MS 3975 Diary of a trip to the headwaters of the Amazon River
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content: NAA MS 3975
name: label: Creator
content: Galt, Francis L., 1831 or 1832-1915
topic: label: Topic
content: Botany -- South America
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content: Zoology -- South America
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content: Diaries -- Galt, Francis Land, M. D.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: His diary was purchased by the Bureau of American Ethnology in July, 1938, for 200 dollars, from a relative, Mrs E.A. Galt, of St Paul, Minnesota, through Mr P. Randolph Harris, Attorney, 1 Wall Street, New York City. Correspondence with Mr Harris in Bureau of American Ethnology files includes a 5 page typed description of the manuscript; a copy of this is filed (1968) with the diaries.
creator: label: Creator
content: Galt, Francis L., 1831 or 1832-1915
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian -- South America
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dr Francis Land Galt, a former officer in the Confederate Navy, and surgeon on the Confederate Cruiser, "Alabama," served in 1870 as medical officer on an expedition to the Upper Amazon under Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker, President of the Peruvian Hydrographical Commission of the Amazon River. Dr Galt later lived at Upperville, Virginia.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 607 Pages
label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870-1874
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3975
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Volumes
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content: Diaries
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content: Photographs
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content: Diaries
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Volume 1: Notes concerning the beginning of the trip, July-August, 1870, and diary, September 1-October 5, 1870. 213 pages. (including end papers and inside covers.)

Volume 2: Diary, October 4, 1870-September 1, 1873; and entries for March 18 and April 28, 1874. 298 pages. Notes and observations on temperature, rainfall, plants, animals, and native languages and tribes. Volume 2 has 394 pages total.

Accompanying the diary is a folder of miscellaneous notes, correspondence and clippings, consisting of approximately 100 slips and pages, various sizes; and 7 photographs.

Typescript of the diary, covering Volume 1 and pages 1-256 of Volume 2 is filed with it; made 1938 by Mrs Anna Albert. 650 pages. (Manuscript 3975-a)

Date index:

1870-Volume 1 and beginning Volume 2.

1871- Volume 2, page 120.

1872- Volume 2, page 220.

1873- Volume 2, page 257 (to September 1).

1874- Volume 2, page 292 (March 18 and April 28 only)

Faded sepia photographs accompanying the diary: "Cocamas Indian women living in the neighborhood of Nauta (Peruvian Amazon)." Group of women and children. Print badly damaged. "Woman of the illeg. tribe living on the upper Ucayoli. "Indian huts on the Amazon." "Fotografia de Adolfo Gordon, Canchahuayo, Enero 1 de 1871." "On the Amazon." White men, Indians on river bank; boat in background. "My home in Iquitos on the Amazon, 1874." "Iquitos on the Amazon, 1879." "Avenue leading to the Arsenal, Para."