Antelope, Faustinus W. Letters and petition, 1918.
5 items.
Petition and correspondence between Faustinus W. Antelope, an Arapahoe Indian of Arapahoe, Wyo. (Wind River Reservation), the Field Museum of Natural History, and Edward E. Ayer regarding the opposition of E.A. Hutchinson to a performance of the Sun Dance.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 24
Collection Stack Location: Vault 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Papers, 1780-1911, bulk 1846-1885.
279 items (6 boxes).
United States army officer, 1843-1885. Correspondence, telegrams, printed and ms. reports and orders, maps, letterbooks, and notebook, mainly documenting Augur's post Civil War military commands, but also highlighting his service in the Pacific Northwest and Civil War.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3008 (formally Ayer MS 42a)
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. Christopher C. Augur collection of photographs of the western United States, 1847-1881, bulk ca. 1865-1881.
12 boxes (272 photoprints and 3 prints) + 1 stereoscope box.
Following the Civil War U.S. army officer Christopher C. Augur commanded several military departments in the West. Collection includes mounted albumen prints and stereographs of western Indians and scenes, ca. 1865-1881, taken mainly by Alexander Gardner, William H. Jackson, and William S. Soule. Also three large prints of Mexican War military scenes.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer Art Augur
Collection Stack Location: Vault 50 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. Papers, 1842-1934, bulk 1880-1934.
4 cubic ft.
Railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry trustee from 1892 to 1911. Ayer's papers include correspondence (some pertaining to Newberry collections), writings, documents, tributes, and photographs and reminiscences of his westward and overseas travels. Ayer was a Sergeant in Company E, 1st Regiment of Cavalry, California Volunteers, and a 2nd Lieutenant in Company I, Regiment of New Mexico volunteers. His papers include military enlistment and discharge papers, and reminiscences regarding his march with the California column and service in New Mexico.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/02
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog. Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927. U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners files, 1912-1922.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, bulletins, 1912-1922, relating to Edward E. Ayer's work on the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners. Ayer was a railroad tie manufacturer who donated his collection of materials on America and American Indians to the Newberry Library and served as a Newberry Trustee. Dating primarily from Ayer's period of active service, 1912-1917, there is both incoming and outgoing correspondence with commission members and officials.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 911
Collection Stack Location: Vault 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ballenger, Thomas Lee, 1882-1987. Papers, 1730-1968, bulk 1835-1968.
7.5 cubic ft. (15 boxes and 14 rolls).
Writings, and genealogical notes and charts by Thomas Lee Ballenger, teacher, historian, and author, relating to Cherokee and Oklahoma families and the history of the Cherokee Nation, together with Cherokee documents, photographs, and artifacts collected by Ballenger.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Ballenger
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Barry, D. F. (David Frances), 1854-1934. D. F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa Indians, photographed ca. 1881-ca.1890, printed ca. 1885-1920.
10 photographic prints
Barry took these photographs of Hunkpapa chiefs at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, in 1881, and at Bismarck, Dakota Territory in 1885. Most of the photographs were printed from the negatives and sold from Barry's studio in Superior, Wisconsin. Individuals depicted include Crow King, Gall, Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face, Shooting Star, and Standing Holy. A photograph of Barry with Rain in the Face is also included in the collection. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 92
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Barstow, C. H. (Charles H.). Papers, 1870-1891.
0.5 cubic ft.
United States Indian Service employee stationed at the Crow Agency, Montana Territory. Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his sister and brother, miscellaneous correspondence of Rogers Barstow, other family members, and friends, and a Nov. 10, 1887 issue of The Montana Stock Gazette.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3014 (Formerly Ayer MS 55b and 55c).
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Blount, William, 1749-1800. Papers, 1794-1796.
0.2 cubic ft.
Sixteen letters, orders, and receipts (10 items) of William Blount, pertaining to his administration of Indian and military affairs in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, 1794-1796. Correspondents include David Henley (agent of the War Dept.), John Pitchlynn (U.S. interpreter to the Choctaw), and militia and U.S. army officers.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 74
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Bollaert, William, 1807-1876. Papers, 1837-1849.
5 cubic ft.
English writer, geographer, chemist, and ethnologist. Papers include eight separate items (Ayer MS 83a-83h) most of which relate to his years in Texas. The collection includes journals, notes, clippings, and maps.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 83
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1; VAULT 27 3; VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Boyd, Robert Knowles, 1845-1932. Letters, 1925-1927.
0.1 cubic ft.
Eau Claire, Wis., land agent. Five letters, Oct. 28, 1925 - Feb. 13, 1927, from Boyd to his cousin Edith M. Smith discussing the reception of his pamphlets about the Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's and 1870's.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3025 (formally Ayer MS 101a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Brown, D. Tilden (David Tilden), 1822-1889. Papers, 1848-1866, bulk 1849.
59 items.
Letters, receipts, contracts, maps, and drawings pertaining to Brown's activities in Nicaragua around 1848-1850. Brown traveled to Central America in 1849 planning to establish a cheaper and faster commercial route west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Brown and several associates formed the Compan~i´a de Vapores de Nicaragua and, on March 14, 1849, negotiated the first treaty with General Jose´ Trinidad Mun~oz for exclusive rights to steamship travel up the San Juan River and across Lake Nicaragua.
Subjects: Business, Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 1819
Collection Stack Location: Vault
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer), 1858-1949. Papers, 1897-1949.
2 cubic ft.
About 350 letters written mainly from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas by Elbridge Ayer Burbank to his uncle Edward E. Ayer, together with two scrapbooks containing incoming correspondence and miscellaneous clippings. Burbank, a painter and illustrator who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, was commissioned by Edward Ayer in 1897 to produce a series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.
Subjects: Arts; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer MS 120
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Canadian Indians reports, 1960-1980.
1.5 cubic ft.
Collection of reports issued by the Canadian government regarding Canadian Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Canadian Indians
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 7
Finding Aids:
Contents list available with collection. Collection available by appointment only.
