Frederick O. Gearing papers
name: label: Creator
content: Gearing, Frederick O., 1922-
creator: label: Creator
content: Gearing, Frederick O., 1922-
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950 - circa 1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0312
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection is unprocessed.  Contact the repository for more information.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of notes, microfilm, and bibliographic material related to Gearing's research on eighteenth and early nineteenth century Cherokees. Included is information about towns and individual Cherokees that derive from library sources.

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