front cover.

  3. Copy of book titled, "Migration and the Transformation of Cultures": Edited by Jean Burnet, Danielle Juteau, Enoch Padolsky, Anthrony Rasporich, and Antoine Sirois; Multicultural History Society of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario; 1992. Chapter titled, "Ethnicity, Settlement and Adaptation in The Peopling of the Canadian-American West" contributed by JWB and Dan S. Sherburne.

  4. Copy of book titled, "Social Research in North American Moisture-Deficient Regions": Edited by JWB; A Symposium held during the annual meeting of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; May 4, 1966. Essay titled, "Ecology, Economy and Society in an Agricultural Region of the Northern Great Plains" contributed by JWB.

  5. Copy of book titled, "The Struggle for the Land[:] Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the Semiarid World": Edited by Paul A. Olson; University of Nebraska Press; Lincoln, Nebraska; 1990. Chapter titled, "Human Adaptations To the North American Great Plains and Similar Environments" contributed by JWB.

  6. Copy of book titled, "The Gull Lake Site: A Prehistoric Bison Drive Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan": Thomas F. Kehoe with contributions by Frances Eyman; Milwaukee Public Museum; Milwaukee, WI; 1973. Note to JWB from the author Is written inside the front cover thanking JWB for being a, "great asset in various supervisory and specialist roles at Gull Lake 1960." [JMB also worked at that site in 1960.]
    • Two citation cards, previously kept in the inside cover of the above listed book, that list,'Stone 'Medicine Wheels' in Southern Alberta and the Adjacent Protion of Montana: Were they designed as grave markers?" and, "Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana;" both titles by Thomas Kehoe, the latter jointly written with Alic Kehoe."
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Box 115

Folders 1168-1173
  1. Journal of the American Anthropological Association, American Anthropologist. Includes article by JWB.

  2. Copies of JWBs article from the Journal of the American Anthropological Association.

  3. "Current Anthropology" Vol. 35 No. 5 Dec. 1994, JWB listed as Contributor.

  4. Binder:NEH Proposals 1984-1986, Culture, History, and Personal Experience.

  5. Book, "Rural Life Studies 1-6" No Reference to JWB.
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Box 116

Folders 1173-1180
  1. "Science" Vol. 192, No. 4242, May 1976, magazine. No Reference to JWB

  2. "Agricultural Cooperatives in the Development Process". Monograph by JWB

  3. "The New Yorker" August 1999, Magazine. No Reference to JWB

  4. Copies of Articles by JWB Southeastern Archeological Conference 1939 (Contains JWB Reports)

  5. Notebook

  6. 1932 Yearbook, "Comet" from West High School

  7. 1931 Yearbook, "Comet" from West High School
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Box 117

Folders 1181-1194
  1. "The Comet" May 1929, West High School Publication

  2. "The Comet: Russian Number" West High School Publication

  3. "The Comet" April 1929, West High School Publication

  4. "The Comet" February 1929, West High School Publication

  5. "Alma Matter" 1959-1960 Beloit College Publication, "Beloit" 1995 Magazine

  6. "The Comet" 1933 Yearbook for West High School

  7. "The Comet" 1929 Yearbook for West High School

  8. "Beloit College Magazine" 2001

  9. "Beloit College Magazine" 1994

  10. "Beloit" 1995

  11. "Bag Talk" Collection of Poetry by JMB

  12. JWB Address Book

  13. JWB Address Book
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Box 118

Folder 1195
  1. Dozoku: A Preliminary Study of the Japanese "Extended Family" Group
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Box 119

Folder 1196-1198
  1. Southern Illinois Food Habits Thesis

  2. Temporary File of JMB Works

  3. Poster, sent to JWB from Nebraska University
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Box 120

Folder 1199-1233
  1. "Alphabets Sublime: A collection of interviews" This is a copy of an Interview with JMB.

  2. "Loose Watch" A Lost and Found Times Anthology, sent from JMB to JWB.

  3. Card of some kind containing artwork

  4. "Ant-Path" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  5. "Burning Dog" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  6. "No Boy" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB, 2 Copies

  7. "13 Spits" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  8. "Blender" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  9. "Regression" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  10. "Some Blood" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB and CMB Bennett

  11. "Cascade" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB, 2 Copies

  12. "Nose Death" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  13. "Twitch" Chapbook of Drawings by JMB

  14. "Time Release" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  15. "Main Road" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  16. "Ax Tongue" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB, 2 Copies

  17. "Wood Nymphs of the Sahara" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  18. "Puking Horse" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB, 2 Copies

  19. "More Travesties of JMB Poems" Chapbook of Poetry by Amy Salyer, Transformations of JMB poems

  20. "Ack's Hack's" Chapbook of Poetry by Al Ackerman, Transformations of JMB poems

