Finding Aid to the Orange County California Anthropological Project: Banning Site Notes MS.785

Holly Rose Larson

Library and Archives at the Autry

2012 December 6

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Burbank, CA 91502

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Contributing Institution: Library and Archives at the Autry

Title: Orange County California Anthropological Project: Banning Site Notes

Creator: Orange County California Anthropological Project

Creator: United States. Works Progress Administration.

Identifier/Call Number: MS.785

Physical Description: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)

Date: 1938

Abstract: This is a typed report on the Orange County California Anthropological Project, Number 7680, January report of the Banning Site, 1937 January, including daily notes for the Banning site, dated 1937 December 21-1938 January 20; a list of artifacts found at the Banning site; sketches and descriptions of outstanding artifacts found at the site; photographs; maps; and newspaper clippings from 1938 publicizing the studies performed in this anthropological project of the Public Works Administration, supervised by John W. Winterbourne.

Language of Material: English .

Scope and Contents

This is a typed report on the Orange County California Anthropological Project, Number 7680, January report of the Banning Site. It includes daily notes for the Banning site, dated 1937 December 21-1938 January 20; a list of artifacts found at the Banning site; sketches and descriptions of outstanding artifacts found at the site; photographs; maps; and newspaper clippings from 1938 publicizing the studies performed in this anthropological project of the Public Works Administration, supervised by John W. Winterbourne.

Preferred Citation

Orange County California Anthropological Project: Banning Site Notes, 1938, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.785.

Processing History

Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 December 6, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).

Acquisition

Donated by the Works Progress Administration, 1943 April.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Maps

Photographs

Clippings

Field notes

Anthropology

Typescripts

Orange County (Calif.)

Tools

Banning (Calif.)

Excavations (Archaeology) -- California

Indians of North America -- California -- Antiquities

Drawings

Lithics

Ethnobotany

Winterbourne, John W.