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Dr. Frederic Ward Putnam
Object Number 2004.1.324.66
Display Title Dr. Frederic Ward Putnam
Descriptions
Object Description Written on Board: "Marshall / Harvard Sq. / Cambridge / [verso] Dr. Frederick Putnam / P129 / (stamp Yale University Museum / Anthropological / Section) Feb. 29, 1916 / Taken on his 75th birthday / Born April 16, 1839 at / Salem, Mass. / Died in Cambridge, August 14, / 1915 / 10-57"
Department Photographic
Date 1914
Artist The Marshall Studio
Culture
  • American
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Materials Print, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 18.415 × 23.1775 cm (7 1/4 × 9 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Collector Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University

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United States
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Peabody Museum
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38-22-00/1 Peabody Museum Director Records 1870–1923 - Putnam, Frederic Ward (1839 - 1915)
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47-41 Peabody Museum Director Records 1870–1923 - Putnam, Frederic Ward (1839 - 1915)
Image Not Available for Letter from John A. Owens (father of John G. Owens) to Frederic Ward Putnam.
2016.1.16 Letter from John A. Owens (father of John G. Owens) to Frederic Ward Putnam.
Pennsylvania
Photograph of Henry Ware Eliot. Black and white, tinted with pink and auburn.
976-22-10/53082 Photograph of Henry Ware Eliot. Black and white, tinted with pink and auburn.
Massachusetts
Basket collected by William Alden Gale ca. 1810-184
2004.29.3742.14 Basket collected by William Alden Gale ca. 1810-184
California
Image Not Available for Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 20- Ohio Mounds - Boston Herald clippings 1886 (3 items)
2019.1.17.1.20 Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 20- Ohio Mounds - Boston Herald clippings 1886 (3 items)
Ohio
Image Not Available for Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 19- Ohio Mounds - Cincinnati Tablet (mss. & letters) 1885 (14 items)
2019.1.17.1.19 Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 19- Ohio Mounds - Cincinnati Tablet (mss. & letters) 1885 (14 items)
Cincinnati
Image Not Available for Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 18- Ohio Mounds - Turner Mound (Putnam lecture notes) [1894]
2019.1.17.1.18 Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 18- Ohio Mounds - Turner Mound (Putnam lecture notes) [1894]
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26
Image Not Available for Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 21- Ohio archaeology - unidentified notes on George Harrison lecture, n.d. (1 item) [old x-file #331]
2019.1.17.1.21 Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 21- Ohio archaeology - unidentified notes on George Harrison lecture, n.d. (1 item) [old x-file #331]
Ohio
Image Not Available for Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 5- Ohio Mounds 1882-89 (9 items) [old accession file 302]
2019.1.17.1.5 Peabody Museum Director Records- Putnam, Frederic Ward- Box 1, Folder 5- Ohio Mounds 1882-89 (9 items) [old accession file 302]
Ohio