Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2
name: label: Collector
content: Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
label: Photographer
content: Sawyer, Wells, 1863-1960
place: label: Place
content: Marco Island (Fla. : Island)
label: Place
content: Tarpon Springs (Fla.)
label: Place
content: Florida -- Antiquities
topic: label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
creator: label: Collector
content: Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
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content: Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900) was curator of the ethnological department of the United States National Museum and an ethnologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1876-circa 1886), best known for his work with at Zuni.  In 1895 and 1896, he went to Florida due to ailing health and undertook archeological work on Florida's western coast with the joint sponsorship of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Dr. William Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania. He embarked on reconnaissance in May-June 1895 and conducted large-scale explorations in December 1895-April 1896.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 300 Prints (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some copy prints))
label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1895-1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate for one photograph is available online.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Cushing's "Explorations of Ancient Key Dwellers' Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 35 (1896). Some of the others were published in William Henry Holmes's "Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States," Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1898-99 (1903).
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Partial inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection consists of photographs collected by Frank Hamilton Cushing that document archeological sites at Key Marco and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Photographs include views of scenery, sites, excavations, a few objects in situ, and other objects after excavation and cleaning. The photographs may have been made by Wells Moses Sawyer, photographer and artist for Cushing's expeditions in Florida.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The original negatives for the prints and some additional negatives not printed are in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14 subject and geographic file of negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The artifacts depicted in these photographs were probably divided between the Department of Anthropology collections at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Pennsylvania's museum.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds Cushing's papers (MS 2009-06, MS 4780, and MS 1847), photographs (MS 1839), and manuscripts relating to Cushing's work in Florida (MS 2527, MS 2526, MS 1849-b, MS 1849-a, MS 1848, MS 1846, MS 1844-b, MS 1844-a, MS 1842, MS 1841, and MS 1840)
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University also holds some of the Frank Hamilton Cushing papers, 1876-1892.