  21. "Son of Ack's Hack's" Chapbook of Poetry by Al Ackerman, Transformations of JMB poems

  22. "Motel Moods" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  23. "Blank Blue Side of Chevy" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  24. "The The Poems" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB, 2 Copies

  25. "Span" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  26. "Swelling" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB"

  27. "Contents" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB, 2 Copies

  28. "Nips Poems" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  29. "Was Art" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  30. "Said in the Chair" Chapbook of Poetry by JMB

  31. "The Peel" Book of Poetry by JMB

  32. "The Same Poems" Collection of Poetry by JMB

  33. Untitled Collection of Poetry by JMB

  34. Untitled Collection of Poetry by JMB

  35. "Octavio Paz and the Present Intellectual Scene in Mexico" Paper written By JMB
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Box 121

Folder Number 1234-1249
  1. "Colds" A poem by JMB

  2. From Scavenger Newsletter, 47, Jan. 1988, review by T. Winter-Damon

  3. From Scavenger Newsletter, 45, Nov. 1987, review by T. Winter-Damon

  4. From the Kindred Spirit: A Poetry Journal, No.13, Autumn 1987, Review By Jay Dougherty

  5. Untitled small chapbook of poetry by JMB

  6. "Applied Appliances" Chapbook of poetry by JMB and C. Mehrl Bennett

  7. "Sh'Wipe!"Chapbook of poetry by JMB

  8. "Pumped Gravel" Chapbook of poetry by JMB and C. Mehrl Bennett

  9. Misc. "Brain Cell" Cards / Stamps

  10. "Lens Rolled in a Heart" Small Chapbook of poetry by JMB and Sheila E. Murphy

  11. "The Small Room" Poem by JMB

  12. 4 Poems by JMB, "Short Choke", "Hanging Coat", "The Two Years", and "The Empty Air"

  13. "Skirting the Closet" Poem by JMB

  14. "The Rebuke" Poem by JMB

  15. 5 Poems by JMB, "The Dad", "Going Blind", "All That Food", "The Eating", and "The Intrusion"

  16. 5 Poems by JMB, "The Dad", "Going Blind", "All That Food", "The Eating", and "The Intrusion"
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Box 122

Folder Number 1250-1254
  1. Enlarged Photographs of Hong Kong

  2. Miscellaneous Enlarged Photographs

  3. Miscellaneous Enlarged Photographs from Egypt, Israel, and the Sudan

  4. P.E.I.: Water Pictures, Lupine Landscapes, Nova Scotia Buildings

  5. All Enlarged Photographs. NG Prints, Cactus Blossoms, Redbuds, Orchids From St. Louis Botanical Gardens 1985, and Cae Sarea, Israel
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Box 123

Folder Number 1255-1275
  1. Folder of miscellaneous enlarged photographs from Saskatchewan


  2. Enlarged photographs of lichen on rocks near Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, 1962


  3. Maps of Saskatchewan

  4. Enlarged photographs of Northern New Mexico, Spanish Villages and Churches, and New Mexico communes

  5. Miscellaneous loose enlarged photograph

  6. Enlarged Photograph of Brick Building, mounted

  7. Enlarged photograph of women working, mounted

  8. Enlarged photograph of an open Field, mounted

  9. Enlarged photograph of a wagon wheel, mounted

  10. Enlarged photograph of farm equipment and a field, mounted

  11. Enlarged photograph of a clay figure, mounted

  12. Enlarged photograph of rocky ground, mounted

  13. Enlarged photograph of a river, mounted

  14. Enlarged photograph of a train station, mounted

  15. Enlarged photograph of Hong Kong, loose in an envelope

  16. Framed photograph of a man and woman

  17. Loose enlarged photograph of grain elevators

  18. Enlarged photograph of flowers, mounted

  19. Enlarged photograph of women carrying bowls of water on their heads,mounted

  20. Enlarged photograph of a mountain lake scene, mounted

  21. Enlarged photograph of cactus blooms, mounted
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Box 124

Folder Number 1276-1295
  1. Enlarged photograph of women outside of a building, mounted

  2. Blank poster board

  3. Enlarged photograph of a forest scene, mounted

  4. Enlarged photograph of a lake scene, mounted

  5. Enlarged photograph of a tree, mounted

  6. Loose enlarged photographs of the Chinese Opera and temple glass in Taiwan, 1966

  7. Enlarged photograph of a man in front of a mural, mounted

  8. Enlarged photograph of a home in Mexico, mounted

  9. Enlarged photograph of a cross on a hillside church, mounted

  10. Loose enlarged photographs of Mexico

  11. Enlarged photograph of an old courtyard, mounted

  12. Enlarged photograph of a dirt road lined with old buildings, mounted

  13. Enlarged photograph of an oriental costumed woman, mounted

  14. Enlarged photograph of a flower garden, mounted

  15. Enlarged photograph of an oriental festival decoration, mounted

  16. Enlarged photograph of a decoration on a gate, mounted

  17. Enlarged photograph of a man and woman in a field, mounted

  18. Enlarged photograph of trees in a plain, mounted

  19. Enlarged photograph of a fruit tree, mounted

  20. Enlarged photograph of a city street scene, mounted
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Box 125(Portfolio of Puerto Rico scenes, Aspen Music, Missouri scenes)

Folder Number 1296-1310
  1. Enlarged photograph of a botanical Garden, mounted

  2. Enlarged photograph of a mural on the side of a building, mounted

  3. Enlarged photograph of a flower garden, mounted

  4. Enlarged photograph of an old church, mounted

  5. Enlarged photograph of statues on top of gothic buildings, mounted

  6. Enlarged photograph of a beach scene, mounted

  7. Enlarged photograph of dead wood, mounted

  8. Enlarged photograph of a painting, mounted

  9. Enlarged photograph of dead wood, mounted

  10. Enlarged photograph of an adobe dwelling, mounted

  11. Enlarged photograph of a crowd of people, mounted

  12. Enlarged photograph of an orchestra playing, mounted

  13. Enlarged photograph of a man and woman on a bench, mounted

  14. Enlarged photograph of a woman and her child, mounted

  15. Enlarged photograph of a man playing a tuba, mounted
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Box 126(Portfolio of Puerto Rico scenes, Aspen Music, Missouri scenes)

Folder Number 1311-1319
  1. Enlarged photograph of 3 people sitting in a room, mounted

  2. Enlarged photograph of a jungle scene, mounted

  3. Enlarged photograph of a jungle scene, mounted

  4. Enlarged photograph of 4 empty chairs sitting in a lawn, and a group of 4 people sitting in a backyard in the background, mounted

  5. Enlarged photograph of men standing in front of a brick building in the street, mounted

  6. Enlarged photograph of a hillside with trees on it, mounted

  7. Enlarged photograph of a man standing outside a shop in a tunnel, mounted

  8. Enlarged photograph of a man standing in the shadow of a stone tower that has men standing around the top of it, mounted

  9. Enlarged photograph of children in the street, mounted
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Box 127(Portfolio of pictures from the West)

Folder Number 1320-1329
  1. Box of negatives

  2. Folder of loose enlarged photographs, 2 copies of Bonneville Dam photo, 1 rodeo photo

  3. Enlarged photograph of a fence and open field, mounted

  4. Enlarged photograph of an adobe structure on a hillside, mounted

  5. Enlarged photograph of a mountain lake scene, mounted

  6. Enlarged photograph of a church, mounted

  7. Enlarged photograph of a piece of wood, mounted

  8. Enlarged photograph of an old western building, mounted

  9. Enlarged photograph of a mountainside, mounted

  10. Enlarged photograph of a mountain lake scene, mounted
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Box 128

Folder Number 1330-1332
  1. Sign for the Art of the Far East Exhibit

  2. Folder of several mounted awards presented to JWB

  3. Poster for the Exhibit of 16th and 17th Century Japanese Art, "Namban Art"
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Box 129

Folder Number 1333-1340
  1. Blank paper for mounting photographs

  2. Enlarged photograph of river bottom people, man and woman in front of a car which has a church sign on it, mounted

  3. Enlarged photograph of a man and woman posing for the picture, mounted

  4. Enlarged photograph of Mar and Ed Stockdale, mounted

  5. Enlarged photograph of the Brown family, shanty boat people, mounted

  6. Enlarged photograph of a wooden statue head, mounted

  7. Enlarged photograph of a barn and farm equipment, mounted

  8. Enlarged photograph of a beached shanty boat, mounted
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Box 130

Folder Number 1341-1349
  1. Beloit College Expedition print

  2. Enlarged photograph of 7 Mile Lake, Wisconsin in 1928, mounted

  3. Enlarged photograph of Des Plaines River, Chicago Area 1929, mounted

  4. Southern Illinois prints, shanty boat people, 1939-1941

  5. Print of a lake scene with a man in the foreground

  6. Enlarged photograph of three horses, mounted

  7. Logan Museum expedition to Reserve, New Mexico 1934, Steve and Mary Hudson (2 notes about the contents of the box also included)

  8. Blank poster board pieces

  9. Envelope that used to contain pictures from Folders 1342-1344
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Contents:

Boxes 1 - 10 in this document. Other box links will open separate files.
Links to additional boxes will open separate files.
Boxes 1-10    Boxes 11-20    Boxes 21-30    Boxes 31-50    Boxes 51-70    Boxes 71-90   
Boxes 91-110    Boxes 111-130    Boxes 131-150    Boxes 151-161   


Page last revised: October 20, 2009

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