William Henry Holmes
| Prof. William Henry Holmes | |||||||
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| Born | 1846 | ||||||
| Died | 1933 | ||||||
| Residence |
Field Columbian Museum, Chicago [1897] Bureau of Ethnology, Washington [1902] | ||||||
| Occupation |
explorer anthropologist archaeologist artist | ||||||
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1896.12.08 nominated as an Honorary Fellow
death noted in Report of the Council 1934-1935
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William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933) was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, geologist and museum curator and director.
Holmes became an artist/topographer with the government survey of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden.
Holmes worked closely with the photographer William H. Jackson
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External Publications
he helped produce Hayden's great achievement, the Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado, And Portions of Adjacent Territory (1877, 1881).
Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia [Panama]": Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, 187 pages Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3–46. Natural History of Flaked Stone Implements. In Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology, edited by C. S. Wake, pp. 120–139. Schulte, Chicago, Il. (1894) Archaeological Studies among the Ancient Cities of Mexico (1895) Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Province. In Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report, pp. 13–152. vol. 15. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. (1897) Random Records of a Lifetime, 1846-1931: Cullings, largely personal, from the scrap heap of three score years and ten, devoted to science, literature and art. 1932. Description: 21 v. in 22. illus. (mounted, part col.) clippings, letters. 27 cm. Held in the American Art Portrait Gallery Rare Book Collection.
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Hayden Album