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Welcome

[Image at left is Hiram Bingham III at Machu Picchu in 1912]

In your Tuesday, April 6th, class session we'll be focusing on collections in Manuscripts and Archives, which is a large special collection located in Sterling Memorial Library.

You'll be meeting with:

Chris Weideman, director | christine.weideman@yale.edu

Bill Landis, associate director for public services | bill.landis@yale.edu

Overview of Manuscripts and Archives (Google Slides)

Link to the In-Class Exercise we’ll be doing from 2:10-2:50 this afternoon.

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Assignment for April 6th class session

FIRST:

Read the article “Collecting a ‘Lost City’ for Science: Huaquero Vision and the Yale Peruvian Expedition to Machu Picchu, 1911, 1912, and 1914-15″ by Amy Cox Hall. Ethnohistory 59:2 (Spring 2012): 293-321.

SECOND: 

Choose TWO (2) endnotes from the article that reference materials in the Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664), an archival collection located in Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library. Check on this Padlet first to see what endnotes others have already “claimed.” Only 1 person per endnote (including mine, see Bill on the Padlet)!. Add a post to the Padlet indicating your name and the 2 endnotes you are going to explore. The sooner you add your post, the more endnote choices you’ll have!

Endnotes are on pages 311-316, labeled “Notes”. Endnotes are the same as footnotes, they just appear at the end of the article instead of at the bottom of each page.

Amy Cox Hall uses a common strategy in her endnotes. The first time she references an item from the Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (see endnote 2 on page 311) she cites the archival collection fully, and tells you that in future endnotes she will refer to the collection as “hereafter YMA”. 

You can only choose endnotes that contain “YMA” and a box and folder number.

Example (taken from endnote 77): “..., YMA box 15, folder 247).

THIRD: 

Find the box/folder cited in each of your TWO endnotes and explore the digitized contents of each box/folder, which you’ll find linked in the list towards the end of the “Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664) ...” post on this Tumblr blog.

Follow your TWO chosen endnotes into each folder and find the specific item that is cited in each endnote. Explore the item (and other materials in the folder if they spark your interest) and try to answer any of the following questions that are relevant:

In her article, does Amy Cox Hall (hereafter “the author”) paraphrase the item she cited, or does she quote directly from it? Or maybe she just references it generally? 

Is the author using the item in her article text to supply general information, or is she specifically relying on it to make or bolster an assertion or point?

Has the author been successful or convincing in her use of the cited item in the article text? Has she utilized and represented the item in a way you find compelling, or has she misrepresented or missed something about the item in her use of it in the article text?

On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being ‘highly effective,’ 3 being ‘don’t feel strongly either way,’ and 5 being ‘highly ineffective,” how would you rate the author’s explanation and use in the text of her article of the item she cited in each endnote?

FOURTH (AND FINALLY!): 

Prepare an informal presentation of no more than 5 minutes covering both of the endnotes you explored. In your presentation try to cover any of the following that seem relevant:

What drew your interest to the particular two endnotes you chose to explore?

Where, when, for what purpose, and by whom was the item referenced by each endnote created?

Whose perspective(s) comes through in each item? Whose perspectives don’t?

What was your experience locating each specific item cited in its folder? 

Characterize briefly how each item was used by Amy Cox Hall to make a point or advance an assertion in the text of her article “Collecting a ‘Lost City’ for Science.”

What questions do the items cited raise that could lead you to further research?

We’ll spend roughly 45 minutes in class on Tuesday, April 6th, listening to each of your presentations and discussing Amy Cox Hall’s article.

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Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

Link to the online finding aid for this collection in Archives at Yale

Overview: Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915. The most celebrated discoveries, the finding of Machu Picchu and of Vitcos, the last capital of the Incas, were studied during the expeditions by scientific specialists who were drawn principally from the Yale faculty. The papers include their diaries, manuscripts, and published reports of their work, as well as the writings of Hiram Bingham III, professor of Latin American history at Yale, and leader of the expeditions.

Digitized folders: All 26 folders of material from this archival collection that Amy Cox Hall cites in her endnotes (labeled “Notes” on pages 311-315 of the article you read) have been digitized for your use. You can access each folder from the links provided below. The structure of the arrangement of this collection listed below is mapped to the online finding aid so you can see what other materials related to the digitized folders below are in the collection.

Note: Access to the digitized folders stored on Google Drive works best if you use the Google Chrome web browser.

Yale Peruvian Expedition Papers (MS 664)

Series II. Correspondence, 1909-1925

Box 5

Folder 2: General correspondence, January 4-21, 1911

Folder 6: General correspondence, March 16-21, 1911

Folder 13:  General correspondence, April 4-10, 1911

Folder 15:  General correspondence, April 21-24, 1911

Folder 16:  General correspondence, April 25-30, 1911

Box 6

Folder 34:  General correspondence, January 13-31, 1912

Folder 38:  General correspondence, March 11-15, 1912

Folder 40:  General correspondence, March 19-24, 1912

Box 7

Folder 58:  General correspondence, May 6-8, 1912

Folder 71:  General correspondence, October 21-25, 1912

Box 10

Folder 126:  General correspondence, March 19-22, 1914

Box 11

Folder 152:  General correspondence, February 1-6, 1915

Folder 161:  General correspondence, May 3-18, 1915

Box 15

Folder 238: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, May-December 1912

Folder 247: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, January 1914

Box 16

Folder 263: Select correspondence, National Geographic Society, May 1-June 7, 1916

Folder 285: Select correspondence, Yale University, Treasurer’s Office, September 1915-February 1916

Series III. Journals and Notebooks, 1911-1915

Box 19

Folder 17: Bumstead, Albert H., journal and notebook, June-September 1912

Folder 20: Erdis, Ellwood C., journal (typewritten copy), July-November 1912

Box 20

Folder 33: Bingham, Hiram, journal-letters, April-May 1915

Box 21

Folder 38: Bingham, Hiram, notebook: archaeology, zoology, botany, circa 1914-1915

Box 23

Folder 55: Hasbrouck, Joseph J., notebook, 1914-1915

Series IV. Reports and Articles, 1911-1921

Box 24

Folder 10: Eaton, George F., “Indian Graves at Machu Picchu,” 1912

Box 25

Folder 23: Heald, Kenneth C., Manuscript notes on the 1847 map of Choquiquirau [Choquiquirao] district drawn by the French vice-consul in Lima, Leonce Angrand, 1912

Box 26

Folder 26: Little, Joseph P., “Peru, 1912-1914″ typescript

Box 27

Folder 46: Heller, Edmund, manuscript and typescript drafts of an account of Heller’s work on the expedition, 1914-1915

Amy Cox Hall’s 2017 book, published by University of Texas Press. The article we read for today, published in 2012, was a precursor to this book: