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Margaret Matches Newman papers, 1927-1930 (bulk) 1919-1959 (inclusive)

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1.25 linear feet

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The Margaret Matches Newman collection documents Newman's travels to Papua New Guinea and her subsequent career as an author, most notably of the book . Materials include some correspondence, a diary, personal snapshots, and memorabilia.

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Jane C. Goodale papers, 1948-1960 (inclusive)

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2.0 linear foot

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Jane Carter Goodale was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1926 to a prominent family. She attended Radcliffe College initially to begin to study for a medical degree. She was influenced by Carleton S. Coon to study Anthropology and attained both her B.A. and M.A. from Radcliffe in that field. In preparation for her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, Goodale did ethnographic research among the Tiwi of Melville Island. Her later publication of Tiwi Wives(1971) was the first study of the role of women in a community in Oceania. Goodale began her teaching career at Bryn Mawr College as a part-time instructor in 1959. She would become a full Professor in the deaprtment of Anthropology in 1975. In addition, she worked as a research associate for the Oceania Section of the University Museum from 1961 to 1982. She also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College, Columbia University. The Jane C. Goodale papers represent some of her drawings and...(see more)

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Charles H. Stephens Papers, 1891-1916 (bulk) 1876-1964 (inclusive)

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2.8 linear feet

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Charles Hallowell Stephens (1855-1931), followed several careers; illustrator, art teacher, collector of American Indian artifacts, and amateur anthropologist. Born and raised in Philadelphia he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts studying under the tutelage of Thomas Eakins. The importance of Stephens for the Penn Museum resides in his extensive collection of Native American artifacts that was estimated to have about 2000 items, about 1700 of which were acquired by the Penn Museum in 1945. The collection is divided into eight series: Correspondence, Blackfoot, Sioux, Collection Materials, Correspondence on Data, Visual Material, American Pageant Association, and Photographs.

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Daniel Garrison Brinton Collection, 1868-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:

1.2 linear foot (the collection consists of thirteen folders housed in two archival boxes.)

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Daniel Garrison Brinton is considered one of the founders of modern American Anthropology. He was also the first to hold a professorship in Archaeology in the United States. His library, which includes the Carl Hermann Berendt collection of manuscripts in the indigenous languages of Mexico and Central America, is considered the core of the University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Library. Among the collection are 4515 items; rare illustrations, contemporary photographs, portraits of individual authors, and texts in Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Brinton gathered his information from archival and library studies and did not participate in any archaeological expeditions. This small collection, attributed to Brinton by J. Alden Mason of the University Museum, consists of thirteen folders. Two contain linguistic notes on the Maya languages and another two contain drawings of pottery, objects, sites, and maps of Maya regions, primarily in Mexico. Some of the drawings are believed...(see more)

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Henry L. Smith collection of Augustus Le Plongeon correspondence, 1906-1907 (bulk) 1906-1945 (inclusive)

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0.05 linear foot (the collection consists of one folder of material with thirteen letters, an article, a program, and the signature of henry l. smith.)

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The Henry L. Smith collection of Augustus Le Plongeon correspondence documents the letters received by Henry L. Smith from the photographer, antiquarian, and amateur archaeologist, Augustus Le Plongeon in 1906 and 1907. Le Plongeon is most noted for his photographs in the Northern Yucatan during travels with his wife, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, during a thirteen year period from 1873 to 1885. These photographs depict ancient ruins and inscriptions some of which were later damaged or destroyed. The collection consists of one folder of thirteen letters from Le Plongeon, and two additional pieces of information sent to Henry L. Smith, an article from Appleton's Booklovers Magazine and a brochure from the Lowell Institute. H. L. Smith's signature is found on a label for the letters.

