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

Finding aid prepared by Holly Rose Larson

Autry National Center, Braun Research Library

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Los Angeles, CA, 90065-5030

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2012 December 6

Title: Orange County California Anthropological Project: Banning Site Notes

Identifier/Call Number: MS.785

Contributing Institution: Autry National Center, Braun Research Library

Language of Material: English

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 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.

creator: Orange County California Anthropological Project.

creator: United States. Works Progress Administration.

Scope and Contents

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 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 National Center, 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.

Use

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Winterbourne, John W.

Anthropology

Banning (Calif.)

Clippings

Drawings

Ethnobotany

Excavations (Archaeology) -- California

Field notes

Indians of North America -- California -- Antiquities

Lithics

Maps

Orange County (Calif.)

Photographs

Tools

Typescripts