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Babylonian tablet
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0146
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a small clay tablet inscribed on both sides with Sumerian cuneiform. The script records shipments of wheat and mentions two Sumerian kings by name. One side of the tablet bears char marks, possibly originating from fire in the destruction of Ur.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 2030
Isaac Bird Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0071
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence between Isaac Bird and various correspondents, including Josiah Brewer, William Goodell and Jonas King, all having to do with early American Board missionaries to the Near East.
Dates:
Inclusive 1824-1834
Thomas Hills travel photograph albums
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0171
Content Description
This collection consists of five folio sized albums of photographs taken by Thomas Hills, professor and later chair of the Geology department at Vassar College. The photographs document his combined family vacation and academic research tour of the African continent, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean coast of Europe in 1929. While on the African continent, he documented the mining industry, general landscape, cities, villages, and indigenous peoples with stops in South Africa (and also...
Dates:
1929