Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1892-1909.

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Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1892-1909.

Comprises items from Charles C. Abbott (1892-1893) regarding his fieldwork with H. C. Mercer collecting artifacts of the Delaware Indians. Also includes items from H. V. Hilprecht (1894-1906) and treasurer John Sparhawk (1898-1902) regarding excavations of cuneiform tablets in Nippur and Lea's contributions to the Babylonian Exploration Fund. One item from G. B Gordon (1809) requests funding for an exhibition of North American Indian artifacts loaned by George G. Heye.

21 items (24 leaves).

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Abbott, Charles C. (Charles Conrad), 1843-1919

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Epithet: American naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x0001ac Born in Trenton, N.J., Abbott was an active naturalist, archaeologist, and author. He was heavily involved in local archaeology and Indian history in the Delaware River Valley. From the description of Charles Conrad Abbott papers, 1770-1919 (bulk 1874-1916). (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 122591019 ...

Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927

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Sir Leonard Woolley directed the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq from 1922 to 1934 for the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As part of this involvement, the University of Pennsylvania Museum sent Leon Legrain, Curator of the Babylonian Section, as a cuneiformist during the 1924–1925 and 1925–1926 seasons. Most of the records of the Ur expedition are located at the British Museum. The Museum Archives hold only a few records. From the...

Sparhawk, John.

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University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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Hilprecht, H.V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925

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Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht was born in Germany on July 28, 1859. He attended the University of Leipzig where he studied theology, law, and Semitic Languates. Hilprecht received his Ph.D. in 1883, and emigrated to the United States three years later where he became oriental editor of the SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES in Philadelphia. That same year he was appointed a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, later being appointed to the Clark research professorship of Assyriolog...

Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930

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