Capron, Edwin R. Letters, 1863-1866.
28 items.
Letters, Jan. 30-Oct. 13, 1865, from Capron, a sergeant major in the 1st Regiment of Nebraska Cavalry, to family in Morrisville, Vermont, from Fort Kearny, Cottonwood Springs, and Nebraska City, Neb., containing descriptions of military life at western posts during 1865, and comments on southern chivalry, draft dodgers, the surrender of Lee and assassination of Lincoln, and the mustering out process. Also a daguerreotype portrait of Capron.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Graff 579
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 2; VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Carter, Robert Goldthwaite, 1845-1936. Henry W. Lawton scrapbook, 1899.
1 volume.
Scrapbook made up of autograph letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, maps, portraits, etc., all pertaining to Henry W. Lawton, a U.S. Army officer who served in the Civil War, Apache War, Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War.
Available on microfilm at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Civil War; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 2420
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project. Records, 1982-1985.
4 cubic ft. (13 boxes).
Reel to reel tapes, cassette tapes, and edited typewritten transcripts of oral interviews with twenty-three long-time American Indian residents of Chicago completed as part of a project conducted under the auspices of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and funded by the Illinois Humanities Council, 1982-1984. Also a published index and finding aid to the transcripts, an unpublished manuscript entitled "Native Voices in the City" incorporating excerpts from the interviews, and cassette tapes of three community meetings sponsored by the project.
Access: All tapes of oral history interviews and selected transcripts restricted by interviewees are closed and are not available to researchers. Excerpts from both closed and open interviews contained in the unpublished manuscript "Native Voices in the City" are open for research.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Oral History.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chicago Indian Photos: SEE D'Arcy McNickle Center
Collection of blueprint photographs of Indians and scenes in and near Fort Custer, Montana, ca. 1896.
24 mounted photos.
One photo is of a ms. descriptive list of some of the scenes presented; another is dated May 14, 1896; the final photo is of a ms. inscription: Finis. Fort Custer, Montana. W.C.S. E.E.P.S.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Graff 962
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Croghan, George, d. 1782. Letters, 1763-1770.
5 items (3 folders).
George Croghan, Indian trader, agent, and land speculator. A small collection of four letters and one order primarily from Fort Pitt, Penn. relating to Croghan's official duties between 1763 and 1770.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 195
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859. Correspondence, 1822-1836, bulk 1822.
6 items (0.1 cubic ft.)
Correspondence of this fur trader, a manager for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company (and later owner of a part of the business). The subject matter includes purchasing of skins, reception of trade goods in Philadelphia, and operations of the firm's Western Department in St. Louis. Correspondents include Samuel Abbott, Robert Stuart, James Kennerly, and Augustin Grignon.
Subjects: Business; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 201
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Ayer Manuscripts information file available.
**Additional Crook MS: VAULT box Ayer MS 1, 3, 472, 596, 3133; VAULT Ayer MS 18.**
Cuming, Alexander, Sir, 1690?-1755. Papers, 1734-1767.
7 items (1 box and 1 oversize folder).
Commonplace books, memorials, note, and military appointment of Sir Alexander Cuming, 1734-1767, second baronet of Culter, eccentric Scottish promoter and visionary, Royal Society member, and self-proclaimed king of the Cherokees.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 204.
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Cuoq, J. A. (Jean Andre). Letters, 1879-1894.
5 items (1 folder).
Cuoq was a priest, missionary, linguist, and philologist, also known as Nuj-Kwenatc-anibic (Algonquian) and Orakwanen-takon (Iroquois). The collection contains letters to James Constantine Pilling, an American ethnologist and bibliographer particularly interested in Indian languages.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 206
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Cutter, Irving Samuel, 1875-1945. Papers, 1884-1934.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box).
Physician, author and dean of the medical schools at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern. Collection contains correspondence, together with articles and biographical notes assembled for an article about army surgeon Henry Rinalda Porter, a survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn; and photographs of the battlefield, of participants in the conflict, and of military posts; also a letter by George Crook, Feb. 24, 1888, and four pencil sketches of western scenes by Charles M. Russell.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3221
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dana, James J. (James Jackson). Papers, 1841-1890.
20 items (1 oversize box).
Career army and Quartermaster's Dept. officer's military commissions and appointments, transmittal letters, and an 1890 certificate of membership in the Washington, D.C. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 3003 (formerly Ayer MS 22b)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Seeing Indian in Chicago exhibition records, 1958-1985.
3 cubic ft. (5 boxes and 1 oversize box).
Photographs from the Seeing Indian in Chicago American Indian photography exhibit, July 22-September 21, 1985, Hermon Dunlap Smith Gallery, The Newberry Library. Also exhibition labels.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Seeing Indian.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879. Papers, 1867-1878.
49 items (1 box).
Original journals, correspondence, photographs, engravings, newsclippings, together with some typed copies, documenting the career army officer's tenure as military governor of Alaska, 1867-1870, and his and his wife's tour of Mexico in 1878.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3057
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Debo, Angie, 1890-1988. Correspondence, 1975-1985.
19 items (1 box).
A noted Oklahoma Indian historian and advocate of Indian rights; this collection contains personal letters with friends Theodore W. and Louann Van Zelst, correspondence (1985) between the Van Zelsts and Gov. Nigh of Oklahoma regarding a Debo tribute, and copies of two printed pieces concerning Debo and the Pima Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Debo
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Dinsmoor, Silas. Papers, 1794-1796.
11 items (3 folders, 1 oversize folder).
Correspondence, certificates, and report, 1794-1796, of Silas Dinsmoor, mainly concerning his duties as resident agent to the Cherokee.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 241
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895. Papers, 1875-1905.
ca. 233 items.
Army officer and author. Manuscripts, diaries, letters, printed broadsides and pamphlets, and 94 photographs contain a vivid picture Army life during the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 1110
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868. Papers, 1808-1857, bulk 1840-1857.
52 items (1 box).
