Nineteenth Century Collectors
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007
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content: Gordon Davis Gibson papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.4 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936 - 2007
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1984-13, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains Gibson's research on 19th century collectors of the African collections at the Smithsonian. Among the collectors he researched are Herbert Ward, Samuel P. Verner, Richard Dorsey Mohun, Willard P. Tisdel, Emory Taunt, and Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry. Materials in the series include accession notes, bibliographic sources, copies of archival materials at the National Anthropological Archives and other archives, drafts of his paper on Verner, and a copy of Herbert Ward's book Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. 

See Series 17. Microfilm for more source materials on the 19th century collectors.