MS 4839 The Archaeology of the Region of the Natural Bridges of Utah
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content: NAA MS 4839
name: label: Creator
content: Douglass, William Boone
label: Author
content: Forrester, J.B.
place: label: Place
content: Utah -- Archeology
topic: label: Topic
content: Utah -- Natural bridges
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content: Crescent Castle (Utah)
creator: label: Creator
content: Douglass, William Boone
label: Author
content: Forrester, J.B.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Photographs from the survey were taken by G. D. Harrington. All the ruins Douglass describes were visited and described by Byron Cummings of the University of Utah in 1907. Crescent Castle was described and drawn by W. H. Jackson in the 10th Annual Report of the Hayden Surveys, 1879.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 67 Pages
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content: 5 Drawings
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content: 64 Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1909
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Manuscript was sent to Walter Hough, Division of Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, USNM, by Douglass, July 2, 1909 (see correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology files) and received in the Archives December 19, 1968 from Richard B. Woodbury.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4839
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Drawings
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content: Photographs
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content: Letters
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content: Notes
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content: Letters
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content: Notes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Description of investigation of the bridges of the natural bridges region, and the archaeological remains in the area, by order of the General Land Office.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder 1 The Archaeology of the Region of the Natural Bridges of Utah. no date [ca. 1909] Typescript Document, 42 pages. Folder 2 Ruins omitted from report on Natural Bridges of Utah, by J.B. Forrester, August 8, 1909. Manuscript Document with sketches. 4 pages; also Typescript Document with Manuscript annotations, incorporating parts of Manuscript Document. Folder 3 Notes for figure No. 1 (Crescent Castle) Ruin 4 miles East of Bluff, Utah, on South bank of San Juan River Manuscript Document 3 pages; also typed copy of same. 2 pages.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder 4 Ink sketches (twelve figures). 12 pages. Folder 5 Letter from Douglass to Walter Hough, regarding Crescent Castle notes. July 2, 1909. Autograph Letter Signed 1 page. Folder 6 Ink sketches of archaeological structures on various sizes of cardboard. 5 sketches. Folder 7 Photographs of the Natural Bridges region (some identified by annotations on back). Approximately 54 photos (many duplicates) numbered (not consecutively) from 1 to 24. The photos were made from glass negatives, 13 of which were received with this collection and are catalogued under negative No. UTAH 43-55. Folder 8 Miscellaneous photographs including, 2 photos of "Crescent Castle" 1 photo of ruins at Bluff City, Utah and 7 unidentified snapshots. (total: 10 photos).