Background
Born in New York City in 1883, Harold continued worked in the city as a stockbroker from 1908 to 1922, his first successful career. However, in 1922 Sterling decided to move west to California, and there he began work at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; he took a special interest in the mutations of butterflies. However, Harold’s interest in insects soon was replaced with an interest in American archaeology, and by 1924, he had become friends with the A.V. Kidder, the noted archaeologist of the Southwestern United States; from this point on, Gladwin’s work was in archaeology.
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