Huntington Free Library

Pottawatomie prints and correspondence

Collection — Huntington box 1 - folder 1

Identifier: 9071

Scope and content Eight prints that are numbered 43 of 1000 and correspondence regarding the prints. Prints are from original drawings done by Winter in 1837. Included is a letter to Marsha Winter from R. Spiner Ball, dated May 21, 1987, discussing how the prints were supposed to be sold, but could not find a market. Also some mention of the people that Mr. Winter drew. There is also a certificate of authenticity, signed by Cecily Gordon Bottum-Ball, a press release, a sheet describing the works, and the...

Dates: 1987.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pottawatomie prints and correspondence

Provenance and Associated documents removed from Native American Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9209

Scope and content Collection contains loose items that were removed from the inside of books and manuscript collections from the Huntington Free Library. Items include letters regarding the books, book dealer listings, assorted cards and notes, additional encyclopedic information, and other ephemera. Items organized by call number. Books and manuscripts in the Native American Collection that have a folder in this collection are noted as having additional material in their record. Also a chronology of the Heye...

Dates: [ca. 1920-1980].

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Provenance and Associated documents removed from Native American Collection

Reginald Pelham Bolton collection: notes regarding Indians near Inwood Hill Park, New York City

Collection — Huntington box 29

Identifier: 9117

Scope and content Collection includes notebook by Bolton titled "Notes on discoveries and index to aboriginal objects with location of discovery, collected by W. L. Calver, with some collected in 1907-7-8-9 by W.L.C. and R. P. Bolton." Field notebook by Alanson Skinner from 1918 titled "Field Notes" has "Notes on the great shellheap at Cold Spring, Inwood" as first entry, but the book goes on to describe other Indian excavation sites across New York State, including sites in Jefferson, Orange, and Cayuga...

Dates: 1900-1935.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Reginald Pelham Bolton collection: notes regarding Indians near Inwood Hill Park, New York City

Registro de Reales Cedulas de las provincia de Santa Marta

Collection

Identifier: 9199

Scope and content

Bound photostats of a register, from Santa Marta Columbia, parts appear to be written in an unidentified Indian language, likely a form of the Mayan language, other parts look to be Spanish. Inside front cover, modern note states: "Archivo de Indias, de Sevilla. Est. 119, caj. 7, leg. 22. Tomo 1. Años 1529-1533." Written in Spanish on the backs of many of the pages are some identification notes.

Dates: 1529-1533.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Registro de Reales Cedulas de las provincia de Santa Marta

Report on the exploration of the Region of the Rio Colorado Departamento de Madre de Dios

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9232

Scope and content The typescript report is prefaced with a letter signed by Fejos, as the director of the expedition, to his Excellency Gunnar Reuterskiöld, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Sweden. The letter asks that the report be transmitted to the Peruvian Government. The report covers a range of topics about the area and the people who live there. Also some history about previous explorations of the area and the organization of this expedition. Also included are charts of...

Dates: 1940

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Report on the exploration of the Region of the Rio Colorado Departamento de Madre de Dios

Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, plates

Collection — Huntington box 15

Identifier: 9107

Scope and content Plates extracted from the three volume United States War Department publication. Plates were drawn by Albert H Campbell, Balduin Möllhausen, Lt. J. C. Tidball and John J. Young and were published by Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith. and T. Sinclair's Lith.. Includes note of Provenance to Mr. Burnett from L.D., dated September 12, 1950, this is Edwin Kenneth. Burnett and Lillian Davis. Plates are marked U.S.P.R.R. for United States Pacific Rail Road Expedition & Surveys, 35th Parallel....

Dates: 1856.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, plates

Review of A history of the Indian wars with the first settlers of the United States, particularly in New England

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9047

Scope and content This review of a book was published in the Literary and Philosophical Repertory volume 1, 1813. This is a holographic copy of that review. The manuscript being reviewed was written by Reverend Daniel Clarke Sanders. The review raises theological issues and is quite disapproving of the book. The publication of this harsh, anonymous, review caused the suppression of the book and only a few copies were circulated. The book raised criticisms for its discussion of the cruelty to Indians in...

Dates: 1813.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Review of A history of the Indian wars with the first settlers of the United States, particularly in New England

Rhode Island field notebook

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9178

Dates: [undated]

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Rhode Island field notebook

Rodolfo R. Schuller papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9172

Abstract Vocabulary collection on Central and South American languages. Includes correspondence between Schuller and other members of the Museum of the Native American regarding the collection. Five boxes of 3x5 index cards with vocabulary items noted along with bibliographic source or notations in other languages. Six boxes boxes of half sheets with vocabulary items, words, definition, and pronunciation, organized by "root" or what appears to be subject in some cases. A note from Schuller says that...

Dates: ca. 1925-1932.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Rodolfo R. Schuller papers

Ruins of Ake Yucatan

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9221

Scope and content

Eleven black and white photos taken by Stebbins in March 1903. Photos show the ruins and countryside.

Dates: 1903.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ruins of Ake Yucatan

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