Photographs depicting temple and mound excavations in Norris basin, Tennessee.
William S. Webb (1882-1964) was Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology as well as the Department of Physics at the University of Kentucky. During the 1930s he coordinated archeological excavations in Tennessee, northern Alabama, and western Kentucky for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He documented these excavations in BAE Bulletins 118, 122, and 129.
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Photo lot 73-17, William S. Webb photographs of excavations in Norris basin, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The photographs were given by Webb to Col. John P. Simpson, who then donated them to the St. Mary's City Commission. Alexander H. Morrison II of the St. Mary's City Commission gave them to the National Anthropological Archives, 1973.
Correspondence from Webb can be found in other collections within the National Anthropological Archives, including the records of the Bureau of Ethnology, the records of the River Basin Surveys, and collections of personal papers.
The National Anthropological Archives holds MS 3435-d, James Bennet Griffin and William Webb's manuscript on Tennessee Valley Archeology.
Additional photographs relating to Webb's archaeological work may be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24.
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Photographs published in "An Archaeological Survey of the Norris basin in Eastern Tennessee," BAE Bulletin 118, 1938.