Card Files, Scrapbooks, Photographic Materials

The John Mann Goggin Papers include: his correspondence with family, colleagues and peers, his publications, an assortment of subject files on various topics used by Goggin while conducting his research, and his field notebooks covering the years between 1932 and 1960. His fieldwork is also documented in photographs. Other sections of the collection include his class notes and newspaper clippings on various subjects spanning the years between the 1940s through the 1960s.

Correspondence includes letters organized by writer/recipient, as well as general correspondence arranged chronologically. Subject files, publications, and research files are arranged alphabetically by topic or title.

The field notebooks of Goggin's excavations are arranged in chronological and researchers are referred to his published work and to Brent Weisman's biographical study Pioneer in Space and Time for information on Goggin's extensive resume of fieldwork. Newspaper clippings are arranged both alphabetically by subject and the more general clippings are arranged chronologically. Only about half of the photo collection is labeled with captions. Negatives are unlabeled. Slides are stored in slide boxes and separated by subject tabs. There are five scrapbook photo albums. One scrapbook is labeled on the front cover "Florida" and contains personal photographs and photographs of fieldwork in various places in the state. Another scrapbook is labeled "Bahamas Islands" and contains photographs from the Andros Island archaeological survey, spanning the months July - August in 1937. The photos in this album are labeled. A third scrapbook is labeled "Florida: Camping and Ecological Pictures." All of the photographs in this album are labeled. The fourth scrapbook is labeled "Mexico 1939" and it contains travel documents to Mexico as well as photographs, most of which are labeled. The last scrapbook is a large green album with no title. It contains photographs from various parts of Florida and spans the years 1932 - 1935. All of the photographs in this album are labeled.

There are ten card boxes numbered from 15 to 24. Box 15 is a miscellaneous box containing material such as artifact catalog cards, notes on types of plants, and bibliographical information. Boxes 16 and Box 17 contain notecards on Seminole ethnology. Box 18 contains notes on the Seminoles and early Seminole leaders. Box 19 contains notes on Creek ethnology. Boxes 20 and 21 contain notes on sites and material culture. Boxes 22 through 24 contain lecture notes for classes.