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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.

Found in 4936 Collections and/or Records:

William Gates notes on glyphs

 Digital Record
Identifier: William Gates notes on glyphs
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates notes on glyphs

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S3_SS2_B13_F11
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates notes on Huastec language, approximately 1898-1940

 Item — Box 43: Series 8 [Barcode: 31197232491925], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 8 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 9
Scope and Contents

Contains a typescript by Gates titled "Detailed Huastec Digest of "facts as stated."

Dates: approximately 1898-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / William Gates collection of Mesoamerican source materials / William Gates collection of source materials on grammars and vocabularies of native languages / William Gates collection of Huastec source materials

William Gates notes on Isis Unveiled, 1912 January 25

 File — Box 19: Series 3; Series 4; Series 5 [Barcode: 31197232491701], Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 5 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains 34 pages of hand-written notes on the footnotes in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled."

Dates: 1912 January 25
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / William Gates institutional affiliations / William Gates writings with the Aryan Theosophical Society

William Gates notes on Isis Unveiled

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S5_SS1_B19_F19
Dates: 1912 January 25
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates notes on language, glyphs, book titles, Spanish language text, and the Mesoamerican calendar, approximately 1898-1940

 File — Box 13: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232491586], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 3 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains ten notebooks covering items such as Mayan language notes, notes on glyphs, book titles, some transcriptions of short texts in Spanish, and comparative day names from the Mesoamerican calendar. All entries relatively unorganized as these are working notebooks.

Dates: approximately 1898-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / William Gates research notes / William Gates research notes

William Gates notes on language, glyphs, book titles, Spanish language text, and the Mesoamerican calendar

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S3_SS1_B13_F1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates notes on language transcripts and photocopy invoices, 1913-1915

 File — Box 11A: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232491677], Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains notes on books and manuscripts on various Mayan languages. Contains also invoices for photograph copies from Gates' collection sent to the Peabody museum.

Dates: 1913-1915
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / William Gates papers on collecting activities

William Gates notes on language transcripts and photocopy invoices

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S2_B11A_F11
Dates: 1913-1915
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates notes on Maya glyphs and preliminary outline of glyph dictionary, approximately 1898-1940

 File — Box 21: Series 6 [Barcode: 31197232491727], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains extensive, hand-written notes by Gates on Maya glyphs and their meanings. These notes serve as the preliminary outline of the glyph dictionary.

Dates: approximately 1898-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society draft materials for publication no. 1

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