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Bureau of Ethnology Annual Reports

The Bureau of Ethnology (later the Bureau of American Ethnology) was established in 1879 to engage in an anthropological study of the native peoples of the United States.

• 1st (1879/80)- Boston Public Library holds, but it was too brittle to digitize

• 2nd (1880/81)

• 3rd (1881/82)

• 4th (1882/83)

• 5th (1883/84) (maps volume not digitized)

• 6th (1884/85)

• 7th (1885/86) (not held by BPL)

• 8th (1886/87)

• 9th (1887/88)

• 10th (1888/89)

• 11th (1889/90)

• 12th (1890/91)

• 13th (1891/92)

• 14th (1892/93) and part 2

• 15th (1893/94)

• 16th (1894/95) (not held by BPL)

• 17th (1895/96) and part 2

• 18th (1896/97) and part 2

• 19th (1897/98) and part 2

• 20th (1898/99)

• 21st (1899/1900)

• 22nd (1900/01) and part 2

• 23rd (1901/02)

• 24th (1902/03)

• 25th (1903/04)

• 26th (1904/05)

• 27th (1905/06)

• 28th (1906/07)

• 29th (1907/08)

• 30th (1908/09)

• 31st (1909/10)

• 32nd (1910/11)

• 33rd (1911/12)

• 34th (1912/13)

• 35th (1913/14) and part 2

• 36th (1914/15)

• 37th (1915/16)

• 38th (1916/17)

• 39th (1917/18)

• 40th (1918/19)

• 41st (1919/20)

• 42nd (1920/21)

• 43rd (1921/22)

• 44th (1922/23)

• 45th (1923/24)

• 46th (1924/25)

• 47th (1925/26)

• 48th (1926/27, with index to vols. 1-48)

• 49th through 55th (1931-38)

• 56th through 70th (1938-53)

• 71st through 78th (1953-61)

• 79th and 80th (1961-63)

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