Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 [actually 1932]. volume IV, Part II, The cliff dwellers

Title Variants

Alternative: Random records, vol. 4, pt. 2

Related Titles

Series: Random records of a lifetime, 1846-1931 [that is, 1932] Cullings, largely personal, from the scrap heap of three score years and ten, devoted to science, literature and art, v.4:pt.2

By

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 , creator

Type

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1875-1932

Notes

Devised title.

Binder's title: Random records.

Typewritten manuscript.

This is volume four, part two, of sixteen volumes compiled by William Henry Holmes in 1931 or 1932 to document his life and work. The volume is divided into two sections. | The first includes portions of publications by other authors about anthropology, archaeology, and art history; Holmes' journal entries from a trip to Colorado in 1876; as well as a discussion of geological and archaeological survey of Southwest Colorado. The volume contains original correspondence, documents, ephemera, watercolors/drawings, and photographs throughout. There are original drawings with notes and photographs of the cliffs and dwellings. The second section includes "miscellany." This primarily contains additional images and inserted publications.

William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) was an anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, and geologist, who spent much of his career affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. He studied art under Theodore Kauffman, and went on to work as a scientific illustrator with Smithsonian staff. In 1872, he was appointed artist-topographer to the United States survey of the territories under Ferdinand V. Hayden, and in 1874 was appointed assistant geologist. He went on to work with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), until returning to the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum (USNM). Holmes eventually became head curator of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology and Director of the National Gallery of Art.

Subjects

1846-1933 , Archaeology , Cliff-dwellings , Colorado , Geology , History , Holmes, William Henry, , Smithsonian Institution

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Call Number

CT275.H75 A1 v. 4 pt. 2

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 951817399