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Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936

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dates 1852-1936
city Philadelphia
statePA
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historical notes Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936), a wealthy Philadelphia socialite, paper company heir, and photographer, made the archaeology of the Southeast his passion beginning in the 1870s.

Moore collected some 13,500 of objects of the prehistoric culture of the American Indian in the southeastern part of the United States.
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1870-1880
1880-1890
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
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Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street


Henry W. Haynes papers, 1805-1912.
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Cornell University Libraries
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Clarence Bloomfield Moore Collection, 1891-1918. see details...
Cornell University Libraries
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Clarence B. Moore field notes, 1891-1918. see details...
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Edwin Atlee Barber Records, 1901-1916 see details...

see also:
Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs., 1824-1899