Edwin Atlee Barber

Edwin Atlee Barber (August 13 1851 – December 12 1916) was an American archeologist and author born in Baltimore, Maryland to William Edwin Barber and Anne Eliza Townsend. He entered Lafayette College in 1869 but left before graduating to assume a position as an assistant naturalist for the Hayden Survey. He developed an interest in decorated pottery and rapidly became an authority in Pueblo ceramic art. He contributed several articles to the "American Naturalist" about his work with the Hayden Survey. He returned to Lafayette College and graduated in 1877. On February 5 1880 he married Nellie Louise Parker and in 1883 she gave birth to their only child Louise Atlee Barber. Edwin received a graduate degree from Lafayette College in 1893 and began working as curator of ceramics at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art becoming the director in 1907. His work in Western archeology especially ceramics spawned many articles and several books. In 1893 he published "The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States" in 1908 "The Maiolica of Mexico."

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*Hough, Walter. "Barber, Edwin Atlee." "Dictionary of American Biography." Vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928.