MS 1770 Datos Para la Formacion de un Diccionario Geografico Etimologico de la America Central
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1770
label: Local Note
content: typescript and autograph document
name: label: Creator
content: Padilla, José Mariano, 1810-1869
topic: label: Topic
content: Biography -- Padilla, Don Jose Mariano Dr.
label: Topic
content: Names, place -- Central America
label: Topic
content: Central America
creator: label: Creator
content: Padilla, José Mariano, 1810-1869
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Compiled ca. 1906.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 98 Pages
label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes
unitdate: label: Date
content: before 1868
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The strips of paper were written and collected by Padilla in the 1850s and 1860s while he was president of the Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics. Purchased from Alice W. Kurtz, September 11, 1919.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1770
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Newsclippings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Newsclippings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Both volumes are bound notebooks with strips of paper pasted to each page, in the form of a scrapbook. It is a collection of Indian place names of Central America. A biographical sketch of Dr Padilla, published after his death, and a newspaper article concerning his work are also included in the first volume.