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Spitzer registered with the National Teacher Placement Service as well as with the Natonal Catholic Welfare Conference in his search for a teaching position.

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Allen Spitzer is approached about becoming a contributing editor for "The Indian Historian," a new publication of the American Indian Historical Society.

Scope and Contents Included here are communications from professioal associations as well as an outline by M. Inez Hilger, O. S. B. for an ethnographic field method (December 1956). Also included is a letter asking Allen Spitzer to give a lecture for the Le Blond Lecture Series of the Athenaeum of Ohio (3-31-62). Connected with this material is an outline apparently for talks on physical anthropology and cultural anthropology. The folder also contains a short and undated bibliography on Catholicism and...

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This folder contains communications from the Society for Applied Anthropology.

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These official communications chronicle Allen Spitzer's military career. Several of these documents refer to Jesse Allen Spitzer; one has the Jesse crossed out; and another notes that Allen Spitzer has no middle name.

Scope and Contents These letters, orders, and memoranda document Allen Spitzer's activities with the California National Guard Reserve. Included here is Spitzer's outline for a lecture on domestic disturbances and collective behavior (4-27-52). Also here is a clipping noting Spitzer's assignment to lecture on crowd and mob psychology and to do research in military intelligence, psychological warfare, and social psychology (undated). At the end of the folder are index cards summarizing Spitzer's army and...

Scope and Contents This material documents the Spitzers' fieldwork with the Blackfeet Nation of Montana from 1940-1955. Notable materials: Allen Spitzer asks the Viking Fund for a grant to allow him and his wife to undertake research among the Blackfeet on "taboo practices which surround the institution of marriage and the family within the tribe" in order to write a dissertation at Stanford University on Freud and Briffault's views on the nature of taboo (8-2-44). Spitzer's letter to social worker...

Scope and Contents This material documents the Spitzers' fieldwork with the Blackfeet Nation of Montana from 1956 to 1965. Jack and Edith Moyer write about the free-flowing liquor in Browning, Montana and the Blackfeet's reaction to it (2-27-56). Allen Spitzer makes field notes of his trip to Montana in June 1956, and a newspaper clipping records his visit to the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning (6-15-56). Trafford P. Maher, S .J., remonstrates with Spitzer over the latter's "rather negative...

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Included here are maps of Browning, Montana and lists of property owners in each block, lists of eligible voters by district, and charts of the population of the Blackfeet reservation in 1941.

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A chart and notes on Tepoztlan by James Schultz, C. R.