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Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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1840s
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 84-179
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of one volume, F. Andrew Michaux, The North American Sylva (1817), which was most likely transcribed by Spencer Fullerton Baird and was one of the first serious surveys of American trees.
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Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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undated
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4267
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes sketches and portion of letter to Secretary Baird, Smithsonian Institution.
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Schumacher, Paul J. F.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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December 8, 1874-February 26, 1877
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1 Item (ca. 1 inch)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7132
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National Anthropological Archives
Concern Schumacher's collections for the Smithsonian along the coasts of California, including the channel Islands, and Oregon. Much concerns payments and shipments. Some references to the work of Stephen Bowers, Henry C. Yarrow, and others.
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Le Baron, J. Francis
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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1882 December 2
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6 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS599
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
With list of Indian words and notes. Contains 39 terms.
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Fischer, Fritz Dr.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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ca. October, 1886
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3 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4049
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Relative to various caves in the State of Cahahuita, Mexico. Written in ink, the writing being somewhat faint. A typed copy is attached to the translation.
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Faris, Lafayette
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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September 3, 1880
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3 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3832
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Comments on similarity of myth of So-kuswai-un-ants (published by Powell in Report of Exploration of Colorado River) and Egyptian tradition reported by Herodotus.
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Smithsonian Institution Secretary
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Ca. 1880-1883
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1 Item (sheaf )
1 Item (letter-press copy book )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4677
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The copies on loose sheets apparently cover correspondence with Cushing only. Direct copies made from some of these same letters also appear in the copy book, which has, in addition, many copies of Baird-Powell correspondence about B.A.E. matters.
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Swan, James G., 1818-1900
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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1878
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9 pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1215
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Letters concern tribes of the Northwest Coast. March 5 Letter to Professor S. F. Baird. Port Townsend [Washington Territory] 2 pages. April 9 Letter to Professor S. F. Baird. Port Townsend [Washington Territory] 3 pages. May 14 Letter to Major J. W. Powell. Port Townsend [Washington Territory]. 1 page. June 4 Letter to Major J. W. Powell. Port Town...
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Reid, George W.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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March, 1881
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6 Pages
4 Drawings
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2406
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Letter "relative to the deposits of Indian relics and mineral localities of the State...." Includes descriptions of aboriginal quartz found on Almonds Creek below Richmond, and Indian camps and burial sites and mines on the James River from Richmond to Lynchburg. Also sketches of six steatite bowls and one yoke-shaped article of steatite found at T...
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Reid, Elizabeth B.
Bowers, Stephen, 1832-1907
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
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undated
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219 Items (ca. pages ca. 219 pages)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7542
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Also includes "a summary of correspondence between Rev Stephen Bowers and Prof. S.F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institution relative to the collection of material."