Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 30
name: label: Creator
content: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
label: Publisher
content: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
label: Photographer
content: Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935
place: label: Place
content: Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
label: Place
content: Colorado -- Antiquities
topic: label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
creator: label: Creator
content: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
setName: label: See more items in
content: Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850‐1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist who served as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. Some of his research focuses on the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians, an interest he developed while on a collecting trip in the western United States. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology. Embarking on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1895, he conducted excavations in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida.  During the summers of 1908‐1909, 1915‐1916, and 1918-1922, Fewkes worked almost exclusively on excavations and repairs of ruins in Mesa Verde National Park.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 45 Prints (silver gelatin and photostat)
label: Extent
content: 3 sketches on graph paper
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1919-1921
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.30
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Maps
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Maps
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: finding aid available in the repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs, drawings, and maps relating to Jesse Walter Fewkes' excavations in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.  Photographs depict the ruins and paths through the park before and after excavation and repair.  There are also original photographs by George L. Beam made for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.  Some of the drawings are original illustrations for Fewkes' publications.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Fewkes photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4321, Photo Lot 1, and Photo Lot 86 (negatives).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds Fewkesʹs field notes and papers (MS 4408).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: See others in
content: Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park, circa 1919-1921