Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.134A
- Creators:
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Osborne, Douglas (probable collector and author)
- Dates:
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circa 1964
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Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs and papers documenting the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project in Mesa Verde National Park. The photographs depict collection and analysis of specimens, site excavation and stabilization, archeological surveying, and other activites and people associated with the project. The collection also includes the project's annual report to the National Geographic Society for 1964; the report includes status of ancillary studies, a budget report, and additional photographs documenting the project.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Funded by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society, the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project excavated 15 sites on Wetherill Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park from 1958 to 1963. Under the supervision of Douglas Osborne, the project included archeologists Alden C. Hayes, George S. Cattanach, Arthur H. Rohn Jr., J. Anthony Pomeroy, and advisors Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Emil W. Haury, J. O. Bew, and Robert H. Lister. The project photographer was Fred E. Mang Jr., who arrived in 1961.
Administration
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo Lot 134A, Photographs and report on the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Douglas Osborne is held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4846 and the Jesse Logan Nusbaum Papers, Donald Jayne Lehmer Papers, and Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers.
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Archeological research series. Wetherill Mesa excavations
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Photographs
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Mang, Fred E., Jr. (probable photographer)
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Hayes, Alden C.
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Erdman, James A.
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Cattanach, George S.
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Osborne, Carolyn M.
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Nichols, Robert F.
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National Geographic Society (U.S.) (possible collector)
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Welsh, Stanley L.
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United States. National Park Service (possible collector)
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Rohn, Arthur H., 1929-
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Wheeler, Richard Page
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Swannack, Jervis D.
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