Edwin P. Upham photograph collection relating to Latin American antiquities
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 73-43C, USNM ACC 51818
name: label: Collector
content: Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918
place: label: Place
content: Mexico -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Central America
label: Place
content: Peru -- Antiquities
creator: label: Collector
content: Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Edwin Porter Upham (1845-1918) was a museum assistant who worked with the Smithsonian Institution's archeology collections for forty years.  Born in Massachusetts, he received a public education there before joining the army during the American Civil War.  In 1878, he was hired as an assistant to Dr. Charles Rau, an archeologist at the Smithsonian.  After Rau's death, Upham worked with Dr. Thomas Wilson, with whom he cowrote a book entitled Prehistoric Art; Or, The Origin of Art as Manifested in the Works of Prehistoric Man (1898).  In 1906, Upham was appointed aid in the division of prehistoric archeology, a position he held until his death.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Prints (collotype)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated to the United States National Museum by Edwin P. Upham in 1910 (USNM accession 51818). The photographs were transferred from the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1973.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.73-43C
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Plates (illustrations)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Plates (illustrations)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting archeological artifacts, particularly reliefs and sculptures in stone, from Mexico, Peru, and Central America.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs donated by Edwin P. Upham in accession 51818 are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of Upham are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 39, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Notes relating to Upham's work are held in National Anthropological Archives MS 7574 and in the records of the Department of Anthropology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional artifacts and specimens donated by Upham are held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History.