Wealthy Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, fur trader and regional investor. Correspondence, agreements, powers of attorney, accounts, promissory notes, etc., of Hercules Dousman, primarily relating to his fur trade business. Additional items include a ms. Dakota-English vocabulary, a volume of accounts with named Indians, the printed act of incorporation of the American Fur Company (1808, with certification by N.Y. governor Marcy, 1839), and a packing list of Joshua Palen's fur trade goods (1822).
Subjects: Business; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 18
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Dunlop, Richard. Papers, 1950-1970.
6 cubic ft.
Research materials (photographs copied from originals in other institutions, notes, letters, printed pamphlets) and manuscripts from Dunlop's books on the American West, mainly Wheels West. Also materials from Chicago Corral of Westerners, of which Dunlop was a long-time member. Dunlop, a native Chicagoan and history graduate of Northwestern University, also wrote the Rand McNally Backpacking and Outdoor Guide, Doctors of the American Frontier, and Great Trails of the West.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Dunlop
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Easterly, Thomas Martin, 1809-1882. Daguerreotypes, ca. 1846-1849.
14 daguerreotypes
These images of Sauk, Fox, and Iowa Indians, as well as one Caucasian man, are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs 3648-3662
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 7
Finding Aids:
Special Collections Information File available.
Edward E. Ayer photograph collection, 1845-1910.
32 cubic ft.
Collection of approximately 6,000 American Indian portraits and western views. Includes photographs by D. F. Barry, Thomas Easterly, Andrew Jackson Faulk, Emma B. Freeman, John K. Hillers, Grace Carpenter Hudson, G. W. Parsons, Elmo Scott Watson, and Olin D. Wheeler, among others.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 1-4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog cards: Some named collections within the collection.
Ayer Indian Photographs index cards: arranged by subject, photographer, and original photographic process.
Edwards, Ninian, 1775-1833. Letters, 1813-1814.
6 items (1 folder).
Collection includes six letters from Ninian Edwards, governor of Illinois territory, to Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, regarding War of 1812-related Indian attacks in the Illinois Territory and the state of defenses there. Edwards was appointed governor of the new Illinois territory in 1809 and held office until 1818, when the territory became a state. He served as governor of the state of Illinois from 1826-1831, and died in 1833.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 401
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Einhorn, Arthur. Mohawk research collection, 1974-1980.
1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes, 1 oversize box).
Anthropology professor and noted local history expert interested and peripherally involved in the Mohawk Indian occupation at Moss Lake, N.Y., 1974-1977 (called Ganienkeh by the Mohawks). Correspondence and research files regarding the occupation.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Einhorn
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Etherington, G. (George), 1722 or 3-1802. Letters, 1763.
7 items (4 folders).
Seven letters, in French, June 10-July 14, 1763, written by Capt. George Etherington during the period of his captivity to Charles Langlade. Etherington was the British captain commanding Fort Michilimackinac when it was attacked and taken by the Ojibwa Indians, June 2, 1763. Most of the captured, including Etherington, were given up to the northern Ottawa and taken by them to L'Arbe Croche (now Cross Village, Mich.). Charles Langlade, the nephew of the Ottawa chief, La Fourche, remained at the fort and assumed command.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 277
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Faulk, Andrew Jackson, 1814-1898. Andrew Jackson Faulk collection of photographs of the Dakota Territory, and of the Yankton, Santee, Brule, and Two Kettle Sioux, ca. 1858-1893.
56 photographic prints
A collection of photographs acquired by Faulk, mostly consisting of large-format albumen prints, but also a few stereographs and carte de visites. Dakota Territory scenes include views of Yankton, its buildings, and its citizens; photographs of Fort Dakota and Fort Randall by B. H. Gurnsey; the Congregational Church and parsonage at Faulkton; the Big Sioux River and Sioux Falls; and Indian camps. The collection also includes 32 oval portraits of Yankton, Brule, Two Kettle, and Santee Sioux chiefs, interpreters, and others, taken during treaty negotiations at the Addis Gallery in Washington, D.C. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 105
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Faulk, Andrew Jackson, 1814-1898. Letters and speech, 1862-1870.
21 items (2 boxes).
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1862-1870, of A.J. Faulk, written chiefly during his 1867-1869 governorship of the Dakota Territory concerning U.S. government's intention to stop a proposed expedition to explore and settle unceded Black Hills Indian lands, the Indian Peace Commission, the mustering of volunteer cavalry, appropriations for the relief of destitute upper Missouri tribes, etc. Also, Dec. 1867 annual address to the territorial legislature discussing, among many issues, the Black Hills, the Indian Peace Commission, and the future of the Indian.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3070 (formally Ayer MS 280a and 280b)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Freeman, Emma B., 1880-1928. Emma B. Freeman photographs of Yurok and Hupa Indians, ca. 1914-1918.
91 photographic prints mounted on cardboard
Freeman, an artist and photographer from Eureka, California, took these photographs of Yurok and Hupa Indians in studio and outdoor settings in Eureka and Humboldt County. These stylized photographs are not accurate representations of Indian dress or ways. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Ayer photographs box 99-101
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Galphin, George, d. 1780. Letters, 1778-1780.
7 items (3 folders).
Outgoing correspondence from South Carolina of the Indian trader and Revolutionary patriot while serving as commissioner of Indian affairs. The purpose was to inform Benjamin Lincoln, commander of the Southern Department, of the current situation with the Creek Indians and his efforts to maintain their friendship.
Subject: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 313
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Graff, Everett D. (Everett Dwight), 1885-1964. Papers, 1921-1964, bulk 1930-1960.
6 cubic ft.
Chicago steel company executive, philanthropist, Western Americana collector, and Newberry Library president of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1964, who near the end of his term donated his Western Americana collection to the library. Graff's papers include correspondence and financial records relating to his purchases of and research on Western Americana, and also published reports of historical societies, clippings, typescripts, membership cards and photographs.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 02/15/03
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 10-11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.
Gray, John S. (John Stephens), 1910- . Research papers, 1942-1991.
9 cubic ft. (27 boxes).
Research notes, writings, and correspondence of this Northwestern University physiologist and historian of the American West. Mainly Gray's exhaustive research notes and bibliographies on subjects related to U.S. Indian relations, particularly relating to post Civil War military operations in the West, the fur trade, the Pony Express and other stage lines, and western scouts (including Indian scouts).
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Gray.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Grierson, Benjamin Henry, 1826-1911. Papers, 1865-1890.
6.5 cubic ft. (13 boxes).
Benjamin Henry Grierson served as military officer during the Civil War and was later appointed Colonel of the Tenth Regiment U.S. Cavalry in 1866. He commanded the Negro Tenth Cavalry for twenty-four years. His service included several western posts. Covering a quarter of a century of military service, the Grierson Papers include correspondence, reports, orders and telegrams relating to his military career and family life as well as a few miscellaneous maps and photographs.
Microfilm copy available at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3039 (formally Ayer MS 343a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hamilton, Louis McLane, 1844-1868. Collection, 1867-1869.
9 items (1 folder).
Grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Civil War veteran, and captain in the 7th U.S. Cavalry killed in the 7th's encounter (Battle of Washita) with an encampment of Cheyenne near present-day Cheyenne, Okla. Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867 concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 356
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1980-. Kiowa papers, 1935-1968, bulk 1935-1940.
2.5 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, field notes (including sound recordings), and writings of Jane Richardson Hanks, anthropologist who studied the Kiowa and Blackfoot Indians, and later of the people of Thailand. Collection mainly documents her 1935 graduate student work under Alexander Lesser with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Hanks
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harrison, Gabriel, 1818-1902. Letters, 1873-1883.
10 items (1 folder).
Brooklyn, N.Y., theatrical manager, actor, painter, and author of an 1875 work about John Howard Payne, who was himself an actor, playwright, defender of the Cherokee Indians, and U.S. consul at Tunis. Collection contains letters regarding Payne to Harrison from three current and former U.S. consuls to Tunis.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3038
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hatch, Edward, 1832-1889. Letters, 1867-1870.
9 items (6 folders).
Edward Hatch lumberyard operator and soldier, who, after serving with distinction in the Civil War, was commissioned colonel of one of two new colored cavalry regiments, the 9th U.S. Cavalry. Includes nine letters to Thomas D. Smith of Muscatine, Iowa, regarding the activities of his regiment in Texas and the sale of his Muscatine, Iowa, properties. Letters discuss the training of troops, the protection of wagon roads from Indian attacks, skirmishes with Comanche, Kiowa, Mescalero, Apache, and Kickapoo bands, a trip to Chihuahua, Mexico, army reductions, and Hatch's presidency of court martials and military tribunals.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3087 (formerly Ayer MS 365.2)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Haupt, Herman. Papers 1897-1921.
9 items (1 box and 1 envelope).
Author and son of inventor and civil engineer Herman Haupt. Papers include the manuscript copy of "North American Indians. Ethnology of the Dakota,-Sioux,-and Ojibway,-Chippeway-Indians ... Phoenix Edition. 1897," a typewritten excerpt from it, and correspondence regarding it. The manuscript (344 leaves) deals mainly with the Dakota Sioux and the Ojibwa of Wisconsin and Minnesota and is illustrated with 277 pen and ink drawings and one map.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 366. (Map cataloged separately)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Havighurst, Robert James, 1900-. Papers, 1940-1980.
22 cubic ft.
University of Chicago professor and education scholar who directed the National Study of American Indian Education, a comprehensive, national fact-finding study on the education of American Indians, from 1968-1971. Collection contains reports and research materials (student surveys, interview transcriptions, etc.) pertaining to this study.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Havighurst
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 5-6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. Letters, 1797-1812.
0.1 cubic ft.
Collection of 8 letters by Benjamin Hawkins, Creek Indian agent, concerning southern Indian affairs between 1797 and 1812. Correspondents include Col. David Henley, Georgia governor James Jackson, and prominent Mobile resident Harry Toumlin.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 368
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. Letters, 1790-1822.
7 items (7 folders).
Outgoing letters of John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckwelder, missionary of the Moravian Church to the Indians of Ohio and Pennsylvania during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Religion
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 378
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hillers, John K., 1845-1925. John K. Hillers photographs of the Zuni, Hopi, and Rio Grande River pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, ca. 1879-1882.
72 photographic prints
From 1879 to 1882, Hillers traveled to the Southwest with Frank Hamilton Cushing and James Stevens under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology. This collection consists of Hillers' photographic record of the pueblos, archeological ruins, and people of Arizona and New Mexico. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer photographs box 94-96
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947-. Papers, 1989-1995.
6 cubic ft.
Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library, 1983-1994, and Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, 1994-. Hoxie's papers consist of correspondence, board of trustee files, and administrative files relating to his work with the National Museum of the American Indian, and a museum manuscript, All Roads are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Access: Permission of Dr. Hoxie required to view papers.
Call Number: Archives 07/15/02 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 14 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Hudson, Grace Carpenter, 1865-1937. Photographic copies of Grace Carpenter Hudson's paintings of Pomo Indians, ca. 1920-ca. 1937.
176 photographic prints on 89 cardboard mounts
Carpenter, a California artist specializing in paintings of Pomo Indian children, studied at the Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco under Virgil Williams. These photographs depict portrait and scene paintings of Pomo Indians, primarily of children but also of adults. The children are often depicted with dogs or other animals. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photography Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 102-104
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931. Photographs, 1883-1907.
16 items
Photographic portraits of Indians and photographs of scenes in the West by Huffman, a professor of journalism (University of Illinois, Northwestern University, University of Denver) and western frontier historian.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Vault oversize Graff 2000
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 49 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Indian Council Fire. Records, 1920-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Papers, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and publications of the Indian Council Fire, a Chicago-based organization supporting educational, legislative, and social services for urban and reservation Indians.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Indian Council
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Indian land deeds, 1639-1787.
