MS 4689 Matilda Coxe Stevenson Papers
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4689
name: label: Creator
content: Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
label: Creator
content: Stevenson, James, 1840-1888
label: Correspondent
content: Anderson, Larz, 1866-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Avery, Rachel Foster
label: Correspondent
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Correspondent
content: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
label: Correspondent
content: Douglass, William Boone
label: Correspondent
content: Eagle, Mary K.
label: Correspondent
content: Gill, Mary W.
label: Correspondent
content: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
label: Correspondent
content: Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
label: Correspondent
content: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
label: Correspondent
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
label: Correspondent
content: Hornaday, W.T.
label: Correspondent
content: Leidy, Joseph
label: Correspondent
content: McGee, Anita Newcomb, 1864-1940
label: Correspondent
content: Meredith, Virginia C.
label: Correspondent
content: Moseley, A.N.
label: Correspondent
content: Nordhoff-Jung, Sophie
label: Correspondent
content: Pollard, Henry L.
label: Correspondent
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
label: Correspondent
content: Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915
label: Correspondent
content: Schweizer, Herman
label: Correspondent
content: True, Clara D.
label: Correspondent
content: Tylor, Edward Burnett
label: Correspondent
content: Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
label: Creator
content: Evans, Alexander H.
label: Correspondent
content: Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896
label: Names
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904: Saint Louis, Mo.)
label: Names
content: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
label: Depicted
content: Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
label: Depicted
content: Darwin, Charles
label: Depicted
content: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
label: Depicted
content: Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
label: Depicted
content: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
label: Depicted
content: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
topic: label: Occupation
content: Actors
creator: label: Creator
content: Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
label: Creator
content: Stevenson, James, 1840-1888
label: Correspondent
content: Anderson, Larz, 1866-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Avery, Rachel Foster
label: Correspondent
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Correspondent
content: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
label: Correspondent
content: Douglass, William Boone
label: Correspondent
content: Eagle, Mary K.
label: Correspondent
content: Gill, Mary W.
label: Correspondent
content: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
label: Correspondent
content: Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
label: Correspondent
content: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
label: Correspondent
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
label: Correspondent
content: Hornaday, W.T.
label: Correspondent
content: Leidy, Joseph
label: Correspondent
content: McGee, Anita Newcomb, 1864-1940
label: Correspondent
content: Meredith, Virginia C.
label: Correspondent
content: Moseley, A.N.
label: Correspondent
content: Nordhoff-Jung, Sophie
label: Correspondent
content: Pollard, Henry L.
label: Correspondent
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
label: Correspondent
content: Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915
label: Correspondent
content: Schweizer, Herman
label: Correspondent
content: True, Clara D.
label: Correspondent
content: Tylor, Edward Burnett
label: Correspondent
content: Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927
label: Creator
content: Evans, Alexander H.
label: Correspondent
content: Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896
culture: label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1870-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received October 31, 1961 as gift of Manning Gasch, Georgetown Pike, McLean, Virginia; his father, Herman E. Gasch, was executor of M. C. Stevenson's estate.
label: Custodial History
content: Rifle and trunk of James Stevenson, journal of Alexander H. Evans' trip to Europe in 1857, and two stone fetishes received with the papers were transferred to U. S. National Museum (Accession Number 240140).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4689
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Most of Stevenson's scientific notes are included as separate items in the series of numbered manuscript and the papers of John Peabody Harrington. This particular set of materials is made up of papers that passed into the hands of the executor of her estate. It consists of a miscellany of letters, notes, legal documents, cartographic materials, genealogical materials, photographs, newspaper clippsing, other printed material, and other types of documents. Although tehc ollection largely concerns Stevenson, it also includes some material of her husband, James Stevenson, and members of her family, especially her father, Alexander H. Evans, a Washington, D.C. attorney.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Many of the documents concern Stevenson's field work among the Pueblo Indians and other official duties with the Smithsonian. some material relates to her activities with the World's Columbian Exposition and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A few items concern her membership in scientific organizations. Still other documents are of a personal nature, and some are mementoes, especially of James Stevenson. A significant group of documents concern Matilda CoxeStevenson's friendly and, later, very difficult relationship with Clara True.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The photographs include some items of ethnographic interest but it consists largely of portraits of James andMatilda Stevensonand Mrs. Stevenson's relatives. Also included are images in albums apparently gathered by Stevenson as a collector of photographs. They include images of Kit Carson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and William Tecumseh Shermn. In the albums are also a nubmer of photographic portraits with unidentified subjects, many of whom appear to be actors and actresses.