Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | C. Hart Merriam papers, 1864-1938 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1864-1938 |
ID No. | MSS32698 |
Creator | Merriam, C. Hart, 1855-1942 |
Extent | 5,000 items |
Extent | 71 containers plus 6 oversize |
Extent | 28.5 linear feet |
Extent | 10 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English and Native American languages |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms015020 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82032698 |
Summary | Naturalist, zoologist, and ethnologist. Correspondence, writings, journals, bibliographies, maps, and other papers. Includes journals of scientific expeditions and compilations of North American Indigenous vocabularies, with accompanying large-scale maps showing the distribution of Native American tribes in California and Nevada, as well as notes relating to the Adirondack Mountains and files pertaining to other sites and regions in the United States and abroad. Contains subject material relating to the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration and the Harriman Alaska Expedition. |
Online Content | Part of the papers of C. Hart Merriam is available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000129. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition. |