Files containing Sturtevant's students' grades have been restricted, as have his students' and colleagues' grant and fellowships applications. Restricted files were separated and placed at the end of their respective series in boxes 87, 264, 322, 389-394, 435-436, 448, 468, and 483. For preservation reasons, his computer files are also restricted. Seminole sound recordings are restricted. Access to the William C. Sturtevant Papers requires an apointment.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
William C. Sturtevant papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The papers of William C. Sturtevant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Dr. Ives Goddard. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photocopies
Drawings
Date:
1564
Scope and Contents:
Drawings of a man and a woman. Copies made by Charles Praetorius in 1889-1893 from the watercolor copies by John White in the British Museum. John White is believed to have copied Le Moyne's originals (now lost).
Biographical / Historical:
The Le Moyne drawings engraved by Theodor De Bry are all dated to 1564 (see "Description of the Illustrations" in Narrative of Le Moyne, an Artist who accompanied the French Expedition to Florida under Landonniere, 1564; translated from the Latin of De Bry. Boston 1875).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.316,537-538
Local Note:
photographic copies hand-colored with watercolors
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
Photocopy of plate 21, "Culturae & sationis ratio," in Theodor de Bry, ed., [America. pt. 2 Latin] Brevis narratio eorum qvae in Florida Americae provicia Gallis acciderunt....Frankfurt, 1591. (First edition; photo negative from copy in Rare Book Room, Library of Congress, call Number G159.B7. pt. 2 Copy 2, which has this plate in the best condition of any of the copies of this work in LC Rare Book division.) (1961)
