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Title: In the Garrets and Rat Holes of Old Houses: How Objects Make History
Identifier(s): video:978; 2009_04_002
Description: How do objects, the internet, and manuscripts "make" history? In this lection, Ulrich interrogates how historians weave the stories they tell with research.
Subject: Historography; Writing; Research; Internet; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-04-23

Title: Mayan glyphs
Identifier(s): graphics:2728; APSimg7003
Description: Pencil sketch of Mayan glyphs of the date 13 Men, 13 Kayab, drawn from stele 14, Yaxchilan expedition, Chiapas, Mexico.; Diary of Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Yaxchilan expedition, March 22 to May 15, 1931, Book II; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Source: Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M828-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Chiapas; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1931

Title: Man in cabin
Identifier(s): graphics:469; APSimg5912
Description: Peale #336.
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
Source: Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches (Mss.B.P31.15d);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Cabins; Writing
Date: [1838-1842]

Title: Codex Zouche Nuttall
Identifier(s): graphics:3672; APSimg7019
Description: Color close-up photograph of Mixtec picture writing from Codex Zouche Nuttall, Mexico.; Brief reports. Freeman guide 4529; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Troike, Nancy P.
Source: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.Am4-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico; Mixtec language--Writing
Date: 1971

Title: Benjamin Franklin to Polly Stevenson Hewson, July 20, 1768.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3108; APSdigobj3108
Description: See also: APSdigobj3109
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Source: James S. and Frances M. Bradford Collection (Mss.B.F85.bra);
Subject: Natural history; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Alphabets (Writing systems)
Date: 1768 July 20

Title: Mayan glyphs
Identifier(s): graphics:2729; APSimg7002
Description: Pencil sketch of Mayan glyphs of the date 2 Cib, 19 Pax, drawn from lintel 47, Yaxchilan expedition, Chiapas, Mexico.; Diary of Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Yaxchilan expedition, March 22 to May 15, 1931, Book I; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Source: Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M828-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Chiapas; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1931

Title: Dresden Codex
Identifier(s): graphics:1633; APSimg7057
Description: Black and white illustration, with some color added, of page 69, Mayan glyphs of the Dresden Codex, Yucatan, Mexico.; Mayan #1, Dresden Codex #1; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Villacorta, Carlos A.
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan (State); Mayas; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1930

Title: Micmac prayer
Identifier(s): graphics:3627; APSimg7024
Description: Ink sketch of Micmac (Mi'kmaq) language pictographs of a prayer, presented by Gabriel, a Montagnais Indian.; Number 3; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Gabriel
Source: Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages (Mss.497.3.P61s); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.P61s-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Canada; Micmac language--Writing
Date: 1797

Title: Mayan glyphs
Identifier(s): graphics:2725; APSimg6998
Description: Ink sketch of a hieroglyphic band on Cementerio wall, Uxmal ruins, Yucatan, Mexico.; Diary of Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Uxmal expedition, 1941-1942; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Source: Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M828-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan Peninsula; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1941

Title: Mayan glyphs
Identifier(s): graphics:2731; APSimg6997
Description: Ink sketch of a single row of Mayan glyphs with crossed bones, skulls, dots and decorative Ahau signs on Cementerio wall, Uxmal ruins, Yucatan, Mexico.; Diary of Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Uxmal expedition, 1941-1942; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Source: Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M828-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan Peninsula; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1941

Title: Literary Continuities Across the Transformation from Maya Hieroglyphic to Alphabetic Writing
Identifier(s): video:588; 2005_11_008
Description: Dr. Bricker discusses Maya literature and the hieroglyphic texts
Subject: Ethnography & Linguistics; Indians of Mexico, Languages, Writing; Mayan languages, Literature; Ethnography; Hieroglyphics.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-11-11

Title: Prayer before meal with full half-hour of uninterrupted conversation while eating breakfast
Identifier(s): audio:4223; APSdigrec_0557; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: "This reel is a recording of the conversation between Jess Youngdeer and Annie Conseen at the breakfast table of the latter. Aug 6, 1951. Reel begins with the saying of grace by A. Conseen. The natural conversation that follows is a discussion of their common interests, covering such subjects as religion, sons in the service, letters from friends, note the greater contour risings in the speech of A. Conseen."; Includes brief conversation in Englsh. Recorded as part of research funded by an APS Phillips Fund grant.
Source: Reyburn, William D. Cherokee materials gathered on the Cherokee reservation at Cherokee, N.C., [1951-1952]. (Mss.Rec.16);
Subject: Prayers; Religion; Military service, Voluntary--United States; Letter writing; Cherokee language; phonology
Date: 1951-08-06

Title: Walam Olum
Identifier(s): graphics:2683; APSimg7028
Description: Ink sketch of Delaware Indian pictographs with English translations, simple signs found in the Linapi (sic) Wallamolum.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware language--Writing; Wallam olum
Date: 1833

Title: Micmac dictionary
Identifier(s): graphics:3625; APSimg7026
Description: Ink sketch of Micmac (Mi'kmaq) language pictographs, with some English translations, presented by Gabriel, a Montagnais Indian.; Page 9; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Gabriel
Source: Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages (Mss.497.3.P61s); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.P61s-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Canada; Micmac language--Writing
Date: 1797

Title: Osage pictographs
Identifier(s): graphics:2685; APSimg7029
Description: Ink sketch of Osage Indian pictographs, signs and emblems, with English translations, by Tahuska, et al.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Tahuska
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Osage Indians; Osage language--Writing
Date: 1804, 1818

Title: Mayan glyphs
Identifier(s): graphics:2732; APSimg7000
Description: Pencil sketch of Mayan glyphs of the month coefficient 13, "the end of the tun," drawn from stele 62, Calakmul expedition, Yucatan, Mexico.; Diary of Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Calakmul expedition, April 3 to May 1, 1932, Book I; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Source: Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M828-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan Peninsula; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1932

Title: Walam Olum
Identifier(s): graphics:2684; APSimg7027
Description: Ink sketch of Delaware Indian pictographs with English translations, simple signs found in the Linapi (sic) Wallamolum.; Writings II, 1830-1840. Graphic Systems of North America.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Rafinesque, C.S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Source: C.S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R124-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware language--Writing; Wallam olum
Date: 1833

Title: Mayan glyphs
Identifier(s): graphics:2730; APSimg7001
Description: Pencil sketch of Mayan glyphs of the date 7 Ahau, 3 Cumhu, drawn from stele 41, Calakmal expedition, Yucatan, Mexico.; Diary of Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Calakmul expedition, April 3 to May 1, 1932, Book I; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Source: Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M828-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan Peninsula; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1932

Title: ABCDE...
Identifier(s): text:309; APSimg6494; Goodman Number: 267; 973 C683 No. 538
Description: Alphabet and number card for the instruction of Eskimos in Labrador.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Alphabets (Writing systems); Linguistics; Eskimos
Date: [ca. 1850?]

Title: Micmac dictionary
Identifier(s): graphics:3626; APSimg7025
Description: Ink sketch of Micmac (Mi'kmag) language pictographs, with some English translations, presented by Gabriel, a Montagnais Indian.; Page 11; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Gabriel
Source: Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages (Mss.497.3.P61s); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.P61s-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Canada; Micmac language--Writing
Date: 1797