Institution: Museum of Northern Arizona
Collection Title: Colton Manuscript Collection
Date (inclusive): unknown
Collection Identifier: MS207
Repository (location info): Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Finding Aid link: http://musnaz.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MS-207_Colton_revised.pdf
Website link: https://musnaz.org/library-and-archives/archives/manuscript-collections/

RBMVE Biographical Note: Harold S. Colton was the director of Museum of Northern Arizona during the RBMVE years. He worked with Ansel Hall, RBMVE Director, to provide institutional support to the Expedition in its first two of years of expedition and kept apprised after that.
Scope and Content: The Colton collection includes miscellaneous administrative papers, correspondence, maps, photos, reports, and publications related to the RBMVE.

Container List or Summary of RBMVE-related Material:
Folder 11: Antevs, Ernest V., archaeology– letters between himself, Hargrave, Colton regarding RBMVE sherd collection
Folder 42: Brainerd, George, Southwestern pottery, Southwestern pottery types, pottery, ceramics, letters about RBMVE publication work
Folder 103: Jesse Walter Fewkes: Letters about the Hopi Snake Dance
Folder 125: Hall, Ansel F., Rainbow Bridge; Monument Valley; RBMVE; Denver, CO – several letters
Folder 151: RBMVE 1933— Plans for Ethnographic Study in RBMVE; Itinerary for Archaeological survey; Abstract of 1933 work by Hargrave for Hall; Appendix note about place names; 1933 general itinerary; Supplies lists; press releases; Notes about Wetherill family history (archaeology) in area; letters; 1933 Preliminary Map by Thorn Mayes; “Report of Archaeological Reconnaissance by the RBMVE Boat Party of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers between the mouth of Noki Canyon in the San Juan and Lee’s Ferry” Aug 1933 by Ben Wetherill
Folder 152: RBMVE 1934 – letters, telegram from Nusbaum to Colton about RBMVE permits; 1933 Preliminary Map by Thorn Mayes; “Outline of work done in Zoology by Henry N. Russell, Jr.” by Hargrave; “Report Upon Activities of Lyndon L Hargrave While Attached to the RB-MVE of 1934”
Folder 154: Ethnobotany
Folder 155: RBMVE 1935-1936 – letters; First News from River Exploration Party; Further News from the River Exploration Party; blank expedition application; RBMVE Preliminary Announcement 1936 Staff; Field Program of RBMVE, Advance copy of Bulletin 8; Information for Members, Bulletin 10; Who’s Who 1936; Manuscript of ornithological report from RBMVE 1934 compiled by Hargrave
Folder 196: McKee, Edwin D., US DOI, UG Geological Survey
Folder 125-56: RBMVE Petroglyphs— 27 4×5 photographs by Cliff Bond during 1933 RBMVE submitted to MNA (photos noted as removed from this to separate box).