Belle Glade Site. Belle Glade, Florida
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content: NAA MS 4307 (part)
label: General
content: United Civil Works Administration (date manuscript 4307 11/18/86), tfield notes, maps and photographs relating to archeological work in Florida, serial of manuscript 4307
name: label: Creator
content: Stirling, Gene M.
label: Annotator
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Correspondent
content: Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
label: Addressee
content: Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996
label: Collection Creator
content: United States. Federal Civil Works Administration
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
topic: label: Topic
content: Belle Glade site (Florida) -- Archeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Stirling, Gene M.
label: Annotator
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Correspondent
content: Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
label: Addressee
content: Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996
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content: MS 4307 Field notes, maps, and photographs relating to archaeological work in Florida
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 24 Pages
label: Extent
content: 28 Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: August 10, 1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Published as part of M.W. Stirling, "Smithsonian Archaeological Projects Conducted under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933-34," SI-AR, 1934, Washington, D.C., 1935.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: In 1945 Gordon R. Willey prepared a comprehensive report on the Belle Glade site and other related area sites, utilizing the archaeological material in the Smitnsonian Institution and Gene Stirlingʹs notes and photographs, "Excavations in Southeast Florida," Yale University Pub. in Anthropology, New Haven, Connecticut No. 42 1949. A major difficulty was the fact that most of the field notes covering the Belle Glade excavation were lost.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes associated reports, notes, sketches, letters and illustrations.
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content: Exploration of a Mound Group Near Belle Glade, Florida, by Matthew W. Stirling [1934-35?] Typescript Document 7 pages and draft of same, Typescript and Manuscript Document 7 pages. Letter to "Matt" [hew W. Stirling] from "Gene" [Stirling] regarding Belle Glade site and other Florida field work. n.d. Manuscript Document 1 page. Pencil sketch of Belle Glade burial mound. Manuscript Document 1 page. Scale drawing in pencil of 7 1/2 feet of profile in the Belle Glade burial mound, 1 sheet (approximately 2 x 2 in.).
label: Scope and Contents
content: Letter to Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, USNM, from A. Wetmore, USNM, regarding identification of fish bone fragments from the Belle Glade site. Washington, D.C. August 22, 1941. Typescript Letter Signed 1 page. Photographs of Belle Glade excavation (primarily the profile) and the Cypress (Indian) family, Belle Glade, Florida. 1934. 27 prints; and one print (cropped from 8 x 10 in.) of wooden artifacts from Belle Glade site. 8 negatives (not transferred to National Anthropological Archives negative file as of 10-69).