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Froelich Rainey
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Froelich Gladstone Rainey (June 18, 1907 – October 11, 1992) was an American anthropologist and Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology from 1947 to 1977. Under his leadership, the Penn Museum announced the Pennsylvania Declaration, ending the purchase system of acquiring antiquities and artifacts that had, in practice, encouraged looting from historical sites.
In the early 1950s, Rainey also devised and hosted the popular "What in the World?" television gameshow, which highlighted the museum's collections and involved notable scholars and celebrities of the day. In 1975, in recognition of his role at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he had served as the university's first professor of anthropology from 1935 to 1942, Rainey's Cabin on the campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, Rainey grew up in eastern Montana, where he worked as a farm hand for the Rainey Brothers Ranch, otherwise known as the "R-Lazy-B". He began his career in education teaching English in the Philippines, his destination after searching for opportunities after the onset of the Great Depression. He attended Yale University, earning a doctoral degree.
Rainey taught at the University of Alaska (1935–1942), specializing in Alaskan prehistory. With the approval of the university, he constructed a home on the campus for his family. Rainey-Skarland cabin, as it is now known, served both as the Rainey family home and a hub for the university's burgeoning Department of Anthropology. The cabin was the subject of a refurbishing project in 2006, led by Professor Craig Gerlach of the anthropology department. During the Second World War, he worked for the United States Board of Economic Warfare. As the war began he assigned as director of the U.S. Quinine Mission in Ecuador. In 1944 he was assigned to Robert Murphy's staff for the Allied Control Commission for Occupied Germany, part of the Foreign Services. After the war he was appointed U.S.
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