Emily Cleveland Davis (1898-1968)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1940
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-2832
Washington, D.C., native Emily Cleveland Davis (1898-1968) had attended American University in the early 1920s before becoming the Science Service archaeology editor, 1926-1941. She was the coauthor, with Ralph Van Deman Magoffin, of Magic Spades: The Romance of Archeology (1929) and author of Ancient Americans: The Archeological Story of Two Continents (1931). During the 1940s, she worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-2832
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Archaeology
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-2832]