National Anthropological Archives

MS 1770 Datos Para la Formacion de un Diccionario Geografico Etimologico de la America Central

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS1770
Creators:
Padilla, José Mariano, 1810-1869
Dates:
before 1868
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
98 Pages
2 Volumes
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Both volumes are bound notebooks with strips of paper pasted to each page, in the form of a scrapbook. It is a collection of Indian place names of Central America. A biographical sketch of Dr Padilla, published after his death, and a newspaper article concerning his work are also included in the first volume.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Compiled ca. 1906.

Administration

Custodial History
The strips of paper were written and collected by Padilla in the 1850s and 1860s while he was president of the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics. Purchased from Alice W. Kurtz, September 11, 1919.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 1770, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 1770

Local Note

Local Note
typescript and autograph document


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Biography -- Padilla, Don Jose Mariano Dr. Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Names, place -- Central America Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Newsclippings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Central America Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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