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MS 7147 Pictorial map of the Takanawa area in the Shiba, Mita, and Nihombashi Districts, Edo
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Creators:
Keizan, fl 1780sJapanese (Keizan Chikyō)
Dates:
1849
Size:
1 Page (71.5 cm x 35 cm)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7147
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The document is a street map oriented to the west. It is colored to identify the sea, temples and shrines, fields, and the houses of daimyo. The latter are also identified by family crests.

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Digitized Content MS 2005-10 Note in the Loma script
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Creators:
Seazea, Akoi, 1920?-1986
Jallah, Reuben Mayango Forkpah, 1959-2002
Leopold, Robert Selig
Dates:
undated
Size:
1 Page
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2005-10
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Untranslated note written in the indigenous Loma script of Liberia.

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Digitized Content Henry Romeike Clipping Scrapbook
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Creators:
Romeike, Henry, 1855-1903
Dates:
1856-1916
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0338
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists of one scrapbook of clippings documenting events covered in British and American newspapers from 1856-1916.

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MS 7155 Detailed map of the newly opened [harbour] of Yokohama
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Creators:
Hōdō Takashima, Japanese
Tsuyao Segawa, Japanese
Dates:
1859
Size:
1 Page (51 cm x 53 cm)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7155
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The document is an illustrated road map. It shows a "black ship" in the harbor and other types of watercraft. Colors indicate dwellings, fields, shrines, temples, and adjacent villages. An English label includes a brief note about Yokohama.

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MS 7176 Pictorial map of Shimoda
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Creators:
ANONYMOUS
Dates:
1920s-1930s?
Size:
1 Sheet (21.5x14.5 cm)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7176
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The map shows a bird's-eye view of the city and its surroundings--the city as a grid of streets and the environs as hills, bay, and so forth. Identified and/or illustrated are various historical and scenic points of interest, including the anchoring spot for the blackships of European nations and the spot where Perry landed. An English caption emph...

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MS 7180 Pictorial map of Kyoto
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Creators:
Kōto shorin
Take no hara Yoshibei
Dates:
1864
Size:
1 Sheet (60x90 cm with added piece, 12x39 cm)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7180
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The map includes historical and geographical features of Kyoto, including an inset that lists distances from Nijō Obashk (bridge) to various points of interest. Identified with colors are temples, shirines, palaces, castle remains, streets, shopes, and so forth.

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Digitized Content MS 1072 Viti Levu vocabulary
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Creators:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Semi, Fijian, 1876
Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
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Dates:
undated
Size:
20 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1072
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Viti Levu vocabulary, a mountain dialect of the Fiji Islands. Obtained from Semi in New York City in January 1876. This is in a parallel column with the dialects of the Viti Islands, extracted from Horatio Hale's Ethnology and Philology of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, Philadelphia, 1846.

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Digitized Content MS 3393 Eskimo syllabic text collected by Truman Michelson at Great Whale River
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Dates:
1935 summer
Size:
7 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3393
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Notebook containing story by Cookie, an Inuit man, handwritten in Inuit syllabary. The story, collected by Truman Michelson at Great Whale River in Quebec, Canada, is of Tunnies, a brother and sister that lived with the Inuit.

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Digitized Content MS 2795 Truman Michelson note that Beothuk is not extinct with contact information of authority on subject
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Dates:
undated
Size:
1 Page
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2795
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Typed note stating that Beothuk is not extinct, with the contact information of Dr. H. Addy, the "best authority on them." It appears that this note may have been extracted from a 1914 letter from Lousiana. Handwritten by Truman Michelson at the bottom of the slip of paper is a Cree, Delaware, and Ojibwa cognate set and "Rev. W.C. Gaynor of St. Ben...

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MS 3551 Archaeological reports
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Creators:
Dondelinger, Norman W.
Tatum, Robert M.
Hurst, Clarence Thomas, 1895-1949
Dates:
1942-1945
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3551
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Preliminary survey of sites in Las Animas County, Colorado. Also Report on completion of work in Tabeguache Cave by C.T. Hurst, Museum of Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. Preliminary work in Tabeguache Cave II, by C.T. Hurst, Western State College of Colorado, Gunnison. 1943 Excavation in Cave II, Tabeguache Canyon, Montrose County, Color...

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