Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Frederic Ward Putnam
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
Frederic Ward Putnam.
Read Next
The Fortune-Teller, oil on canvas by Georges de La Tour, probably the 1630s; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. (101.9 x 123.5 cm.) (The Fortune Teller)
10 Paintings You Should See at the Met in New York City
Banksy Snorting Copper stenciled graffiti on Curtain Road, in Shoreditch, London taken circa 2005, before it was later vandalised and covered over.
Art Restoration: Beyond Canvas
Discover
Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Sailboat against a beautiful landscape
Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?
earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.
The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Data analysis of the Super Bowl's "winningest" teams, game locations, MVP winners by position, teams with the most game losses. football, sports, infographic
From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl
Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles
Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

Frederic Ward Putnam: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Frederic-Ward-Putnam
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born April 16, 1839 • Salem • Massachusetts
Died August 14, 1915 (aged 76) • Cambridge • Massachusetts

Photos

Frederic Ward Putnam.
See All Images →
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Bastian
Adolf Bastian
German ethnologist
Roland B. Dixon
American anthropologist
The Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap, illustration by William Henry Holmes from Clarence E. Dutton's Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, 1882.
William Henry Holmes
American archaeologist
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American museum curator
Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Akeley, Carl E.
Carl E. Akeley
American naturalist and explorer
Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
Sol Tax
American anthropologist
Peabody, George
George Peabody
American merchant, financier, and philanthropist
Maurice Freedman
British anthropologist
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
French art dealer and publisher
Victor-Charles Mahillon
Belgian music scholar
Wilhelm von Bode
German art critic
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Lawrence H. Summers
American economist and educator
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect