National Anthropological Archives
C. Earle Smith Jr. papers
Smith, C. Earle (Claude Earle), 1922-1987
NAA.2006-24
Archival Resource Key
7.72 Linear feet
20 document boxes and 1 restricted box
1942-1998
bulk 1960-1987
C. Earle Smith Jr. (1922-1987) was one of the founders of the modern field of paleobotany. This collection documents his research and professional activities through correspondence, research notes, data, manuscripts, publications, and photographs. Represented in the collection is his fieldwork in Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and Costa Rica.
English
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Scope and Contents
This collection documents the research and professional activities of C. Earle Smith Jr. through correspondence, research notes, data, manuscripts, publications, and photographs. Represented in the collection is his fieldwork in Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. The only materials pertaining to his early work in Bat Cave are a few pages of notes and articles about his discovery of early corn remains. Most of the collection dates from the 1960s up to his death in 1987. There is, however, some correspondence dated after his death regarding the return of specimens that he had been analyzing for others. The collection also contains his files as a professor at the University of Alabama; papers he presented; talks that he gave; and photographs of plant remains. His correspondence makes up the bulk of collection and can be found throughout the series. He corresponded with eminent figures in the fields of anthropology and botany, including Kent V. Flannery, Richard MacNeish, Paul Mangelsdorf, and other colleagues.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 8 series: (1) Correspondence, 1962-1998; (2) Research, 1942-1991; (3) Writings, 1956-1987; (4) Professional Activities, 1971-1987; (5) University of Alabama, 1964-1987; (6) Writings by Others, 1960-1984; (7) Personal Files, 1950-1953, 1964-1987; (8) Photographs, circa 1960s-1982
Biographical Note
Claude Earle Smith Jr. was one of the founders of the modern field of archaeobotany. Known as "Smitty" to his friends, he was born on March 8, 1922, in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Orlando, Florida. He was trained as an economic botanist at Harvard University, where he earned his bachelor's (1949), master's (1951), and doctorate (1953) in botany.
As an undergraduate student at Harvard in 1941, Smith assisted Richard Evans Schultes in collecting plants in the Colombian Amazon. While in the field, news reached Smith of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and he decided to return home to enlist in the Navy. After the war, he continued his studies at Harvard and, in 1948, he was sent by Paul C. Manglesdorf to excavate Bat Cave, New Mexico, where he and Herbert Dick, another Harvard student, discovered the earliest remains of corn. Smith coauthored with Mangelsdorf "A Discovery of Remains of Prehistoric Maize in New Mexico" (1949). Throughout his career, Smith continued to study the early domestication and distribution of corn and other plants including cotton, avocado, and beans.
With his research focused on archaeologically-recovered plant remains and their usage by humans, Smith served as botanist at various archaeological sites in Latin America, working with Richard MacNeish in Tehuacán Valley; Kent Flannery in Oaxaca Valley; Paul Tolstoy in the Basin of Mexico; Ronald Spores in Nochixtlan; Terence Grieder in La Galgada, Peru; Thomas Lynch in Callejón de Huaylas, Peru; Joyce Marcus in Cañeta Valley, Peru; Anna Roosevelt in the Middle Orinoco area of Venezuela; and Michael J. Snarkis in Costa Rica. He also conducted ethnobotanical fieldwork in the Yucatán, Panama, the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and Australia.
From 1953 to 1958, Smith served as assistant curator of botany at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and as acting director of the Taylor Memorial Arboretum. He was also a curator of botany at the Field Museum of Natural History (1959-1961) and Senior Research Botanist for the Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1962-1969). In 1970, Smith took a faculty position in the anthropology and biology departments at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa and was acting chair of the anthropology department between 1981 and 1986. He served as president of the Society for Economic Botany in 1979.
At the age of 65, Smith was killed in an automobile accident on October 19, 1987.
Sources Consulted
Lentz, David L. "C. Earle Smith, Jr. 1922-1987."
Economic Botany 42, no. 2 (1988): 284-285.
Schultes, Richard Evans. "How I Met C. Earle Smith."
Journal of Ethnobiology 10, no. 2 (1990): 119-121.
Chronology
1922
Born on March 8 in Boston, Massachusetts
1940-1941
Studies at Harvard University
1941
Assists Richard Evans Schultes in ethnobotanical collection in Colombian Amazons
1942-1946
Serves in Navy
1946
Returns to Harvard to continue his studies
1948
Excavates Bat Cave in New Mexico and discovers earliest remains of corn
1949
Earns A.B. cum laude at Harvard
1951
Earns A.M. at Harvard
1953
Earns Ph.D. at Harvard University
1953-1958
Consultant for Smith, Kline and French
Acting Director at Taylor Memorial Arboretum
Assistant Curator in the Department of Botany at Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
1959-1961
Associate Curator in Department of Botany at Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
1962-1969
Senior Research Botanist at Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
1970-1987
Professor of Anthropology and Botany, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1979-1980
President of Society for Economic Botany
1987
Killed in automobile accident on October 19
Conditions Governing Use
Contact repository for terms of use.
Conditions Governing Access
Grant proposal reviews in Series 4: Professional Activities and materials with student grades in Series 5: University of Alabama have been restricted.
Access to the C. Earle Smith Jr. papers requires an appointment.
Processing Information
The papers of C. Earle Smith Jr. were received with most of the materials organized in folders with titles. Original folder titles were retained with titles assigned by the archivist placed within square brackets. Stacks of miscellaneous files were sorted and placed in folders containing related materials or assigned their own folders. Restricted materials in the collection were separated and replaced with notes indicating original and new locations. As there did not appear to be any pre-existing arrangement or grouping, the folders were rearranged and organized into eight series.
The archivist would like to thank Ann Hunt for her assistance in processing the collection.
Processed by Lorain Wang, June 2009
Encoded by Jocelyn Baltz, July 2012, and Katherine Christensen, March 2020
Immediate Source of Acquisition
At his death, C. Earle Smith Jr.'s papers were left with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. They were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Smith's widow, Roberta Smith Largin.
Related Materials
Photographs from C. Earle Smith Jr.'s excavation of Bat Cave can be found in Photo Lot R86-67 Copies of Herbert W. Dick photographs of excavations at Bat Cave, 1948-1950, https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.PhotoLot.R86-67.
