MS 14 Harry T. Getty Papers, 1940-1980

Materials from MS 14 Harry T. Getty papers grouped by cultural affiliation. To access the full collection guide on Arizona Archives Online, click here.

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Biographical Note

Harry T. Getty was born July 30, 1904 in Kansas City, Missouri. After studying at the University of Arizona with Byron Cummings and Andrew Ellicott Douglass he gained field experience collecting tree-ring specimens at Mesa Verde and Tuzigoot. He got a PhD in anthropology at the University of Chicago in 1950, writing his dissertation on ethnic communities in Tucson, Arizona. Getty later did research in the mid-1950s on the San Carlos Apache tribal cattle industry, historic Apache land claims, emerging leadership trends in Fiji in the 1960s, and urbanization in Slovenia. He was the first academic advisor for American Indian students at the University of Arizona. His publications include articles in The Kiva, a journal he helped to found, as well as other anthropological journals. Getty died at the age of 91 in Tucson.

Getty’s most noted publications were:

“People of the Old Pueblo,” The Kiva 17: 1-2 (November-December 1951), 1-6.

“Development of the San Carlos Apache Cattle Industry,” The Kiva 23: 3 (February 1958), 1-4.

“San Carlos Apache Cattle Industry,” Human Organization 20:4 (winter 1961-62), 181-186.