National Anthropological Archives

MS 7172 An Ancient argillite quarry and Indian village site on the Delaware

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS7172
Creators:
Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
28 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
The material consists of an autographed reprint or proof of an article by Mercer together with twelve photographs. There are also four pages of notes made from the article in the hand of Otis Tufton Mason. Most of the material concerns a site worked by Mercer at Gaddis Run in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Two photographs show specimens from Trenton, New Jersey, in the C. C. Abbott collection at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
Smithsonian Libraries transfer #d May 22, 1973

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 7172, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gaddis Run (Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania) -- Archeology Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Trenton (New Jersey) -- Archeology Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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