Notes written and collected by Marshall Howard Saville on the Mound builders of the Ohio Valley, including the Turner group of earthworks in Hamilton County, the Little Miami Valley sites, and the Moundon Bowman Farm site near South Milford, Clearmont County. Correspondence from individuals associated with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard University, including Alice E. Putnam and Charles P. Bowditch, with notes of Frederic Ward Putnam. Auction brochure titled "Catalogue of an Important Collection of Fine and Rare Photographs" by Scott & O'Shaughnessy, Inc., September 24, 1915. Also included are sketches, photos and other original illustrations, some prepared for publication. The illustrations include maps of the burial sites and mounds, arrowheads, pottery, jewelry, decorations, pipes, skeletons, ceremonial devices, tools, and other Indian implements found at the gravesites. Most of the drawings are by W. J. Baer, (William Jacob).