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United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders

 Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9190
Scope and content Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to...
Dates: [ca.1900].

Herbert W. Dutch items

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250791]
Identifier: 2384m
Scope and content Items including 4 postcards (one of them hand colored), 2 stereo cards, and a pamphlet, "Panorama of the river St. Lawrence, from Niagara Falls to Quebec" (New York, 1860?). The postcards show scenes from Seattle, Washington; Concord, Massachusetts; and the home and gravesite of President William McKinley. The stereo cards show the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders (the United States First Volunteer Cavalry regiment) in Tampa, Florida (1898) and President McKinley reviewing the...
Dates: 1860-1906.

Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9015
Scope and content This collection of letters and notes relates to Geronimo and other Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war. The letters were written at Mount Vernon Barracks and Fort Sill and include documents signed by Geronimo. There is some documentation of the Apache culture. Provenance note from Agnes K. Capron, wife of Allyn Capron, dated March 26, 1938, to George Gustav Heye. Notes by Capron, 7 pages and copies of notes about Apache culture, legends, religion, thoughts about white men. 5 leaves of notes...
Dates: 1884-1896.

Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

 Collection — Huntington box 35
Identifier: 9112
Scope and content

Scrapbook containing pictures of Remington paintings and sculptures, newspaper clippings about Remington or showing Remington artwork, and program from a Remington exhibition. Articles cut from the Saturday Evening Post and Detroit Free Press. Articles containing biographical information about Remington as well as information about frontier life.

Dates: 1905-1930.

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Indians of North America 3
Indians of North America -- Arizona 2
American bison hunting. 1
Apache Indians -- Mixed descent 1
Apache Indians -- Social life and customs. 1