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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 cutouts from Quiché and Cakchiquel to Spanish dictionaries, approximately 1898-1940

 File — Box 61: Series 8 [Barcode: 31197232492147], Folder: 3-4
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 8 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains strips cut from various dictionaries ready to be pasted.

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 Cakchiquel source materials

William Gates early drafts of Maya grammar, 1898-1940

 Item — Box 24: Series 6 [Barcode: 31197232491750], Folder: 7-8
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 11
Scope and Contents

Contains typed notes on Maya grammar.

Dates: 1898-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / Maya Society records / Maya Society draft materials for publication no. 13

William Gates early drafts of Maya grammar

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S6_SS11_B24_F7-8
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates early typescript, notes, and comments on Diego de Landa, approximately 1898-1940

 File — Box 26: Series 6 [Barcode: 31197232491776], Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 6 Sub-Series 17
Scope and Contents

Contains typescript of address delivered by Gates at the 18th Congress of the Americas, 1912, titled "Medina on Landa the Inquisitor." Contains extensive typescripts of Landa's "Yucatan Before and After the Conquest."

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. 20

William Gates early typescript, notes, and comments on Diego de Landa

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S6_SS17_B26_F11
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates early vocabulary notes, approximately 1898-1940

 File — Box 18: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232491636], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 3 Sub-Series 3 File 9
Scope and Contents

Contains a notebook on Mayan vocabulary from early in Gates' career.

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

William Gates early vocabulary notes

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S3_SS3_B18_F9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates early vocabulary studies, approximately 1898-1940

 File — Box 18: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232491636], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a small notebook with seventy pages of miscellaneous Mayan vocabulary and their English language equivalents.

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

William Gates early vocabulary studies

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS279_S3_SS3_B18_F1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Gates glyph studies, 1898-1940

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains hand-written, typed, and photographic notes on various Mesoamerican codices and glyphs in addition to an extensive card file for glyph identification. The notes were compiled by Gates both in the field and in California and Baltimore between the years 1898 and 1940.

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

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