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Fay-Cooper Cole

(Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961)

Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-1058] Summary: Anthropologist Fay-Cooper Cole (1881-1961) was a professor at the University of Chicago for most of his career. After earning his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1914, he worked as ethnologist at Field Museum and was a member of various expeditions to the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. He then became the first anthropologist in the sociology department at the University of Chicago and served as chairman of the department of anthropology from 1929 to 1947. This photograph may have been taken around the time of his retirement from university teaching. Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
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Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago; he was a student of Franz Boas. Some argue that he, most famously, was a witness for the defense for John Scopes at the Scopes Trial. Cole also played a central role in planning the anthropology exhibits for the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1941. (From Wikipedia)

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