19 items (1 oversize box).
Deeds and indentures, 1639-1787, transferring or leasing Indian lands to white inhabitants of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Two deeds are on vellum, there are seals on eleven deeds, and most documents are signed with the marks of the Indian parties involved.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 404 (formerly Ayer MS 405-422)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Indian Oral History : SEE Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project
Indian Photograph Collection: SEE See Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection
Indian Relocation: SEE U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. W. H. Jackson Photochrom print collection, 1898-1906.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Noted photographer, mainly of the American West. Color lithographic prints, made using the "Photochrom" process, published by the Detriot Photographic Company from negatives made by W. H. Jackson. Includes 479 prints, mostly 7 x 9 inches, but including 14 panoramic views, mainly of outdoor scenes in California (60), Colorado (63), Utah (19), other western states (38), southern states (52), New York (64), Mid-Atlantic states (35), and Canada, Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico (40). Also a few portraits of American Indians and indoor scenes.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs Jackson
Collection Stack Location: 4 23 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Jennings, Francis. Papers, ca. 1940-2000
19 cubic ft.
Colonial historian and former director of the Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center, 1976-1981, who after a teaching and union activities in Philadelphia, and investigation by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, returned to graduate school, received in Ph.D. in history in 1965, and began a distinguished academic career. Jenning's first book, The Invasion of America, published in 1975, explored the violence and brutality of European settlement. Jenning's papers include correspondence, writings, subject files, course papers from the 1950's, bibliographies, and much other material.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Jennings
Collection Stack Location: 4a 10 12-13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Johns, William Douglas, b. 1858. The early Yukon, Alaska and the Klondike discovery, 1895-ca. 1940.
51 items including 49 photographs (1 box)
William Douglas Johns, journalist and prospector, wrote a series of articles while living in Circle City, Alaska during the heyday of the Gold Rush. Johns' typescript and accompanying photographs record the early history of Alaska, the development of the gold rush, life in the mining camps and in Dawson City, and Johns' own explorations and hardships traveling in the region.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3123 (formerly Ayer MS 448a and 520a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Johnson, Charles B. (Charles Buck). Papers, 1841-1888, bulk 1859-1865.
431 items (1 box).
Military and Indian provision contractor and quartermaster's agent. Correspondence, agreements, orders, accounts, reports, returns, receipts, etc. concerning his work with the Indians of the Wichita Agency and the Seminole and Osage tribes in northern Texas, Arkansas, and Indian Territory.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 449
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Johnson, William, Sir, 1715-1774. Letters, 1755-1773.
22 items (12 folders).
Miscellaneous collection of twelve letters written by Sir William Johnson, military commander during the French and Indian War and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who played a significant role in the colonial history of New York. Correspondence relates to the French and Indian War, Indian treaties and conferences, the Conestoga Massacre (1763), land patents, and the appointment of Johnson's successor.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 456 (formerly Ayer MS 457 and Ayer MS 458)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Karrow, Robert W. Research papers, 1980-1990.
2 cubic ft. (5 boxes).
Research papers of Robert William Karrow, Jr. Newberry Library curator and author of Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps (1993) and numerous articles and book reviews. Primarily photocopies of printed and archival material relating to the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1869-1884), its director, George M. Wheeler, other staff of the survey, and to the use of the electric telegraph for longitude determination in the 19th century. Also seminar papers and notes, 1986-1988.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Karrow
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Kendall, Nathan R. Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers, 1842-ca. 1940 (bulk 1842-1911).
4 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern overland travel to California begun in 1849.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall-Reed (formerly Ayer MS 470a and Ayer MS 3114).
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Kimball, Solon Toothaker, 1909-1982. Papers, 1902-1981.
10 cubic ft. (29 boxes).
Research notes, writings, correspondence and photographs of anthropologist and educator Solon Toothaker Kimball, primarily relating to his work in Ireland (1930's) and among the Navajo (1936-1942). Also includes numerous source materials, particularly extensive newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Kimball
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lawton, Henry W. : SEE Carter, Robert Goldthwaite
Lee, John Thomas. Papers, 1907-1932, bulk 1907-1912.
38 items (1 box)
Correspondence, 1907-1912, with lists, notes, etc., mainly addressed to John Thomas Lee, Wisconsin historian and Jonathan Carver concerning Carver's Travels through the interior parts of North America.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3036 (formerly Ayer MS 143.2)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Mather, Thomas, fl. 1825. Papers, 1825-1886.
20 items.
Manuscript diaries, account books, autograph letters, etc., many in
connection with Mather's activities as one of three commissioners of
the Santa Fé Road Commission, established in 1825.
Available on microfilm at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 2707
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904. Album of photographs of a trip to New Mexico, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon, ca. 1897.
53 photographic prints (1 album)
This album, manufactured as "The Apex Album" by the Heinn Specialty Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, contains photographs of a trip through New Mexico, Arizona, and the Grand Canyon, probably around 1897. Participants in the trip included Andrew McNally, his grandson, Andrew McNally II, and possibly the photographers C. A. Higgins and W. H. Jackson, whose signed photographs of the McNallys are contained in the album.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Case F 788 .M36 1897
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 37 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
McNary, Oliver Clarkson. Papers, 1873-1886, bulk 1882-1886.
14 items (3 folders).
Printed and handwritten army orders and letters written by Army contract surgeon O.C. McNary during from Indian Territory to his family in Kansas and Pennsylvania.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3128 (formerly Ayer MS 555a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977. Papers, 1913-1986, bulk 1924-1977.
14 cubic ft. (34 boxes, 1 oversize box).
Literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and other materials of D'Arcy McNickle, American Indian author, government employee, community organizer, anthropologist, and historian. Records cover McNickle's work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, American Indian Development, Inc., the University of Saskatchewan, and the Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Literature; Newberry Library
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS McNickle
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 1-2
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Mitchell, David Brydie, 1766-1837. Papers, 1777-1843, bulk 1807-1822.
147 items (4 boxes).
