(NEW YORK) Westervelt Leonidas Scrapbook of archaeological e

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(NEW YORK.) Westervelt, Leonidas. Scrapbook of archaeological expeditions in and around New York. 81 scrapbook leaves, filled with photographs, manuscripts, clippings, pamphlets, and other material. Folio, original cloth-covered boards bound with string, paper title reading in manuscript "Scrapbook of Indian and Revolutionary sites and excavations"; moderate wear, many of the clippings worn or loose. Vp, 1921-34

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Leonidas Westervelt (1875-1952) was a New York playwright and theater historian as well as an active amateur archaeologist. This personal scrapbook documents his archaeological digs in New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, upstate New York, and Long Island, some of them done under the auspices of the New-York Historical Society or Heye's Museum of the American Indian. Included are photographs from a series of 1921 digs in West Point which revealed coins and tools (with typed reports); American Indian skeletons exhumed in Staten Island and Manhattan in 1927; an American Indian rock shelter in Haskell, NJ; and General Putnam's camp in Redding, CT. Also included are 3 Letters Signed by George Heye, and 11 manuscript letters from fellow adventurer W.L. Calver.