Preferred Citation
C. Earle Smith Jr. papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Selected Bibliography
1949. with Paul C. Mangelsdorf. "A Discovery of Prehistoric Maize in New Mexico." Journal of Heredity 40, no. 2 (1949): 39-43.
1959. with J.W. Thieret. "Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859): An evaluation and bibliography." Leaflets of Western Botany 9 (1959): 33-42.
1962. "Henry Muhlenberg-botanical pioneer." Proceeding American Philosophical Society 106 (1962): 443-460.
1966. "Archaeological Evidence for Selection in Avocado." Economic Botany 20 (1966): 169-175.
1968. with T. Kerr. "Pre-conquest Plant Fibers from the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico." Economic Botany 22 (1968): 343-358.
1971. with S.G. Stephens. "Critical Identification of Mexican Archaeological Cotton Remains." Economic Botany 25 (1971): 160-1683.
1973. with T. Lynch and L. Kaplan. "Early Cultivated Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) from an intermontane Peruvian Valley." Science 179 (1973): 76-77.
1976. Modern Vegetation and Ancient Plant Remains of the Nochixtlan Valley, Oaxaca. Vol. 16 Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology. Nashville: Vanderbuilt University, 1976.
1977. with M.L. Cameron. "Ethnobotany in the Puuc, Yucatan." Economic Botany 31 (1977): 93-110.
1978. "Plant Remains from the Chiriqui Sites and Ancient Vegetational Patterns." In Adaptive Radiations in Prehistoric Panama, edited by O.F. Linares and A.J. Ranere, 151-174. Peabody Museum Monograph No. 5. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University, 1978.
1978. "The Vegetational History of the Oaxaca Valley." In Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, edited by K.V. Flannery and R.E. Blanton, 1-30. Memoirs No. 10. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1978.
1980. "Chapter 5. Plant Remains from Guitarrero Cave." In Guitarrero Cave. Early Man in the Andes, edited by T.F. Lynch, 87-119. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
1981. with Paul Tolstoy. "Vegetation and Man in the Valley of Mexico." Economic Botany 35 (1981): 415-433.
1986. "Preceramic Plant Remains from Guila Naquitz." In Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, edited by K.V. Flannery, 256-274. New York: Academic Press, 1986.
Botany
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Guilá Naquitz Cave (Mexico)
Oaxaca (Mexico : State)
Tehuacán (Mexico)
Peru
Botany, Economic
University of Alabama
Correspondence
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
0.63 Linear feet
1962-1998
Scope and Contents
This series consists of Smith's professional correspondence. More of his correspondence can be found spread throughout the entire collection filed by subject.
See Series 2: Research for his correspondence with Richard MacNeish, Paul C. Mangelsdorf, and other colleagues.
A
Archival Resource Key
1965-1987
1
Scope and Contents
Includes Adams, Murray C.; Adams, Ursel; Aldenderfer, Mark; Al-Harthi, Sobhi Y.; Allen, Barbara; Allen, Caroline; Allen, James B.; Almudo Delgado, Rufino; Allen, Stephen; Anderson, Gregory J.; Anderson, James E.; Anderson, Loran C.; Antunez de Mayolo R., Santiago E.; de Arauz, Reina Torres; Ashton, David H.; Aufdermauer, Jörg; Ayensu, Edward S.; and [?], Amie.
Adventures Unlimited Peru. June 78
Archival Resource Key
1978 June
1
Aldenderfer -- Osmore Drainage Peru
Archival Resource Key
1987
1
B
Archival Resource Key
1962-1987
1
Scope and Contents
Includes Baklanoff, Eric N.; Balch, Jennifer B.; Balick, Michael J.; Bannerman, Bessie R.; Barghorn, Elso; Bareis, Charles J.; Barnes, Murray; Barrau, Jacques; Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo; de Barrera Vásquez, Gloria Pérez; Beaman, John H.; Beattie, John; Bell, C. Ritchie; Benner, Walter M.; Bergin, George; Berne Criteria of CITES; Berte, Neal R.; Besosa, Sheridan E.; Bindon, James; Bird, Robert McK.; Birmingham News; Blodgett, Frank; Boada, Ana María; Boaz, T. D.; Bohannan, Paul J.; Bohrer, Vorsila L.; Boylan and King; Bramlett, Christopher L.; Bray, Warwick; Brezhnev, D. D.; Bristol, Melvin Lee; Brittenham, Phillip; Brockington, Donald L.; Brown, Valeria; Brownell, Joan Louise; Brücher, Heinz; Bryant, Paul; Bryant, Vaughn M., Jr.; Bueno Mendoza, Alberto; Burkett, Steven; Butler, Alva E.; and Bye, Robert A.
Byers, Douglas S.
Archival Resource Key
1962-1970
1
C
Archival Resource Key
1969-1986
1
Scope and Contents
Includes Cabri, Charlotte; Cadwell, David P.; Carnagio, Roberta; Carden, Jim (Letter of Recommendation); Carr, J. E.; Castro Lara, Sebastián; Chambers, Kenton L.; Chase, Margaret N.; Chosnek, Fabio Regueros; Chowdhury, K. A.; Clark, Dean; Clayton, Larry; Clayton, Lawrence A.; Cole, Gloria G.; Comas, Robert E.; Consumer Protection, Department of; Constance, Lincoln; Contreras, Hugh S.; Cooke, Richard; Correll, Donovan S.; Costa, Judith; Cottrell, Carol; Council for International Exchange of Scholars; Cowan, Richard S.; Crapivinsky-Jutkowitz, Betty; Creech, John L.; Croat, Thomas B.; Cromwell, Mary; Cross, Carol; Cruz, George J. Santa; Cuatrecasas, Jose; Currier, Margaret; Cutchens, Johnnie; and Cutler, Hugh.
Cooley, George R.
Archival Resource Key
1964-1980
1
Callen, E. O.
