Scope and Contents Contains manuscripts (personal and professional papers), publisher's gallery prints, color transparencies (including 35 mm slides), negatives, color separations, photographs, personal literary materials, research and reference files, audio and visual materials, and historical books, covering over 30 years of research in the ancient Americas, other ancient civilizations, and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A vast majority of the materials in this collection involve...

Scope and Contents Contains materials on Causa International (CAUSA), including news clippings, business cards collected at Causa conferences, publications, viewpoint drafts, letters, photocopies of seminar lecture notes, and Causa Pan-American Convention notes, programs, VHS tapes of conferences and Causa programming, articles, and lists of participants. Topics include Central American politics, religious liberty, communism, and various events. Also includes materials on Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the founder...

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Contains writings related to Gates' institutional affiliations with the Aryan Theosophical Society, the San Diego Museum, and the Department of Middle American Research at Tulane University. While his work with the Department of Middle American Research at Tulane University was directly related to the study of Mesoamerica, Gates' affiliations with the Aryan Theosophical Society and the San Diego Museum were not related to the study of Mesoamerica.

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Contains Gates' mementoes related to his life's work and collection sales. Items span the years 1918 to 1940.

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Contains notes in the form of notebooks and typescripts, compiled by Gates between the years 1898 and 1940, on both Mesoamerican and non-Mesoamerican languages, as well as geographical notes and calindrical studies.

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Contains selected writings of Gates prior to 1930, including notes, printed studies and articles, and public addresses. All items pertain to the study of Mesoamerica, with the exception of an article on the conditions in post-revolution Mexico and an article on Chinese art.