Theodore H. Lewis papers 1860-1888

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Theodore H. Lewis papers 1860-1888

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Collection contains notebooks and scrapbooks belonging to Theodore H. Lewis during his career as an archaeologist in Minnesota.

4 boxes; (2.0 linear feet)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. University Archives [uarc]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6619076

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Northwestern Archaeological Survey (U.S.)

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Lewis, Theodore Hayes, 1856-

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Theodore Hayes Lewis was the first archaeologist to systematically survey and record archaeological sites in Minnesota. He was born in 1856 and disappeared in Colorado in 1909. He was educated in Ohio and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1878 where he worked as a surveyor investigating antiquities from 1878-1880. He began work on the Northwestern Archaeological Survey during the years 1880-1883 and became associated with Alfred J. Hill in 1881, who paid most of his research expenses ...