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[email protected] Phone: 619-594-6791 Guide to the Robert Eliot Smith MS-0011 1 Papers Guide to the Robert Eliot Smith Papers 1929/1983 Special Collections & University Archives Overview of the Collection Collection Title: Robert Eliot Smith Papers Dates: 1929-1983 Identification: MS-0011 Creator: Smith, Robert Eliot, 1899- Physical Description: 16.67 linear ft Language of Materials: EnglishSpanish;Castilian Repository: Special Collections & University Archives 5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050 San Diego, CA, 92182-8050 URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua Email:
[email protected] Phone: 619-594-6791 Biographical Information: Robert Eliot Smith was born in Arcahan, France, on May 24, 1899. He received his primary and secondary education while living in Switzerland and Massauchusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1922 with a degree in history and romance languages. Smith became involved in archaeology in 1929 when he accompanied his brother Ledyard, who was doing fieldwork at Uaxtactun, Guatemala. Smith returned to Harvard and began taking graduate courses in archaeology. He accepted a position with the Carnegie Institution of Washington and spent the next twenty years as the Carnegie's Guatemala City representative. Smith was a member of the Carnegie Institution from 1932-1960, associate archaeologist for the Instituto Nacional de Antropoligia e Historia de Mexico from 1960-1962, and helped establish the National Museum of Antropologia in Guatemala City.