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Stephen B. Luce Mediterranean Section records, 1915-1920 (inclusive)

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0.04 linear foot

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Stephen B. Luce was a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1909. He completed his Ph.D. in 1913 also at Harvard. In addition to his curatorship at Penn, Luce was an Assistant Director at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1928 and 1930. He was affiliated with the Fogg Museum at Harvard in the 1930s and served as Editor in charge of the American Journal of Archaeology from 1938 to 1941. The Luce folders comprise two series. Series 1 includes general correspondence related to the museum and to his research and Series 2 includes correspondence with art dealers related to specific collections

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William C. Farabee American Section records, 1912-1925 (bulk) 1912-1936 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear foot

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William Curtis Farabee was a Harvard educated geneticist and ethnologist who served the Penn Museum as a researcher and curator. During his expeditions to South America, he detailed the cultural diversity of the Arawak and Carib peoples. Farabee's time as curator of the American Section of the museum resulted in five folders of correspondence and notes dating mostly from 1915 to 1925.

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Clarence S. Fisher papers, 1911-1969 (inclusive)

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1.6 linear feet

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Clarence S. Fisher was born in Philadelphia in 1876 and attended the University of Pennsylvania, attaining a degree in architecture in 1897 but devoted his entire life to archaeology. His first archaeology field experience was as the architect for the initial Babylonian expedition to Nippur from 1898 to 1900. This was followed by a research fellowship in Babylonian archaeology at the University Museum. Fisher worked tirelessly, often at two sites at the same time, affecting his health. During the excavation at Dendereh, Fisher also worked at the Giza and Memphis sites. In addition to his own sites, Fisher served as scientific advisor for the first year of the Elihu Grant Beth Shemesh expedition sponsored by Haverford College in 1928. The collection consists of two archival boxes of communications with the museum, Egyptian officials, donor Eckley B. Coxe, Jr. and his colleagues in the field.

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Clarence S. Fisher Memphis Expedition records, 1915-1923 (bulk) 1915-1969 (inclusive)

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7.0 linear foot

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Clarence S. Fisher was born in Philadelphia in 1876 and attended the University of Pennsylvania, attaining a degree in architecture in 1897 but devoting his entire life to archaeology. His first archaeology field experience was as the architect for the initial Babylonian expedition to Nippur from 1898 to 1900. This was followed by a research fellowship in Babylonian archaeology at the University Museum. Fisher also gained experience as an assistant to Harvard Archaeologist, George Andrew Reisner in Egypt and Samaria. From Reisner, Fisher learned archaeological techniques and the methods of meticulous record keeping he would use in his later work. Fisher was appointed a curator of the Egyptian section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum by George B. Gordon in 1914. He spent the next nine years in the field collecting data in Dendereh, Giza, Memphis, and Dra Abu el-Naga. The Clarence S. Fisher Memphis excavation records consist of six archival boxes of correspondence, notes,...(see more)

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Meydum, Egypt expedition records, 1929-1933 (inclusive)

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5.6 linear feet

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Alan Rowe, born in Hornchurch, Essex, England in 1891, spent his life not only in his homeland but in Australia, Egypt, Palestine and Libya in pursuit of the study of Egyptology. He excavated with C.S. Fisher at Beth Shan and George Reisner at Giza before serving as Field Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Expedition to Meydum, Egypt. The Meydum, Egypt Expedition records consist of eight archival boxes of records plus photographs and plans housed separately. The object registers are placed with the oversized materials.

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John Henry Haynes Collection, 1881-1916 (inclusive)

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3 linear feet

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John Henry Haynes (1849–1910) was an American archaeologist and photographer. His main body of work consists of his pioneering archaeological photography at Nippur, in modern Iraq, 1889-1900. The Haynes collection described here are records acquired from Haynes' family and descendants that relate to expeditions and photography before he joined the Penn Museum's Nippur Expedition, including excavations at Assos and travels in Turkey, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, the Wolfe Expedition to Mesopotamia, and photographs of Istanbul, Turkey.

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Nippur, Iraq Expedition records, 1881-1900 (inclusive)

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20 linear feet

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In 1887, the University of Pennsylvania agreed to sponsor an expedition to the Near East. The idea was conceived by Reverend John Punnett Peters, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Hebrew. Nippur was a pre-Biblical city-state located in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates, the area believed to be the "cradle of civilization." The museum conducted four expeditions between 1889 and 1898. The textual records for Nippur consist of 20 linear feet of files are arranged by Expedition (I, II, III, IV), as well as publications, maps and drawings. The documents for each expedition are separated according to type: Field Notes, Reports and Narratives, Correspondence, Financial Records.

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Gibeon expedition records, 1956-1964 (inclusive)

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6.0 linear feet

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James Pritchard, first Curator of Biblical Archaeology, Professor of Religious Thought, Associate Director (1967-1976), and Director (1976-1977) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, conducted his primary fieldwork in three sites in the Near East. Of these, locating the site of Ancient Gibeon (El-Jib) in Jordan was perhaps Pritchard’s most notable accomplishment. He and his team conducted five seasons of fieldwork here, discovering three prominent architectural features: a tunnel, pool, and the city wall. The archival records for these excavations consist six linear feet of field notes, reports, a field diary, correspondence, object catalogues, drawings, photographs and a photographic catalogue, an annotated map, publication notes, and financial records.

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Sarepta (Sarafand), Lebanon, 1969-1976 (inclusive)

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22.0 linear feet

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Erich Friedrich Schmidt Personal Papers, 1912-1930 (inclusive) 1927-1930 (bulk)

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0.1 linear feet

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Records of archaeologist Erich F. Schmidt (1897-1964) not relating to his work in Iran, including personal documents, and records from his excavations in Arizona (for the American Museum of Natural History) and at Alishar Huyuk, Turkey (for the Oriental Institute).

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