Manuscripts -- Central America -- Private collections
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Maya Society draft materials for publication no. 19, 1937
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 16
Scope and Contents
Contains partial typescript of Maya Society publication no. 19, printers proofs of a document titled "Résumé of the Collection Written by Mr. Gates," and galley prints relating to the 1937 publication of Maya Society publication number 19.
Dates:
1937
William Gates collection of Mesoamerican source materials, 1593-1924
Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 8
Scope and Contents
Contains sales catalogs of Gates' collection of Mesoamerican manuscripts and source materials as well as source materials, largely photocopies, of numerous Mesoamerican, Central American, and South American Indian languages. All materials were compiled throughout Gates' 1898 to 1940 academic involvement with Mesoamerica.
Dates:
1593-1924
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
/
William Gates papers
William Gates collection of sales catalogs, 1924
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 8 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
Contains catalogs related to the late 1920s sale of portions of William Gates' collection of Mesoamerican language source materials.
Dates:
1924