Field notes
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Awatovi Expedition records
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 995-11, 35-126, 36-131, 38-120,39-97
Overview:
The collection documents the Peabody Museum Expedition to Awatovi (northeastern Arizona) from 1935-39, and includes historical material, financial records, field notes, diaries, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and field and artifact cards.
The Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.004
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains fieldwork records and papers produced by the staff of the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks, as well as Thomas Whittemore and Paul Underwood, between the 1920s and 2000s. It is comprised of correspondence, minutes, financial records, logbooks, fieldwork notebooks, research notes, ground plans, maps, oversize drawings, tracings, paintings, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, and publication materials. The collection is organized by the method of creation and...
C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Tepe Yahya expedition records
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2015.6.1
Scope and Contents:
The Tepe Yahya expedition papers largely consist of field records and publication materials from C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky’s excavations in Tepe Yahya in Southeastern Iran. The expedition took place between 1968 and 1975, although the papers include additional materials from both before and after the excavations. He and his team recorded all items found on small finds cards, including drawings. He also...
David I. Bushnell, Jr. collection records
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 41-72
Scope and Contents:
The papers primarily consist of Bushnell and the Bushnell estate's correspondence with dealers, artists, museum professionals and other collectors; Bushnell's fieldnotes from his work with the Choctaw and archaeological expeditions; and, manuscript drafts and notes for his many publications.
Early archaeological projects associated with Thomas Whittemore
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.017
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains papers, photographs, and drawings dating from the 1910s through the early 1930s that relate to excavation projects conducted in Egypt and Bulgaria. The materials include excavation reports, fieldwork and research notes, transcriptions from publications, translations of texts, citations, and correspondence, as well as rubbings, drawings, watercolor paintings, and photographs. While a portion of the collection reflects original observations made in the field, the...
Josephine M. Harris research papers and photographs
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.007
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of Josephine M. Harris’ documentation of Coptic architectural sculpture from the site of Oxyrhynchos, Egypt (3rd-6th century CE). It includes research notes, drafts, and correspondence, but the majority of the collection consists of photographs and negatives of Coptic sculpture in Egypt, especially sculptural fragments from the site of Oxyrhynchos. These fragments were excavated by Evaristo Breccia in 1927-1931 and became part of the collection of the Graeco-Roman...
Hell Gap Expedition records
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 63-38
Scope and Contents:
The expedition records contain evidence of the many activities that were carried out on site. Series include field notes, site cards, clippings, correspondence,personnel records, manuscripts and...
Hemenway Expedition records
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 43-39A, 46-73, 13-26, 980-2, 2000.20,2001.7
Scope and Contents:
The Hemenway Expedition Records reveal the working relationships in field correspondence between expedition members and with Mary Hemenway; the intellectual products of the work in Cushing, Bandelier, and ten Kate's ethnological manuscripts; and the raw data of site notes and cards, reports, plans, and field notebooks. The records also contain some of Margaret Magill's watercolors of archaeological artifacts. The materials are organized primarily by chronological accession and then according...
Karl G. Heider papers on New Guinea
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2011.22.1
Overview:
Karl Heider was a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea, spending an additional twenty-one months observing the Dani people on his own after the other members had departed. The purpose of the expedition and Heider’s work was to holistically capture the lives of the Dani people before the changes of the modern era began to infiltrate their preliterate, “Stone Age” culture. The records include field notebooks, tape...
Lorna and Laurence Marshall expeditionary notebooks and diaries Digital
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2003.36
Scope and Content Note:
This collection of notebooks and journals written respectively by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall and Laurence Kennedy Marshall cover seven of the Marshall Family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana, Angola, and South Africa to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are Laurence Marshall's "record books" including: expenditures; travel planning information (packing lists, distance, and mileage); film and photographic technical...
Lorna Marshall research papers Digital
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2018.9.1
Scope and Contents:
This collection includes research material collected and produced in part by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall regarding the Marshall family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana and Angola to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are detailed itineraries; files organized by subject matter; chronological files; correspondence; notes by other scholars who accompanied the Marshalls on their expeditions, including Robert Dyson, J. Otis Brew,...
Papers of Alice Rich Northrop, 1883-1924
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 396: M-131
Overview:
Diaries, photographs, etc., of Alice (Rich) Northrop, author and botanist.
Papers of Theresa Goell, 1906-2005
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 534: DVD-4
Overview:
Personal papers of archeologist Theresa Goell. Some professional papers and Goell family papers are also included.
Southwest Africa Expeditions records Digital
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 51-60-00-56-57-00-58-43-00
Scope and Contents:
This collection comprises expedition correspondence, field note excerpts, field reports, research permits, bibliographies, news clippings, South West African government reports, and financial records (inventories, purchase lists, expense records, travel records, receipts, and cancelled checks). Of note are records related to expedition planning (including the co-sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution starting in 1955), correspondence and reports sent from the expedition sites, and...
Robert L. Van Nice fieldwork records and papers
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.012
Scope and Contents:
This collection documents the architectural survey of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, conducted by Robert L. Van Nice from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The project was sponsored by William Emerson, Dean of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from 1937 until Emerson’s death in 1957. The project was then sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks until Van Nice’s retirement in 1989. Materials in the collection include administrative records, correspondence, research...
W. W. (William White) Howells papers
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 995-15
Overview:
This collection consists primarily of anthropometric data/ field sheets and somatotype photographs of a variety of cultures.
Yap Expedition records
FOUND IN:
Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 48-51
Overview:
Includes records of the Harvard expedition to Yap, Caroline Islands between 1947 and 1948. Consists of field notes and correspondence by four expedition members, David Schneider, Nathaniel R. Kidder, Edward E. Hunt, Jr., and William D. Stevens, to the Peabody Museum and the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.