Incoming and outgoing correspondence dated mainly 1807-1822, covering David Brydie Mitchell's tenure as Georgia governor and Creek Indian agent, concerning foreign affairs, national and local politics, state defenses, East Florida, the 1817-1818 Seminole War, Creek Indian affairs, and African slave smuggling accusations. The collection also includes documents relating to Mitchell's agency duties, and other miscellaneous papers.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 606
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923. Papers, 1888-1936, bulk 1888-1922.
2 cubic feet (4 boxes).
Mostly correspondence, but also writings, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, clippings and photographs relating to Indian rights activist and physician Carlos Montezuma of Arizona and Chicago, Illinois.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Montezuma
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Morrison, Scott Kayla. Papers, 1945-1996.
2 cubic ft.
Papers of attorney and activist Scott Kayla Morrison mostly pertaining to Mississippi Choctaw Indians, and including Constitutions, legal documents, and Morrison's MA thesis.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Morrison
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
Summary inventory available with the collection.
Collection available by appointment only.
Nabokov, Peter. Papers, 1970-1990.
7 cubic ft.
Research papers of author Peter Nabokov relating to his books, Indian Running and Native American Testimony anthologies.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Nabokov
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
New York (State). Treaties between the State of New York and the Oneida Nation, 1788-1811.
7 items.
Collection includes five treaties and two supporting documents, one indenture and one agreement, between New York State and the Oneida Nation for the cession of certain tribal lands, executed between 1788 and 1811. In these treaties the Oneida Indians eventually sold much of their reservation lands primarily held in Madison and Oneida counties, N.Y.
Microfilm copy also available at the Newberry Library, #2510.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: artifact cage Ayer MS 428
Collection Stack Location: Artifact Cage
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Norton, John. Papers, 1804-1816, bulk 1804-1810.
9 items (1 box).
Addresses and correspondence of John Norton, schoolmaster, interpreter, Mohawk chief, army officer, and author; also known as Teyoninhokarawen, with speeches and petitions of the Grand River Indians, chiefly dating 1804-1810.
Also available on microfilm at the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 654
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Oxley, Thomas Jefferson, d. 1857. Letters, 1850-1853.
5 items.
Physician and politician. Oxley's letters to his family describe his overland journey to California, his difficulties and delights of living in California and the details of operating a medical practice, particularly in Columbia, California.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 3151
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Dorothy R. (Dorothy Ragon), 1927-. Dorothy R. Parker - D'Arcy McNickle research papers, 1863-1989, bulk 1904-1989.
1.5 cubic feet (4 boxes).
Correspondence and writings of author and activist D'Arcy McNickle collected by Dorothy R. Parker during research for her book, Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle (1992). Other materials include project summaries, photographs, legal papers, passports, and documentary information.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parker D
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Scrapbooks, 1828-1894, bulk 1870-1894.
2 cubic ft. (12 volumes).
Twelve scrapbooks, containing newspaper clippings and illustrations regarding Indian affairs, presumably kept by Ely Samuel Parker, who was U.S. Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871. Also contains a few letters and reproductions of photos in the clippings.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parker
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895. Papers, ca. 1850-1885.
6 items (6 folders).
Speeches, lecture notes, and correspondence, ca. 1850-1885, of Ely Samuel Parker, U.S. Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871, regarding Indian customs and traits, the Indian policies of government and religious bodies, and his own background.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 674
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Parman, Donald Lee, 1932-. Papers, 1909-1990.
35 cubic ft.
Navajo-Hopi land dispute research files of historian Donald Lee Parman, including many paper copies of materials from the National Archives.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Parman
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 3-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Parsons, G. W. (George W.). G. W. Parsons photographs of Osage Indians, ca. 1880-ca. 1900.
64 photographs on cabinet cards
Parsons took these studio photographs of Osage Indians at his studio, located at the Osage Agency in Indian Territory, the site of Pawhuska in the northwest corner of what is now Oklahoma. The subjects, with the exceptions of Red Eagle, Minnie Deloria, and Bilie Connor, are unidentified. Subjects are posed as individuals and as family groups. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 83-84
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852. Papers, 1794-1841, bulk 1814-1841.
ca. 2,900 items (14 volumes)
This extensive collection, compiled by the actor, editor, and diplomat John Howard Payne, contains fourteen volumes of manuscript notes, memoranda, incoming correspondence, and unpublished works. The subject matter includes among others the political and social history of the Cherokee nation, accounts of religious customs, myths, and legends, and government relations and treaties with the United States.
Microfilm copy, CD-Rom copy and transcripts of the Payne Papers available at the Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 689
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 1-2; VAULT 50 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Perry, Henry. Letters, 1849-1850.
13 items (1 folder).
Letters written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Connecticut native and Gold Rush participant Henry Perry regarding his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and economic and living conditions in gold rush San Francisco and Sacramento.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 709
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895. Letters, 1881-1894.
56 items (1 box).
Ethnologist, linguist, and bibliographer James Constantine Pilling's incoming correspondence, 1881-1894, with U.S. and Canadian missionaries, church officials, ethnologists, historians, and others regarding Indian languages, publications in Indian languages, and missionaries to the Indians.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 727
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Rodgers family. Papers, 1773-1925.
4 cubic ft.
Correspondence, journals, post office, church, tax, and financial records, and other papers of a family of pioneers of the Midwest and West, especially Oregon and Washington. Includes letters and writings of Andrew Rodgers, considered by the family to be one of the most important men. Letters are mostly from unknown people to unknown people, of interest because of their descriptions of conditions and early hardships. Of special significance is an Overland Journey journal (1840?).
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Rodgers (formerly Rk)
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC 67-1964.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.
Ruxton, George Frederick Augustus, 1820-1848. Papers, ca. 1837-1948.
ca. 85 items.
This collection comprises ninety pages of autograph manuscripts, notes, drafts, copies, etc. mostly relating to this English adventurer and writer's travels in America.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 3614
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Salabiye, Velma. Papers, 1980-1995.
