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Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1966-1978
Creator:
Redford, Donald B.
Smith, Ray Winfield Extent: 10 linear feet (the akhenaten temple project records are contained in ten archival boxes of correspondence, reports, financial
records, publicity and publication material, and contact sheets. drawings and negatives are housed separately)
The Akhenaten Temple Project was the first computer project assumed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum. It was proposed
in 1965 by Ray Winfield Smith, and in 1966 he began the project with the aid of IBM’s nascent computer technology. The IBM
computer was abandoned in 1976. This collection spans Ray Winfield Smith’s entire involvement as director of the project 1968-1971,
and begins the career of Dr. Donald B. Redford who acted as a consultant in 1971 and has been director since 1972. The records
contain papers and photographs relating to the foundation of the Akhenaten Temple Project, and are divided into seven series:
Financial; Correspondence and Reports; Publications and Publicity; Project Negatives; Photographs; Drawings; Misc.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1931-1932
Extent: 0.25 linear feet
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1948-1973
(Bulk: 1950-1953)
Creator:
Satterthwaite, Linton, 1897-1978
Extent: 8 linear feet (the records are contained in sixteen archival boxes, six of which contain photographs, three small file boxes
of card records, and some oversized drawings)
Linton Satterthwaite, a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Curator of the American
Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, conducted three trips to Caracol, Belize
in the 1950s to investigate a previously unknown site of Maya culture. While his primary interest was in Maya inscriptions
and chronology, his journeys to Caracol yielded artifacts for the Museum, including twenty-six vessels of the early classic
period, nine vessels of the late period, Stela 11, a new "giant glyph" altar, and the bottom portion of Stela 3. The Caracol
expedition collection consists of 16 boxes of correspondence, field notes and notes on individual stela, altars, and stones,
glyph decipherment and chronology data, information for publication, and photographs and drawings including contact sheets
and photographs from Caracol, Benque Viejo, and Cayo X. Satterthwaite organized and catalogued the photographs according to
the type of film used, field numbers, and monument number. The collection also contains three file boxes of card notes to
the photographs and a few pieces of oversized material. Satterthwaite's "The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize"
with co-author Carl Beetz, was published after his death. The publication materials relate to his instructions and notes for
publication and Beetz' collection of Satterthwaite's monument notes for the book.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1957-2009
Creator:
Striker, Cecil L., b. 1932
Extent: 28 linear feet
Dr. Cecil L. Striker was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree. While working
on his M.A. and Ph.D. at The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Striker supplemented his studies in programs at
Harvard University, the University of Marburg, and Technische Hochschule Munich. Dr. Striker came to the University of Pennsylvania
in 1968 as an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art. Full professorship was bestowed in 1978. Striker
represented Dumbarton Oaks during restoration and investigative field work at Kalenderhane Camii in Istanbul. The materials
relate to Striker's major area of work, the archaeology and architectural history of the Late Antique, Early Christian, Byzantine
and Medieval periods (fourth through 15th centuries A.D.). Its geographic focus is on the lands of the former Byzantine Empire
(modern Turkey, Greece, ex-Yugoslavia and Albania). There is also some material from Latin West.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1966-1984
Extent: 0.5 linear feet ( )
The Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Proto-History Project Collection includes budgets and proposals, reports and publications, financial
records, artifact loans, field notes, artifact analysis, radiocarbon analysis, photographic prints and negatives, site plans
and sections, and fourty-one pottery drawings. It is housed in 1 box and 2 oversized folders in Map Case M-20.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1954-1970
Creator:
Coe, William R., 1926-
Sharer, Robert J., 1940- Extent: 5 linear feet
The records of the excavations at Chalchuapa, El Salvador include correspondence, administrative records, field notes, photographs,
manuscripts and reports. The bulk of these materials originate from the 1954 excavation by William R. Coe and the 1966 analysis
by Robert J. Sharer, as well as the 1969-1970 re-excavations.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1977-1996
(Bulk: 1977-1986)
Creator:
Buitron-Oliver, Diana , 1946-2002
Extent: 7.5 linear feet
The collection comprises the papers of Diana Buitron-Oliver (1946-2002) relating to her archaeological excavation work in
the archaic precinct of the Apollo sanctuary at Kourion on the island of Cyprus. The collection consists primarily of correspondence,
field notes, and reports on the work by Diana Buitron-Oliver.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1966-1974
(Bulk: 1966-1968)
Creator:
Dyson, Robert H., 1927-
Extent: 2.66 linear feet
Dr. Robert H. Dyson, Jr., Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum 1982-1994, directed excavations in 1966 and 1968
at Dinkha Tepe in the Ushnu Valley, west Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran. This expedition formed part of the Hasanlu Project.
The papers documenting these excavations are for the most part primary reference materials and were deposited as a closed
collection in The University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives for safekeeping until publication research begins within the
next several years. Records were kept in their original order. The textual records of Dinkha Tepe consist of 2.66 linear feet
of excavation notebooks, indexes and catalogues, photographic material, manuscripts, and drawings, maps and plans.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1967-2005
(Bulk: 1968-1975)
Creator:
Wailes, Bernard, 1934-
Extent: 3 linear feet
The Dun Ailinne, Ireland Excavation Records are housed in 5 boxes, plus oversized material in Print Cabinet P-11 and Map Case
M-10. It includes correspondence, financial records, field notes, maps and drawings, artifact drawings, information regarding
artifact analysis, progress reports and publications, artifact inventories, photographic prints and negatives and 35 mm slides
from years ranging from 1968 to 2005 (Bulk 1968-1975).
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1912-1943
Creator:
Dohan, Edith Hall, 1877-1943
Extent: 1.8 linear foot
Edith Hayward Hall Dohan (1877-1943) curated the Mediterranean collection from 1912 to 1915 and from 1920 to 1943. A classical
archaeologist, she received her A.B. from Smith College in 1899 and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1908. A classical archaeologist,
she received her A.B. from Smith College in 1899 and her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1908. In 1904, she joined Harriet Boyd Hawes
and Richard Seager in excavating Gournia in Crete, from which experience she developed her doctoral thesis, The Decorative
Art of Crete in the Bronze Age, completed in 1907. Dohan returned to two other archaeological sites in Crete in 1910 and 1912,
working under the auspices of the Penn Museum before becoming assistant curator of the Mediterranean Section in 1912. The
records in the Edith Hall Dohan curatorial subgroup consist of four series: (1) correspondence; (2) collections; (3) administration;
and (4) research. Records within each folder are arranged chronologically.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1897-1899
Creator:
McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949
Extent: 0.1 linear foot
In 1897, Edward Avery McIlhenny pursued an agreement with Dr. William Pepper, President of the Museum of Anthropology and
Archeaology at the University of Pennsylvania to gain the museum's support for his own expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska.
In return. he agreed to give the museum all of the specimens recovered. McIlhenny worked in Alaska from 1897 to 1899. The
Point Barrow Collection consists of three folders of correspondence and catalogues and two boxes of mounted photographs.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1888-1926
Extent: 0.4 linear foot (the records of the egypt exploration fund fill one archival box of correspondence and financial records)
Amelia B. Edwards, a novelist and travel writer, traveled in Egypt from 1873 to 1874 to escape bad weather in her native England.
Her stay in Egypt inspired the book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile. A best seller at the time, Edwards story presented a view
of nineteenth century Egypt along with descriptions of the previously unknown antiquities of the ancient civilization. After
returning to England, Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole of the Department of Coins and Metals of the British Museum co-founded
the Egypt Exploration Fund. Its 1882 mission was to "explore, survey and excavate ancient sites in Egypt and Sudan and publish
the results of this work." The work of W.M. Flinders Petrie was of great interest to the amateur Egyptologist Edwards, and
she supported Flinders Petrie's appointment as successor to Edouard Naville in Egypt. Petrie arrived in Egypt in 1884 with
funds from University College, London. He later became the first Edwards professor of Egyptology at the University of London.
Subscriptions to the Fund came from all over the world. An office was founded in Boston to do the work of the fund in the
United States. Organizations such as the Free Museum of Science and Art who subscribed to the fund were able to share in the
artifacts recovered by Flinders Petrie's work. The Egypt Exploration Fund records fill one archival box. There are seven folders
of correspondence and financial records including several circulars from the London and Boston offices of the Fund.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1928-1964
(Bulk: 1928-1933)
Creator:
Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942
Extent: 5.2 linear feet ( )
Located approximately 12 miles west of Jerusalem, this site was originally excavated in 1911 and 1912 by Duncan Mackenzie
for the Palestine Exploration Fund. Under the sponsorship of Haverford College, Haverford professor Elihu Grant undertook
excavation at this mound from 1928 to 1931 and again in 1933. When the Bet Shemesh (Ain Shems) artifacts, known as the Haverford
Collection, were purchased by the University Museum in 1962, the field notes, notes on pottery, plans, drawings, photographs,
and correspondence relating to these finds were also acquired.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1893-1984
Extent: 2.8 linear foot
The Museum collections, initially displayed in the University Library in the Furness Building, were transferred to the new
building in 1898. In the years that followed, the collections and the space available continued to grow and the Museum prepared
both permanent and loan exhibits. The earliest Museum exhibits can be found in the records of the individual sections. An
exhibit staff member was appointed in 1940; the staff remaining relatively small. Although exhibit catalogs date from 1892,
few files were kept, and the photographic collections are often helpful in documenting past exhibitions. The files are arranged
chronologically. Exhibit catalogs are filed separately (see Special Collections— Publications).
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1930-1972
(Bulk: 1930-1931)
Creator:
Schmidt, Erich Friedrich, 1897-1964
Extent: 1.95 linear feet
Excavation at Fara, initiated by German excavators between 1902 and 1903, was resumed in 1931 by Erich Schmidt, an archaeologist
working under the aegis of the University Museum. Since the Museum’s participation was limited to one season which took place
between February 15 and May 19, the records pertaining to this excavation are not numerous. The textual records at Fara include
general correspondence, field notes, indexes and catalogues, and publications. Where possible, a chronological order was imposed
on the records.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1957-1974
Creator:
Rainey, Froelich, Director of the University Museum
Extent: 1.6 linear feet
Froelich G. Rainey was born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin in 1907 and raised on a cattle ranch in Montana. He spent time
as a cowboy in his youth and attended the local schools. For his college experience he chose the University of Chicago, graduating
in 1929 with a B.A. in English. Rainey spent the next year at the American School in France studying Pre-Historic Archaeology.
He completed his graduate wotk at Yale University attaining a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1935. Rainey taught for a year at the
University of Puerto Rico and in 1935 began a six year teaching stay at University of Alaska. While in Alaska, he conducted
research which resulted in evidence that humans had migrated from Russia to Alaska centuries ago. Rainey gained museum experience
as an Assistant in Archaeology at the Peabody Museum at Harvard and as a representative for Financial Grants in Archaeology
at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Rainey was appointed Director of the University Museum in 1947 and
maintained the position until his retirement in 1976. He also served as a Professor of Anthropology at the University. Among
his many accomplishments as Director, Rainey is responsible for the institution of Expedition Magazine. He developed and hosted
the television show "What in the World?" which ran either locally or nationally for a total of fifteen years. In 1964, he
served as a contributor to the show "Sunday" on NBC reporting the "archaeology news." The Froelich G. Rainey Egypt records
reflect his close association with the expeditions sponsored by the University in Egypt. They consist of correspondence related
to the Yale-Penn Expedition, the relocation of the Abu Sindel/Nubian sites at the time of the Aswan Dam construction and the
American Research Center in Egypt (A.R.C.E.).
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1947-1977
Creator:
Rainey, Froelich, Director of the University Museum
Extent: 25.6 linear feet
Rainey was appointed Director of the University Museum in 1947 and maintained the position until his retirement in 1976. He
also served as a Professor of Anthropology at the University. Among his many accomplishments as Director, Rainey is responsible
for the institution of Expedition Magazine. He developed and hosted the television show "What in the World?" which ran either
locally or nationally for a total of fifteen years. In 1964, he served as a contributor to the show "Sunday" on NBC reporting
the "archaeology news." The Froelich Rainey Administrative records consist of sixty-four archival boxes of correspondence
divided into two series; alphabetical and chronological. The majority of the letters are in the alphabetical files with the
chronological files reflecting the time from February 1968 to November 1969.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1893-1956
(Bulk: 1893-1924)
Creator:
Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927
Extent: 0.35 linear foot
George Byron Gordon led expeditions to Copan at the end of the nineteenth century and, with his brother MacLaren Gordon, to
Alaska in 1905 and 1907. As Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and as Director of the Museum, Gordon was first to
conduct regular lectures to undergraduate and graduate students in Anthropology and oversaw one of the the largest periods
of Museum growth. The G.B. Gordon Central America collection includes diaries, surveying notes, reports and stories from the
Copan Expeditions and the Yucatan Expedition in 1910, original stories, articles, and book reviews written by Dr. Gordon,
communication with The British Museum about Maya site excavation, Gordon's introductions composed for speakers for the Saturday
Afternoon Lecture Series, speeches to professional organizations, and class lectures.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1960-1972
Creator:
Dales, George F.
Extent: 5.5 linear feet
George Franklin Dales was born in Akron, Ohio in 1927. He received his Ph.D. at Penn in 1960 studying the history, art and
archaeology of the Middle East. Dales lectured at the University of Toronto from 1961 to 1963. He returned to Penn and was
appointed both assistant and then Associate Curator of the South Asian Collection at the Penn Museum and moved from Assistant
to Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Regional Studies. Dales left Penn in 1972 to work at the University
of California, Berkeley. The George F. Dales Papers consist of seven archival boxes of data and one card file box. The records
are arranged by site-Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ceylon, Thailand and Indonesia.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1956-1964
Creator:
Pritchard, James B. (James Bennett), 1909-1997
Extent: 6 linear feet
James Pritchard, first Curator of Biblical Archaeology, Professor of Religious Thought, Associate Director (1967-1976), and
Director (1976-1977) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, conducted his primary fieldwork in three sites in the Near
East. Of these, locating the site of Ancient Gibeon (El-Jib) in Jordan was perhaps Pritchard’s most notable accomplishment.
He and his team conducted five seasons of fieldwork here, discovering three prominent architectural features: a tunnel, pool,
and the city wall. The archival records for these excavations consist six linear feet of field notes, reports, a field diary,
correspondence, object catalogues, drawings, photographs and a photographic catalogue, an annotated map, publication notes,
and financial records.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1906-1945
(Bulk: 1906-1907)
Creator:
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908
Smith, Henry L. Extent: 05 linear foot (the collection consists of one folder of material with thirteen letters, an article, a program, and the signature
of henry l. smith)
The Henry L. Smith collection of Augustus Le Plongeon correspondence documents the letters received by Henry L. Smith from
the photographer, antiquarian, and amateur archaeologist, Augustus Le Plongeon in 1906 and 1907. Le Plongeon is most noted
for his photographs in the Northern Yucatan during travels with his wife, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, during a thirteen year
period from 1873 to 1885. These photographs depict ancient ruins and inscriptions some of which were later damaged or destroyed.
The collection consists of one folder of thirteen letters from Le Plongeon, and two additional pieces of information sent
to Henry L. Smith, an article from Appleton's Booklovers Magazine and a brochure from the Lowell Institute. H. L. Smith's
signature is found on a label for the letters.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1895-1907
Creator:
Hiller, Hiram Milliken, 1867-1921
Extent: 0.4 linear foot
Hiram Milliken Hiller, Jr. was born in 1867 in Kahoka, Missouri to Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller and Sarah Bell Hiller. He
graduated from Parson’s College, Iowa, in 1887 and from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1891. In 1895, he
made the first of a series of voyages to the East with Furness and Harrison. From 1895-1901, Hiller visited Borneo, Japan,
Sri Lanka, Siberia, and other locations in Asia. Hiller conducted ethnographical studies of the Dayaks of Borneo, the Nagas
of Assam, India, and the Ainu of Japan. These letters span the period from October 1895 to May 1907, with the years 1896-1902
the most significantly represented. Most of them are from Hiram Hiller, Jr. to family members in Kahoka, particularly his
mother Sarah and his sister Lida Hiller (Lapsley).
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1898-1968
(Bulk: 1924-1964)
Creator:
Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Extent: 1.2 linear feet
J. Alden Mason, noted archaeological anthropologist and linguist, was born in Orland, Indiana and attended school in Philadelphia
attaining his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907. He pursued his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley
completing his dissertation on the ethnography of the Salinan Indians of California. Mason was influenced by Alfred J. Kroeber
while at Berkeley and Edward Sapir of the University of Pennsylvania. The J. Alden Mason curatorial years (1922-1967) produced
three archival boxes of correspondence and in-house memos, along with Section reports, research notes and articles and notes
for publication. This material, in addition to personal records of Dr. Mason and evidence of his scholarship were arranged
into series and placed in chronological order.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1895-1975
Creator:
Bates, William Nickerson, 1867-1949
Daniel, J. F. (John Franklin), 1910-1948 Dohan, Edith Hall, 1877-1943 Edwards, G. Roger, 1914-2009 Luce, Stephen B. Stevenson, Sara Yorke, 1847-1921 Young, Rodney S. (Rodney Stuart), 1907-1974 Extent: 2 linear feet
The curatorial files encompass the period from the Section's inauguration by Museum President William Pepper in 1894 to the
1970s. While the material in the Mediterranean curatorial files dates from 1895 to 1979, the bulk of the collection dates
to the earlier years (1895-1949) and within that period, the majority relate to Edith Hall Dohan.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1881-1900
Creator:
Haynes, John Henry
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921 Extent: 20 linear feet
In 1887, the University of Pennsylvania agreed to sponsor an expedition to the Near East. The idea was conceived by Reverend
John Punnett Peters, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Hebrew. Nippur was a pre-Biblical city-state located in the region
between the Tigris and Euphrates, the area believed to be the "cradle of civilization." The museum conducted four expeditions
between 1889 and 1898. The textual records for Nippur consist of 20 linear feet of files are arranged by Expedition (I, II,
III, IV), as well as publications, maps and drawings. The documents for each expedition are separated according to type: Field
Notes, Reports and Narratives, Correspondence, Financial Records.
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