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Albert Ward papers

1953 to 2009
MS 728
Collection Guide

This collection consists of research materials relating to archaeologist Albert E. Ward's work in New Mexico. A majority of the collection references Site 48, a ruin that Ward excavated in New Mexico. Site 48's authenticity was later called into question, leading to several legal battles in which Ward participated, claiming that the site was authentic and his evidence was proof of a Spanish-Indian residential fort.

Materials include correspondence, maps, reports, notes, and research files.

Included materials:
Documents
Photographs
Correspondence
Subject Area:
Anthropology & Archaeology
Arizona & Southwest
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Collection Area:
Arizona & Southwest

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