Postcards of Japan collected by Betty Meggers
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 82-73A
name: label: Collector
content: Meggers, Betty Jane
topic: label: Topic
content: Gardens -- Japan
creator: label: Collector
content: Meggers, Betty Jane
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Betty Jane Meggers (1921-2012) was an archeologist of South America and the Caribbean. At the age of sixteen, she started working at the Smithsonian Institution, assisting in the restoration of pottery from New Mexico. She graduated from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan and received her PhD from Columbia University in 1952. She conducted fieldwork and published findings both individually and with her husband, Clifford Evans. Meggers had met Evans while he was a fellow archeology graduate student at Columbia and she later assisted him after his appointment as a curator in the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Anthropology.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 photographic postcards
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1933
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The postcards were found in the Anthropology Library, probably donated by Meggers. They were transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by Paul Taylor, 1982.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.82-73A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Collection of two postcards, including a hand-tinted image of two Japanese women bowing to one another and an image of the "Hakurin-tei" pavillion, an example of Korean Buddhist-style architecture, at Fujiyama Garden, Shirongane, Shiba district, Tokyo. The postcards were sent to Betty Meggers in Washington, DC, circa 1933.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Japanese postcards can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97, Photo Lot 86-37, and Photo Lot 89-16.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Museum of American History Archives Center and Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives also hold Japanese postcards.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of Betty Meggers can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 80-17, Photo Lot 83-15, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Meggers can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7525 and the papers of Clifford Evans, John Joseph Honigmann, William Duncan Strong, John Victor Murra, Albert Clanton Spaulding, Frank Maryl Setzler, and John Lawrence Angel.