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Extent:
163 Copy negatives
191 Negatives (nitrate)
20 Prints (silver gelatin)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Copy negatives
Negatives
Prints
Photographs
Place:
Chatham County (Ga.)
Georgia -- Antiquities
Date:
circa 1940
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs documenting excavations in Chatham County, Georgia. There are images of scenery, dig sites, WPA workers, and pottery sherds and skeletal remains found during excavations at the Irene site, Bilbo site (CH 4), Walthour site (CH 11), Deptford (CH4), CH2 and CH8.
Biographical/Historical note:
Joseph Ralston Caldwell (1916-1973) was an archeologist best known for conducting Works Projects Administration (WPA) excavations in Chatham county, Georgia, circa 1937-1941. Caldwell then served as scientific aide to the National Museum's Director of Anthropology (1943-1945) and as an archeologist for the Smithsonian's River Basin Surveys (1946-1949). In 1957, he received a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. From 1963 to 1964, Caldwell was a Fulbright professor of Archaeology at the University of Tehran and a professor of Anthropology at the Medical School of the National University of Iran. In 1967, he became a professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Archaeology at the University of Georgia.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 87-3
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs by Caldwell can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 81K.
Correspondence from Caldwell and records relating to the Bilbo, Deptford, and other sites, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Antonio Waring's papers.
Records, notes, and correspondence by Caldwell can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Department of Anthropology Personnel Files 1911-1994, Frank Maryl Setzler's papers, and the River Basin Surveys Records.
Joseph Caldwell's footage of River Basin Survey Work in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, can be found in the Human Studies Film Archives in HSFA 91.19.1
Restrictions:
Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advance notice for viewing. Copy negatives available for reference.
Photo Lot 87-3, Joseph R. Caldwell photographs of archeological excavations in Chatham County, Georgia, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