Archival Resource Key
1964-1967
1
D
Archival Resource Key
1970-1987
1
Scope and Contents
Includes Darden, William H., Jr.; Davenport, Lawrence J.; Davis, Gayle; Davis, Herbert L.; Decker, Bryce G.; DeJarnette, David L.; DeJarnette, Tom; Delpar, Helen; DeVore, Nancy S.; "Dialog" (U of A Faculty/Staff News); Dickinson, J. C., Jr.; Didier, Mary Ellen; Diehl, Richard H.; DiLorenzo, Elaine; Dobkin de Rio, M.; Dodson, Cal; Doebley, John F.; Donovan Coffee Co.; Dowling, Anita R.; Dressler, Robert; Droppers, Garrett; Duffy, Mrs. James E.; Dugan, Kathleen G.; Dye, Mrs. William T.; Dyer, Christopher L.; and [?], Dick.
E
Archival Resource Key
1965-1987
1
Scope and Contents
Includes Eastman Kodak Laboratories; Ebeling, Walter;
Economic Botany; Eddins, Dwight; Eggers, Fay; Ehrendorfer, F.; Ehrenreich Photo-Optical Industries, Inc.; Elliott, Dan; Elliot's Books; Emplaincourt, Marilyn; Emsley, Michael G.; Emslie, Steven D.; EOS --(publication of the Alabama Museum of Natural History); Erisman, Nellie; Eshbaugh, W. Hardy; Ethnobiology, Journal of; Evaluations (Teachers/Courses), 1980; Evans, Clifford; Evans, Clifford and Meggers, Betty J.; Everest Records; Ewan, Joseph; Exploraciones Amazonicas; and Eyde, Richard H.
F
Archival Resource Key
1967-1985
undated
1
Scope and Contents
Includes Fanshawe, Dennis. B.; Farr, George; Farris, Randall L.; Feldman, Lawrence H.; Ferguson, Robert B.; Fernández, Jorge; Fernandez-Perez, Alvaro; Ferreyra, Ramón; Field Biology Club --U of A; Field, Julia Allen; Field, Henry; Field Museum of Natural History --Publications; Fish, Suzy K.; Fish Wildlife Service (USDA); Flores, Isobel; Fogg, John M.; Folk Classification Bulletin; Fonda, Lucile; Fong, Harry H. S.; Ford, Janet; Forest Products Laboratory; Fort Burgwin Conference; Fowler, Ann; Freeman, Jane L.; de Friedemann, Nina S.; Frost, Janet O.; Furlow, Richard H.; Fuchs, E. Kay; Fryxell, Paul A.; Fulbrights Research Awards; and Furst, Peter.
Flannery, [Kent]
Archival Resource Key
1966-1981
1
G
Archival Resource Key
1962-1984
[1 of 2]
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Gabriel, Carolyn B. (Carolina biological Supply Co.); Galinat, Walton C.; Garner, Bob; Garofalo, B.; Gaudet, M. R. (Secretary to Dr. Schultes, Harvard Univ.); Geier, Clarence R.; Gentry, Howard Scott; Gilmartin, Amy Jean; Girl Scout Council, Tuscaloosa; Glass, Sarah A.; Glenboski, Linda; Goldwater, C.; Gómez-Pompa, Arturo; Gonzalez, Alberto Rex; González Quintero, Lauro; Gorenflo, Larry J; Gossett, Glenn A.; Gotthilf, Vivian; Government Employees Insurance Co.; Graham, Alan; Green, Judith S.; Greene, Catherine; Greene, Virginia; Gregg, Clifford C.; and Grieder, Terence.
G
Archival Resource Key
1962-1984
[2 of 2]
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Griffin, James B.; Grobman, Alexander; Gunda, Béla; Gustafson, John H.; Gutiérrez G., Mario; Gunn, Charles R. (Bob); Guttierrez, Ricardo; and Gyllenhaal, Charlotte.
H
Archival Resource Key
1965-1986
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Hammons, Ray O.; Hanelt, P.; Hardman, John K.; Harrell, Barbara; Harris, David R.; Hawkes, J. G.; Hegen, E. E.; Heiser, Charles B., Jr.; Helbaek, Hans; Heldman, Donald P.; Helms, Mary W.; Hernández Xolocotzi., Efraím; Higgs, Mary H.; Hill, Mary C.; Hill, Tim; Hills, L. V.; Hines, Howard H.; Hirth, Kenneth G.; Hirzel, Robert; Hoage, Patti; Hobby, C. R.; Hodge, Walter; Hoehner, Fred; Hole, Frank; Holstein, Harry O.; Holt, Wythe W., Jr.; Honeywell, Inc.; Hopf, Maria; Horchler, Jack; Hord, John K. Howard, Richard A.; Hubbard, Patricia A.; Hughes, Regina; Human Relations Area Files, Inc.; [Hunt] Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library; Hutchinson, Janice (Letter of Recommendation); Hyland, Howard L.; and (unknown, ref: Leticia/Amazonas).
J
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Jones, Douglas E.
K
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Kaplan, L.; Keefe, Jennifer; King, Frances B.; and Eastman Kodak Co.
Keeley Northern Chile
Archival Resource Key
1982
2
L
Archival Resource Key
1978-1982
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Lathrap, Donald W.; Lebron-Luteyn, Mariá L.; Lentz, David; Libería Intercontinental, S.A.; Limón Boyce, Amie E.; Linares Olga; Lourteig, Alicia; and Lynch, Thomas F.
M
Archival Resource Key
1979-1981
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Macmillan, W. H.; MacNeish, Richard S.; Mann, Floyd H.; McEwan, Barbara; McNutt, Paula M.;
Micronoticias (Sociedad Antropologica de Colombia newsletter, July August 1979); Mika, Edward S.; Morton, Julia F.; Mitchell, Joan Parsons; and Moseley, Edward H.
Map Reference Library
Archival Resource Key
1979
2
N
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Nakano, K.; and Nance, C. Roger.
O
Archival Resource Key
1981
2
Scope and Contents
Includes O'Quin, Dorothy.
P
Archival Resource Key
1980-1987
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Pearsall, Deborah M.; Pendleton, Mike; Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Presidential Search Committee (U of A); and Puchi, Mari Carmen Serra.
R
Archival Resource Key
1980-1987
undated
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Rais, Azizan Md.; Raymond, James C.; Research, Office of (U of A); Roosevelt, Anna.; and Ruggles, Dyer N.
S
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Sachet, M. H.; Sayers, Roger; Scarry, Margaret; Schoenwetter, James; Schrimpff, Marianne; Scott, Charley; Singer, Norman; Smith, Roy C.; Stark, Barbara; and Steele, Richard.
T
Archival Resource Key
1980-1987
undated
2
Scope and Contents
Includes deTapia, Emily McClung; Tejeda, Enrique Pardo; Tippo, Oswald; and Turner, B. L.
V
Archival Resource Key
1982-1985
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Venezuela, Flora de; and Vogel, J.O.
W
Archival Resource Key
1979-1981
undated
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Wagner, Gail;
Wall Street Journal article on corn hybrids; Whitaker, Thomas W.; Williams, Louis; Wilkes, Gamson; Winter, Marcus C.; World Hunger (handouts from conference?); and Wright, Robert A.
Y and Yucatan Project
Archival Resource Key
1979
2
Scope and Contents
Includes Yarnell, Richard A., and nothing on Yucatán.
Research
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
2.7 Linear feet
1942-1991
Scope and Contents
A large portion of this series is comprised of correspondence, notes, data, writings, and photographs associated with Smith's fieldwork in Latin America with Richard MacNeish in Tehuacán Valley; Kent Flannery in Oaxaca Valley; Paul Tolstoy in the Basin of Mexico; Ronald Spores in Nochixtlan; Terence Grieder in La Galgada, Peru; Thomas Lynch in Callejón de Huaylas, Peru; Joyce Marcus in Cañeta Valley, Peru; Anna Roosevelt in the Middle Orinoco area of Venezuela; and Michael J. Snarkis in Costa Rica. There are also photographs and a typed report from his trip to Cuba as a student for a seminar on tropical plants. Materials pertaining to his excavation of Bat Cave consist of a few pages of notes and newspaper articles about his discovery of the earliest known remains of corn at the site.
Other materials in this series are correspondence regarding his identifications of specimens for colleagues, grant applications and paperwork to fund his research, and subject files.
For more research related materials, see also Series 1: Correspondence, Series 3: Writings, and Series 8: Photographs.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 4 sub-series: (2.1) Fieldwork, 1949-1950, 1960-1987; (2.2) Identifications, 1967-1991; (2.3) Grants, 1957-1958, 1969-1983; (2.4) Subject Files, 1942, 1954-1966, 1979-1980
Fieldwork
2.1
Archival Resource Key
1949-1950
1960-1987
Arrangement
Grouped by country.
Cuba
Archival Resource Key
1950
3
Scope and Contents
Research trip to Cuba for tropical botany class --photographs and report, "The Vegetation of a Cuban Seboruco."
Tehuacán
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1960-1966
3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding Tehuacán projects; includes correspondence with Richard Macneish.
Archaeological Plant Remains
Archival Resource Key
1965-1966
3
Scope and Contents
Tehuacan project.
Flannery Oaxaca
Archival Resource Key
1966
3
Scope and Contents
Notes.
Plant Remains Oaxaca
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
1966-1978
3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and photographs.
Oaxaca Valley
Archival Resource Key
1966
undated
4
Scope and Contents
Reports and photographs, includes Guila Naquitz.
Oaxaca Beans
Archival Resource Key
undated
1966-1977
4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and drafts on Oaxaca research, very little on beans.
[Catalog for plants of Oaxaca collected by Wally Ernst(?)]
Archival Resource Key
1966
4
[Guila Naquitz Cave 1]
Archival Resource Key
1966-1969
4
[Guila Naquitz Cave 2]
Archival Resource Key
1968-1969
4
[Guila Naquitz Cave 3]
Archival Resource Key
1968-1970
4
Scope and Contents
Includes cotton specimens from caves near Mitla.
1 & 3
Archival Resource Key
undated
4
Scope and Contents
Guila Naquitz Cave -- data and photographs.
Boll Weevil
Archival Resource Key
1968
4
Scope and Contents
Articles on discovery of boll weevil found in cotton from Guila Naquitz Cave.
[Oaxaca Valley reports, notes, and photos]
Archival Resource Key
1980-1982
undated
4
[Notes on plant remains from Oaxaca Valley]
Archival Resource Key
undated
4
Scope and Contents
Originally in folder with several miscellaneous photographs.
[Ronald] Spores -- Nochixtlan Project
Archival Resource Key
1969-1976
4
Tolstoy Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1969-1981
5
Lynch Peru
Archival Resource Key
1969-1977
5
Scope and Contents
Callejon de Huaylas -- Guitarrero Cave.
Galgada Project, Peru
Archival Resource Key
1977-1990
undated
5
La Galgada, Peru
Archival Resource Key
1982-1987
undated
5
La Galgada
Archival Resource Key
1982-1986
undated
5
Cañete Valley, Peru -- J[oyce] Marcus
Archival Resource Key
1983-1987
5
Roosevelt Venezuela
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
1975-1987
undated
6
Scope and Contents
Excavations at La Peoria, Crozal, La Gruta -- correspondence, field notes, seriation lists, research data, and drawings.
[Notes on plants found at excavation sites in Venezuela]
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
undated
6
Costa Rica -- Snarkis
Archival Resource Key
1982-1985
undated
6
Wood Anatomy Bat Cave
Archival Resource Key
undated
6
[Newspaper articles on "Origin of Corn" Discovery by C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Herbert Dick]
Archival Resource Key
1949
6
Clark-Russell Cave
Archival Resource Key
1979-1980
6
Scope and Contents
Notes on expenses of excavation, correspondence with David Clark, and proposal on the recovery of plant remains from Russell Cave.
Fort Tombee
Archival Resource Key
1980
6
Scope and Contents
Typescript of "The Botanical Resources of Fort Tombee" and negatives.
Identifications
2.2
Archival Resource Key
1967-1991
Tikal Project [Guatemala]
Archival Resource Key
1967-1974
7
Scope and Contents
Identification for U Penn Museum.
Dethlefsen -- Bermuda Wreck
Archival Resource Key
1976
undated
7
W. J. Kennedy -- Costa Rica
Archival Resource Key
1976-1977
7
1 JE 57
Archival Resource Key
1978
7
Scope and Contents
"Comments on Species of Plants found in 1 JE 57."
Columbia -- Herrera, Bray, Schrimpf
Archival Resource Key
1982-1987
7
Scope and Contents
"Carbonized Plant Remains from Proyecto Calima, Valle del Cauca, Colombia" and correspondence.
Hatch Guatemala
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
7
Scope and Contents
"Plant Remains from Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala" correspondence, draft, and research materials.
Balberta Guatemala -- Bove
Archival Resource Key
1986-1987
7
Scope and Contents
Cacao seeds research with Frederick J. Bove.
Shell Bluff Miss. 22 LO 530
Archival Resource Key
1987
7
Scope and Contents
"Dietary Implications of Vegetal Remains from Site 22 LO 530" and notes.
Mill Creek Site (1 TU 265)
Archival Resource Key
1987
undated
7
Scope and Contents
Notes and report "Plant Remains from the Mill Creek Site (1 TU 265)."
Me. [Maine State Museum]
Archival Resource Key
1987
7
Scope and Contents
Identification of carbonized seeds.
Samacá Valley Columbia -- Ana María Boada
Archival Resource Key
1987
7
FLA. FS-16
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
Scope and Contents
Notes on Florida material for Tim Kohler.
Bob Thorne 22 LF 504
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
Jefferson Co. Sites
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
West Alabama Sites
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
Plant Remains San Juan P.R.
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
Scope and Contents
"Paleoethnobotanical Remains from San Juan."
Dr. Smith's Materials He was Analyzing
Archival Resource Key
1988-1991
7
Scope and Contents
Mostly correspondence after Smith's death regarding the return of specimens he had been analyzing.
Grants
2.3
Archival Resource Key
1957-1958
1969-1983
Grants
Archival Resource Key
1957
undated
7
Scope and Contents
Grant proposal for Muhlenberg Herbarium to index botanical names.
[American Philosophical Society grant]
Archival Resource Key
1957-1958
7
Scope and Contents
Collecting trip to Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela.
Yucatan Project
Archival Resource Key
1969-1971
7
Scope and Contents
Grant for Yucatan ethnobotanical comparison collection project; includes material relating to University of Alabama Yucatan seminar.
Grants
Archival Resource Key
1971-1982
7
Scope and Contents
Notes and letters regarding funding for Smith's research projects.
Smith, C. Earle, Jr. RGC Proj. 686
Archival Resource Key
1971-1975
7
Scope and Contents
Amazon ethnobotanical comparison collection.
Smith Research Proposal
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1971-1977
8
Scope and Contents
Identification of Plant Fibers Used by Man
NSF
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
8
Scope and Contents
Letters regarding shortcoming of Smith's proposal that was not approved for funding.
Smith, Claude Earle, Jr. Proj. 953
Archival Resource Key
1977-1981
8
Scope and Contents
Ethnobotany of the Middle Orinoco.
Prehistoric Ethnobotany of Costa Rica
Archival Resource Key
1983
8
[Economic Botany Information File]
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Subject Files
2.4
Archival Resource Key
1942
1954-1966
1979-1980
undated
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains Smith's non field and laboratory research and consists of reading notes, data from other sources, notes on early botanists and gardens, issues of Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, and illustrations of botanical specimens from Encyclopédie méthodique and Transactions of the Linnean Society.
Colombia, Ethnology & Archaeology
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940s?
8
Scope and Contents
Handwritten research notes on Universidad Nacional Instituto de Ciencias Naturales stationary.
Notes [Mixed deciduous forests of the Appalachians]
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
[Notes on Taxonomy of vascular plants by George H. Lawrence]
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Palm Key
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Mexico Meteorological Records
Archival Resource Key
1942
1955-1960
8
[Photocopy of map published in "Final Field Report of the Investigations at the Archaeological Zone of X-Kukican, Yucatan, Mexico]
Archival Resource Key
1966
8
[Casma Valley Maize Remains Averages of Dimensions and Indices Comparing Computer Groupings]
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
F. Engel
Archival Resource Key
1954
8
Nuttall
Archival Resource Key
1959
8
[Information on botanists]
Archival Resource Key
1956
undated
8
Muhlenberg -- lichens
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Collections at BM & Kew
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Scope and Contents
British Museum and Kew Gardens.
[Botanical Gardens in Ancient Mexico]
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
[History of Park House and Whiteknights Park]
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Economic Botany
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Scope and Contents
Notes and drawings.
[Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation]
Archival Resource Key
1979-1980
8
Second Sheets
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
Scope and Contents
Plates from multiple volumes of Transactions of the Linnean Society.
Encyclopédie méthodique. Lamark & Poirot Plates 1791-1823
Archival Resource Key
undated
MINOR MOLD DAMAGE -- HANDLE WITH GLOVES.
9
Scope and Contents
Impressions between some of the plates left by plants that at one time were pressed in between.
Writings
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
0.92 Linear feet
1956-1987
Scope and Contents
This series consists of reprints, drafts, reports, and unpublished manuscripts by Smith, along with correspondence regarding his writings.
More of Smith's writings can be found in Series 2: Research. Papers that he presented at conferences can be found in Series 4: Professional Activities.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order.
[An Answer to Environmental Problems: The Amazon]
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
Scope and Contents
Typescript manuscript.
Archaeological Evidence for Selection in Avocado
Archival Resource Key
1966
10
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
[Assignment of copyright for Economic Botany articles]
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
10
["Bibliography of American Archaeological Plant Remains"]
Archival Resource Key
1966
10
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Book Reviews
Archival Resource Key
1956-1966
1987
10
Scope and Contents
Reviews written by Smith.
Cloud People
Archival Resource Key
1982
10
Scope and Contents
Page proofs for "The Valles of Oaxaca, Nocixtlán, and Tehuacán" in Flannery:
The Cloud People.
C.R.O.P.S. Symposium Econ. Bot. June 13-16, 1976
Archival Resource Key
1975-1976
10
Scope and Contents
Regarding article originally presented at conference, "Recent Evidence in support of the Tropical Origin of New World Crops."
["Early Adaptations to Environmental Differences in Mexico"]
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
Scope and Contents
Typescript manuscript.
The Ethnobotanist and the Archaeologist
Archival Resource Key
1985
10
Ethnobotany of Nutrition
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1970-1985
10
Scope and Contents
Regarding Smith's publication,
Man and his foods: studies in the ethnobotany of nutrition -- contemporary, primitive, and historic Non-european diets.
Ethnobot Taumalipas
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
Scope and Contents
"Plant Remains from Taumalipas, Mexico" --unpublished(?) report.
[The Importance to Archaeology of Interdisciplinary Research]
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
Scope and Contents
Typescript manuscript.
[An Introduction to Botany]
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
Scope and Contents
Typescript drafts.
Kenya Upland Flova Vernonia
Archival Resource Key
circa 1968
10
Scope and Contents
Typescript draft written for Agricultural Research Service.
Lynch Peru
Archival Resource Key
1978-1981
undated
11
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Thomas F. Lynch and chapters for
Guitarrero Cave: Early Man in the Andes.
Meliac
Archival Resource Key
1965
11
Scope and Contents
Reprint of "Flora of Panama – Part VI – Family 92. Meliaceae."
Oaxaca Cotton
Archival Resource Key
1968-1970
11
Scope and Contents
Letters, photos, and typescript draft of "Critical Identification of Mexican Archaeological Cotton Remains" with S.G. Stephens.
["Observations on Stengelioid Species of Vernonia]
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
undated
11
Scope and Contents
Typescript draft.
["Observations on Stengelioid Species of Vernonia" – Map of NW Africa]
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
["The Origins of Agriculture"]
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
Scope and Contents
Typescript manuscript.
Parmana Report Roosevelt
Archival Resource Key
undated
11
Scope and Contents
Typescript drafts of "Prehistoric Plant Use in the Middle Orinoco Basin."
Pre-Ceramic Plant Remains Oaxaca
Archival Resource Key
1984-1985
12
Scope and Contents
Photos and page proofs of article "Preceramic Plant Remains from Guilá Naquitz."
Recovery and Processing of Botanical Remains
Archival Resource Key
1976-1981
12
Scope and Contents
Includes letters and photographs.
Redefinition of Cedrela Oaxacensis [C.DC. & Rose]
Archival Resource Key
1972
12
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Review AMA Poison Handbook
Archival Resource Key
1985
12
Rev.: Prehistoric Food Production in North America
Archival Resource Key
1986
12
Smoking Mirror
Archival Resource Key
1978-1980
undated
12
Scope and Contents
"Botanical Evidence for TransPacific Contact" drafts and correspondence.
Professional Activities
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
0.75 Linear feet
1971-1987
Scope and Contents
This series documents Smith's professional activities outside of his research and work at University of Alabama. This series contains materials relating to conferences he participated in, including papers he presented; organizations that he was a member of; talks that he gave; reviews of grant applications; and reviews of manuscripts under consideration for publication. In the series are also announcements for conferences he may or may not have attended. There are no materials from his term as president of the Society of Economic Botany from 1979 to 1980.
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically.
XIII Int. Bot. Congress Sydney, Australia
Archival Resource Key
1981
12
Scope and Contents
"Ecological Accommodations and the Development of Crops and Cropping Systems in Mexico."
Abstracts & Papers for Ala. Acad. Journ
Archival Resource Key
1973
12
Scope and Contents
Journal for Alabama Academy of Sciences.
Ala. Acad. Program
Archival Resource Key
1973
12
Scope and Contents
Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting April 5-7, 1973.
[Alabama Academy of Science certificate]
Archival Resource Key
1971
12
AAAS Symposium Indigenous Foods 18-24 Feb. 1976
Archival Resource Key
1975-1976
12
Scope and Contents
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
AIBS New Orleans May 30-June 4 1976
Archival Resource Key
1975-1976
12
Scope and Contents
American Institute of Biological Sciences.
Botany & Ecology
Archival Resource Key
1972-1975
12
Scope and Contents
The Institute of Ecology, Association of Systematic Collections, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Sociedad Botanica de Mexico.
[Conference on the History of Mexican Agriculture]
Archival Resource Key
1986
12
Current Archaeological Evidence for the Beginning of American Agriculture
Archival Resource Key
1986
12
Scope and Contents
V. Gordon Childe Colloquium.
Dumbarton Oaks [Conference, Oct. 7-11, 1982]
Archival Resource Key
1982
12
Scope and Contents
Early Ceremonial Architecture in the Andes.
Economic Botany Summer, 1975
Archival Resource Key
1975
12
Scope and Contents
Society for Economic Botany.
Fulbright Confer. April 5-9, 1981
Archival Resource Key
1981
12
Scope and Contents
1981 Southern-Midwestern Conference for Visiting Fulbright Scholars, "Technology, Resouces, and Social Change."
Inst. Anthropologicas – Ciudad Universitaria. Mex[ico]. Aug 1978
Archival Resource Key
1978
12
Int. Bot. Cong. 1975
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1973-1975
12
13
Scope and Contents
International Botanical Congress, Leningrad; includes arrangements of various research trips following conference.
International Chapter Comm[ittee] SEB 1987-1988
Archival Resource Key
1987-1988
13
Scope and Contents
Society for Economic Botany.
LAS Conference
Archival Resource Key
1971-1975
13
Man & Plants in South Florida 26 April 197[5]
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
Scope and Contents
Symposium on Archaeology in South Florida.
National Science Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1978-1980
21
Scope and Contents
Grant reviews by Smith.
Conditions Governing Access
RESTRICTED until 2060.
Opium Conference
Archival Resource Key
1978
13
Scope and Contents
Opium Production, Trade and Use in Highland Southeast Asia, Philadelphia April 1978.
Palaeonutrition St. Louis May 6-8 [1976]
Archival Resource Key
1975-1976
13
Peopling of the New World
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1974-1976
13
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to television documentary for which Smith served as supporting scholar.
[Reviews of manuscripts for publication]
Archival Resource Key
1974
undated
13
[Reviews of National Geographic Society grant applications]
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
21
Conditions Governing Access
RESTRICTED until 2067.
SAA Sympos[ium]. 1977 – Early Sedentary Settlements in the moist tropics of northern S.A.
Archival Resource Key
1977
13
Scope and Contents
Society for American Archaeology.
Soc. Of Ethnobiology – Mex. City Conference
Archival Resource Key
before 1988
13
Scope and Contents
Preliminary announcement for 1988.
SAA 1981 San Diego
Archival Resource Key
1980-1981
13
Scope and Contents
South American Paleoethnobotany symposium at Society for American Archaeology conference.
SE Symposium November
Archival Resource Key
1976
13
Scope and Contents
Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
[Speaking functions]
Archival Resource Key
1983-1987
undated
13
St. Louis Symposium Sept. 23-25, 1982
Archival Resource Key
1982
13
Scope and Contents
27th Annual Systematics Symposium.
Tehuacan Summary Meeting May, 1965
Archival Resource Key
1965
13
Scope and Contents
Andover Tehuacán Conference – includes paper by Smith.
Tropical Agro-ecosystems March 23-30, 1975
Archival Resource Key
1975
13
Scope and Contents
Symposium: Tropical Agro-ecosystems, an Experimental Approach. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
[V. Gordon Childe Colloquium, Mexico July 7-12, 1986]
Archival Resource Key
1985-1987
13
University of Alabama
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
1.67 Linear feet
1964-1987
Scope and Contents
Smith was a professor in the anthropology and botany departments at the University of Alabama from 1970 to 1987. This series contains personal, departmental, admninstrative, and course materials.
See also Series 1: Correspondence.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 2 sub-series: (5.1) General Files, 1969-1987; (5.2) Courses and Student Files, 1964-1987
General Files
5.1
Archival Resource Key
1969-1987
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains Smith's personnel files, departmental minutes and memos, and administrative files. It also contains materials relating to efforts to develop a Latin American Studies program at the university. As part of the program, Smith led summer seminars in Yucatán and the Amazon Basin.
1979 FTE
Archival Resource Key
1978-1984
14
Scope and Contents
Smith's faculty activity reports.
Ala. Sesquicentennial [Colloquia] Proposal
Archival Resource Key
1980
14
Anth. Dept.
Archival Resource Key
1973-1982
14
Anth. Faculty
Archival Resource Key
1984
14
[Application for Outstanding Scholars Award]
Archival Resource Key
1980
14
Biology Dept.
Archival Resource Key
1970-1981
undated
14
Biol. Finance Comm
Archival Resource Key
1970-1971
14
Ceramics, S.W.
Archival Resource Key
1983
14
[Colleagues]
Archival Resource Key
1972
undated
14
[Donations to University of Alabama]
Archival Resource Key
1981-1983
undated
14
Equipment
Archival Resource Key
1974-1982
14
[Equipment] Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1976-1982
undated
14
Ethnobotany Facilities Grant
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1969-1973
14
[Faculty data]
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
Scope and Contents
Smith's education, work, and research background.
FAFP c. Don Alvero [Fernández Pérez]
Archival Resource Key
1971
14
Scope and Contents
Foreign Area Fellowship Program.
Graduate Studies Comm
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1970-1986
undated
15
Internat[ional] Studies Advi[sor]
Archival Resource Key
1973-1976
15
Latin American Studies
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1979-1980
15
Scope and Contents
Grant proposal for foreign language and area studies fellowships and an international studies center at the University of Alabama.
Latin America Studies
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1971-1987
15
[Miscellaneous memos & letters]
Archival Resource Key
1975-1987
15
[Salary]
Archival Resource Key
1972-1987
15
[Travel expenses]
Archival Resource Key
1971
undated
15
[University of Alabama Herbarium]
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
Scope and Contents
Write-up on herbarium by Smith(?).
University A & S. Directory Dean's Off. Memos
Archival Resource Key
1971-1976
15
Courses and Student Files
5.2
Archival Resource Key
1964-1987
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains his lecture notes and other course materials as well as files he kept on students.
Anth Bibliographies
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
undated
16
[Anthro-BY 440 Final Examination, Fall 1979]
Archival Resource Key
1979
16
Anth 441
Archival Resource Key
1971-1986
16
Ant 542 High Civilizations
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1970-1987
undated
16
Ant-BY 547 Summer 1983
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1983
16
Ant-BY 447-547
Archival Resource Key
1983
21
Conditions Governing Access
RESTRICTED until 2063.
Ant 598 1978
Archival Resource Key
1977-1984
16
The Influence of Setting on Flourescence in MesoAmerica
Archival Resource Key
1981
16
[Biology 103]
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
BY 143 Plant Geog.
Archival Resource Key
1970-1986
16
By 300 Environment & Man [Seminar] Ecology Grant Proposal
Archival Resource Key
1971
16
BY 445
Archival Resource Key
1971-1985
16
[Use of plants – for course on economic botany?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
A
Archival Resource Key
1970-1979
17
Scope and Contents
Student papers organized by subject.
B
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
undated
17
Scope and Contents
Student papers organized by subject.
C
Archival Resource Key
1964-1973
undated
17
Scope and Contents
Student papers organized by subject.
Cannabis
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
undated
17
Scope and Contents
Student papers.
[Teaching evaluations]
Archival Resource Key
1979-1986
17
Examination Questions
Archival Resource Key
1980-1984
undated
17
[Graduate students]
Archival Resource Key
1971-1986
undated
17
Scope and Contents
Examination committees Smith served on.
Abd Aziz, Rosita Wati
Archival Resource Key
1987
17
Curren, Sonny
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
17
Dyer, Christopher L.
Archival Resource Key
1977-1982
17
Hatcher, Eddie Morgan – Non Degree
Archival Resource Key
1982
17
Gyllenhaal-Davis, Charlotte
Archival Resource Key
1980-1984
17
[Kinsaul, Regina J.]
Archival Resource Key
1971-1972
17
Regina Paper
Archival Resource Key
1972
17
Lentz, David
Archival Resource Key
1978-1986
17
Merewether, Jamie
Archival Resource Key
1986-1987
17
Mettee, M.E. (Scott)
Archival Resource Key
1971
17
Prospective Students
Archival Resource Key
1971-1981
17
Reese, John
Archival Resource Key
1974
17
Rohde, Mathew C.
Archival Resource Key
1981-1983
17
Rosero-Garcia, Jaime
Archival Resource Key
1980-1982
undated
17
Sheldon, Elisabeth S.
Archival Resource Key
1978-1983
17
Thompson, James A.
Archival Resource Key
1972-1977
17
Yauman, Norbani
Archival Resource Key
1987
undated
17
Writings by Others
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
0.21 Linear feet
1960-1984
Scope and Contents
This series is comprised mostly of reprints, many of which were inscribed by the author.
Arrangement
The folders are arranged alphabetically by author.
[Bueno, Alberto Mendoza "Metodo Para Estudio y Tratamiento Cientifico de Materiales Arqueologicos"]
Archival Resource Key
1981
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
Caddell, G.M. – Plant Remains from the Cedar Creek and Upper Bear Creek Reservoirs
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
Scope and Contents
Draft.
[Cutler, Hugh C. and Thomas W. Whitaker "History and Distribution of the Cultivated Cucurbits in the Americas"]
Archival Resource Key
1961
18
[Eshbaugh, W. Hardy, "A Biosystematic and Evolutionary Study of Capsicum Baccatum (Solanaceae)"]
Archival Resource Key
1970
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Farwell, Oliver A. "Other editions of Emory's Report, 1848"]
Archival Resource Key
1910
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author to Dr. McLintock.
[Iizuka, Muneo et. Al. "Introduction and Horticultural Exploitation of Tropical America-Native Plants"]
Archival Resource Key
1977
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Lentz, David L. "Utah Juniper (Juniperus Osteosperma) Cones and Seeds from Salmon Ruin, New Mexico"]
Archival Resource Key
1984
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Mangelsdorf, Paul C. and Julián Cámara-Hernández. "Perennial Corn and Annual Teosinte Phenotypes in Crosses of Zea Diploperennis and Maize" and Mangelsdorf, Paul C.; Lewis M Roberts, and John S. Rogers "The Probable Origins of Annual Teosintes"]
Archival Resource Key
1981
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by Mangelsdorf.
[Marcus, Joyce "The Plant World of the Sixteenth- and Seventeeth-Century Lowland Maya"]
Archival Resource Key
1982
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Maxwell, Allen R. "Kadayan Personal Names and Naming"]
Archival Resource Key
1984
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Peterson, R.F., "WHEAT: Botany, Cultivation, and Utilization"]
Archival Resource Key
1965
18
[Robbins, Christine Chapman "David Hosack's Herbarium and its Linnaean Specimens"]
Archival Resource Key
1960
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Schoenwetter, James "Contributions of pollen analysis in investigations of New World agriculture"]
Archival Resource Key
1976-1977
18
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by author.
[Turner, Kenneth – Limitations of Sociobiological Theory: An Examination of the Model of Inclusive Fitness]
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
[Wells, M.J. "An Analysis of Plant Remains from Scott's Cave in the Gamtoos Valley]
Archival Resource Key
1964
18
Personal Files
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
0.21 Linear feet
1950-1953
1964-1987
Scope and Contents
Among the materials in this series are copies of Smith's curriculum vitae, a couple of articles about him, personnel files from his position as botanist at the Agriculture Research Service, some course notes from his time as a student at Harvard, and information about his naval service. The folder titled "[Family]" contains an article about his brother, H. Morgan Smith, who is an anthropologist.
[Harvard University]
Archival Resource Key
1950-1953
undated
19
Scope and Contents
List of undergraduate courses Smith took; course notes; & commencement program and ticket for Smith's graduation from graduate school.
[Agricultural Research Service]
Archival Resource Key
1964-1969
undated
19
Scope and Contents
Personnel files for position as botanist for Agricultural Research Service.
[Curriculum vitae]
Archival Resource Key
1981-1986
19
[Articles on Smith]
Archival Resource Key
1987
undated
19
[Naval service]
Archival Resource Key
1984
19
[Membership to Explorer's Club]
Archival Resource Key
1985
19
[Appointment as trustee of Margaret Edmonston Elementary School]
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
19
[Financial records]
Archival Resource Key
1976-1982
undated
19
[Insurance and health files]
Archival Resource Key
1970-1977
19
[Travel files]
Archival Resource Key
1976-1983
19
[Family]
Archival Resource Key
1987
undated
19
Choctaw Times
Archival Resource Key
1968-1972
19
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1952
1975-1986
undated
19
Photographs
Series 8
Archival Resource Key
0.42 Linear feet
circa 1960s-1982
Scope and Contents
This series is comprised mostly of photographs from Smith's fieldwork in Mexico, Peru, and Panama as well as photos of plant remains. Some of the photos appear to be for publication. There are also two photos from unidentified conferences that Smith attended.
More photographs can be found in Series 2: Research and Series 3: Writings.
[Photos of excavation of Coxcatlan Cave, camp, plant remains, and an office]
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives and contact sheet – photos of Tehuacan excavation led by Richard MacNeish.
Tehuacan
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Photos of maps, charts, and plant remains; for publication?
[Oaxaca Valley]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives.
Oaxaca 1969
Archival Resource Key
1969
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives of plant remains with notes.
[Oaxaca Valley plant remains]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives.
Maiz Nochixtlan
Archival Resource Key
1973
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives and prints
Nochixtlan plant remains
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives and prints.
Mitla plant remains
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives.
Tikal – San José Mogote
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives of plant remains.
[Yucatán prints & negatives]
Archival Resource Key
1975 January
20
Scope and Contents
Images of market and houses.
[Mexico negatives]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
[Figures for publication?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Photos of Oaxaca and Valley of Mexico.
[Map of Tehuacán]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
For publication?
[Negatives of maps of Oaxaca Valley and Valley of Mexico]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
For publication?
Guitarrero Cave
Archival Resource Key
1980
20
[Panama negatives]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Panamá plant remains
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives.
Copies of Slides Pan 14-103
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Negatives of plant remains
Panama
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Prints of plant remains.
Pochote neg.
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
[Fruit of Persea americana var. drymifolia]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Scope and Contents
Cropped version of figure 3 published in "Archaeological Evidence for Selection in Avocado."
[Unidentified plant remains]
Archival Resource Key
20
Botanical Conference 1964?
Archival Resource Key
probably 1964
20
Scope and Contents
Some of the people in the photo are identified.
[Group photograph]
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960s
20
Scope and Contents
From a conference Smith attended? Some of the people in the photo are identified.
University of the Mayab Merida
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
[Satellite photo of Earth]
Archival Resource Key
1967 November 19
20
[Empty sleeves and notes found with photographs from Latin America]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
Nikon Info Vivitar
Archival Resource Key
1979-1982
20