Warren King Moorehead papers

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Warren King Moorehead papers

1875-1939

Archeologist. Correspondence, diaries, literary mss., surveys, accounts, and other papers, relating chiefly to archeology, American Indians, and Moorehead's positions with the Ohio Historical Society, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners. Includes material on student days at Denison University, the moundbuilders, Robert Singleton Peabody and Charles Peabody, U.S. Indian policy and administration, the White Earth (Minn.) Reservation, and the Lake Mohonk conferences. Contact repository for more information.

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