Arthur W. Clime photographs of Clarence B. Moore's Ouachita River expedition
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2000-78, NAA Photo Lot 98-41
name: label: Creator
content: Clime, Arthur W.
label: Names
content: Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936
place: label: Place
content: Ouachita River (Ark. and La.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
label: Topic
content: River boats
label: Topic
content: Mounds
creator: label: Creator
content: Clime, Arthur W.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936) was a wealthy amateur archaeologist from Philadelphia. He excavated over 850 archeological sites (mostly burial mounds) on or near the shores of rivers of the American southeast between 1891 and 1918, which he accessed with his steam-powered paddleboat, the Gopher of Philadelphia. In November 1908, and from January-April 1909, Moore and his expedition party explored the Oachita Valley in northeastern Louisiana and southeastern Arkansas. He described this expedition in his report, "Antiquities of the Ouachita Valley," published in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 14.

Arthur W. Clime (1885-1962) worked as general assistant to Clarence Moore from 1906-1910, joining him for excavations on the Ouachita and Mississippi Rivers and ancient cemeteries of Arkansas and Mississippi.  While working with Moore, Clime collected animal specimens and examples of modern stonework, which he donated to the Zoological Society of Philadelphia and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.  Shortly after finishing his work with Moore, Arthur Clime moved to Washington, D.C. with his new wife, Louise B. Wollersheim.  There, he worked as secretary and laboratory assistant for Alexander Graham Bell at his Volta Bureau, conducting research on deafness.  In 1917, he began working for the Federal government, later becoming an inspector and then manager of public buildings and parks with the Public Buildings Service (part of the General Services Administration).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 copy print
label: Extent
content: 23 prints (silver gelatin (including some enlargements))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1908-1909
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Three enlargements (previously Photo Lot 98-41) transferred from John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology, which received the photographs as part of a book donation from Celia Clime, Arthur Clime's widow. Celia Clime donated twenty-two additional prints directly to the National Anthropological Archives in September 2000.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2000-78
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Arthur W. Clime during Clarence B. Moore's expedition on the Ouachita River, which include images of excavations, archeological crew, mounds, and Moore's riverboat, the Gopher of Philadelphia. Individuals depicted in the photographs include Clime, as well as Clarence B. Moore, his principal assistant Milo Miller, and captain of the Gopher riverboat, Josiah S. Raybon. The collection also includes a copy print of a studio portrait of Clime, made at a later date than the other photographs.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 98-41 have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 2000-78. These are enlargements of photographs were also made by Arthur Clime and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: A photograph in a frame, collected by Clime, held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 98-58.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Reports and photographs from Moore's expeditions held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 2400, Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 78, Photo Lot 81P, records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Division of Archeology's Reference File.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Moore held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Ales Hrdlicka Papers, Army Medical Museum records concerning skeletal material transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology records, and records relating to the investigation of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Department of Anthropology and the National Museum of the American Indian hold artifacts collected by Moore.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections holds the Clarence Bloomfield Moore collection of field notebooks and other material.