12 cubic ft.
Navajo librarian involved in promoting American Indian librarianship and evaluating major American Indian collections. Papers include research material for American Indian Bibliography that Salabiye worked on with John Aubrey of the Newberry Library.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Salabiye
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sherman, Francis Trowbridge, 1825-1905. Papers, 1849-1894.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box).
Correspondence of Francis Trowbridge Sherman of Chicago, and his traveling companion, Henry A. Ballentine, documenting their travel overland to the California gold fields and experiences there, 1849-1850. Also photocopies of a few of Sherman's (colonel 88th Illinois Infantry) letters regarding the Civil War and his Chicago business, business and family correspondence of father F.C. Sherman, family records, and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 5282
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Special Collections information file available.
Stands-in-Timber, John. Papers, 1926-1963.
Papers of the tribal historian for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, resident of the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana, and author of Cheyenne Memories, published by Yale University Press. Includes the original manuscript of Cheyenne Memories, diaries, notebooks, correspondence, agency-related documents and tribal correspondence, photographs, and sermons.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Stands-in-Timber
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 34 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Stobie, Charles Stewart, 1845-1931. Papers, 1866-1902.
9 items (1 box)
Artist's journal, essay, photographic portrait, and letter of Charles S. Stobie, a western artist and Indian scout who was raised in Baltimore and Chicago, and eventually settled in Chicago. The journal, kept at the Ignacio Ute Agency, Oct.1900, and May-Aug., 1902, contains sketches of Ute and Navajo Indians, glossaries of Ute and Spanish words, a list of agency employees, and store accounts. The collection also contains several single drawings and an essay about the Ute scalp parade of 1866.
Subjects: Arts; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer MS 834
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians. Records, 1789-1858.
23 items (1 box).
Tribe of the Mohican Confederacy, known as the Stockbridge Indians, which relocated in the mid-1780's to New Stockbridge, N.Y., and again in 1833 to Wisconsin near Green Bay. Collection contains tribal documents, 1789-1858, including petitions, memorials, arguments, powers of attorney, appointments, agreements, correspondence, financial reports, promissory notes, and requests for payment.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 836
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. Papers, ca. 1970-2001.
14 cubic ft.
Senior research fellow at the Newberry Library, who directed the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Project, was acting director of the Newberry's D'Arcy McNickle Center, and served as an expert witness and historical consultant for a number of Indian tribes.
Papers include personal and professional correspondence, research notes, research notebooks, card files, Potawatomi (1997) and Caddo court case materials, and research files and data for maps in Settling of North America (1995).
Subjects: Indians and the West; Newberry Library; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Tanner
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Templeton, George M., d. 1870. Papers, 1852-1958.
1.5 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Diaries and photographs covering the period of the army officer's duties at Fort C. F. Smith, from the establishment of the fort to its abandonment.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: VAULT Graff folio 4099
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Tripp, Samuel V. Letters, 1849-1906, bulk 1849-1876.
44 items (1 box).
Correspondence, dating mainly from 1849 to 1876, of California emigrant Samuel V. Tripp, addressed primarily to his mother and sister in Ohio, regarding his life in the Northern California gold region and later in Southern California.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3219
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Twogood, James Henry, b. 1826. Papers, 1888-1910.
12 items.
Includes manuscript accounts of the early settlement of Boise, Idaho, troubles with the Indians, etc., as well as documents, newspaper clippings, etc.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 4224.
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
United States. Army. Ordnance Dept. Accounting statements, 1820.
6 items.
Includes three separate accounting statements recording ordnance supplies held at Greenleaf's Point and at Fort Belle Fontaine. The first item is a detailed accounting notebook (18 pages) of expenditures for basic supplies at Greenleaf's Point Arsenal (1817-1820) under the command of Capt. Joseph S. Nelson. The other two items briefly enumerate accounts of ordnance stores at Fort Belle Fontaine (Sept. & Dec. 1820). Each statement lists the military weapons held at the fort. Collection also includes 3 other unidentified accounting pieces.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3069
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Special Collections information file available.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian relocation records, 1936-1975, bulk 1956-1958.
1 cubic ft. (3 boxes).
Photographs, promotional brochures, statistics, clippings, etc., dating mainly from 1956 to 1958, from album / notebooks compiled by Bureau of Indian Affairs agencies and relocation program field offices at reservations and schools (Cheyenne River, Fort Peck, Great Lakes, Intermountain School, Menominee, New Mexico Pueblos, Pierre, Sisseton including Flandreau, Turtle Mountain, Winnebago), and in cities (Chicago, St. Louis).
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS BIA Relocation
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Oliver Wolcott letters, 1795-1800.
13 items.
Thirteen letters, dated Mar. 11, 1795 - Dec. 11, 1800, written by Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, to David Henley, general agent for the War Dept. in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio. The letters contain rules and regulations regarding the administration of contracts, numerous directives regarding the choice of contractors supplying both the region and the Tellico Blockhouse, and accusations of fraud against contractor "Robert Searcey."
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 921
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
United States. War Dept. Timothy Pickering letters, 1795-1798, bulk 1795.
23 items
Correspondence of the secretary of war, Timothy Pickering, regarding Indian and militia affairs in what is now Tennessee. The primary addressee is David Henley, War Dept. agent in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, but the collection also includes letters to David Campbell, governor William Blount, and John McNairy. Two of the letters are written together with Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 926
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Van Schaack, Henry, 1733-1823. Papers, 1734-1896, bulk 1756-1809.
257 items.
Mainly correspondence regarding Van Schaack's Indian trade operations, Seven Years' War service, Revolutionary War banishment, connection to Shay's rebellion, concern with loyalist emigration, advocacy of the U. S. Constitution, anti-church tax campaign, and party politics. Correspondents include friends, relatives, N.Y. and Mass. political, military, and church officials, rebels and loyalists, Federalist journalists, etc.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT oversize Ayer MS 3193
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 50 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Vogel, Virgil J. Research and personal papers, 1941-1993.
