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Photograph subjects include family trips, picnics, and school. Includes photographs taken by Frances with her roommates at college. Organized in a loosely chronological order 1900-1960.

Scope and Contents

Photograph subjects include family trips, picnics, and school. Includes photographs taken by Frances with her roommates at college. Organized in a loosely chronological order 1900-1960.

Scope and Contents The subseries includes photographs of Maya artifacts and sculpture. Artifacts includes polychrome and heiroglyphic vases, plates, and bowls, stone tools and lithics, stone and ceramic stulpture, obsidian blades, pottery shards, jewelry pieces, pieces from stone architecture, conch shell with heiroglyphics, and other archaeological artifacts. Artifacts came from several sources including private collections, museums, and excavations. Topics of artifacts include animals, geometric and faunal...

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The Sylvanus G. Morley series is composed of papers created by Morley and include both personal and professional papers. Papers include contracts, correspondences, blue prints, financial records, and publication drafts and notes. The bulk of the papers date from 1927 to 1945.

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This subseries is composed of photographs of Sylvanus, Frances, Dorothy Rhoads, and Frank Rhoads, plus other family members, friends, and members of archaeological expeditions. Dated approximately 1925 to 1971. Frank Rhoads came down to Mexico to visit Sylvanus and Frances. Includes sites in Yucatan, Santa Fe, and Chichen Itza.

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This subseries includes photographs related to the professional and personal work of Sylvanus Morley. Most of the photographs are from 1920-1945, and include original prints, negatives, and repository prints. Subjects and themes include personal photos, Maya houses and Spanish buildings, Sites include Quirigua, Uaxactun, Merida, Palenque, Copan, Chichen Itza,

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The Sylvanus Morley professional papers include book contracts, articles, and other papers related to archaeology, excavations, and the Maya. Most of the papers are notes, contracts, and dust jackets related to Morley's book The Ancient Maya. Most of Morley's research was conducted in the Yucatan Peninsula at Chichen Itza and Uxmal, and many of the notes and research for his book comes from excavations at those two sites.