Huntington Free Library

Samuel A. Elliot collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9165

Abstract Contains reports to the Board of Indian commissioners, reports 1-107, bulletins regarding Indians to the 70th Congress, and bulletins from the American Indian Defense Association, Inc. The items are typed mimeos. Indexes for the 70th Congress and American Indian Defense association papers and for the Indian Commissioners reports are included. Various authors. A wide variety of topics are covered including Indian and government relations, land tenure, living conditions, laws, and government...

Dates: 1927-1935.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel A. Elliot collection

Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9051

Scope and content Two letters from Samuel Worcester, one a typed transcript. Also, letter from Alice Mary Robertson dated January 19, 1877, in which she writes her mother from the Department of the Interior and encloses the letters from Worcester who was her grandfather. Provenance letter from Grant Foreman to Frederic W. Hodge dated October 28, 1930, upon presentation of the letters for the Hodge Collection. One of the Worcester letters is dated April 12, 1826 from Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, addressed to...

Dates: 1826-1832.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]

Identifier: 9066

Scope and content

Report on field investigations in Santiago Tuxtla, January - April 1956, by Isabel Kelly and Hector Garcia Manzanedo. Manuscript discusses aspects of the geology, flora and fauna of the area, but most of the text is about the native people of the area. Covers all aspects of social and family life.

Dates: 1956.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

Simon Butler : composed and drawn on stone

Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1

Identifier: 9104

Scope and content

Print originally from Indian Traits Volume II, by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, 1844, page 35. This version is from Annals of the United States illustrated: the pioneers: no. 4. Print depicts Simon Kenton, aka Simon Butler, tied to a horse which is being scared by Shawnee Indians in the background. There is description of the print on the front in English and French.

Dates: 1852.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Simon Butler : composed and drawn on stone

Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9150

Scope and content Three scrapbooks, one titled Sioux on the warpath, one titled Indians on the warpath, and one untitled. The books contain newspaper clippings regarding Indians, particularly the Sioux, and the events leading up to and shortly after the Wounded Knee massacre. Clippings discuss the people involved, the Ghost Dance, thoughts on how to disarm the Indians, mention of individuals coming over from Great Britain to aid soldiers at the Pine Ridge Agency, Sitting Bull's death, some other events...

Dates: 1890.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Sketch from life : Chief Tall Bear, and photos of Henry H. Cross

Collection — Huntington box 39b - folder 1

Identifier: 9077

Scope and content Oil painting on board of Chief Tall Bear. Includes photocopy of an excerpt about Cross from The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Back of painting has inscription to "Minnie Walkin, compliments of H. H. Cross." The corner that has the date is missing. The back states that Tall Bear was a member of the Blackfeet Indians. Also included are two signed photographs of Cross. One says "Why Not, 1915"; the other shows Cross in his studio surrounded by his...

Dates: ca. 1900.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sketch from life : Chief Tall Bear, and photos of Henry H. Cross

Skywatchers of ancient Mexico

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: 9200

Scope and content Kit for a planetarium show about the Mayas. Has a focus on their astronomical observations, which helped to develop their calendar system. Includes slides, audio reels, a brochure, and the manual about the show. The manual includes the script, information about visual and special effects, lists of the slides and how to fade them in and out, a list of the music used in the production, information on the individuals and groups that put the program together, surveys and evaluations, teacher...

Dates: 1980.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Skywatchers of ancient Mexico

Society of Samoset constitution and papers

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9191

Scope and content

Contains photocopies of material including the Constitution of the Society of Samoset from 1932, a 60th anniversary of the society booklet from 1972, minutes from the society, description of the Samoset ritual, meeting places, list of members. Notes with the material from 1993 states that the collection was given to the Brooklyn Museum and then sent to the Brooklyn Historical Society library.

Dates: 1912-1972

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Society of Samoset constitution and papers

Some missionaries and their work in Alaska

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9043

Scope and content

Scrapbook of postcards and other ephemera collected during a trip to coastal Alaska. Includes a narrative by Ms. Jones and various fact sheets and profiles on Alaska and its missions, as well as reverend biographies, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs. Items relateing to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Skagway, and Juneau, the First Presbyterian Church, the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, and other Alaskan political and religious figures. Also, a baby's Indian moccasin.

Dates: 1959.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Some missionaries and their work in Alaska

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Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel A. Elliot collection

Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

Simon Butler : composed and drawn on stone

Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Sketch from life : Chief Tall Bear, and photos of Henry H. Cross

Skywatchers of ancient Mexico

Society of Samoset constitution and papers

Some missionaries and their work in Alaska

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