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National Anthropological Archives
MS 1770 Datos Para la Formacion de un Diccionario Geografico Etimologico de la America Central
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1770
- Creators:
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Padilla, José Mariano, 1810-1869
- Dates:
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before 1868
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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98 Pages2 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
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 1770
Local Note
Local Note
typescript and autograph document
Keywords
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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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