Joseph R. Caldwell photographs of archeological excavations in Chatham County, Georgia
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 87-3
name: label: Creator
content: Caldwell, Joseph R.
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
place: label: Place
content: Chatham County (Ga.)
label: Place
content: Georgia -- Antiquities
topic: label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
creator: label: Creator
content: Caldwell, Joseph R.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Joseph Ralston Caldwell (1916-1973) was an archeologist best known for conducting Works Projects Administration (WPA) excavations in Chatham county, Georgia, circa 1937-1941. Caldwell then served as scientific aide to the National Museum's Director of Anthropology (1943-1945) and as an archeologist for the Smithsonian's River Basin Surveys (1946-1949). In 1957, he received a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. From 1963 to 1964, Caldwell was a Fulbright professor of Archaeology at the University of Tehran and a professor of Anthropology at the Medical School of the National University of Iran. In 1967, he became a professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 163 Copy negatives
label: Extent
content: 191 Negatives (nitrate)
label: Extent
content: 20 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The photographs were found by Clifford Evans when cleaning out an old file that had been in use in the Division of Archeology for a long time. He speculated that it was RBS material. Others speculated that it was material received from Joseph Caldwell.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.87-3
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Copy negatives
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content: Negatives
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content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting excavations in Chatham County, Georgia.  There are images of scenery, dig sites, WPA workers, and pottery sherds and skeletal remains found during excavations at the Irene site, Bilbo site (CH 4), Walthour site (CH 11), Deptford (CH4), CH2 and CH8.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Caldwell can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 81K.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Caldwell and records relating to the Bilbo, Deptford, and other sites, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Antonio Waring's papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Records, notes, and correspondence by Caldwell can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Department of Anthropology Personnel Files 1911-1994, Frank Maryl Setzler's papers, and the River Basin Surveys Records.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Joseph Caldwell's footage of River Basin Survey Work in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, can be found in the Human Studies Film Archives in HSFA 91.19.1