James Stevenson scrapbook : Archaeology of the Southwest, 1882-1906.

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James Stevenson scrapbook : Archaeology of the Southwest, 1882-1906.

Summary: Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings (some identified as Eureka Herald, 1882-3) concerning Stevenson's activities in the Southwest on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Many clippings are unmounted or unidentified. Clippings dated 1906-06 pertain to Matilda Coxe Stevenson (wife).

1 v. ; 21 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7399053

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915

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Matilda Coxe Stevenson (May 12, 1849 – June 24, 1915), who also wrote under the name Tilly E. Stevenson, was the first woman ever employed as an anthropologist in the U.S. She was also the first female anthropologist to study the Native Americans of New Mexico. She pioneered the use of photography in ethnology. An American ethnologist, geologist, explorer, and activist, Stevenson was a supporter of women in science, She helped to establish the Women's Anthropological Society in Washington DC....

Stevenson, James, 1840-1888.

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Stevenson conducted expeditions to pre-historic ruins of the Southwest in the 1870s and 1880s. From the description of James Stevenson scrapbook : Archaeology of the Southwest, 1882-1906. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992658 ...

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Native American tribes from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The Bureau's founding director was John Wesley Powell. In 1897, the Bureau's name was changed from Bureau of Ethnology to Bureau of American Ethnology to indicate the primary geographic limit of its focus. In 1965, the BAE merged with the Smithsonian Ins...