Material Relating to Modes of Travel and Transportation
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
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content: Otis Tufton Mason papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1884-1900
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1973-23, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged by type of material or by topic.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes unbound notebooks, reprints, clipped articles published in newspapers and journals, photographs, drawings, notes, and correspondence, all pertaining to modes of travel and transportation. Some of the notes and drawings are of United States National Museum specimens, prepared for publication. Three of the above-mentioned notebooks, arranged by topic and type of object, form a slipnote catalogue of United States National Museum specimens (including cat. #562-169,047) with annotations and topical and bibiographic notes. A fourth notebook contains material on "Pre-Columbian Watercraft," including a manuscript on "Aboriginal American Canoes." Three folders contain Mason's unbound notebooks arranged loosely by subject, consisting of extracts from various publications, notes, illustrations, and scattered correspondence. Correspondents include O. P. Cook, John Murdock, Frederick Remington, J. Chester Morris, Ira M. Price, G. H. Wallace, and H. I. Smith. These three folders of notes are similar in content and arrangement to material found in the Department of Anthropology records' Manuscript and Pamphlet File.