| Notes: | Access to Series VII, Audio-Visual Materials, is restricted due to its physical condition or need for special equipment.
Anthropologist. Born 1914. B.A., New York University, 1938. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969. Taught at Hunter College, Fisk University, and Hofstra University. Died 1977.
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| Summary: | Consists primarily of research data from the Columbia University Research in Contemporary India Field Project which Steed directed from 1949 to 1951. Data were collected from three villages in western and northern India and include extensive life histories of informants, psychological tests, typed notes, field notebooks, photographs, genealogies, transcripts of interviews, and art work by researchers and villagers. Contains research notes collected by project participants James Silverberg, G. Morris Castairs, and Grace Langley. Also includes data from fieldwork projects on the Inuit of Greenland and Chinese immigrants in New York City, lectures, and publications about the India Project by Steed and other scholars. Also contains some of Steed's India photographs that were included in Edward Steichen's 1955 exhibit, The Family of Man.
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