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George Byron Gordon Central America expedition records, 1893-1924 (bulk) 1893-1956 (inclusive)

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0.35 linear foot

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George Byron Gordon led expeditions to Copan at the end of the nineteenth century and, with his brother MacLaren Gordon, to Alaska in 1905 and 1907. As Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and as Director of the Museum, Gordon was first to conduct regular lectures to undergraduate and graduate students in Anthropology and oversaw one of the the largest periods of Museum growth. The G.B. Gordon Central America collection includes diaries, surveying notes, reports and stories from the Copan Expeditions and the Yucatan Expedition in 1910, original stories, articles, and book reviews written by Dr. Gordon, communication with The British Museum about Maya site excavation, Gordon's introductions composed for speakers for the Saturday Afternoon Lecture Series, speeches to professional organizations, and class lectures.

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Aerial Expedition, Guatemala and Mexico, 1930, 1929-1948 (inclusive) 1930-1931 (bulk)

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1.5 linear feet

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The Penn Museum embarked on an aerial expedition from December 3rd to December 13th, 1930, to uncover ancient sites in multiple areas of Guatemala and Mexico. The members of the expedition were Percy Madeira (Director), John Alden Mason (Archaeologist), Gregory Mason (Field Leader) [no relation to John Alden Mason], Robert A. Smith (Photographer, Fairchild Aerial Survey Company of New York), Frank B. Ormsbee (Chief Pilot), and William Carey (Co-Pilot/Radio Operator/Recorder). The team chartered a Sikorsky amphibian biplane from the Pan-American Airways Company in Miami, Florida and navigated with the aid of Blom-Ricketson-Spinden maps, U.S. Navy charts of the coastal areas, and available Mexican government maps. The team also referred to the 1929 Lindbergh-Carnegie Institute Flight documented by Oliver Ricketson and A.V. Kidder in "An Archeological Reconnaissance by Air in Central America" published in the Geographical Review (New York, April 1930) and Dr. Thomas Gann's Maya...(see more)

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Charles Walter Agard Collection, 1900-1913 (inclusive)

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0.4 linear feet

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Charles Walter Agard was born in 1848, in Hartford, Connecticut, but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a businessman and amateur historian in New Bedford, Massachusetts. During the early 1900s, until his death to 1913, Agard wrote nearly one hundred unpublished essays about different aspects of whaling, the slave trade, privateering, local religious disputes and other subjects, as well as several biographical sketches. These writings together are known as the "Spun Yarn Series," and were based on conversations with whaling captains and on his own research. The Charles Walter Agard Collection is housed in one manuscript box.

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff Papers, 1944-1958 (inclusive)

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0.75 linear feet

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Born in Russia in 1909, Tatiana Proskouriakoff came to the United States in 1916. She received a BS degree in Architecture from Penn State University in 1930. Because of the lack of architecture jobs during the Depression, she enrolled in graduate studies in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Through her volunteer archaeological drawings at the University Museum, she was invited by Linton Satterthwaite to participate in two seasons of field work at the Maya site of Piedras Negras, starting what became a brilliant career in Maya scholarship. Proskouriakoff produced a series of reconstructive drawings depicting ancient Mayan cities, which were published as “An Album of Maya Architecture.” She secured positions at the Carnegie Institute of Washington under Sylvanus Morley and at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Her painstakingly detailed studies of Mayan glyphs became a turning point in the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing. She died in 1985 as one of a...(see more)

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Hiram M. Hiller Personal Papers, 1895-1907 (inclusive)

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0.4 linear foot

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Hiram Milliken Hiller, Jr. was born in 1867 in Kahoka, Missouri to Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller and Sarah Bell Hiller. He graduated from Parson’s College, Iowa, in 1887 and from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1891. In 1895, he made the first of a series of voyages to the East with Furness and Harrison. From 1895-1901, Hiller visited Borneo, Japan, Sri Lanka, Siberia, and other locations in Asia. Hiller conducted ethnographical studies of the Dayaks of Borneo, the Nagas of Assam, India, and the Ainu of Japan. These letters span the period from October 1895 to May 1907, with the years 1896-1902 the most significantly represented. Most of them are from Hiram Hiller, Jr. to family members in Kahoka, particularly his mother Sarah and his sister Lida Hiller (Lapsley).

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