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DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina M. Schreiner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines nineteenth-century artifact collecting practices through analysis of legacy, orphaned, and curated collections at Woodville Plantation (36AL29), a historic house museum in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. From the 1830s to 1920s, the Wrenshall family...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Shott.

In survey, we collect what lies on the surface. But so have others, for decades or more. Ignoring private collections risks neglecting a selective but informative part of the accumulated record. One way to gauge collector effects is to compare what archaeologists found in survey to private collections from the same places. In 1975-77 the University of Michigan surveyed the River Raisin watershed in southeastern Michigan. I compare Michigan’s results to what collectors had found already and,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jane E. Kamplain.

This technical report presents the results of a Department of Defense Legacy Program project to inventory, analyze, and recover private collections related to Edwards Air Force Base. The project had four general purposes: 1) to recover valuable information and materials from private collections, 2) to develop methods and techniques to effectively identify and gain information from private collections, 3) to assess the usefulness of private collections in addressing cultural resource management...