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IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of plastic artifacts collected during the Archaeological Excavations for the Jenkins House Site (46CB41) 2002-2003 in the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam area, in Cabell County, West Virginia.

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of plastic artifacts collected during excavations of the Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982 located in Huntington, Miami, and Wabash counties, Indiana.

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of plastic artifacts collected during the Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976, located in Wabash County, Indiana, near the Mississinewa Reservoir.

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of plastic artifacts collected during the Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation in Wilcox County, Alabama.

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

This collection is referred to as "Pocatalico River Basin Joint Study 1973-1975.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The documents were originally housed in an acidic folder within an acid-free box and were in overall good condition. Small tears and metal contaminants were present. Tears were mended with acid-free tissue mending tape, metal contaminants were removed using...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City.

There is no report or documentation associated with this investigation. The VCP could not determine why the investigation was initiated, who the investigating organization was, who supervised the fieldwork, and when the fieldwork was conducted. It is possible that this unprovenienced material consists of several small investigations that have since lost their identifying project information. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David G. Anderson. Joseph Schuldenrein.

From July 3 through September 26, 1980, archeologists from Commonwealth Associates Inc., conducted extensive testing and data recovery operations at three sites (9EB75, 9EB91, and 9EB382) near the mouth of Van Creek in the proposed Richard B. Russell Reservoir, Elbert County, Georgia. The fieldwork reported here was funded by the Savannah District of the US Army Corps of Engineers as part of the cultural resources investigations accompanying the construction of the reservoir. Quality assurance...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Gunn.

A photo record form for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, White Oak project which were loaded by J. Gunn. A note concerning the numbers assigned in the photographs to prehistoric site (18PR465) test unit profile photographs is that the numbers on the menu board are not the same as those reported in the text and notebooks. On the photographic contact sheets, negatives, and slides, the numbers on the menu board correspond to the test units numbers listed in the form.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Larry Schmits.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District is presently constructing Blue Springs Lake on the East Fork of the Little Blue River in Jackson County, Missouri. The location of the project is in the tall grass prairie forest mosaic of the eastern Prairie Plains (Figure 1). This area is in the West Missouri Management Unit as defined by the Preliminary Draft Master Plan for Archaeological Resource Protection in Missouri prepared by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Completion...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James H. Kellar.

The following reports the results of archaeological test excavations in the Mississinewa and Salamonie reservoirs, United States Army, Corps of Engineers, flood control projects presently under construction in the upper Wabash River drainage system in northeastern Indiana. The work was accomplished during the summer of 1963 under contract with the National Park Service.

DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

This Environmental Assessment (EA) focuses on the impacts of activities related to implementation of the proposed action to improve self-confidence, awareness, and responsibility, as well as interpersonal communication, honesty, and mutual support, viz., teamwork, in the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) workforce at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC). The focus includes consideration of other actions being taken at ALC to ensure that cumulative impacts are assessed. This Environmental Assessment...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Veterans Curation Program.

This resource contains a four-piece printed draft map of the Salamonie Reservoir, Indiana, printed in February 1981. This map is part of the Salamonie Reservoir Maps N.D collection that consists of oversized maps of the Salamonie Reservoir within the Huntington and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The collection was received without any association to a particular investigation. The date of this image was not recorded. This is likely due to the documents’ large size and cartographic contents.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Army Research Laboratory.

Project documents for a Phase I survey at Site W, Naval Surface Warfare Center, White Oak, Maryland. Documentation includes field notes, maps, shovel test record forms, and artifact inventory.

DOCUMENT Full-Text George A. Bicher.

The objective of the study is to determine whether additional Federal investment in transportation facilities in the Big Sandy Basin, in the form of navigation improvements, is warranted at this time to meet the basin's total transportation needs. The Corps of Engineers led agency in the study, with involvement by other appropriate Federal, State, regional and local agencies. Our initial study activities include a careful inventory and evaluation of available information and determination of...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Public Notices 1975-1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is six linear inches. The digital materials in this collection were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra T. Parker.

The Fairfax County Park Authority’s museum standards and use of technology has changed over the years and we are currently reevaluating and improving our archaeology collections care. In spirit of this conference we are making a call to action: we are stressing to those working in archaeology collections the importance of good collections management. Without good collections management, field work, cataloging, researching, and artifacts can lose their original meaning, be insufficiently cared...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola A Schiappacasse.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, archaeological research was undertaken in urban blocks of the Santo Domingo and Ballajá wards producing one of the largest collections from within the city walls of San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Part of the collection was transferred to the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.  This presentation explores the contents of the collection in terms of artifacts, documents, drawings, and photographs.  The objective...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank T. Schnell.

The major portion of Old Creek Town Park is located at the northeastern corner of Eufaula, Alabama in the NW quadrant of the NW quadrant of Section 27, TUN, R29E. The latitude and longitude of the central portion of the site Is N 31°5'52", W 85°07'16". The current highest elevation on the site is approximately 203 feet or 62 meters above mean sea level. The original lowest elevation for the site is unknown, but Huscher (1959) gives a lowest elevation of 190 feet or 58 meters above mean sea...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner. Joe T. Bagot.

The current multiple-use plan proposed for the Trinity River, Texas, in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Status Report of Environmental Evaluations: 1975 is a modern outgrowth of a long history of navigation proposals beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As currently developed, the master plan for the 550-mile Trinity River includes four major developmental components: channelization of the river, development of Tennessee Colony Lake, and the construction of two sets of flood way structures...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Roudebush.

DA Form 751 (Telephone or Verbal Conversation Record) from Christina Ramsey, Headquarters, US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command to Ray Roudebush, Harry Diamond Laboratories, in regards to publishing of the "Findings of No Significant Impact" about Relocation of the Ballast House at Blossom Point, Maryland.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Division of Public Works.

Record of Environmental Consideration to expand the street light system. Included are two maps that show where the lights will be added, six pictures of the roads that will have the lights added, and the size of the lights to be installed.

PROJECT John Peterson. US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) is a small rockshelter with associated historic features. The site is located on a southeast facing slope above an unnamed tributary of the East Fork of the Little Blue River in Jackson County. The property is part of Blue Springs Lake, owned by the USACE Kansas City District, and is operated by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation. Due to the fact that vandalism was identified at the rockshelter, Jackson County Parks and Recreation conducted a pedestrian...

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Digital photograph of spray painted graffiti during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Digital photograph of graffiti wall, three workers during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Digital photograph of sitting and standing excavators during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.