Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996 Search this
Extent:
6 Prints (silver gelatin)
1 Poster
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Posters
Photographs
Date:
1985
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs and poster documenting the reunion at the University of Arizona of A. E. Douglass's first class on tree-ring studies, part of the University's Centennial celebrations. The photographs depict attendees at the reunion of the class on its fifty-fifth anniversary, including Waldo Wedel, Emil Haury, Florence Hawley Ellis, Clara Lee Tanner, Bryant Bannister, and Raymond Thompson.
Biographical/Historical note:
Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867-1962) pioneered dendrochronology, the use of tree rings to date material found in archeological sites, and founded the University of Arizona Tree-Ring Laboratory. On February 14, 1985, the Arizona State Museum hosted a reunion of Douglass's 1930 dendrochronology class; the four students in attendance were Waldo Wedel, Florence Hawley Ellis, Emil W. Haury, and Clara Lee Tanner. Also in attendance were Arizona State Museum and Centennial Director Dr. Raymond Thompson and tree-ring professor Dr. Bryant Bannister.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R85-12
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds the papers of Waldo Rudolph Wedel and Mildred Mott Wedel and an Oral history interview of Waldo R. Wedel (MS 2011-29).
Reports by Emil W. Haury can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 3304-a, MS 3199, and MS 3972-a-b-c-d-e.
Reports by Florence Hawley Ellis can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7082.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Permission for reproduction or use must be obtained from the Arizona State Museum.
Photo Lot R85-12, Helga Teiwes photographs of reunion of Andrew Endicott Douglass's first dendrochronology class, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Interview of Waldo R. Wedel conducted by Larry D. Banks and Douglas Givens on June 17, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado. The interview was conducted at Wedel's nursing home, a couple of months before he died.This interview is part of a series of oral histories of archaeologists recorded by Givens. Topics include Wedel's youth, career, fieldwork, colleagues, the Smithsonian Institution, and the River Basin Surveys.
Biographical / Historical:
Waldo R. Wedel was an archaeologist, best known for his contributions to Plains archaeology. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1936 to 1977. He began his career at the Smithsonian as an assistant curator under Neil M. Judd in the Division of Archeology in the United States National Museum. He later became curator of archeology in 1950, and in 1962, he became head curator of the Department of Anthropology. In 1964-1965, he was acting head of the newly organized Smithsonian Office of Anthropology. Wedel also established and directed the Missouri Basin Project (1946-50) of the Bureau of American Ethnology's River Basin Surveys.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2011-29
General:
Date on box insert incorrectly listed as July 18, 1996.
Other Archival Materials:
See also Waldo R. Wedel and Mildred Mott Wedel Papers
University of Arizona. Department of Anthropology Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Reports
Photographs
Place:
Arizona -- Archeology
Date:
November 15, 1938-April 15, 1939
Scope and Contents:
Includes: (a)-A preliminary report covering archaeological investigations on the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona. Text, 10 pages; 10 photographs 3-1/4 x 4 in. - 1938-1939 (Guano Cave and Jackrabbit Ruin) (b)- A Preliminary Report covering period from February 3 to May 29, 1941. 10 pages 28 centimeters. (c)- A Report on excavations at Arizona P:16-2 and 16:20 Pueblo and Pit House villages- June 15 to August 10, 1941 5 pages 28 centimeters
(d) - A Preliminary Report on the Bluff Site (Arizona P:16:20), An Early Pithouse Village in the Forestdale Valley, East-Central Arizona, June 31 - July 12, 1944. 6 pages 28 centimeters. 8-1/2 x 11", and 6 photographs. April 4, 1946 - Preliminary Report on the Archeological Reconnaissance in the San Carlos Indian Reservation, June 19, to July 30, 1945, 6 pages 28 centimeters. Emil J. Maury, Director. 5 photographs, 16 centimeters.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3972-a-b-c-d-e
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992 Search this
Extent:
2 Prints (silver gelatin)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Photographs
Place:
Arizona -- Antiquities
Date:
circa 1926
Scope and Contents note:
Images of excavated mammoth head and Double Adobe site where milling stones were found twelve feet below the surface. The photographs were probably collected by Neil Merton Judd, whose handwritten notes are on the versos.
Biographical/Historical note:
The Double Adobe Site is an archaeological site in the Whitewater Draw area of southern Arizona. In October 1926, Byron Cummings led four University of Arizona students, including Emil Haury, in excavating the site after a mammoth skull was found by picnicking schoolchildren. Below the skull, the archeologists found milling and handstones as well as the bones of Pleistocene species of bison and horse.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 89-12
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Reports and correspondence by Cummings can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 3379, MS 3332, Neil Merton Judd's papers, the Cooperative Ethnological Investigations file (1928-1935), and the Bureau of American Ethnology General Correspondence.
The Arizona Historical Society holds the Byron Cummings papers, 1861-1954 (MS 200) and photograph collection (PC 29).
