Historic Background Research (Investigation Type)

These are investigations of the past using written records and other documents. Evidence from the records are compared, judged for veracity, placed in chronological or topical sequence, and interpreted in light of preceding, contemporary, and subsequent events.

6,851-6,875 (6,892 Records)

Wooden Structure Photographs, SUCF Parking Facility Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of wooden structures, including cribbing, ricking, wharves, and stockades, from the SUCF Parking Facility site, Albany, NY. Elements of the site were featured in an article from Historical Archaeology. McDonald, Molly R. 2011. Whatves and Waterfront Retaining Strucctures as Vernacular Architecture. Historical Archaeology 45 (2):42-68.


Wooden timber maintenance on the Great House, Compound A (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald L. Spencer. H. David evans.

These documents are: a form for assessment of action that would impact cultural resources in the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and a document supporting the proposed action. The recommendation supports replaced areas on a rotting timber with wood as opposed to epoxy.


Woodlands: Archeological Investigations at the Sam Houston Home, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Clark, Jr..

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Work of a Master? Addressing Evaluation of Routine or Prosaic Architecture by Famous Architects on Military Facilities (Legacy 15-779)
PROJECT Uploaded by: McKenna McMahon

This project outlined the challenges of evaluating military buildings under the "work of a master" standard of NRHP Criterion C and details research and analysis approaches.


Work of a Master? Addressing Evaluation of Routine or Prosaic Architecture by Famous Architects on Military Facilities - Flow Chart (Legacy 15-779) (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rand Herbert. Joseph Freeman.

This flow chart resulted from a project that outlined the challenges of evaluating military buildings under the "work of a master" standard of NRHP Criterion C and details research and analysis approaches.


Work of a Master? Addressing Evaluation of Routine or Prosaic Architecture by Famous Architects on Military Facilities - Report (Legacy 15-779) (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rand Herbert. Joseph Freeman.

This document outlines the challenges of evaluating military buildings under the "work of a master" standard of NRHP Criterion C and details research and analysis approaches. The guidance contains case studies and reference tools, including an annotated list of standard sources for performing evaluations, a reference checklist, and guidance on consulting with SHPO reviewers.


Work Plan, Phase 1 Archaeological Survey: Sagamore Hill Antenna Complex, Hamilton, MA and Eagle Hill Antenna Facility, Ipswich, MA (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Parsons Engineering Science, Inc.

The Headquarters Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (HQ AFCEE) has tasked Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. (Parsons) to conduct Phase I archaeological surveys at the Sagamore Hill Antenna Complex, Hamilton. Massachusetts, and at the Eagle Hill Antenna Facility, Ipswich, Massachusetts. The overall project objective is to conduct a Phase I archaeological survey of approximately 10 acres of the Sagamore Hill facility considered to be archaeologically sensitive. To achieve this...


The Working Agroscape of the Iron Age - Landscape History (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J Reynolds.

This paper represents an assay into the vexed area of prehistoric and in particular Iron Age agriculture. This is offered rather more as a polemic than a statement and is designed to provoke argument rather than agreement. The majority of the experimental data from which the arguments are raised is drawn from the current research programs at the Butser Ancient Farm Research Project, Hampshire.


Working For Community: The Yaqui Indians at the Salt River Project (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Leah S. Glaser.

After fifty years of service,Juan Martinez retired from the Salt River Project on June 20, 1968. From the age of seven­teen, Martinez had worked alongside hundreds of other Yaqui In­dians maintaining the Salt River Valley’s irrigation system. For much of that time, he lived and raised his family in a company-owned labor camp—one of the largest Yaqui settlements in Ari­zona. At the camp, corporate interests cultivated the Indian com­munity in a mutually beneficial arrangement that supported the...


Working Plantations on Sapelo Island: High Point Versus Chocolate (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

Back-to-back archaeological surveys on Sapelo Island, Georgia by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have concentrated on two sites: a substantial, intensively occupied plantation dating primarily to the first half of the 19th century (Chocolate) and an earlier, sporadically occupied operation that included a short-lived French component (High Point). This paper compares the archaeological manifestations of slave occupations at both sites and identifies distinct material contrasts...


World War II Aircraft Training Crashes at the Tonopah Army Air Field, Nevada (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

This study examines the crashes that occurred at this training facility from 1942-1945. Most that are discussed are categorized as Notable Accidents, which include fatalities, major damage to aircraft, and atypical crashes. There were 59 Notable Accidents with 134 fatalities which are discussed in individual crash sections. Official accident reports follow. There were 134 minor accidents categorized as Incidents. They are situations that resulted in only minor damage to planes and humans. The...


World War II Hangar Facilities Historical Report Eareckson Air Station, Alaska Final August 2014 (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phyllys Callina.

A review of the World War II hangars and associated heating facilities at Eareckson Air Station, Alaska on Shemya Island. The report presents the hangar and heating facility descriptions, photographs, architectural drawings, and historical context to satisfy the stipulations of the Memorandum of Agreement between the United States Air Force 611th Air Support Group Alaska and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the demolition of World War II-era birchwood hangars and heating...


World War II P-38G-10-LO Aircraft Restoration and Historical Context (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John H. Cloe.

This study was prepared in part to satisfy the need to document the planning, recovery, restoration, and display of Lockheed P-38G-10-LO, serial number 42-13400, the "Lightning". The Lightning is the only one remaining of the 1,082 G models produced during World War II. It is one of approximately 26 Lightnings remaining of the 10,038 produced. It was also the first aircraft to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The study also provides additional documentation supporting the...


World War II Remains on Central Pacific Islands: Perceptions of Cultural Heritage versus Priorities of Preservation (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


World War II Remnants, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands: a Guide and History (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Lotz.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


The World's Most Popular Jail (1926)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Lee Calnon.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives On American Indians In Iowa (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gretchen M. Bataille. David M. Gradwohl. Charles L. P. Silet.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


The Wreck of the Libelle and other Early European Visitors to Wake Island (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

This paper details the early European history of the atoll and focuses on a shipwreck and the subsequent salvage events.


Wreck of the Tracy D: Discovery of an Unidentified Shipwreck on Ossabaw Island (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

Archaeological investigations at the North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island took place during the winter of2005. Several of the archaeology project team members participated in an unrelated discovery of a shipwreck on the South End Point of Ossabaw Island in St. Catherines Sound during that period. This previously unknown and, as yet, unidentified wreck was first discovered by Tracy Dean, who noticed nineteenth century bottle glass and ballast flint on the beach and the wreck site was named in her...


Writeup on Adolph Bandelier (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Aaron Deguzman.

A look at Bandeliers past and his work done on the American Southwest.


Writeup on Jesse Walter Fewkes (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Aaron Deguzman.

A brief history of the anthropologist that was Fewkes.


Writeup on Squire and Davis (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Aaron Deguzman.

A brief look at the state of archeology specifically dealing with the mound builder myth, before and after Squier and Davis' publication of "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley."


Writeup on Thomas Jefferson (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Deguzman Aaron.

A short essay in regards to Thomas Jefferson's archaeological work.


WWII History Magazine: Wake Island Survivor (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marke E. Hubbs.

A short excerpt from the Military Heritage WWII History magazine about civilian World War II survivor, Glen Binge, who had lived through the battle at Wake Island and three and a half years as a Prisoner of War in Japan's most infamous prisoner of war camp.


Wyatt's Travel Diary, 1836, With Comment By Mrs. Addie Evans Wynn and W. A. Evans (1930)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William N. Wyatt.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.