Donald Jayne Lehmer papers
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content: Lehmer, Donald Jayne, 1918-1975
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content: River Basin Surveys
place: label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Lehmer, Donald Jayne, 1918-1975
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content: Donald Jayne Lehmer papers
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content: Chronology:

October 9, 1918 -- Born in Omaha, Nebraska

1935-1937 -- Undergraduate, University of New Mexico

1938-1939 -- Excavation supervisor, La Junta de los Rios Expedition at Presidio, Texas (sponsored by Sul Rose College, Museum of New Mexico, and Works Project Administration)

1940 -- B.A., University of Arizona

1940-1942 -- Research Archaeologist, Museum of New Mexico

1940 & 1941 (summers) -- Director, Mesilla Valley Expedition, Las Cruces, New Mexico (sponsored by the Museum of New Mexico and the Arizona State Museum)

1941-1942 -- Assistant Curator for Branch Museums, Museum of New Mexico

1942-1946 -- Private U.S. Army

1946-1948 -- Graduate School, University of Chicago while also working for the Oriental Institute

1948 -- M.A., University of Chicago Dig foreman, University of Arizona Point of Pines Field School, San Carlos, Arizona The Jornada Branch of the Mogollon

1949 -- Director, Mexican (Sonora) Archaeological Expedition (Sponsored by the Chicago Natural History Museum, the University of Chicago, and the University of Arizona)

1949-1950 -- Graduate School, Harvard University

1950-1951 -- Archaeologist, Bureau of American Ethnology River Basin Surveys, Lincoln, Nebraska

1950 -- Dodd Site, Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota

1951 -- Tenkiller Reservoir, Oklahoma

1952-1953 -- Research Archaeologist, Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1952 -- Field Director, University Archaeological Field School, Harlem Co., Nebraska Ph.D., Harvard University

1953 -- Archaeologist, El Paso Natural Gas Company Pipeline Project

1953-1954 -- Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle

1954 -- Married Evelyn Garton Archeological Investigations in the Oahe Dam Area, South Dakota, 1950-51

1955 -- City Planner, Omaha, Nebraska

1955-1960 -- Lecturer in Anthropology and History, Strategic Air Command Headquarters and the University of Omaha, Nebraska

1961-1975 -- Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Dana College, Blair Nebraska

1964 (summer) -- Research Archaeologist, State Historical Society of North Dakota

1969 -- Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

1971 -- Introduction to Middle Missouri Archeology

June 5, 1975 -- Died, Blair, Nebraska (?)
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content: 1.66 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1927-1977
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.1979-48
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Processed by Nigel Elmore, January 1980.

Encoded by Zac Greenfield, February 2018.
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content: These papers reflect the professional life of Donald Jayne Lehmer (1918-1975), archaeologist and professor of anthropology. Included are correspondence, diaries, fieldnotes, project reports, applications, articles, contracts, reference materials, mimeographed hand-outs, maps, diagrams, photographs and one sound recording. The bulk of the material relates to Lehmer's early archaeological career and to his later research work while a professor at Dana College, Lincoln, Nebraska. There are very few documents in this collection which relate to the period between 1956 and 1964. The only expedition in which Lehmer participated and for which there are field notes in this collection is the 1940-1941 expedition to Mesilla Valley, New Mexico, sponsored by the Museum of New Mexico and the Arizona State Museum. References to Lehmer's other fieldwork are made in some of the correspondence in series 2, 3, and 5. The correspondence also contains numerous references to Lehmer's personal life.

Persons for whom there are considerable correspondence or who are represented by the written material include: Ernst V. Antevs; Bryant Bannister; Robert E. Bell; William E. Bittle; Elaine Bluhm; Wesley Bradfield; John Ortis Brew; Thomas N. Campbell; John L. Champe; Earle A. Clark; Joan Clark; Donald Collier; Paul L. Cooper; John M. Corbett; Harriet S. Cosgrove; Herbert W. Dick; Henry F. Dobyns; Bertha P. Dutton; Fred R. Eggan; Gordon F. Ekholm; Florence Hawley Ellis; John C. Ewers; Paul H. Ezell; Fred C. Fagergren; Malcolm F. Farmer; Geroge E. Fay; Franklin Fenega; Harold S. Gladwin; John M. Goggin; James B. Griffin; Donald D. Hartle; George B. Hartzog, Jr.; Emil W. Haury; John J. Hoffman; Earnest A. Hooton; Roman L. Hruska; Wesley R. Hurt; Jesse D. Jennings; Elden Johnson; Frederick Johnson; Richard B. Johnston; J. Charles Kelley; Alfred V. Kidder II; Marvin F. Kivett; Clyde Klukhohn; Bert Kraus; Alex D. Krieger; Toimi E. Kyllonen; Wilfred D. Logan; Boas Long; Charles C. Madsen; Oscar L. Mallory; Paul S. Martin; John Y. McCollister; William Mulloy; Welson Murdock; Douglas Osborne; Erik K. Reed; John B. Rinaldo; Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr.; Hugo G. Rodeck; Edward B. Sayles; Anna O. Shepard; Allan H. Smith; Carlyle S. Smith; G. Hubert Smith; Albert C. Spaulding; James E. Sperry; Leslie Spier; Robert L. Stephenson; Frank H. Stewart; Stanley A. Stubbs; Floyd V. Studer; William C. Sturtevant; Paul Tolstoy; James B. Watson; Waldo R. Wedel; Denver Fred Wendorf, Jr.; H. D. Weston; Richard P. Wheeler; Theodore E. White; Arnold M. Withers; W. Raymond Wood; Richard Woodbury; A. M. Woolsey; H. Marie Wormington.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Additional material in the National Anthropological Archives that relates to Donald J. Lehmer can be found in the Records of the River Basin Surveys.