Joseph Cramer photographs of Aleutian Island archeological specimens collected by Oscar T. Lewis
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 92-11, USNM ACC 390872
name: label: Photographer
content: Cramer, Joseph
label: Names
content: Lewis, Oscar T. (artifact collector)
place: label: Place
content: Shemya Island (Alaska)
label: Place
content: Alaska -- Antiquities
creator: label: Photographer
content: Cramer, Joseph
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Oscar T. Lewis was a self-taught archeologist who worked as foreman on excavations in the United States.  He was foreman of the Works Project Administration excavation of Pictograph Cave and Glendive in the 1930s and 1940s.  Additionally, Lewis worked in the 1940s as foreman during the construction of a filtration plant at the United States Air Force base on the southeast shore of Semya Island, Aleutian Islands.  When the construction exposed an archeological site, Lewis conducted preliminary excavations.  In 1953, Lewis gave his collection of artifacts to his friend, Joseph Cramer, a mining geologist interested archeology and American Indians.  Lewis died in 1963.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 41 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Joseph Cramer, along with 371 artifacts collected by Lewis, to the National Museum of Natural History in 1991 (accession 390872). Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives 1992.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.92-11
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs and notes made by Joseph Cramer documenting archeological work of Oscar T. Lewis. They include images of bone, ivory, and stone tools and human skeletal remains, collected by Oscar T. Lewis on the southeast side of Shemya Island, Semichi Island Group of the Aleutian Islands.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Pictured specimens and others collected by Oscar T. Lewis held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 390872.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Museum of the Rockies in Montana holds the Joseph L. Cramer and Oscar T. Lewis Collection of artifacts found in Eastern Montana.