Joseph Jones collection of papers relating to Indians of Tennessee, 1846-1889 1867-1868.

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Joseph Jones collection of papers relating to Indians of Tennessee, 1846-1889 1867-1868.

Collection focus is mainly on the Indians of Tennessee and Jones' work Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee or Antiquities in Tennessee. Covers Indian burial practices, archaeological digs, items found, and other information about Indian antiquities. Includes Mounted pages from Jones' book on notebook sheets with handwritten notes, probably a proof. A handwritten manuscript for the book, bound in a notebook with the hand written title "Explorations of the antiquities of Tennessee by Joseph Jones 1867-1868", with notes and correspondence interspersed. Page numbers do not correspond, but text does match in parts. Original watercolors and other illustrations, used for plates in the book, showing, skeletons, pipes, jewelry, and other artifacts. Correspondence to and from John Wesley Powell, the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, Edwin Kenneth Burnett, William Porcher Miles, Alpheus Hyatt, A.C. Love, and others. Also included are newspaper clippings, maps, booklets, and other notes made by Jones.

.8 cubic feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7967616

Cornell University Library

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Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896

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Joseph Jones (6 Sept. 1833-17 Feb. 1896), physician and scientist, was born in Liberty County, Georgia, the son of Charles Colcock Jones, a major planter and prominent minister to the slaves, and his first cousin, Mary Sharpe Jones. Joseph Jones was educated at South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina), Princeton College (now University, B.A., 1853), and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1856). Jones developed a lifelong interest in scientific research during h...

Huntington Free Library

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

Louisiana State Museum

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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902

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Wallace Earle Stegner is an author. From the guide to the Papers, 1868-1879, relating to John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River, 1868-1879, (American Philosophical Society) John Wesley Powell was a geologist, ethnologist, and director of the United States Geological Survey; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1889. From the guide to the John Wesley Powell correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey, 1869-1879, (American Philosophical So...

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...

Burnett, Edwin Kenneth

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Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902

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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, APS 1843) was a zoologist and geologist. A student of Georges Cuvier, Agassiz was renown for his six-volume work Poissons fossils, a study of more than 1,700 ancient fish. Equally important was his Ètudes sur les glaciers (1840). In 1845 Agassiz moved to the United States on a two-year study grant from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia to compare the flora and fauna of the United States and Europe. While in the United States he was invited to deliver a c...