Artifact Report, Harry S. Truman Reservoir 1961-1993 Empty Bags

Author(s): Jane Bigham; Ian Fricker

Year: 2015

Summary

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Kansas City District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2012. The St. Louis VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through the archaeological contracting firms, Cogstone-Berger, JV.

The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material and records associated with the Harry S. Truman Reservoir 1961–1993 Empty Bags investigation are discussed below and follow those procedures utilized by the St. Louis VCP laboratory. In the rehousing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Kansas City District collection, the same standard procedures and Fort Osage guidelines were followed. Upon completion of the curation management project, the collection was sent to Fort Osage for permanent curation.

The artifact database can be found in tDAR at https://core.tdar.org/dataset/426373/artifact-database-harry-s-truman-reservoir-1961-1993-empty-bags

Cite this Record

Artifact Report, Harry S. Truman Reservoir 1961-1993 Empty Bags. Jane Bigham, Ian Fricker. 2015 ( tDAR id: 426375) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8DR2Z40

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.418; min lat: 38.227 ; max long: -93.356; max lat: 38.277 ;

Record Identifiers

Contract No.(s): DACW41-75-M-1854; DACW41-77-C-0132; DACW41-75-C-0202; DACW41-79-C-0073; DACW41-89-C-0102; DACW41-79-C-0101

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, inventory database, and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, box labels, and scans of empty bags.

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