MS 2431 Archaeological Notes, sketches, and letters
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2431
name: label: Creator
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
label: Correspondent
content: Mitchell, Augustus
label: Addressee
content: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
label: Creator
content: Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
label: Creator
content: Trowbridge, David
label: Names
content: Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins, 1806-1881
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Archeology
topic: label: Topic
content: Archeology -- Potomac River
label: Topic
content: New York (State) -- Waterburgh -- Archeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
label: Correspondent
content: Mitchell, Augustus
label: Addressee
content: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
label: Creator
content: Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
label: Creator
content: Trowbridge, David
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2431
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Maps
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Maps
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials from various persons used by O. T. Mason in Smithsonian Annual Reports, 1874 - 1879 & 1881 - 1883.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 1) Most have been published (although not necessarily verbatim). unpublished letters and maps include: Mitchell, Augustus to Joseph Henry, August 24, 1873. "Crude Thoughts on American Indians." Discusses visit of P. Pitchlynn to author at Portland, Me., 1846. 2) Bruff. J. Goldsborough to Joseph Henry, February 10, 1873. concerning human face carved on rock near Chain Bridge, Potomac River. 3) Trowbridge, David, December 14, 1876 "Ancient Fort and Burial Ground". with map (area of Waterburgh, New York).