Lantern slides of Brazil, Cuba, and Costa Rica
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1919-1926
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137 lantern slides
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.142
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs, probably made by a tourist, documenting architecture and city scenes in Havana, Cuba (1919); San Jose and Port Simon, Costa Rica (1926); and Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Some images depict agriculture and religious subjects, including those of an experimental agriculture station in Cuba, the coffee industry in Brazil, and a J...
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Balser S., Carlos
Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
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May 10, 1956
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1 Page
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4591
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National Anthropological Archives
Addressed to M. W. Stirling, concerning tripod metates of Costa Rica, inclosing newsclipping and reprint from American Antiquity, with added ink sketch.
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Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Stirling, Marion W.
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February 23-May, 15, 1964
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4840
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes report (56 pages); list of plates (56 pages); electrostatic copy of field journal (42 pages); field notebook (38 pages) sketch maps, "Archeological areas worked by the expedition" and "Rough sketch map of Williamsburg area" (2 pages); and 164 photos with 2 pages of notes. Concerns Williamsburg, Palmar (Diquis Delta), La Peninsula, and Baga...
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MacDonald, Donald F. (Donald Francis), 1875-1942
- Dates:
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1911-1916
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-133
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of field notes of Donald F. MacDonald, geologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and professor of geology. MacDonald was appointed by the Costa Rica-Panama Boundary Commission as geologist during the construction of the Panama Canal, 1911-1913. Some of these field notes were written in conjunction with ...
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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
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undated
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2533
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes place name notes, unarranged; 200-300 cards highly miscellaneous English-Indian vocabulary, few words of many different North American Indian languages on a variety of subjects, including Indian personal names. Section marked"Costa Rica," and another, "Maya."
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Pittier, Henri, 1857-1950
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circa 1903-1904
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1 page (Sheet music :)
128 prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.128
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs of Guatuso Indians and activities including pottery making, as well as images of artifacts, mainly Indian whistles from the collections of the National Museum in San Jose. A sheet of music accompanies the photographs.
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Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941
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circa 1895
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1 letter
29 mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.170
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The bulk of the collection consists of photographs documenting Indians of Central America, including Cheripo, Guatuso, Talamanca, and Guatemala Indians. Additional photographs document stone artifacts found at grave sites, Panamanian women, people in Bogata, and a museum in San Jose, Costa Rica. The photographs may have been collected by Robert Th...
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McCrady, Roland A., 1892-
Forbes, Janice McCrady
McCrady, Allen
McCrady, James Hamilton, 1853-1929
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1906
1913
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0710
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a photograph album containing photoprints of the construction of the Panama Canal during a trip to Latin America (1913), and photographs of other Caribbean localities where McCrady stopped while on his ship Prinz Joachim. Also 104 photoprints of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, 1906. the San Francisco earthqua...
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Carriker, Melbourne Armstrong, 1879-1965
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circa 1900-1969, 2000
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-254
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting the travels and family of Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, ornithologist and entomologist specializing in bird lice. His association with the Smithsonian Institution began in 1940, when he collected birds in Vera Cruz, Mexico, for the United States National Museum (USNM). From 1941 to 1952, Carr...
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Posey, Carl A.
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1945-1966
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1.35 Cubic Feet (3 legal document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2000.0023
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of airport reports and plans, mostly written by Posey, for the following countries: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador, Colombia, Honduras, Haiti, Trinidad, British Guiana, Spain, Lebanon and Afghanistan.