26.5 cubic ft. (66 boxes).
Writings and research material on American Indian place names and other subjects relating to Native Americans of the Chicago author and professor Virgil J. Vogel. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles, correspondence, and a few photographs.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Vogel
Collection Stack Location: 3 33 7; 3 60 9-10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Watkins, Erwin C., 1839-1911. Erwin Watkins-Simeon Whiteley papers, 1863-1920, bulk 1863-1878.
ca. 250 items (3 oversize and 2 regular size boxes).
Erwin Watkins and Simeon Whiteley worked for the Office of Indian Affairs in the 1870's and 1860's, respectively. While the Watkins papers contain mainly official government reports and correspondence, the Whiteley papers consist of mostly personal correspondence accompanied by several photographs, three maps, and two issues of a Wyoming newspaper.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3024 (formerly Ayer MS 964a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2; VAULT 50 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Watson, Elmo Scott, 1892-1951. Elmo Scott Watson collection of photographs, 1875-1936.
133 photographic prints.
These photographs, mainly albumen and gelatin photographic prints and a few glass plate negatives, were removed from the western history subject files of the Elmo Scott Watson papers. Significant groups within this collection include 25 Laton A. Huffman portraits of Cheyenne, Crow, and Sioux Indians; 19 D. F. Barry photographs of Hunkpapa and Blackfeet Sioux; and 39 publicity photographs of Blackfeet Indians, mainly issued in the 1920s and 1930s by Underwood & Underwood. This collection is part of the Edward E, Ayer Photograph Collection.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 71-73, Ayer Photographs box 87
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Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Watson, Elmo Scott, 1892-1951. Papers, 1816-1951, bulk 1920-1951.
16.5 cubic ft. (49 boxes).
Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Journalism
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Watson
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 13-14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wax, Murray Lionel, 1922-. Papers, 1944-1989, bulk 1962-1969.
15 cubic ft. (39 boxes).
Fieldwork and correspondence of anthropologist-sociologist Murray L. Wax, primarily between 1962 and 1969. Also copies of published articles and unpublished papers by other anthropologists, newspaper clips, and serials pertaining to Native Americans; field notes of Rosalie Hankey (later Rosalie Wax) from Japanese relocation camp at Tule Lake, 1944-45.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wax
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 9-10; 3 59 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wellington, J. W. Slide collection, ca. 1950-1975.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box).
Copies of color 35 mm. slide sets, slide captions, and commentaries documenting Assiniboine and Gros Ventre ceremonies performed at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana, ca. 1950-1952, prepared by J. W. "Duke" Wellington, who was Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent at the reservation, 1947-1954.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wellington.
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 14
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Weltfish, Gene, 1902-. Pawnee field notes, 1935.
0.5 cubic ft. (2 boxes).
Field notes (1935) of Franz Boas trained anthropologist and linguist Gene Weltfish, documenting her study of Pawnee lifeways and religion. These volumes of notes focus on the yearly economic lifecycle of the Pawnee as it would have been lived in the late 19th century.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Weltfish
Collection Stack Location: 3 59 12
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Westerners. Chicago Corral. Records, 1950-1980.
7 cubic ft.
International organization started in Chicago in 1944 by Leland D. Case, editor of "The Rotarian Magazine," and Elmo Scott Watson, newspaperman and educator, to bring together historians and buffs interested in the American West. Records include correspondence and other materials documenting the activities of the group.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Westerners
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925. Olin D. Wheeler collection of photographs of the Yosemite Valley and the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ca. 1880-ca. 1925.
179 photographic prints
This collection contains 71 views of Yosemite National Park, including tourists traveling in Yosemite Transportation vehicles and private cars. Wheeler also compiled a collection of photographs of the landscapes and Native Americans along the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition while researching his two-volume book The Trail of Lewis and Clark. This collection is part of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Photographs.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Photographs
Call Number: Ayer Photographs box 68-70, Ayer Photographs box 88
Collection Stack Location: 3 49 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925. Papers, 1892-1924.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box).
Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3220 (formerly Ayer 975a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-. Papers, 1934-1985.
19 cubic ft. (45 boxes, 12 shoeboxes, 2 oversize boxes).
Indian Claims Commission documents and research materials of anthropologist Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, 1945-1979.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Wheeler-Voegelin
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 6-8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory available in the Library.
Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825. Letters, 1792-1818.
19 items (19 folders).
Correspondence and a few orders relating to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790's written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana.
Subjects: Indians and the West; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 982
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williams, Eleazar, 1789?-1858. Papers, 1758-1858.
33 items (2 boxes).
Letters, documents, sermons, writings, including Indian language mss, of missionary Eleazar Williams, descendant of Indian captive Eunice Williams, pertaining to Oneida and Menominee affairs, and the Williams family.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Religion
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 999
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Williams, Loren L., 1828-1881. Journals, 1851-1880.
0.5 cubic ft. (5 volumes in 2 boxes)
Journals covering the author's activities as an officer with the Oregon Volunteers during the Civil War, active in the West, and subsequent role as a pioneer in the development of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Details of wars with the Western Indians are also included. Inserted and laid in are numerous ms. documents, autograph letters, illustrations, ms. maps (drawn by the author), newspaper clippings, photographs, etc.
Subjects: Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT folio Graff 4683
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 40 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog
Printed guides: A Catalogue of the Graff Collection of Western Americana.
Wilson, John, d. 1862. Letters, 1859-1865.
40 items (3 folders)
Letters (1859-1865) from Virginia City, Nevada written by or regarding John Wilson to his wife in Vermont. Wilson sailed for the West in 1859, ended up as a bartender in Virginia City, and was murdered by his employer in 1862. Many of his letters give a vivid and detailed firsthand account of the notorious town. Letters after Wilson's murder deal with his friend's to recover some of Wilson's assets on his widow's behalf. There are also several newspaper clippings of the murder case and trial, two Wells Fargo checks sent to his wife, and a guardianship document for his child.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3207
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
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