Photographs and report on the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 134A
name: label: Creator
content: Osborne, Douglas (probable collector and author)
label: Names
content: National Geographic Society (U.S.) (possible collector)
label: Names
content: United States. National Park Service (possible collector)
label: Depicted
content: Cattanach, George S.
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content: Erdman, James A.
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content: Hayes, Alden C.
label: Names
content: Mang, Fred E., Jr. (probable photographer)
label: Depicted
content: Nichols, Robert F.
label: Depicted
content: Osborne, Carolyn M.
label: Depicted
content: Rohn, Arthur H., 1929-
label: Depicted
content: Swannack, Jervis D.
label: Depicted
content: Welsh, Stanley L.
label: Depicted
content: Wheeler, Richard Page
title: label: Topic
content: Archeological research series. Wetherill Mesa excavations
creator: label: Creator
content: Osborne, Douglas (probable collector and author)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Funded by the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society, the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project excavated 15 sites on Wetherill Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park from 1958 to 1963.  Under the supervision of Douglas Osborne, the project included archeologists Alden C. Hayes, George S. Cattanach, Arthur H. Rohn Jr., J. Anthony Pomeroy, and advisors Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Emil W. Haury, J. O. Bew, and Robert H. Lister.  The project photographer was Fred E. Mang Jr., who arrived in 1961.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 61 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 1 Volume (report)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.134A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Prints
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content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs and papers documenting the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project in Mesa Verde National Park.  The photographs depict collection and analysis of specimens, site excavation and stabilization, archeological surveying, and other activites and people associated with the project.  The collection also includes the project's annual report to the National Geographic Society for 1964; the report includes status of ancillary studies, a budget report, and additional photographs documenting the project.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Douglas Osborne is held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4846 and the Jesse Logan Nusbaum Papers, Donald Jayne Lehmer Papers, and Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers.