National Anthropological Archives
Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers
Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Stirling, Marion
NAA.2016-24
Archival Resource Key
37.94 Linear feet
84 boxes, 3 map folders
1876-2004, undated
bulk 1921-1975
The Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers, 1876-2004 (bulk 1921-1975), document the professional and personal lives of Matthew Stirling, Smithsonian archaeologist and Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1928-1957), and his wife and constant collaborator, Marion Stirling Pugh. The bulk of the material is professional in nature and includes material from Matthew's early career in the 1920s, the careers of Matthew and Marion together from when they married in 1933 to Matthew's death in 1975, and Marion's life and work from 1975 until her death in 2001.
The majority of the documentation relates to the investigation of the Olmec culture in Mexico by the Stirlings, including the discoveries of eight colossal Olmec heads. In addition, the collection documents their work in Panama, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, looking for connections between Mesoamerica and South America. Materials include field notes, journals, correspondence, photographs, writings, clippings, ephemera, articles, and scrapbooks.
English
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Biographical note
MATTHEW WILLIAMS STIRLING:
Matthew Williams Stirling, archaeologist and Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1928-1957), was born on August 28, 1896 in Salinas, California. After serving as an Ensign in the Navy from 1917-1919, he graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology in 1920 from the University of California, Berkeley studying under T.T. Waterman, Alfred L. Kroeber, and E.W. Gifford. From 1920-1921 he worked as a teaching fellow at the university, where he taught William Duncan Strong. Stirling's first tenure at the Smithsonian (then the U.S. National Museum (USNM)) was from 1921-1924, first as a museum aide, then as an Assistant Curator of Ethnology. While in the position he took night classes at George Washington University and received his M.A. in 1922. He received an honorary Sc.D. from Tampa University in 1943. In 1924, Stirling resigned his position at the museum and embarked on a journey to South American with his friend Perry Patton. From 1925-1927 he embarked on the Smithsonian sponsored American-Dutch Expedition to Papua New Guinea to explore the previously unknown interior region of Dutch New Guinea. Stirling was appointed Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in 1928 and married Marion Illig in 1933. They worked together for the next 40 years studying Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. They had two children (Matthew W. Stirling Jr. in 1938 and Ariana Stirling in 1942). Stirling retired as Director of the B.A.E. on December 31, 1957. He died January 23, 1975 in Washington, D.C.
Sources consulted:
Collins, Henry B. "Matthew Williams Stirling, 1896-1975."
American Anthropologist, New Series, 78, no. 4 (1976): 886-88.
Coe, Michael D. "Matthew Williams Stirling, 1896-1975."
American Antiquity 41, no. 1 (1976): 67-73.
MARION STIRLING PUGH:
Marion Stirling Pugh (nee Illig) was born in Middletown, New York on May 12, 1911. She graduated from Rider College in 1930 and came to Washington D.C. in 1931 where she took a job as a secretary to the Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Matthew Stirling. She attended night school at George Washington University from 1931-1933 where she studied anthropology, geology, and Russian. Marion and Matthew were married on December 11, 1933 and promptly embarked on a honeymoon expedition to Florida where Matthew was in charge of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. They worked together for the next 40 years studying Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. They had two children (Matthew W. Stirling Jr. in 1938 and Ariana Stirling in 1942).
Marion was an active member of the Society of Women Geographers and was elected to the executive board in 1954. She served as president of the society from 1960-1963 and 1969-1972. She had a long-time association with the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. and in the 1970s established what would become the Latin American Research Fund to secure Latin American ethnographic textiles for the museum.
After Matthew's death in 1975, Marion married General John Ramsey Pugh in 1977. Pugh died in 1994. Marion continued to travel the world, including making a trip to Antarctica in her 80s, until her death on April 24, 2001 in Tucson, Arizona.
Sources consulted:
"Marion Stirling Pugh, 89."
The Washington Post. May 11, 2001. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/05/11/marion-stirling-pugh-89/01329ba8-f32b-4d66-83fb-9f3c311aaefb/?utm_term=.ab20f25e060b (accessed May 16, 2019).
Conroy, Sarah Booth. "Archaeologist Marion Pugh, Digging Up Memories."
The Washington Post. July 8, 1996. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/07/08/archaeologist-marion-pugh-digging-up-memories/09f465e7-5900-455e-bcd5-b81828a502d5/?utm_term=.703ff0e84313 (accessed May 16, 2019).
Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh Chronology
1896 August 28
Matthew Williams Stirling born in Salinas, California to Ariana and John Williams Stirling
1911 May 12
Marion Illig born in Middletown, New York
1914-1920
Matthew Stirling attended the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his B.A. in Anthropology in 1920. He studied under A.L. Kroeber, T.T. Waterman, and E.W. Gifford.
1917-1919
Matthew Stirling served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy during World War I
1920
Matthew Stirling's travels to Europe with his parents
1920-1921
Matthew Stirling worked as teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and taught William Duncan Strong
1921-1924
Matthew Stirling worked at the United States National Museum (USNM), first as a Museum Aide and then as an Assistant Curator of Ethnology
1922
Matthew Stirling received Master of Arts degree from George Washington University, studying under Truman Michelson
Matthew Stirling went on a trip to the cave country of France and Spain with friend Perry J. Patton
1923 Winter
Matthew Stirling sent by J. Walter Fewkes to excavate at Weedon (or Weeden) Island, Florida
1924 Spring
Matthew Stirling resigned from his Smithsonian USNM post
1924 Summer
Matthew Stirling conducted excavations in Mobridge, South Dakota
1924 July
Matthew Stirling went on a trip to South America with friend, Perry J. Patton
1924 Winter
Matthew Stirling continued excavations in Weedon Island, FL
1924-1925
Matthew Stirling sold real estate on Weedon Island, Florida to fund the expedition to Papua New Guinea in the winters of 1924 and 1925
1925-1927
Matthew Stirling organized and led the American-Dutch Expedition (or Smithsonian Institution-Dutch Colonial Government expedition) to Papua New Guinea
1928
Matthew Stirling named Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) at the Smithsonian Institution
1929 March-April
Matthew Stirling surveyed mounds in Tampa Bay and Calusa areas of Florida
1930s
Matthew Stirling conducted various archaeological excavations in Georgia and Florida under the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1930
Marion Illig received a Bachelor of Science degree from Rider College
From February through April, Mathew Stirling conducted more work on Tampa Bay mounds in Florida
In July, Matthew Stirling went to Marfa, Texas to examine pictographs in caves and also went to Deeth, Nevada
1931 September-1932 March
Matthew Stirling a member of the Latin American Expedition to South and Central America. He studied the Tule/Kuna Indians in Panama and the Jivaro in Ecuador
1931-1933
Marion Illig moved to Washington D.C. to attend George Washington University and worked at the BAE as a secretary for Matthew Stirling
1933 December 11
Matthew and Marion Stirling married
1933 December-1934 May 5
Matthew Stirling supervised Federal Civil Works Administration (or Federal Emergency Relief Administration) projects in Florida, also called Florida Federal Relief (Bradenton, Perico Island, Canaveral Island, and Belle Glade) and BAE excavations in Macon, Georgia
1934 October
Conducted archaeological work in King, Queen, and Halifax counties in Virginia and Granville City, North Carolina
1935
Matthew Stirling acted as the president of the Anthropological Society of Washington
Expedition to Guatemala, Honduras, and Yucatan Peninsula to study the Maya and the Quché (or Quiche) Indians from January to February 15, 1935
1935-1936
Matthew Stirling acted as the vice president of the American Anthropological Association
1936
Matthew Stirling and WPA workers conducted archaeological surveys in southern Florida in July 1936
Matthew and Marion Stirling visited an excavation in Macon, Georgia in Fall 1936
Matthew Stirling supervised archaeological projects in Hillsborough and Dade Counties in Florida
1938 January-March
Matthew and Marion Stirling take first field trip to Mexico, visiting Tres Zapotes
1938 December 24-1939 April 15
First Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico with C.W. Weiant. Excavated Tres Zapotes and discovered lower portion of Stela C
1939
Matthew Stirling received his first Franklyn L. Burr Award from the National Geographic Society
1939 December 26-1940 April 20
Second Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico with Dr. Philip Drucker. Excavated Cerro de las Mesas and La Venta
1940 December 29-1941 April 30
Third Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico with Dr. Philip Drucker. Excavated Cerro de las Mesas and Izapa
1941
Matthew and Marion Stirling received the Franklyn L. Burr Award from the National Geographic Society (shared with Richard Hewitt Stewart)
1942 April
Matthew Stirling visited Dr. Philip Drucker at La Venta
1942 April-June
Fourth Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico. Visited Tuxtla Gutierrez, Zoque, Tzotzil and Chamula Indians, and Palenque
1943
Fifth Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico with Dr. Waldo R. Wedel. Excavated La Venta
Matthew Stirling awarded honorary Doctor of Science from Tampa University
1944 January 28-May
Sixth Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico. Visited Michoacán, Jalisco, Uruapan, Tlaquepaque, and Tarascan Indians from Lake Pátzcuaro and conducted archaeological surveys in Southern Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche
1945 January 22-May 31
Seventh Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico. Excavated La Venta, San Lorenzo, Piedra Parada, and Tapachula
1946 January 26-April
Eighth Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico with Dr. Philip Drucker. Excavated San Lorenzo
1947
Matthew Stirling becomes Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology (title changed from "Chief")
1947 December-1948
First Smithsonian Institution/ National Geographic Society Expeditions to Panama including Cocle, Balboa, Chitre, Parita (Sixto Pinilla Place), Monagrillo, and El Hatillo
1949
Second Smithsonian Institution/ National Geographic Society Expedition to Panama
1951
Third Smithsonian Institution/ National Geographic Society Expedition to Panama
1953
Fourth Smithsonian Institution/ National Geographic Society Expedition to Panama
1954
Marion Stirling elected to the executive board of the Society of Women Geographers
1955
"Pan Am" (or Inter-American Highway) Road Trip
1956-1957
Smithsonian Institution/ National Geographic Society Expedition to Ecuador. Excavated in the ManabÍ Province
1957 December 31
Matthew Stirling retired as Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology
1958
Matthew Stirling received his third Franklyn L. Burr Award from the National Geographic Society
1960-1963
Marion Stirling acted as president for the Society of Women Geographers for the first time
1960-1975
Matthew Stirling's membership in the National Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration
1961
Trip to Mexico
Marion Stirling's trip to Peru
Matthew Stirling collaborated with Dr. L.S.B. Leakey through the NGS Committee on Research and Exploration
1963
Trip to Nicaragua
1964
Expedition to Costa Rica
Trip to Asia
1967
International Tuna Match, Bahamas
1968
Trip to New Guinea
Attended the Cultural Olympics in Mexico City
1969
Trip to Turkey, Bali, Etc.
1969-1972
Marion Stirling acted as president for the Society of Women Geographers for the second time
1972
Trip to Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands
Farmer finds upper portion of Stela C, confirming Matthew Stirling's original date as 31 B.C.
1972-1973
Trip to Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
1974
Marion Stirling established the Mexican Research Fund (now the Latin American Research fund) for the Textile Museum
1975 January 23
Matthew Williams Stirling died in Washington D.C.
1977
Marion Stirling married Major General John Ramsey Pugh
1985
Marion Stirling Pugh received the Distinguished Service Medal from the Peruvian Embassy
1994
Death of Major General John Ramsey Pugh
Marion Stirling Pugh's trip to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco
1995
Marion Stirling Pugh's trip to Antarctica and the Falkland Islands
1996
Marion Stirling Pugh's trip to China, and separately to Belize and Honduras
2001 April 24
Marion Stirling Pugh died in Tucson, Arizona
Processing Information
The materials in the 2016 accession were inventoried by Molly Kamph in 2016 and the included timeline was written by Kamph at that time. Katie Duvall rehoused and arranged all the materials into their current order and completed the finding aid in 2019. Original organizational schemas and filing titles were maintained wherever possible. Katie Duvall also intellectually integrated the material from the Matthew W. Stirling papers (processed by Paula Fleming in 1992) into this inventory. That material appears as boxes 55-80 in this finding aid. Please contact the reference archivist at the NAA for further information about the previous finding aid.
Processed and encoded by Katie Duvall, May 2019.
Scope and Contents
The Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers, 1876-2004 (bulk 1921-1975), document the professional and personal lives of Matthew Stirling, Smithsonian archaeologist, and Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1928-1957), and his wife and constant collaborator, Marion Stirling Pugh. The bulk of the material is professional in nature and includes material from Matthew's early career in the 1920s, the careers of Matthew and Marion together from when they married in 1933 to Matthew's death in 1975, and Marion's life and work from 1975 until her death in 2001.
The majority of the documentation relates to the investigation of the Olmec culture in Mexico by the Stirlings, including the discoveries of eight colossal Olmec heads. In addition, the collection documents their work in Panama, Ecuador, and Costa Rica, looking for connections between Mesoamerica and South America. Materials include field notes, journals, correspondence, photographs, writings, clippings, ephemera, articles, and scrapbooks.
Series 1. Field work, 1921-1998 (bulk 1921-1975) and undated, documents the archaeological expeditions undertaken by Matthew and Marion Stirling over a span of 40 years. This includes expeditions Matthew undertook prior to his marriage and collaboration with Marion to Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, and Florida, and extensive documentation of expeditions they embarked on together to Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.
Series 2. Other travels, 1946-1972 is comprised of materials documenting trips the Stirlings took that, for the most part, did not include field work. This includes trips for both business and personal travel, however it was common for the two to overlap.
Series 3. Administrative files, 1924-1980 and undated is partly comprised of materials the Stirlings compiled and organized into an alphabetical filing structure and also of materials that are administrative in nature and did not directly relate to other categories outlined in this finding aid.
Series 4 Writings and lectures, 1925-1990 and undated, consists of articles, papers, drafts, and notes primarily written by Matthew Stirling, with some materials co-written by Marion, and documentation relating to presentations the Stirlings gave regarding their field work and other professional matters. Also included is material relating to films that were made about the Stirling's work.
Series 5. Personal and family materials, 1880-1996 and undated, consists of documents, photographs, and ephemera that are personal in nature. This includes items relating to Matthew Stirling's young life and family history, photographs, correspondence, and clippings relating to his extended family, and photographs of and correspondence from Matt and Marion's children.
Series 6. Anthropological journals, 1876-1959, consists of collections of anthropological journals collected and categorized for reference and research purposes.
Series 7. Marion Stirling Pugh, 1924-2004 (bulk 1948-2002) and undated, consists of materials relating to endeavors Marion undertook without Matthew, primarily relating to her participation in the Society of Women Geographers from 1948-2000 and her life after Matthew died in 1975 until her death in 2001.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 7 series: 1) Field work, 1921-1998 (bulk 1921-1975), undated; 2) Other travels, 1946-1972; 3) Administrative files, 1924-1980, undated; 4) Writings and lectures, 1925-1990, undated; 5) Personal and family materials, 1880-1996, undated; 6) Anthropological journals, 1876-1959; 7) Marion Stirling Pugh, 1924-2004 (bulk 1948-2002), undated.
Conditions Governing Access
The Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers are open for research.
The scrapbooks listed in Series 1.7 are restricted due to preservation concerns. Please contact the reference archivist for more information.
Access to the Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The bulk of these papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives in 2016 by Matthew and Marion Stirling's grandchildren, Jessica Gronberg and Jeremy Withers.
Preferred Citation
Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Separated Materials
Film materials were transferred to the Human Studies Film Archive (HSFA).
Selected Bibliography
This is a selected bibliography prioritizing materials Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh worked on together. A comprehensive bibliography can be found here: Coe, Michael D. "Matthew Williams Stirling, 1896-1975."
American Antiquity 41, no. 1 (1976): 67-73.
Stirling, Matthew W. "Exploration of the paleolithic regions of France and Spain." Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1922 (1923): 87-88.
Stirling, Matthew W. "A visit to pygmyland." Reader's Digest 6 (1928): 589-590.
Stirling, Matthew W. "Head Hunters of the Amazon." The Scientific Monthly 36, no. 3 (1933): 264-66.
Stirling, Matthew W. "Jivaro Shamanism." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 72, no. 3 (1933): 137-45.
Stirling, Matthew and Marion Stirling. "Finding jewels of jade in a Mexican swamp." National Geographic Magazine 82 (1942): 635-661.
Stirling, Matthew W. "Stone monuments of Southern Mexico." Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 138 (1943).
Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "Tarqui, an early site in Manabi Province, Ecuador." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 63, Bulletin 196 (1963): 1-28.
Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "Archaeological notes on Almirante Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 72, Bulletin 191 (1964): 255-284.
Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "The archeology of Taboga, Uraba and Taboguila Islands, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 73, Bulletin 191 (1964): 285-348.
Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "El Limon, an early tomb site in Cocle Province, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 71, Bulletin 191 (1964): 247-254.
Olmec (archaeological culture)
Archaeology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Papua New Guinea
Women archaeologists
Mexico
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Panama
Field notes
Photographs
Correspondence
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Field work
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1921-1998, undated
bulk 1921-1975
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 7 subseries: 1.1 Papua New Guinea, 1925-1996 (bulk 1925-1928), undated; 1.2 Mexico, 1921-1998 (bulk 1938-1972), undated; 1.3 Panama, 1943-1962, undated; 1.4 Ecuador, 1930-1968, undated; 1.5 Costa Rica, 1963-1965, undated; 1.6 Other expeditions, 1921-1975 (bulk 1921-1935), undated; 1.7 Scrapbooks, 1925-1953.
Scope and Contents
Series 1. Field work, 1921-1998 (bulk 1921-1975) and undated, documents the archaeological expeditions undertaken by Matthew and Marion Stirling over a span of 40 years. This includes expeditions Matthew undertook prior to his marriage and collaboration with Marion (they married in 1933) to Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, and Florida, and extensive documentation of expeditions they embarked on together to Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. Materials include field notes, journals, correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings, ephemera, expense reports, travel itineraries, articles, and scrapbooks.
The bulk of the materials in this series relate to Matthew Stirling's 1925-1927 American-Dutch Expedition to Papua New Guinea and the eight Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society (SI/NGS) expeditions Matthew and Marion Stirling undertook to various sites in Mexico between 1938 and 1946. The Papua New Guinea materials include field notes, logistical documents, and photographs documenting the expedition. In addition Matthew Stirling's film/lecture tour "By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" that followed the expedition is well documented. The Mexico materials include extensive field notes, correspondence, and photographs documenting the expeditions to sites such as Tres Zapotes, La Venta, Cerro de las Mesas, Izapa, and San Lorenzo, and discoveries regarding Olmec culture, including the excavations of eight colossal Olmec heads.
The remainder of the materials document additional joint SI/NGS expeditions, including four to Panama between 1947 and 1953 and one to Ecuador in 1957; a Latin American Expedition to South and Central America from 1931-1932 where Matthew Stirling primarily conducted ethnographic studies of the Jivaro of Ecuador; an expedition to Costa Rica in 1964; and various other expeditions that Matthew (and sometimes Marion) participated in primarily during the 1920s and 1930s.
Papua New Guinea
1.1
Archival Resource Key
1925-1996, undated
bulk 1925-1928
Arrangement
Arranged in 4 subseries: 1.1.1 Field notes and other documents, 1925-1927; 1.1.2 Correspondence, 1921-1933, undated; 1.1.3 Lecture tour, press, and miscellaneous items, 1921-1996, undated; 1.1.4 Photographs, 1925-1927, undated.
All subseries are arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Subseries 1.1 Papua New Guinea, 1925-1996 and undated, comprises of materials related to the 1925-1927 American-Dutch Expedition to Papua New Guinea led by Matthew Stirling. This expedition was the first to use a hydroplane to explore the interior of Dutch New Guinea. Materials include field notes, journals, correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings, and ephemera.
Subseries 1.1.1 Field notes and other documents, includes accounting of expenses, timelines, maps, ethnographic notes, vocabularies, and weather reports in addition to various journals and journal compilations and copies by both Stirling and Stanley Hedberg. Subseries 1.1.2 Correspondence primarily includes letters from Matthew Stirling to his family and letters from Stanley Hedberg to Matthew and Mrs. Stirling (Matthew's mother). Letters deal with the expedition itself along with logistics for the ensuing film/lecture tour "By Aeroplane to Pygmyland." Subseries 1.1.3 Lecture tour, press, and miscellaneous items, contains more press and schedules for the lecture tour, in addition to other miscellaneous materials related to the New Guinea expedition including research materials and articles about the expedition from the 1970s. Subseries 1.1.4 Photographs, contains photographs from the expedition including travel to and from New Guinea.
Field notes and other documents
1.1.1
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1925-1927
Matthew and Dick's expense account New Guinea expedition
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1925
1
New Guinea expense family
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1925-1926
1
Stirling expedition: Dutch, New Guinea contract
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1926
1
Misc. manuscript and typescript notes; timelines of New Guinea expedition
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circa 1926
56
Maps of New Guinea
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2 Folders
1926
60
3
The Journal of a Dutch Expedition to New Guinea
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3 Folders
1926
1
Netherlands-American Expedition to New Guinea (copy of journal)
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3 Folders
1926
1
Typescript tissue carbons of excerpts from New Guinea journal
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1926
56
Stanley Hedberg journal: Typescript carbon copy of diary (excerpts)
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23 May-29 June 1926
56
Stanley Hedberg journal: Typescript carbon copy of diary (excerpts)
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18 July-24 September 1926
56
Stanley Hedberg journal: Typescript carbon copy of diary (excerpts)
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25 September-7 November 1926
56
Ms. copy of diary (excerpts)
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9 April-9 September 1926
56
New Guinea Journal: Book 1
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7 April-9 August 1926
55
New Guinea Journal: Book 2
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10 August 1926-23 January 1927
55
Partial list of expenses on New Guinea trip
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1926-1927
1
Draft typescript of diary
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7 April 1926-23 January 1927
56
Draft typescript carbon copy of diary
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7 April 1926-23 January 1927
56
Misc. typescript carbon copies of misc. sections/versions New Guinea diary
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undated
56
"Collection from New Guinea"
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undated
55
"The Dutch-American Expedition to New Guinea"
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undated
55
"Expeditie Nassau-Gebergte Ned. Nieuw-Guinea"
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undated
55
Ethnographic notes
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undated
55
Introduction to New Guinea Journals; Editor's forward
Archival Resource Key
undated
55
"Netherlands-American Expedition to New Guinea 1926" (copy)
Archival Resource Key
undated
55
Vocabularies
Archival Resource Key
undated
55
Weather reports
Archival Resource Key
undated
55
Correspondence
1.1.2
Archival Resource Key
1925-1928, undated
M.W.S. to family
Archival Resource Key
1925
1
M.W.S. to Mrs. J.W. Stirling (his mother)
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1925 November-1926 March
1
M.W.S. to Mrs. J.W. Stirling
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1926 April-1926 May
1
M.W.S. to Mrs. J.W. Stirling
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1926 June-1926 September
1
New Guinea from M.W.S. (includes journal excerpts)
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2 Folders
1926
2
New Guinea from M.W.S. (never sent)
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circa 1926
2
Copies of New Guinea letters
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1926
2
Misc. correspondence to Mrs. J.W. Stirling
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1927
2
Stanley Hedberg to Mrs. Stirling (M.W.S. mother)
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1927
2
Stanley Hedberg to M.W.S.
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1927 April-May
2
Stanley Hedberg to M.W.S.
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1927 June
2
Stanley Hedberg to M.W.S.
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1927 July
2
Stanley Hedberg to M.W.S.
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1927 August-September
2
M.W.S. to Mrs. J.W. Stirling (letters from Stanley Hedberg enclosed w/ M.W.S. correspondence)
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1927-1928
2
Associated press to Mrs. J.W. Stirling (Stanley?)
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1927-1928
2
Miscellaneous to M.W.S.
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1927-1928
2
Matt's letters to his mother (New Guinea life?)
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1928, undated
2
Inquiry from Dept. of Agriculture (New Guinea)
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1928
2
Lecture tour, press, and miscellaneous items
1.1.3
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1925-1996, undated
New Guinea expedition: Start of expedition
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2 Folders
1925
58
"Rouffaer River Papuans"
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circa 1926
2
New Guinea expedition: Reports from field and return
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1926-1927
58
New Guinea expedition: Reports from field and return
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5 Folders
1926-1928
58
1
New Guinea expedition: Clippings about expedition
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1927
2
"California Monthly" press about MWS, New Guinea and lectures
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1927
2
The Pond Bureau: Booking slips for speaking engagements
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1927
2
Lecture itinerary
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circa 1927 January-February
2
The Geographic Society of Chicago: Brochure for lecture series with M.W.S.
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circa 1927
2
"Adventures in Pygmy Land" lecture tour
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2 Folders
1927-1928
2
New Guinea speaking engagements: Ephemera, notes, narratives, itineraries
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2 Folders
1927-1929
2
Correspondence regarding New Guinea speaking engagements
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2 Folders
1927-1929
3
Lecture announcements and posters
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2 Folders
1927-1932
60
2
"Matthew Stirling's Adventures in the Land that God Forgot" The American Magazine
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1929 August
3
Publicity: Articles about MWS, New Guinea
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1929, 1970
3
New Guinea expedition: Science Service report re: Stirling
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1934
58
Copy of State Department dispatch re: New Guinea expedition (Le Roux)
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circa 1939
55
"Flight to the Stone Age" published in the 1975 issue of the Explorers Journal
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1975
3
Pictures Matt sent to Explorers Journal for New Guinea airplane story ("Flight to the Stone Age")
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1975 September
3
Copies of articles about New Guinea expedition
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1975, undated
3
New Guinea correspondence regarding use of movie film
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1975-1983
3
New Guinea tape translation
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1996
3
"By Aeroplane to Pygmy Land" (typescript)
Archival Resource Key
undated
55
Lecture notes
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undated
55
"New Guinea expedition by the Smithsonian Institution and the Netherlands government 1926-1927" film notes
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undated
55
"Report on the Moluccas and Netherlands New Guinea"
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undated
55
Wirz "Anthropological and Ethnological Results of the Central New Guinea Expedition 1921-1922"
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undated
57
Wirz "Diary of an Expedition into the Interior of Dutch New Guinea, 1925"
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undated
57
Photographs
1.1.4
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1925-1927, undated
Scope and Contents
Boxes 68-71 primarily consist of copy and safety negatives. Boxes 72-74 are glass negatives and glass lantern slides. Boxes 79-80 contain the original negafile and negative jackets (with captions) for the Papua New Guinea materials.
Series "En Route":
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California
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1925
61
Illinois
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1925
61
On board ship
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1925
61
Soerabaia
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1925
61
Macassar
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1925
61
Ambon
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1925
61
Manokwari
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1925
61
Soeroei, Island of Japan
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1925
61
Shimmusaki; the Inland Sea
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1925
61
New Guinea (arrival there)
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1925
61
Singapore
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1925
61
Kobe and inland (return trip?)
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circa 1925
61
Manila (return trip?)
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circa 1925
61
Shanghai (return trip?)
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circa 1925
61
Hong Kong (return trip?)
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circa 1925
61
Unidentified locations
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circa 1925
61
Series "A"
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10 Folders
1925-1927
61
Series "B"
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10 Folders
1925-1927
61
Series "C"
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9 Folders
1925-1927
61
62
Series "D"
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6 Folders
1925-1927
62
Series "W"
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13 Folders
1925-1927
62
Series "X"
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15 Folders
1925-1927
62
63
Series "Y"
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12 Folders
1925-1927
63
Series "Z"
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5 Folders
1925-1927
63
Series "Air"
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4 Folders
1925-1927
64
Series "Arb":
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Published images: By Aeroplane to Pygmy Land"
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Aerial
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1925-1927
64
Published images: S.I. War Background series #9
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Airplane, views of
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Boats and river scenes
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Expedition camps
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Expedition members and acquaintances
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Natives portraits
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Natives groups
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Native structures
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Scenic, unidentified locations
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1925-1927
64
Unpublished images: Misc., dinner party
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1925-1927
64
Prints from glass negatives
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1925-1927
64
Unsorted prints
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6 Folders
1925-1927
64
65
New Guinea photograph
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1926
3
New Guinea photograph "A couple of down river Papuans with Matthew in the center"
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circa 1926
3
New Guinea photographs
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circa 1926
3
New Guinea photographs for Gonzalez [?]
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undated
3
Captions for photographs
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undated
55
Various copy and safety negatives
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68
69
70
71
Glass negatives and glass lantern slides
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72
73
74
Original negafile and negative jackets (with captions)
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circa 1925-circa 1927
79
80
Mexico
1.2
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1921-1998, undated
bulk 1938-1972
Arrangement
Arranged in 3 subseries: 1.2.1 Field notes and other documentation, 1938-1998, undated; 1.2.2 Correspondence, 1921-1960; 1.2.3 Photographs, 1933-1971, undated.
All subseries are arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Series 1.2 Mexico, 1921-1998 and undated, primarily comprises materials related to the eight Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society expeditions to Mexico that took place between 1938 and 1946. There are also materials from trips the Stirlings took to Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s. Materials include field notes, correspondence, photographs, expense reports, travel itineraries, and clippings.
Documentation of a number of sites in Mexico, including Tres Zapotes, Cerro de las Mesas, La Venta, Izapa, and San Lorenzo, exist in these materials. Marion accompanied Matthew on almost all of these expeditions and the record keeping appears to have been taken on by primarily by Marion with the bulk of the correspondence being from Marion to Matthew's mother and her parents. Also included are the Stirling's field notes and photographs documenting the journeys to the sites, the logistics of living in the jungle, people they met and worked with, the excavations, and the artifacts that were discovered, including eight colossal Olmec heads.
Field notes and other documentation
1.2.1
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1938-1998, undated
Tres Zapotes notes: Letter 1938-39, Matt's first trip, Weiant's letters re: setting up camp
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1938
3
Notes: To Mexico with Family
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1938
3
Mexico: Tres Zapotes (notes)
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2 Folders
1938-1939
3
NGS/SI expedition to Vera Cruz: Mexican immigration paperwork and permission
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1938-1939
3
Expenses: NGS/SI archeological expedition to Mexico
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1938-1939
3
Mexico (Tres Zapotes): Typescript field notes
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30 December 1938-16 April 1939
57
Mexico: Clippings and pictures (souvenirs and ephemera)
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1938-1943
3
Character studies: Maria the cook, etc.; Odds and ends
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1939
3
Payroll, Tres Zapotes
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1939
4
Field notes
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2 Folders
1939-1940
4
NGS/SI expedition to Tres Zapotes, Mexico: Expenses
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1939-1940
4
Mexican permits and contracts
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1939-1941
4
Miscellaneous Mexico
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1939-1944
4
Clippings: Mexico expeditions
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2 Folders
1939-1972
58
Typed field notes [?], Veracruz
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1940
4
Certificate from State Dept. to attend First Inter-American on Indian Life
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1940
4
Cerro de las Mesas, field notes
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1941
4
Notebooks
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1941
4
Notes
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1941
4
Cerro de las Mesas cooking
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1941
4
NGS/SI expedition to Cerro de las Mesas, expenses
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1941
4
Clippings from Washington newspapers about the Stirlings
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1941 December 14
4
NGS accounts
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1941-1945
4
Cerro de las Mesas, Izapa (list of things we took to Museum, misc. notes for talks, etc)
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1941, 1998
4
La Venta and Palenque: Field notebook
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1942
4
La Venta: Field notebook
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1942
4
La Venta [?]: Field notebook
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1942
4
La Venta (Chiapas Congress, Palenque)
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1942
4
Mexican songs
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1942
4
Mexican permits and contracts
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1942-1946
4
Mexico: La Venta, Rio Playas "Diary of 1943 Smithsonian Inst. - Nat. Geographic Society Expedition to Mexico..."
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1943
4
Travel and field notes: Mexico (Matt)
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1943
5
La Venta: Matt's diary (1 original and 1 copy)
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1943
5
"Tabla comparativa de estratigrafia cultural en la American Prehispanica"
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1943
5
Expenses 1945-1946
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1943-1946
5
Mexico: Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche survey
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3 Folders
1944
5
Field notebook: Rio de las Playas survey?
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1944
5
Expense account, receipts, expedition to Mexico
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1944
5
M.W. Stirling field notebook: Mexico
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1945
5
Correspondence and Chiapas notes
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4 Folders
1945
5
"M.W. Stirling original notes" Chiapas, Museo Tuxtla, etc
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1945, undated
6
M.W. Stirling field notebook: San Lorenzo
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1946
6
Mexico (San Lorenzo), MWS notes
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1946
6
San Lorenzo, Drucker notes
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1946
6
Travel and field notes: Mexico
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1957
6
Cerro de las Mesas, Veracruz: Receipts, correspondence
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1960
6
Cerro de las Mesas
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2 Folders
1960
6
Cerro de las Mesas: Field notes
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1960
6
Cerro de las Mesas: Field notes (M.W. Stirling, Jr.)
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1960
6
Mexico: Pahuatlan and West Coast of Mexico
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1961
6
1961: Pahuatlan, etc
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1961-1962
6
1962: Mexico: Congress of Americanists, August
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1962
6
Travel and field notes: San Lorenzo
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1967
6
Stela "C" clipplings
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3 Folders
1972
6
7
Material on Chiapas
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undated
7
Jade monuments (Cerro de las Mesas)
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undated
7
Newspaper clipping: "Mystery Head"
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undated
7
Miscellaneous Mexico notes: Tres Zapotes, etc.
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undated
7
Correspondence
1.2.2
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1921-1960
Letter E.R. Dunn regarding 1921 trip to Vera Cruz (includes photographs)
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1921, 1939
7
Letters, Mexico to Rhona
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1935
7
Marion Stirling: Letters to parents (originals)
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1938-1939
7
Mexico 1939
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1938-1939
7
Matt's letters to me [Marion] from Mexico (originals)
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1938-1942
7
Matt's letters to me [Marion] from Mexico (copies)
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1938-1942
7
Marion Stirling: Tres Zapotes correspondence (copies)
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1939
7
Marion Stirling: 1939 letters to parents (copies)
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1939
7
Marion Stirling: Letters to parents (copies)
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1939
7
Marion Stirling: 1939 letters to parents (additional copies)
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1939
7
Marion Stirling: Letters to Hildebrands (copies)
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1939
8
Correspondence and permits Mexican government
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1939
8
Ricardo Gutierrez correspondence
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1939-1940
8
Sites in Mexico
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1939-1940
8
Marion Stirling: My talks and letters, Hildebrands
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1939-1941
8
Marion Stirling correspondence: Letters to parents
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1940
8
Marion Stirling: Letters to parents (copies)
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2 Folders
1940
8
Marion Stirling: Correspondence to Mrs. J.W. Stirling
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1940
8
Marion Stirling: Postcards to Mrs. J.W. Stirling
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1940
8
Marion Stirling: Letters to Hildebrands (copies)
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1940
8
Marion Stirling: Correspondence, Cerro de las Mesas, assorted letters, Ma, etc
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1940-1941
8
Letters from my Mexican girls, Corrido
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1940-1946
8
Marion Stirling: Correspondence to Mrs. J.W. Stirling
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1941 March-April
8
Marion Stirling: Correspondence, Cerro de las Mesas and Tapachula, letters to parents
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1941
8
Marion Stirling: Letters Cerro de las Mesas and Izapa (various copies)
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1941
8
Marion Stirling: Letters to Mrs. Stirling (copies)
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1941
8
Marion Stirling: Letters to parents (copies)
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1941
8
Marion Stirling: Letters to Hildebrands, Dorothy Graf, and Lucy (copies)
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1941
8
Marion Stirling: Assorted copies out of order
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1941
9
Letters from Covarrubias, Morley, Ida [sp?]; Photographs, illustrations, etc., Cerro de las Mesas stelae
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1941-1942
9
Mexico
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1941-1942
9
Mexican letters
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1941-1949
9
Letters (we visit Drucker at his camp and take jade to meeting, April)
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1942
9
Assorted letters
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1942-1947
9
Matt's letters, Mexico
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1943
9
Letter (put together with other 1943 material?)
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1943 February 18
9
Mexico
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1943
9
Mexico
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1944
9
Letters to Mrs. Stirling from Marion
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1944
9
Letters to Mrs. Stirling (copies)
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1944
9
Letters on 1944 trip (survey trip, accident)
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1944
9
Letter to Marquina telling how we decided where we wanted to work in 1945, Ocozocoautla, Chiapas
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1945
9
Letters to Mrs. Stirling from Marion: Chiapas and San Lorenzo
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1945
9
Correspondence: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
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1945
9
Letters
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1945
9
Letters
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1946
9
Carbons of correspondence
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1946
9
Letters to Mrs. Stirling from Marion
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1946
9
Letters to Mrs. Stirling from Marion (copies, 3 complete sets and one original)
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1946
9
Request to National Geographic for Olmec Center/ La Venta dig
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1954
10
Mexico: Correspondence
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1957
10
Letters from Mexico, Cerro de las Mesas
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1960
10
Photographs
1.2.3
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1933-1971, undated
Matt's Mexican negatives, Colonial Head, etc., Cholula (Original Tres Zapotes and Tlocolapan pictures, horseback ride to Tres Zapotes from Tlacotalpan)
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1938
10
Mexico photographs (Teotihuacan, Tenayuca, Cholula, etc, Mexico City)
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2 Folders
1938
10
Mexican negatives (and prints): Colossal head, Tres Zapotes, etc
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1938 February
10
Monte Alban, etc (photographs)
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1938
10
Tres Zapotes prints and negatives
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circa 1938
10
11A
Stela "C" photos, Tres Zapotes
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circa 1938
10
La Venta, Tres Zapotes (pottery making negatives and misc.)
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circa 1938
10
Lantern slides: La Venta, Tres Zapotes, Cerro de las Mesas
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circa 1938-circa 1947
77
Scope and Contents
The negatives are in the possession of the National Geographic Society. There is a list of these illustrations in NAA's vertical file on Stirling and in the S. I. Archives, record unit 95. Many of the images have been published in various National Geographic Society articles as well as BAE Bulletin 138, "Stone Monuments of Southern Mexico," by Stirling, and BAE Bulletins by other authors.
Photographs Tres Zapotes: Stone [?] box, [?] stela, colossal head, big cache, [?]
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circa 1939-circa 1940
10
Cerro de las Mesas: From Drucker
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circa 1939-circa 1941
10
Cerro de las Mesas: Photographs of excavation in progress
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circa 1939-circa 1941
10
Cerro de las Mesas: Village and people
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2 Folders
circa 1939-circa 1941
10
Cerro de las Mesas: Stone objects
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2 Folders
circa 1939-circa 1941
10
Photographs: Tres Zapotes, Vera Cruz, firing pottery
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1940
12
Tres Zapotes: Negatives and photographic prints
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1940
12
Mexico: Catemaco Ver., Alvarado, etc
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1940
12
La Venta prints
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circa 1940
12
La Venta negatives
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circa 1940
12
Photographs: "Mini-album" hematite figurine, Tapyjulapa [sp?}
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circa 1940
12
La Venta: Photographs with captions and "Catalogo de Piedras Labradas"
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circa 1940
12
Tres Zapotes, etc. (slides)
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1940-1946
52
Tres Zapotes, etc. (notes that go with slides)
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1940-1946
12
Cerro de las Mesas pictures, etc, odds and ends
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1940-1955
12
Cerro de las Mesas and La Venta, jade, also 1960 negs and photos
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circa 1940, 1960
12
Acapulco photographs
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1941
12
Cerro de las Mesas: Negatives and prints
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2 Folders
circa 1941
12
Izapa photographs
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circa 1941
12
La Venta negatives
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circa 1941
11B
Tabasco-Campeche survey pictures
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2 Folders
1944
12
Mexico 1944 trip, also San Lorenzo
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2 Folders
1944-1946
12
Predra Parada, Chiapas
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1945
13
Chiapas, Predra Pareda
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2 Folders
1945-1946
13
San Lorenzo, Potrero Nuevo
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circa 1946-circa 1947
13
San Lorenzo
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1946-1947, 1966
13
Sayula, Mexico
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circa 1953
13
Santiago Tuxtla (negatives and prints)
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1957
13
Chiapa de Corzo, carved bone (Dixon)
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1957
13
Cerro de las Mesas, Veracruz: Photographs
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1960
13
Mexico 1961, Voladores, Castillo Teyao, Jalapa, Malinalco (slides)
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1961-1962
53
Mexico 1961, Voladores, Castillo Teyao, Jalapa, Malinalco (goes with slides)
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1961-1962
13
Catalog of C de M jade cache, Olmecs, misc. (Cerro de las Mesas)
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1971, undated
13
Photographs: Cerro de las Mesas stela, etc
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undated
13
La Venta photographs
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undated
13
La Venta sarcophagus
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undated
13
Helmeted and bearded figures V.C., La Venta
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undated
13
La Venta figurine groups, site maps
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undated
13
Copy negatives: Palenque [?], plate 56
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undated
13
Santiago Tuxtla negs, colossal head, etc.
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undated
13
Photographs: Tres Zapotes
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undated
14
Tres Zapotes specimens
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undated
14
Prints and negatives, stela "C", T.Z.
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undated
14
Figurine negs, Tres Zapotes?
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undated
14
Wheeled toys, Tres Zapotes, Mexico
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undated
14
Fishing in T.Z.
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undated
14
Maps (photographs): Tehuantepec, Tres Zapotes site, Stela A (T.Z.)
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undated
14
Pottery making: Tres Zapotes, Tehuantepec, Chiapas
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undated
14
Tehuantepec
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undated
14
Mexican arch. photos, etc.
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2 Folders
undated
14
Sandals from a cave in Guerrero [?], Mexico
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undated
14
Sun symbols, Mexico, Acoma, etc
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undated
14
Atasta campeche
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undated
14
Panama
1.3
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1943-1962, undated
Arrangement
Arranged in 2 subseries: 1.3.1 Correspondence, 1947-1954, undated; 1.3.2 Field notes and photographs, 1943-1962, undated.
Scope and Contents
Series 1.3 Panama, 1943-1962 and undated primarily documents the four Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society expeditions to Panama undertaken between 1947 and 1953. Materials include correspondence, field notes, expense reports, lists, and photographs. Research materials about Panama and museum objects related to Panama excavations are also included in this series.
Correspondence
1.3.1
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1947-1954
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged chronologically.
Panama: Smithsonian NGS 1948
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1947-1953
14
Correspondence
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1948
14
My letters, Panama 1948, article
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1948
14
Correspondence Panama
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1948-1949
14
Letters from Panama expedition
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1949
14
Correspondence with Alexander Wetmore
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1949
14
My letters
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2 Folders
1951
14
Panama correspondence
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1951
14
Panama '49-'50, '53
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1951-1953
15
Choco, etc: Panama letters
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1953
15
Panama
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1954
15
Field notes and photographs
1.3.2
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1943-1962, undated
Arrangement
Paper materials are listed first followed by photographs. Each section is arranged in chronological order.
Field notes:
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Miscellaneous notes: Panama and pottery
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1943, 1958, undated
15
Travel and field notes: Panama
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1948
15
Panama list of gold
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circa 1948
15
Panama '49-'53: NGS expedition papers, expenses
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1948-1953
15
Field notebook: Panama
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1949
15
Panama 1951: North coast, La Pintada
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3 Folders
1951
15
Typed field notes [?]: Pottery making, Mexico, Panama
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1951
15
Copy, Panama (field notes)
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1951
15
Panama, Rands report, El Uracillo site (Rio Indio) and El Limoni [sp?] negatives
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1952
15
Panama: Rio Sambu, Taboga Is., Almirante
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2 Folders
1953
15
Panama: Rio Sambu, Taboga Is., Almirante: Carbon, Bocas del Toro, Almirante Bay manuscript
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1953
15
Panama: Rio Sambu, Taboga Is., Almirante: Choco article
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1953-1954
15
Travel and field notes: Panama?
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
Field notebook: Panama
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
Field notebooks: Panama [?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
Photographs:
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Panama, Boquete, Volcan, Balseria, museum specimens (slides)
Archival Resource Key
1948
53
Panama, Boquete, Volcan, Balseria, museum specimens (goes with slides)
Archival Resource Key
1948
16
Panama photographs, near Utive
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1948-1949
16
Utive (Panama) pictures, field season of 1949
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1949
16
Utive Panama
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1949
16
Utive Panama photographs
Archival Resource Key
1949
16
Panama, Barriles etc, misc., Costa Rica note, Venado Beach
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1949-1950
16
Panama: Barriles etc, pictographs
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3 Folders
1949-1954
16
Utive, Panama (copy negatives)
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1950 December 11
16
Panama photographs
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1951
16
Panama - spiders, metate head near Almurante [sp?]
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1953
16
Panama (slides)
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1957
54
Panama (notes that go with slides)
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1957
16
Panama: Milwaukee Museum, El Hatillo
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1962
16
Panama photos: Sona and mojare and pictographs
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2 Folders
undated
16
Panama City sherds
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
Ecuador
1.4
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1930-1968, undated
Arrangement
Material is arranged in 2 subseries: 1.4.1 Latin American Expedition to South and Central America, 1930-1938, undated; 1.4.2 SI/NGS expedition to Ecuador, 1952-1968, undated.
Each subseries is arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Series 1.4 Ecuador, 1930-1968 and undated, includes materials related to two distinct expeditions to Ecuador. From 1931-1932 Matthew Stirling joined the Latin American Expedition to South and Central America and conducted an ethnographic study of the Jivaro people of Ecuador. He also spent time in Panama on this trip studying the Tule/Kuna Indians in Panama, but the bulk of documentation in this collection is regarding the Jivaro. From 1956-1957 Matthew and Marion Stirling embarked on a Smithsonian Institution/National Geographic Society expedition to Ecuador and conducted excavations in the Manabi Province. Materials include field notes, photographs, correspondence, articles, and clippings.
Latin American Expedition to South and Central America
1.4.1
Archival Resource Key
1930-1938, undated
Ecuador: Jivaro notes
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2 Folders
1930-1931
16
Journal of a Trip to the Jivaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
1930-1931
57
Photographic prints and negatives, San Blas, etc.
Archival Resource Key
circa 1930-circa 1932
66
67
75
76
78
Scope and Contents
Box 66 consists of photographic prints and Box 67 consists of safety negatives and sleeves. Glass negatives and/or lantern slides have been separated and are housed in boxes 75-76, 78.
San Blas coast: Field notes
Archival Resource Key
1931
16
Journal of a trip to the Jivaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador (copy)
Archival Resource Key
1930-1931
17
Journal of a Trip to the Jivaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador in the Years 1931-1932
Archival Resource Key
1931-1932
17
Cleveland "The San Blas Coast"
Archival Resource Key
1931
57
M.W.S. to Mrs. J.W. Stirling from Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
1932
17
Letter and map from Ecuador from C. Spencer
Archival Resource Key
1938
17
Jivaro: Research, notes
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
undated
17
Jivaro Indians pottery making photograph
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
Jivaro: Tentative bibliography
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
SI/NGS expedition to Ecuador
1.4.2
Archival Resource Key
1952-1968, undated
Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
1953, undated
17
Correspondence, business, Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
1956-1958
17
Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
1957
17
Ecuador: NGS-SI expedition to Ecuador, notebook #1
Archival Resource Key
1957
17
Ecuador: NGS-SI expedition to Ecuador, notebook #2
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1957
17
Personal correspondence, Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1957
18
NGS-SI expedition 1957, receipts
Archival Resource Key
1957
18
Photos from Ecuador:
Archival Resource Key
Emilio
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Indians and Judas near Punin
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Jijon and Larrea, Emilio and Zalud?, Santo Domingo collection
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Konanz
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Konanz coll. and Zalud?
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Larrea [sp?]
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Manta
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Puerto Viejo
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Punin
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Ruiz Borbon
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Unlabeled
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
18
Unlabeled (includes Coloradas, Cerro de Hoyas?)
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
circa 1957
18
Marion with Colorado Indians in Santo Domingo
Archival Resource Key
1957
53
Clippings and pictures (Ecuador)
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1957
18
For NGS research reports (Tarqui, Cerro de Hojas, La Tolita)
Archival Resource Key
1957
18
Ecuador article
Archival Resource Key
1960
18
Tachina Ecuador, Esmereldas [sp?] pottery negs and prints
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
circa 1963
19
Ecuador (Esmeraldas Tarqui, also Cerro de las Mesas and Tres Zapotes) negatives and prints
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
undated
19
Ecuador pottery duplicate photos Tarqui specimens
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
Quito, Santo Domingo: Travel narrative (Tarqui dig [?])
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
Costa Rica
1.5
Archival Resource Key
1963-1965, undated
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Series 1.5 Costa Rica, 1963-1965 and undated, documents an expedition the Stirlings undertook to Costa Rica in 1964. Materials include field notes, photographs, correspondence, and expense reports.
Petroglyphs, etc: Liberia, Costa Rica, Acoyapa, Nicaragua (negs, prints, slides)
Archival Resource Key
1963-1964
19
M.W. Stirling field notebook: Costa Rica (never type written?)
Archival Resource Key
1964
19
Slides
Archival Resource Key
1964
19
Correspondence, carbons
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1964
19
Expense accounts
Archival Resource Key
1964
19
Costa Rica records
Archival Resource Key
1964
19
Costa Rica prints and negs
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1965
19
Costa Rica negs and dup prints, Stone Balls, etc. (Williamsburg area 1-5)
Archival Resource Key
1965
19
Costa Rica: 2 headed jaguar
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
Other expeditions
1.6
Archival Resource Key
1921-1975, undated
bulk 1921-1935
Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Series 1.6 Other expeditions, 1921-1975 and undated, documents smaller expeditions and travel that Matthew Stirling was a part of, primarily in the 1920s and 1930s. This includes Weeden Island, Florida, circa 1924, a trip to South America, also in 1924, and sites in Texas, Nevada, Colorado, and Guatemala. After 1933, Marion accompanied Matthew on these trips. In the 1930s Matthew conducted excavations for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), so some of these materials may be related to those excavations. Materials include correspondence, photographs, journals, and field notes.
M.W.S. to family
Archival Resource Key
1921-1923
20
M.W.S. to family (San Diego, Washington D.C. etc)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1921-circa 1925
20
Trip to Europe: Notes and correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1922
20
M.W.S. to family
Archival Resource Key
1924
20
M.W.S. to family (Weeden Island)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1924
20
S.A. trip negs and prints, misc., San Blas
Archival Resource Key
1924
20
Copies of Stirling - Patton journal - trip to the Amazon (New York, St. Petersburg, Lima, Oroya), August 1924
Archival Resource Key
1975
20
Peru: Pichis Trail, etc:
Archival Resource Key
"Tropic Topics: Being the Journal of M.W.S. and P.J.P. while heading South"
Archival Resource Key
1924
20
Letters to home from Peru and Brazil
Archival Resource Key
1924
20
Article on South American trip
Archival Resource Key
1925
20
Misc. business to M.W.S.
Archival Resource Key
1927
20
Texas, N.W. Nevada
Archival Resource Key
1930
20
Travel and field notes: Ft. Collins (by Matt and Marion?)
Archival Resource Key
1933
20
Travel and field notes: Guatemala (Marion)
Archival Resource Key
1935
20
Guatemala negatives
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1935
20
Scrapbooks
1.7
Archival Resource Key
1925-1953
Scope and Contents
Series 1.7 Scrapbooks, 1925-1953 comprises photographic albums created to document the expeditions described above. The included photographs document the people involved in and encountered during the expeditions, the excavation processes, artifacts that were found, and life in the expedition camps. Many of the photographs included in the scrapbooks can be found as loose prints within the relevant series, although there is not documentation regarding the specific location of matching photographs in the collection.
Conditions Governing Access
The scrapbooks have been separated from the material above due to preservation and handling concerns. The scrapbooks are currently restricted due to these preservation concerns. Please contact the reference archivist for more information.
Arrangement
Material are arranged in chronological order.
New Guinea
Archival Resource Key
circa 1925-circa 1927
81
Tres Zapotes, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1939
82
Tres Zapotes, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1939
82
La Venta and Tres Zapotes, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1940
82
Tres Zapotes, La Venta, and Cerro de las Mesas, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1940
82
Cerro de las Mesas, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1941
82
Izapa, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1941
82
La Venta, Chiapas, and Palenque, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1942
83
La Venta, Mexico (Weber)
Archival Resource Key
1943
83
Mexico (survey year)
Archival Resource Key
1944
83
Chiapas, Predra Parada, San Lorenzo, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1945-1946
83
San Lorenzo, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1947
83
Panama, Darien
Archival Resource Key
circa 1947-circa 1953
81
Panama
Archival Resource Key
1948
81
Panama (Barril's)
Archival Resource Key
1949
81
Panama
Archival Resource Key
1951
81
Other travels
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
1946-1972
Scope and Contents
Series 2. Other travels, 1946-1972 is comprised of materials documenting trips the Stirlings took that, for the most part, did not include field work. This includes trips for both business and personal travel, however it was common for the two to overlap. Materials include correspondence, photographs, trip itineraries, ephemera, and travel journals and notes.
Of note are materials from an Inter-American Highway road trip they took in 1963 and materials from an around the world trip in 1968 that included a stop in Papua New Guinea.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in chronological order.
Correspondence: United States road trip
Archival Resource Key
1950
21
Travel notebook: United States road trip [?]
Archival Resource Key
1950
21
1955 Trip: Colorado, Arizona, etc
Archival Resource Key
1955
21
Europe
Archival Resource Key
1958
21
Mexico 1959, with children to Palenque - Yucatan, Guatemala:
Archival Resource Key
Mexico, Palenque [sp?], Yucatan, Guatemala
Archival Resource Key
1959 Summer
21
Guatemala and Mexico (and Cuba)
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1959
21
Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1959
21
Mexico and Guatemala
Archival Resource Key
1959-1960
21
Trip Europe 1960
Archival Resource Key
1958-1960
21
Europe 1960, my notes
Archival Resource Key
1960
21
Greece, Turkey, etc (slides)
Archival Resource Key
1960
54
Greece, Turkey, etc (notes that go with slides)
Archival Resource Key
1960
21
Marion's Peruvian trip
Archival Resource Key
1961
21
Travel and field notes (by Matt and Marion?)
Archival Resource Key
1961
21
Field notebook: Miscellaneous notes
Archival Resource Key
1962 August
21
Inter-American Highway trip:
Archival Resource Key
Letters, Pan Am trip
Archival Resource Key
1963
21
Jeep drive to Panama, my carbons
Archival Resource Key
1963
21
General information
Archival Resource Key
1946
21
Valuable papers
Archival Resource Key
1963
21
Car papers and receipts
Archival Resource Key
1963
22
Journal: Washington to Panama (via Mexico and Central America)
Archival Resource Key
1963
22
Mexico and trip to Panama, Central America 1963
Archival Resource Key
1946-1969
53
Travel and field notes: Mexico and Pan Am highway
Archival Resource Key
1963
22
Tokyo, Angkor, Tahiti, etc (slides)
Archival Resource Key
1964
53
Tokyo, Angkor, Tahiti, etc (goes with slides)
Archival Resource Key
1964
22
Travel and field notes: Costa Rica (by Matt and Marion)
Archival Resource Key
1964
22
Cat Cay pictures, etc (International Tuna Match)
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1964
22
Field notebook: South America
Archival Resource Key
1966
22
My letters, South America
Archival Resource Key
1966
22
South America promises and letters
Archival Resource Key
1966-1967
22
Photograph: Grand Bahama with the Sloans [sp?]
Archival Resource Key
1967
22
New Guinea: Maps, logistics
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
22
New Guinea: Logistics, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1968
22
Travel and field notes: New Guinea
Archival Resource Key
1968
22
Round world/ New Guinea, my letters (Mrs. M.W. Stirling)
Archival Resource Key
1968
22
New Guinea
Archival Resource Key
1968
22
Travel and field notes: Turkey, Borneo, Bali, etc
Archival Resource Key
1968-1969
22
Turkey (and Southeast Asia)
Archival Resource Key
1969
22
Turkey, Bali, etc
Archival Resource Key
1969
22
Round world trip - letters
Archival Resource Key
1969
22
Travel and field notes: Yucatan and Guatemala
Archival Resource Key
1970
23
Travel and field notes: Mexico, AAS meetings
Archival Resource Key
1970
23
NGS - Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos
Archival Resource Key
1972
23
Administrative files
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
1922-1980, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 3. Administrative files, 1924-1980 and undated is comprised of materials the Stirlings compiled and organized into an alphabetical filing structure and also of materials that are administrative in nature and did not directly relate to other categories outlined in this finding aid. Materials include correspondence, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.
The two sets of alphabetical files in this series were maintained in this collection as the Stirlings created them, therefore they may include material relevant to their field work, travels, writings, and lectures in addition to other administrative matters.
The general materials include photographs and articles presumably compiled for reference purposes, correspondence files, and some files regarding personal activities.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 2 subseries: 3.1 Alphabetical files, 1934-1980, undated; 3.2 General, 1924-1972, undated.
Alphabetical files
3.1
Archival Resource Key
1934-1980, undated
Arrangement
Arranged in 2 subseries: 3.1.1. Alphabetical files 1, 1936-1973, undated; 3.1.2. Alphabetical files 2, 1934-1980, undated.
Alphabetical files 1
3.1.1
Archival Resource Key
1936-1973, undated
"A" (correspondence)
Archival Resource Key
1959-1970
23
"B"
Archival Resource Key
1962-1972
23
Borhegyi
Archival Resource Key
1959-1962
23
"C"
Archival Resource Key
1960-1971
23
"D"
Archival Resource Key
1959-1968
23
"E"
Archival Resource Key
1961-1967
23
Estrada
Archival Resource Key
1958
23
"F"
Archival Resource Key
1958-1971
23
"G"
Archival Resource Key
1956-1971
23
"H"
Archival Resource Key
1961-1972
23
Heizer
Archival Resource Key
1959-1968
23
"I"
Archival Resource Key
1965
23
Isotopes
Archival Resource Key
1958-1965
23
"J"
Archival Resource Key
1965-1971
24
"K"
Archival Resource Key
1954-1971
24
"L"
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1962-1971
24
Larner, W.A.
Archival Resource Key
1936
24
"M"
Archival Resource Key
1969-1970
24
"O"
Archival Resource Key
1971
24
"P"
Archival Resource Key
1958-1970
24
Payne
Archival Resource Key
1960
24
Peterson
Archival Resource Key
1959
24
"R"
Archival Resource Key
1963-1970
24
Rainey
Archival Resource Key
1959
24
Ruz
Archival Resource Key
1960
24
"S"
Archival Resource Key
1957-1972
24
Sabloff
Archival Resource Key
1973
24
Spratling materials
Archival Resource Key
1962-1963
24
Squier
Archival Resource Key
1958
24
Stone
Archival Resource Key
1958-1960
24
"T"
Archival Resource Key
1971-1973
24
Tallant (and other "T" correspondence)
Archival Resource Key
1963-1965
24
U [?]
Archival Resource Key
1958-1963
24
V
Archival Resource Key
1958-1972
24
Vaillant
Archival Resource Key
1941-1942
24
Vosburgh
Archival Resource Key
1958
24
W
Archival Resource Key
1961-1971
24
Wauchope
Archival Resource Key
1959
24
Wetmore
Archival Resource Key
1959
24
Willey
Archival Resource Key
1958-1962
24
Alphabetical files 2
3.1.2
Archival Resource Key
1934-1980, undated
"A"
Archival Resource Key
1969-1972
25
Abbot
Archival Resource Key
undated
25
Africa: Matt's letters, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1965 February, 1974
25
Alizal translation
Archival Resource Key
undated
25
Allmon
Archival Resource Key
1965-1968
25
Alphonse, Rev.
Archival Resource Key
1954
25
American Association of Museums
Archival Resource Key
1971
25
Americas
Archival Resource Key
1971-1974
25
Andrews
Archival Resource Key
1967-1975
25
Anthropological clippings
Archival Resource Key
1962
25
Archeological site open house: Shenandoah Farms
Archival Resource Key
undated
25
Archeologist emeritus
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
25
Arctic Institute
Archival Resource Key
1966
25
Armillas [?]
Archival Resource Key
1957-1958
25
Articles
Archival Resource Key
undated
25
Art ideas
Archival Resource Key
undated
25
"B"
Archival Resource Key
1965-1973
25
Ball
Archival Resource Key
1974-1975
25
Ballet (Women's Committee of the National Ballet)
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
25
Balls
Archival Resource Key
1967-1973
25
Balser
Archival Resource Key
1951-1971
25
Balser
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
25
Barrett, S.A.
Archival Resource Key
1957
25
Barriles
Archival Resource Key
1970
25
Bernal
Archival Resource Key
1966-1977
25
Bibliography MWS
Archival Resource Key
circa 1975
25
Bibliography MWS (civil service records)
Archival Resource Key
1955-1957
25
Biese
Archival Resource Key
1965
25
Bird (Junius)
Archival Resource Key
1970
26
Bischof, Henning
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
26
Block, Malu
Archival Resource Key
1970-1972
26
Books
Archival Resource Key
1963-1967
26
Book offers
Archival Resource Key
1951
26
Books, reference
Archival Resource Key
undated
26
Book reviews
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
26
Borbolla
Archival Resource Key
1967
26
Borhegyi
Archival Resource Key
1959
26
Breeden
Archival Resource Key
1968-1969
26
J.O. Brew
Archival Resource Key
1967-1969
26
Bronz
Archival Resource Key
1970
26
Brown
Archival Resource Key
1966-1973
26
Pablo Bush Romero
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
26
Bushnell, Belle
Archival Resource Key
undated
26
"C"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1973
26
Royal Canadian Institute
Archival Resource Key
1937, 1952
26
Carmichael
Archival Resource Key
1957-1972
26
Carriker's letters
Archival Resource Key
1943-1963
26
Chiari, Diana
Archival Resource Key
1951
26
Clements, Thomas
Archival Resource Key
1965
26
Clippings (Marion)
Archival Resource Key
1959, 1969
26
Congress of Americanists
Archival Resource Key
1958, 1966
26
Conte
Archival Resource Key
1951-1952
26
Cosmos Club
Archival Resource Key
1959-1969
26
Crocker
Archival Resource Key
1965
26
Curtis' letters
Archival Resource Key
1948-1965
26
"D"
Archival Resource Key
1967-1971
26
Deignan [sp?]
Archival Resource Key
1965-1967
26
Diehl
Archival Resource Key
1967
26
Drucker
Archival Resource Key
1955-1975
26
Dumbarton Oaks
Archival Resource Key
1967-1972
26
Dunn
Archival Resource Key
1966-1971
26
"E"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
26
Easby
Archival Resource Key
1958-1970
26
Ecuador: Casa de la Culture Castro Tola
Archival Resource Key
1967
26
Ecuador shirts
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
27
Ekholm-Miller
Archival Resource Key
1972
27
Estophos [?] talk, archeology
Archival Resource Key
1968
27
Evans, Clifford
Archival Resource Key
1965-1967
27
Expeditions
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
Explorers Club
Archival Resource Key
1965-1977
27
"F"
Archival Resource Key
1967-1975
27
Fairchild
Archival Resource Key
1964-1970
27
Fitzhugh
Archival Resource Key
1976-1977
27
Fortun
Archival Resource Key
1966
27
"G"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
27
Gay, Carlo
Archival Resource Key
1973-1974
27
Genealogy
Archival Resource Key
1974
27
Gillis
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
27
National Geographic Indian book
Archival Resource Key
1936-1939
27
Gilbert-Pinson mound
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
Gilka
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
27
Gordon
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
27
Gorgas
Archival Resource Key
1966-1972
27
Goto [sp?]
Archival Resource Key
1967
27
Grosvenor, Melville, Gilbert and Elsie
Archival Resource Key
1940-1967
27
Grosvenor, Gil and Donna
Archival Resource Key
1970
27
Grove, David C.
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
27
Guggenheim
Archival Resource Key
1976
27
"H"
Archival Resource Key
1965-1978
27
Haberland
Archival Resource Key
1960
27
Handbook
Archival Resource Key
1965
27
Hauberg, John
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
27
Haynes, Vance
Archival Resource Key
1972
27
Heizer
Archival Resource Key
1973-1976
27
Hildebrand and others
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
27
"I"
Archival Resource Key
1967-1973
27
Insurance (trustee)
Archival Resource Key
1974-1976
27
Izapa [sp?] stela 5
Archival Resource Key
undated
27
Izzard, coordinator's film notes
Archival Resource Key
1941-1942
27
"J"
Archival Resource Key
1965-1977
28
Jade
Archival Resource Key
1960
28
Janney
Archival Resource Key
1967
28
Jessica's pictures
Archival Resource Key
1974
28
"K"
Archival Resource Key
1967-1976
28
Keeping House for an Expedition
Archival Resource Key
1940
28
Kennedy, W.J.
Archival Resource Key
1966
28
Kensington Stone
Archival Resource Key
1974
28
Keshisian
Archival Resource Key
1969-1972
28
Korean clippings
Archival Resource Key
1965
28
Kroeber Anthropological Society
Archival Resource Key
1965
28
Krotser
Archival Resource Key
1967-1973
28
"L"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
28
Lankester, C.H.
Archival Resource Key
1963-1964
28
Lathrop
Archival Resource Key
1972-1976
28
Latham, Marte
Archival Resource Key
1964
28
Leakey seminar
Archival Resource Key
1975
28
Lothrop
Archival Resource Key
1965
28
Lottinville
Archival Resource Key
1966-1967
28
Lowe, Gareth
Archival Resource Key
1973
28
Loveland, Karen
Archival Resource Key
1967
28
"M"
Archival Resource Key
1967-1976
28
Marquina
Archival Resource Key
1967-1970
28
Maya blue
Archival Resource Key
1962
28
Morley, S.G.
Archival Resource Key
1939
28
My remembrances (Mother's Day card from MWS to Marion)
Archival Resource Key
undated
28
"N"
Archival Resource Key
1973-1977
28
New Guinea talk
Archival Resource Key
1968
28
New Guinea article
Archival Resource Key
1970
28
New Guinea, Sorenson, map
Archival Resource Key
undated
28
Norton
Archival Resource Key
1978-1979
28
"O"
Archival Resource Key
1968-1972
28
Oehser
Archival Resource Key
1967-1968
28
O'Leary
Archival Resource Key
1966
28
"The Olmec Tradition" Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Archival Resource Key
1963
28
Olmec article for Mrs. Phelps
Archival Resource Key
1969
28
Olmec newspaper clippings
Archival Resource Key
1974
28
Cultural Olympics Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1968
29
Ord
Archival Resource Key
1969-1974
29
Ortiz de Zerralo[?]
Archival Resource Key
1965-1969
29
"P"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
29
Pacific discovery
Archival Resource Key
1965
29
Old Panama information
Archival Resource Key
1949, 1974
29
Panama project
Archival Resource Key
1969
29
Park Service
Archival Resource Key
1958-1971
29
Parsons, Lee
Archival Resource Key
1965-1974
29
Payne
Archival Resource Key
1965-1974
29
Pere
Archival Resource Key
1963-1965
29
Phelps
Archival Resource Key
1970-1974
29
Phillips
Archival Resource Key
1967-1969
29
Pohorilenko
Archival Resource Key
1973-1978
29
"Q"
Archival Resource Key
1969-1974
29
"R"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1974
29
Redskins (football)
Archival Resource Key
1945-1948
29
Reed (Theodore H.) for Cosmos Club
Archival Resource Key
1963-1964
29
Reichel-Dolmatoff
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
29
Reynolds
Archival Resource Key
1969
29
Captain Elliott Roberts
Archival Resource Key
1964-1975
29
Ronne
Archival Resource Key
1965
29
Ruzic
Archival Resource Key
1966-1970
29
"S"
Archival Resource Key
1965-1974
29
Saenz
Archival Resource Key
1970
29
Sahagun translations
Archival Resource Key
undated
29
Sahlin
Archival Resource Key
1967-1972
29
San Blas
Archival Resource Key
1970
29
Savoy (clippings)
Archival Resource Key
1966-1967
29
Schmutterer
Archival Resource Key
1968-1977
29
Schinnerer Institute
Archival Resource Key
1970
29
Schultz, Harald
Archival Resource Key
1966
29
Seminole
Archival Resource Key
1934
29
Seuffert, Andy
Archival Resource Key
1963
29
Severy
Archival Resource Key
1965
29
Severy
Archival Resource Key
1968
29
Severy (Cosmos Club)
Archival Resource Key
1964
29
Shook
Archival Resource Key
1966-1975
30
Slides (note)
Archival Resource Key
1965
30
Smithsonian info
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1965-1968
30
Smithsonian New Yorker articles
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
Smithsonian title
Archival Resource Key
1964-1967
30
Snell
Archival Resource Key
1965-1968
30
Snider
Archival Resource Key
1967-1977
30
Sorenson (also see file in study)
Archival Resource Key
1967-1977
30
Sorenson
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1967-1976
30
Dick's problems (Richard Sorenson)
Archival Resource Key
1978-1979
30
South American travel
Archival Resource Key
1966-1967
30
Spanish
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
Spratling, Wm.
Archival Resource Key
1961
30
Stela C
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
Stirling, Gene
Archival Resource Key
1969-1973
30
Stone
Archival Resource Key
1964-1973
30
Stradivarius violin
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
"T"
Archival Resource Key
1966-1969
30
Talk thanks
Archival Resource Key
1944-1965
30
My talks - Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
Trip ideas
Archival Resource Key
1969
30
Trousdale
Archival Resource Key
undated
30
Truitt
Archival Resource Key
1972-1975
30
Grand Bahama fishing, tuna
Archival Resource Key
1967
30
"V"
Archival Resource Key
1968-1978
30
Vidal Fraitts
Archival Resource Key
1967
30
"W"
Archival Resource Key
1968-1974
31
Wakelin - NGS
Archival Resource Key
1974
31
Washington Club
Archival Resource Key
1957-1971
31
Wedel
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
31
Woodbury
Archival Resource Key
1970-1973
31
Willson
Archival Resource Key
1973
31
Writing ideas
Archival Resource Key
1954
31
"XYZ"
Archival Resource Key
1967-1971
31
Yucatan
Archival Resource Key
1972-1973
31
X-mas cards
Archival Resource Key
1946-1951
31
General
3.2
Archival Resource Key
1922-1975, undated
Arrangement
Arranged in 3 subseries: 3.2.1 Correspondence, 1924-1971, undated; 3.2.2 Photograph files, 1940-1968, undated; and 3.2.3 Miscellaneous, 1922-1975, undated.
Correspondence
3.2.1
Archival Resource Key
1924-1971, undated
Correspondence: Letter from P.J. Van Patton
Archival Resource Key
1924
31
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1928-1929
31
Correspondence: Guatemala handicraft to Mrs. M.W. Stirling
Archival Resource Key
1937
31
Steward correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1938
31
Copy of letter to John G. Carter re: native tobacco seeds
Archival Resource Key
1939
31
Letter from Charles F. Lane re: Campeche
Archival Resource Key
1947
31
Correspondence from Martin Sommers
Archival Resource Key
1949
31
Letters
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1954-1955
31
El Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia holiday card
Archival Resource Key
1956
31
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1962 December-1963 January
31
Houston, Olmec Head exhibition
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1963
31
Letter from Z. Matejka, Czechoslovakia
Archival Resource Key
1965
31
Stone balls, Jalisco
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1967
31
Stone sphere letters
Archival Resource Key
1969-1971
32
Stone spheres N.Z. (correspondence)
Archival Resource Key
1969
32
Misc. carbons: To Leakey Foundation, other
Archival Resource Key
1970, undated
32
Correspondence with Clifford Evans re: Piedra Pareda/ Barriles materials
Archival Resource Key
1970
32
Letters to Dr. M.W. Stirling on his retirement from the Bureau of American Ethnology December 31, 1957
Archival Resource Key
1957-1958
59
Correspondence: Incoming
Archival Resource Key
1925-1943
59
Miscellaneous correspondence (Stirling mentioned in correspondence)
Archival Resource Key
1925-1929
60
Outgoing
Archival Resource Key
1926-1930
60
Photograph files
3.2.2
Archival Resource Key
1940-1968, undated
Photos from Richardson, Guatemala and others, non-Maya sculptures, figurines
Archival Resource Key
1940
32
Photographic negatives, unidentified
Archival Resource Key
1950
32
Olmec jades, Lothorp volume, Vienna and Madrid museum, etc
Archival Resource Key
circa 1955-1967
32
Jade, etc, fire [?] god
Archival Resource Key
circa 1960
32
Olduwai pictures
Archival Resource Key
1960
32
"Sunday morning in [?]" P.J. Patton
Archival Resource Key
1961
32
Jalapa monuments
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1961, undated
32
Guatemala monuments
Archival Resource Key
1963
32
Olmec specimens from Guy (photographic prints)
Archival Resource Key
1963
32
SI anthropologists
Archival Resource Key
1965
32
Slide: Leakey, Stirling, Simpson, Calico Hills
Archival Resource Key
1965
32
Monte Alto, Shook and Parsons (photographs)
Archival Resource Key
1968
32
Photographs of artifacts
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Chavin [sp?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Misc pictures (Bush women)
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Florida: Gold and silver, etc.
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Chalcacingo, rock carving, jade, etc.
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Photographs from Mrs. John Mark Reed [?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Post cards: Patronato de las Cuevas de Altamira
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Post card: The Jelling Runic Stone
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Costa Rica (old line), Shook
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Artifact photograph: Andre Emmerich Gallery
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Unidentified negatives with contact sheets
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Unidentified site photographs
Archival Resource Key
undated
32
Nicaragua monuments, Nicaragua ax, for publication
Archival Resource Key
undated
33
Taboga: Illustrations (duplicates) and discards
Archival Resource Key
undated
33
File prints - Taboga and Taboquilla
Archival Resource Key
undated
33
Bocas del Toro
Archival Resource Key
undated
33
Site near Cordoba Dupaix [?], negs and prints
Archival Resource Key
undated
33
Miscellaneous
3.2.3
Archival Resource Key
1922-1975, undated
Clippings: Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1922-1927
58
Clippings: North American Indians
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1923-1940
58
Clippings: Miscellaneous articles relative to Stirling's interests
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1924-1960
58
Clippings: Florida archaeology
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1925-1934
58
Clippings: Central and South America
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1925-1948
58
Society of Sigma Xi annual meeting flyer
Archival Resource Key
1933
33
List of expeditions sponsored by National Geographic 1938-1964
Archival Resource Key
circa 1964
33
Archaeology poems, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1941-1945
33
Smithsonian 100th birthday invitation
Archival Resource Key
1946
33
Swan Island information
Archival Resource Key
circa 1950
33
Indian census of the United States, Canada, and Alaska
Archival Resource Key
1956
33
Article: "Pre-Columbian sculpture--Totem of Statue" from Vernon Larrime [sp?] letter
Archival Resource Key
1956 March 31
33
American Anthropologist "Reply to William S. Godfrey's 'Vikings in America: Theories and Evidence'"
Archival Resource Key
1956-1957
33
Newspaper clippings
Archival Resource Key
1957
33
Indian tribes by states
Archival Resource Key
1959
33
A.L. Kroeber, a memorial address by Earl W. Count
Archival Resource Key
1960
33
"Pindaric Ode for the Stirlings" by M.A. Harrell
Archival Resource Key
1961
33
Wetherill Mesa project
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
1961
33
Easby: Costa Rica jade
Archival Resource Key
1965
34
Flyer: 9th Annual Explorers Club oyster roast
Archival Resource Key
1968
34
Chalcatzingo progress report from National Geographic Society
Archival Resource Key
1972
34
Dr. Reading's Mistake - play
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Geology notes
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
"John K. Hillers, U.S. Survey of Colorado River 1871-1872" transcription by Mae Tucker and Janet Weiner
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Notes regarding DeSoto
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
"Onwe dance song," "Song to Nawishi karcina," and "Corn grinding song"
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Papers from Matt's desk (various notes)
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
"Recreations of a Dilettante" by Benjamin T. Kurtz
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Reports by S.T. Walker regarding Florida (copies)
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
"Smithsonian Archeological Projects Conducted Under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration"
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Smithsonian Institution: Physical data sheet
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Wells Sawyer obituary (with Cushing at Key Marco)
Archival Resource Key
undated
34
Miscellaneous maps
Archival Resource Key
undated
60
Miscellaneous memorabilia
Archival Resource Key
undated
60
"National Geographic Society Research Reports" 1890-1954 and 1964 projects (MWS annotations on Costa Rica and Mexico)
Archival Resource Key
2 Volumes
1969, 1975
84
Writings and lectures
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
1925-1990, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 4 Writings and lectures, 1925-1990 and undated, consists of articles, papers, drafts, and notes primarily written by Matthew Stirling, with some materials co-written by Marion, and documentation relating to presentations the Stirlings gave regarding their field work and other professional matters. Also included is material relating to films that were made about the Stirling's work. Materials primarily include paper files and ephemera, but slides compiled for lecture presentations are also present in this series.
For materials relating to Matthew Stirling's film/lecture tour about his expedition to Papua New Guinea from 1925-1927 ("By Aeroplane to Pygmyland"), please see series 3 Field work/ Papua New Guinea/ Lecture tour, press, and miscellaneous items.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 2 subseries: 4.1 Writings, 1925-1983, undated; 4.2 Lectures, 1933-1990, undated.
Writings
4.1
Archival Resource Key
1925-1983, undated
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in chronological order.
"Tourist News" articles by MWS about Florida
Archival Resource Key
1925
34
"Some Popular Misconceptions Concerning the American Indians" drafts, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1930
34
Miscellaneous articles by MWS
Archival Resource Key
1933-1969
34
Writing of friends
Archival Resource Key
1936-1952
34
"An Initial Series from Tres Zapotes, Vera Cruz, Mexico" (with included notes)
Archival Resource Key
1940
84
Matt and my Chiapas article
Archival Resource Key
1942
35
Article on Chiapas work
Archival Resource Key
1945
35
Geographic article
Archival Resource Key
1946
35
Panama article for paper, movie sequence
Archival Resource Key
1950-1951
35
Panama article by M.W. Stirling
Archival Resource Key
1951-1952
35
Geographic article
Archival Resource Key
1952
35
"Tarqui, An Early Site in Manabi Province, Ecuador"
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
35
"The Olmecs, Artists in Jade"
Archival Resource Key
1959
35
Article for "Expedition" by MWS and MWS Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1960
35
Science review: "Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents"
Archival Resource Key
1962
35
Publication series: Missing numbers in my sets, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1963
35
Copy of Americanists, B.A.
Archival Resource Key
1966
35
Discovering Man's Past - forward (original draft)
Archival Resource Key
1969
35
Stone monuments of S. Mexico and anth paper no. 43 photo lists [?]
Archival Resource Key
1969
35
The Explorers Club: Manuscript for book Told At the Explorers Club
Archival Resource Key
1971
35
Matt and Matthew "Electronics and Archaeology" article
Archival Resource Key
1983
35
"The American Indian as an Artist"
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
Writings review (draft) of "American Indians yesterday and today"
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
"Archaeological Investigations in the Vicinity of Tampa Bay, Florida" MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
Paper on Choco Indians (handwritten draft)
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
English version of Costa Rican manuscripts
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
English copy, Costa Rica "In Quest of the Blue Jade"
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
Costa Rica article and ideas
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
Good paper, Drucker, La Venta
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
"Ethnological Researches in Panama and Eastern Ecuador" MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
"History of Anthropology in North America"
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
"The Improvement of Performance in Track and Field" MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
"Indians of the Far West" by MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
35
Jade paper "Aboriginal jade use in the New World"
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
"Keeping House for an Expedition" by Marion Stirling
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Manuscript [?] transcriptions
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
"Matt's current file" (MWS bibliography and misc.)
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
"Matt's writings"
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Misc. drafts and writings
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Misc. notes and research materials
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Misc. writings, MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
NGS indian articles
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Olmec Art (writings and notes)
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Draft "The question of antiquity of man in America..."
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
"Smithsonian Institution and Archeological Research" MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Article on soap and laundering
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
"Stone Artifacts of the American Indian" MWS
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
"The Use of the Atlatl on Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan"
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Vanishing peoples NGS paper
Archival Resource Key
undated
36
Lectures
4.2
Archival Resource Key
1933-1990, undated
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in chronological order.
American Phychopathological Association program: "Jivaro Shamanism" lecture
Archival Resource Key
1933
36
Miscellaneous talks
Archival Resource Key
1937-1938
36
Lecture (about NGS and SI expedition to Mexico)
Archival Resource Key
1939
36
La Venta, Tres Zapotes lecture: "Great Stone Faces of Mexico"
Archival Resource Key
1939-1940
36
Slides for 5 minute talk Nov. 16, 1997 (assorted)
Archival Resource Key
1939-1953
36
Lecture notes on Veracruz (for Geographical Society of Philadelphia?)
Archival Resource Key
circa 1940
36
Geographical Society of Philadelphia correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1940
36
National Geographic lecture program
Archival Resource Key
1940-1941
36
Coordinator's lecture
Archival Resource Key
1941
36
"Mexican Treasure Trove" by Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Stirling, NGS lecture
Archival Resource Key
1941
36
Lecture programs: NGS
Archival Resource Key
1942-1953
37
Lecture: Letters and comments
Archival Resource Key
1942-1968
37
"Exploring Hidden Mexico" NGS talk (photocopy of transcript)
Archival Resource Key
1943
37
Material related to National Geographic films [?]
Archival Resource Key
1943
37
Lecture, Exploring Hidden Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1943
37
Correspondence on lectures
Archival Resource Key
1943-1953
37
Talk to Women Geographers on 1944 trip to Mexico (Mexico City, Pueblo Viejo, Paricutin Volcano, etc)
Archival Resource Key
1944
37
Fiesta masks film
Archival Resource Key
1944
37
Geographic talk
Archival Resource Key
1944
37
Eistophos talk (A general talk on Mexico - including Volcano Paricutin - no archaeology)
Archival Resource Key
1944
37
Lectures: Uncovering and Ancient Mexican Temple
Archival Resource Key
1945, 1960
37
Arthur lectures
Archival Resource Key
1946
37
1946 lectures (other than Centennial Film)
Archival Resource Key
1946, 1956, 1970
37
Smithsonian Centennial film 1946, Uncovering Mexico's Forgotten Treasures and Panama
Archival Resource Key
1946-1949, 1990
37
Panama lecture
Archival Resource Key
1949-1956
37
Panama lecture
Archival Resource Key
1950
37
Panama (arr. for talk): Palmas Bellas, Rio Indio, Cocle del Norte, Mojara
Archival Resource Key
1951
52
Panama (arr. for talk): Palmas Bellas, Rio Indio, Cocles del Norte, Mojara (goes with slides)
Archival Resource Key
1951
37
Slide talk (Panama)
Archival Resource Key
1951-1952
37
Panama lecture
Archival Resource Key
1952
37
Toronto lecture
Archival Resource Key
1952
37
International Geographers lecture and talk
Archival Resource Key
1952
37
Pittsburgh, Toronto "Panama's Unknown N. Coast"
Archival Resource Key
1952 December
37
Pre-Colombian Forum: Schedule and talk
Archival Resource Key
1954
37
Talk: "The Problem of Prehistoic and Cultural Relations Between Middle America and the Southeast" MWS
Archival Resource Key
1954
37
Lecture: Notes for script
Archival Resource Key
1954
37
Smithsonian: Aboriginal Darien
Archival Resource Key
circa 1954
38
Princeton talks
Archival Resource Key
1956
38
1954 Panama lecture on trip in '53: Aboriginal Darien, Past and Present
Archival Resource Key
1957
38
Powell, Cosmos Club
Archival Resource Key
1958
38
Ecuador: NGS lecture recording (LP)
Archival Resource Key
1958
38
Ecuador lecture
Archival Resource Key
1958-1960
38
Leakey lecture by MWS, AAAS NY
Archival Resource Key
1960
38
John Peabody Harrington eulogy/tribute
Archival Resource Key
1961
38
NGS lectures and expeditions, articles 1938-64
Archival Resource Key
circa 1964
38
Costa Rica film script
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
38
Costa Rica story, NGS and movie script
Archival Resource Key
1964-1965
38
"62nd Annual Dinner Report"
Archival Resource Key
1966
38
Explorers Club talk, New York
Archival Resource Key
1966
38
Explorers Club flyer and speech
Archival Resource Key
1966
38
"Early History of the Olmec Problem," paper given at Dumbarton Oaks
Archival Resource Key
1967
38
List of lecture slides [?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
Notes regarding TZ (Tres Zapotes) after recording [?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
Society of Sigma XI: Intro of MWS by A. Wetmore
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
Talk about physical characteristics of Indian groups
Archival Resource Key
undated
38
Personal and family materials
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
1880-1996, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 5. Personal and family materials, 1880-1996 and undated, consists of documents, photographs, and ephemera that are personal in nature. This includes items relating to Matthew Stirling's young life and family history, photographs, correspondence, and clippings relating to his extended family, and photographs of and correspondence from Matt and Marion's children. Of note in this series is Matthew's hiring paperwork when he was made Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1928 and Marion's journal documenting their wedding and the travel to Florida that followed.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in chronological order.
Stirling family history: Class photographs
Archival Resource Key
1880-1885
38
Thanksgiving composition
Archival Resource Key
1906
38
Story of Matt Williams and the Alisal Ranch, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1907, undated
38
Miscellaneous photographs
Archival Resource Key
1915, undated
38
Personal photographs: MWS in military uniform and W.W. Hill (MWS cousin)
Archival Resource Key
1917, undated
38
Correspondence: MWS letters from San Pedro
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1917-1918
38
Clippings: Stirling family - Other
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1918-1941
58
Miscellaneous correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1919-1922
38
An old college notebook of Matt's
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1919, 1923
39
Correspondence: Stirling family miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1919-1926
39
University of CA: Teaching fellow appointment
Archival Resource Key
1920
39
Smithsonian: U.S. civil service exam results
Archival Resource Key
1921
39
Clippings: Stirling family - Matthew W. Stirling
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1924-1940
58
Clippings: Stirling as head of BAE
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1928
58
Civil service announcement for Chief of BAE position
Archival Resource Key
1928
60
Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology hiring paperwork
Archival Resource Key
1928
39
Smithsonian Institution correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1928-1929
39
Photographs: Becky and Gene (Stirling family?)
Archival Resource Key
1930
39
Newspaper clippings: Stirling family, M.W.S. archeological discoveries
Archival Resource Key
1930-1931
39
Marriage announcement for the Stirlings
Archival Resource Key
1933
39
Marion's journal: Wedding day and travel to Florida
Archival Resource Key
1933-1934
39
Photographic negatives: Florida fishing, Matt and Marion
Archival Resource Key
1934
39
Photographic negatives: Eagle Nest, Florida near Naples
Archival Resource Key
1935
39
Seminole negatives/ Florida fishing/ Plymouth E[?] home
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1935, undated
39
Photographic negatives: Florida pictures, Plymouth Circle house D.C., etc.
Archival Resource Key
1938
39
Letter to Miss Belle Williams from Marion
Archival Resource Key
1940
39
Photographic negatives: Children
Archival Resource Key
1943
39
Color pictures of Matthew and Ariana
Archival Resource Key
circa 1946
39
X-mas
Archival Resource Key
1947-1948
39
Photographic negatives: California
Archival Resource Key
1948
40
Miscellaneous personal slides (Matt and Ariana at Xmas, etc)
Archival Resource Key
1948-1960
40
Photographic negatives: Trip to California
Archival Resource Key
1950 July
40
Photographic negatives: California trip
Archival Resource Key
1950 July
40
Photographic negatives: Salinas house
Archival Resource Key
1951
40
Clippings: Stirling family - Marion Stirling
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1951
58
Children's letters
Archival Resource Key
1956, undated
40
Ariana Stirling passport photos, age 15
Archival Resource Key
circa 1957
40
Stirling family history: Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1961, undated
40
Correspondence and clippings "have been copied" (Stirling family and misc.)
Archival Resource Key
1961, 1981, undated
40
Passports
Archival Resource Key
1963-1996
40
Day to day calendars (Marion)
Archival Resource Key
1972-1974
40
Map to the Stirling's house (Rowland Place)
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
Copy of Matt Williams story
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
Marion Stirling passport photos
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
The surnames of Scotland - Stirling
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
Stirling family history: Painting of Ariana Williams
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
Stirling family history: Narratives by MWS and Ariana Stirling
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
Photograph: Ronald Hunt and family
Archival Resource Key
undated
40
Anthropological journals
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
1876-1959
Scope and Contents
Series 6. Anthropological journals, 1876-1959, consists of collections of anthropological journals, dated 1876-1959, collected and categorized for reference and research purposes. The original file titles have been maintained below.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in alphabetical order.
"59-63" ethnobotany, etc.
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
1885-1954
40
41
Ancient Man in Europe, etc
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1899-1957
41
Asiatic contacts
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
1891-1941
41
42
"Before Columbus" contacts
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1892-1951
42
California separates
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1941-1948
42
Early man in America
Archival Resource Key
8 Folders
1888-1959
42
43
44
Iroquois separates
Archival Resource Key
3 Folders
1914-1950
44
Origin and antiquity of the American Indian
Archival Resource Key
4 Folders
1876-1952
44
45
Physical anthropology separates
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1896, 1931-1950
45
Texas separates
Archival Resource Key
2 Folders
1933-1947
45
Marion Stirling Pugh
Series 7
Archival Resource Key
1924-2004, undated
bulk 1948-2002
Scope and Contents
Series 7. Marion Stirling Pugh, 1924-2004 (bulk 1948-2002) and undated, consists of materials relating to endeavors Marion undertook without Matthew, primarily relating to her participation in the Society of Women Geographers from 1948-2000 and her life after Matthew died in 1975 until her death in 2001. Materials include correspondence, clippings, reports, writings, and administrative materials.
Subseries 7.1 The Society of Women Geographers, primarily consists of alphabetical files kept and organized by Marion regarding membership, elections, events, and press. Marion was elected to the executive board in 1954 and served as president of the society twice (1960-1963 and 1969-1972) and the bulk of the material relates to her second tenure as president, although the material does document over 50 years of her participation in the society.
Subseries 7.2 Administrative Files, includes materials relating to Marion's second marriage to John Ramsey Pugh and their life together, correspondence and writings relating to Matthew's legacy and the work he and Marion undertook together, drafts of Marion's reminiscences about her life and experiences, files regarding her work with the Textile Museum, and travel files.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 2 subseries: 7.1 The Society of Women Geographers, 1948-2000, undated; 7.2 Administrative files, 1924-2004 (bulk 1975-2002), undated.
The Society of Women Geographers
7.1
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1948-2000, undated
Arrangement
Materials that were maintained in alphabetical files appear first followed by other materials relating to the Society of Women Geographers, listed in chronological order.
Alphabetical files:
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Correspondence misc.
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1969-1974
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Andrews, Dorothy May
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1970-1972
46
Artic Institute
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1966
46
Membership ballots
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1966-1974
46
Ballots, new members
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1955-1967
46
"B"
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1971-1972
46
Borldnd
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1972
46
Brush (Ellen)
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1971
46
"C"
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1969-1974
46
Marion Stirling, SWG clippings
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1948-1951
46
Chapin (Ruth)
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1970
46
Trust report Chase Manhattan
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1969-1972
46
China trip
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1973-1977
46
Constitution changes (see Parry 1974)
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1957, 1968
46
"D"
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1970-1971
46
Dues
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1973
46
"E"
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1970-1973
46
Enochs
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1967-1972
46
Explorers
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1962-1969
46
Fairchild
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1970-1973
46
Fellowship correspondence
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1971-1976
46
Film strip project (Breedon)
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1973-1974
46
50th anniversary rejects
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circa 1973
46
50th anniversary
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1974-1975
46
50th thanks
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1975
46
Slides used for 50th anniversary NGS talk
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undated
54
Slides used for 50th anniversary NGS talk (notes)
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undated
46
Financial reports
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1957-1973
46
Flag application
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1970-1971
46
Form letters
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1961-1972
46
"F"
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1972
46
Freeman, Ethel
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1971-1972
46
French, Karen Elizabeth
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1971-1972
46
"G"
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1970-1972
46
Grosvenor, Donna
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1971-1972
47
Gurnee
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1972-1975
47
Harris
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1970-1972
47
Benita Harris (SWG secretary)
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1967
47
"H"
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1969-1972
47
Jenkins
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1969-1972
47
"K"
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1969-1971
47
Kiwi cape
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1972
47
"L"
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1970-1974
47
"M"
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1969-1972
47
Medal
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1972
47
Medal presentation (copies of 1940s correspondence)
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circa 1972
47
Meetings
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1969-1970
47
Membership
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1961-1973
47
Membership qualifications (Council, also Warbasse letters)
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1961
47
Mirsky
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1969-1972
47
"M"
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1969-1972
47
Mitchell
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1973-1975
47
Nef
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1970-1975
47
NGS
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1967
47
New York meetings
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1970
47
Nader
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1970
47
N.Y. executive council minutes
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1972
47
New York membership list
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1969
47
My file of nominating committee
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1971-1972
47
Nourse
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1969
47
President's notes for SWG
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1972
47
"O" (Osbourne and others)
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1970-1974
47
Olds
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1970-1974
47
Office
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1966
47
Parry
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1972-1974
47
"P"
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1969-1971
47
Pictures
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1967-1974
47
Pruitt, Evelyn
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1967-1975
47
"Q"
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1961-1970
47
"R"
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1970-1972
47
Sherman
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1969-1975
47
Sibley
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1970-1974
47
"S"
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1969-1972
47
General
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1954-1956
47
1972 Triennial, M.S. file
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1960-1972
47
"T"
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1969-1972
47
Unwritten policies
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undated
47
"V"
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1969-1972
47
Vander Pyl
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1971
47
"W"
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1970-1972
47
Women scientists (articles)
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undated
47
Other files:
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Minutes
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1956-1975
48
Triennial
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1960-1969
48
International members
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1981-1985
48
Flag
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1983
48
Miscellaneous
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1987-1999
48
"Honor Winners and Flag Carriers, 1932-1991"
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1992
48
Oral history
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1993
48
"Tribute Booklet of The Society of Women Geographers' Seven-Fifty Club"
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1995
48
Photo archives
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1995
48
SWG
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1995
48
Leakey obit and miscellaneous
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1996-1997
48
Controversy
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1997
48
Inventory and collection [?]
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2000
48
Administrative files
7.2
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1924-2004, undated
bulk 1975-2002
Arrangement
Alphabetical files are listed first followed by miscellaneous materials listed in chronological order.
Alphabetical files
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94 Folders
circa 1975-2002
50
51
Copies of correspondence from Edward Spencer-Guidal and misc.
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1924, 1994-1995
48
Reprints, articles inscribed to Marion by authors (Robert Heizer, Alice Kehoe, and John Carlson
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1959-1978
48
My talk SWG 50th
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1975
48
My article for Dumbarton Oaks Olmec book (correspondence and congratulations)
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1977-1982
48
Current/old (nothing to do with Mexico), reminiscences, contains some letters from Maggy in Coatzocoalcos [sp?]
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1977-1985
48
Olmec notes
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1981
48
Florida Calusa articles/ correspondence to Ruth Campbell
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1982
48
Textile Museum, Handbook material including my notes
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3 Folders
1986
48
Letter from Mary Ellen Miller (Yale) re: Cerro de las Mesas
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1986
49
Newspaper clippings regarding National Geographic
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1990
49
Interview National Gallery
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1996
49
Material regarding transfer of MWS lecture films to NMNH
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1993
49
Easter Island (1995 trip Marion)
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1993-1995
49
My reminiscences
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1993-1996
49
Material from John Griggs regarding NAA and Panama
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1994
49
Antarctic (trip 1995, Marion)
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1995
49
El Siglo (clipping sent to Marion by Simeon Conte)
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1995
49
Little Fiddlers Green photographs
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1996
49
Belize and Honduras
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1996
49
"New data from old collections: The 1949 Stirling Collection from Panama in the National Museum of Natural History"
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1997
49
Costa Rica 1964
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1997
49
Costa Rican publication, Vazquez and Jones, my file
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1997
49
Marion Stirling: Notes of Tres Zapotes
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1998
49
Marion Stirling: "My background," and 1939 typed Mexico notes (Tres Zapotes)
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1998
49
My writings so far
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1998
49
Legal documents regarding Marion's will and Little Fiddlers Green
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1999
49
Christmas cards to Marion
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1999
49
Smithsonian papers re: films [?]
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circa 1999
49
Papers regarding films, take to Smithsonian
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2000
49
General experiences (Marion)
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undated
49
Letters already copied once or twice (list)
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undated
49
Marion's answers to questions about going on expedition
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undated
49
"My early life" (Marion, primarily reprints, some with annotations)
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undated
49
My memories
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undated
49
My writing about Matt (not connected with NGS work, odds and ends)
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undated
49
Note about jade figures in book [?]
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undated
49
Personal writings
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undated
49