Richard Gates Slattery photograph collection relating to Fisher Site in Loudoun County, Virginia
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 83-13
name: label: Creator
content: Slattery, Richard Gates (collector and photographer)
label: Photographer
content: Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996
place: label: Place
content: Loudoun County (Va.)
label: Place
content: Virginia -- Antiquities
topic: label: Topic
content: Excavations (Archaeology)
creator: label: Creator
content: Slattery, Richard Gates (collector and photographer)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Fisher Site is a Late Woodland village located along the Potomac River in Loudoun County. Waldo Rudolph Wedel was Smithsonian Assistant Curator of Archeology and conducted weekend surveys of sites along the Potomac River as an off-season project from 1938-1939. Richard Gates Slattery was an amateur archeologist and a member and officer with the Maryland Archeological Society. Slattery conducted surveys and carried out excavations on both sides of the Potomac during the 1930s-1960s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Prints (silver gelatin)
label: Extent
content: 4 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1938-1940
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by George Metcalf, Museum Specialist for the Smithsonian's Division of Archeology, and Richard G. Slattery, 1982, along with a letter from Metcalf to Slattery regarding the photographs, dated 1964, which is also included in the collection.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.83-13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting archeological excavations at Fisher Site in Loudoun County, Virginia. They include views of the surrounding area, the dig site, members of the field expedition, and burials, skeletal remains, and artifacts discovered during the dig. Some photographs are by Waldo Rudolph Wedel.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds Slattery's report on the Winslow Site (MS 7190) and notes relating to the Shepard Barrack site (MS 7199).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Slattery can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the Waldo Rudolph Wedel and Mildred Mott Wedel Papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Department of Anthropology holds specimens from the Fisher Site (NMNH accession 217907) as well as artifacts and specimens from other sites, donated by Slattery.