Ancient shell heaps near New York City
An 1909 New York publication by archaeologist Mark Raymond Harrington, the title on the record, describing kitchen-midden excavations of Native American shell heaps around New York City for an academic and museum readership. The three pictures are plain line drawings: two cross-section diagrams of soil layers labelled black earth, shells and yellow loam, and a coastal map of the New York harbour area and Long Island. A designer could take from them a clean, schematic style of labelled sections and hatched earth textures.
