Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park
Object Details
- Local Call Number(s)
- NAA Photo Lot 30
- Creator
- Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
- Publisher
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
- Photographer
- Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935
- Place
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)
- Colorado -- Antiquities
- Topic
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Creator
- Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
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- Biographical/Historical note
- Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850‐1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist who served as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. Some of his research focuses on the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians, an interest he developed while on a collecting trip in the western United States. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology. Embarking on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1895, he conducted excavations in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida. During the summers of 1908‐1909, 1915‐1916, and 1918-1922, Fewkes worked almost exclusively on excavations and repairs of ruins in Mesa Verde National Park.
- Extent
- 45 Prints (silver gelatin and photostat)
- 3 sketches on graph paper
- Date
- circa 1919-1921
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.PhotoLot.30
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Prints
- Photographs
- Maps
- Drawings
- Citation
- Photo lot 30, Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Maps
- Drawings
- Other Finding Aids note
- finding aid available in the repository.
- Scope and Contents note
- Photographs, drawings, and maps relating to Jesse Walter Fewkes' excavations in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Photographs depict the ruins and paths through the park before and after excavation and repair. There are also original photographs by George L. Beam made for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Some of the drawings are original illustrations for Fewkes' publications.
- Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Additional Fewkes photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4321, Photo Lot 1, and Photo Lot 86 (negatives).
- The National Anthropological Archives also holds Fewkesʹs field notes and papers (MS 4408).
- Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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- Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park, circa 1919-1921
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511995840-1503511995843-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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