Huntington Free Library

The white woman

Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1

Identifier: 9002

Scope and content

Handwritten manuscript dated May, 17 1841, Chapel Hill, signed by Susan W. McFarland. An extract of an account of a mission performed in 1820 among the Seneca and Munsee by the Rev. Timothy Alden, president of Allegheny College, addressed to Rev. Abiel Holmes, describing a visit with Mary Jemison.

Dates: 1841 May 17.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The white woman

Three rare pre-columbian codices.

Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1

Identifier: 9159

Scope and content Numbers 263, 317, and 356 in Glass' A Survey and Census of Native Middle American pictorial manuscripts. Codices are also described in Analas del Museo Nacional De Mexico for 1886. Published as a set with the original price of $3.00. Lithographed in Paris from the originals, which were held in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Codices include the Mapa Quinatzin, Mapa Tepechpan, and Mapa Tlotzin. They depict Aztec history from 1298 to 1596, including Tenochtitlan, Chapultepec, Aztec emperor...

Dates: 1886; Undated

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Three rare pre-columbian codices.

Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1

Identifier: 9012

Scope and content This is a tracing of a deer skin history made by Wounded Bear, Ogallala Sioux. The tracing was made by E. J. Bush. Two versions of the tracing are included. The collection also contains 2 typed translations of the drawings and 1 handwritten copy, plus provenance notes. A note with the collection states that the original deerskin has been lost. A separate note, from E. K. Bennett, states that on June 20, 1938, Mr. Bush reported that the original deer skin was offered for sale through Ben...

Dates: 1894.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

Collection — Mapcase folder 45

Identifier: 9091

Scope and content Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation entered into by their deputies before Sir William Johnson, baronet, His Majesty's sole agent and superintendent of Indian affairs in the Northern Department of North America...May 8 1765. With supplemental treaty, which was bound to the main treaty, titled The Delaware deputys [sic] sent from Ohio, to strengthen, ratify and confirm the annexed treaty subscribed by Killbuck...July 12, 1765. Treaty discusses the Indians being accepted by the English in...

Dates: 1765.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1

Identifier: 9102

Scope and content

Drawing of an unfinished Mayan tomb that was visited by Dr. N. H. Wheeler and W. F. Parker, February 19, 1895. Drawing has dimensions of the tomb. It is signed "complimentos de Dr. N. H. Wheeler."

Dates: 1895.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

Collection

Identifier: 9188

Abstract

Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.

Dates: 1798-1874.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

Vues de l'Amerique du nord.

Collection — Huntington box 41 - folder 1

Identifier: 9093

Scope and content

Three different prints, hand printed from the original woodblocks. Prints include depictions of West Point, Boston Harbor, Winnebago Indians, Natural Bridge in Virginia, Niagara Falls, and New York bay.

Dates: 1900; Undated

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Vues de l'Amerique du nord.

Wahacankaduta letters of introduction from Fort Totten

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9258

Scope and content Two letters of introduction regarding Wahacankaduta a son of a chief who lived at the Devils Lake Reservation. The letters were collected by Mrs. O.C. Gray from Sunkaitewakan the son of Wahacankaduta. The letters are from Fort Totten in Dakota Territory. One is dated August 1, 1873 from William H. Forbes. The other is from September 30, 1873 from James McLaughlin. The letters state that the bearer is a soldier of the Cut Head Indian band from the Grand River Agency in Missouri, who is a good...

Dates: 1873.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Wahacankaduta letters of introduction from Fort Totten

Wampanoag Indian research and field notes

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9057

Scope and content Research relating to the Burr's Hill Wampanoag Indian burial site in Warren, Rhode Island. Field notebook has daily account of the excavation from 1913, information about the artifacts recovered, maps of the site, some related correspondence, inscriptions in the runic alphabet found on artifacts. Second folder contains typed notes from various sources that Carr used in preparation for a monograph on the Wampanoag burial site. The notes are a combination of a transcript of the item Carr was...

Dates: 1913.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Wampanoag Indian research and field notes

Warner D. Miller collection

Collection

Identifier: 9180

Abstract Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry, newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs. Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to...

Dates: [ca. 1930-1945].

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Warner D. Miller collection

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Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

The white woman

Three rare pre-columbian codices.

Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

Vues de l'Amerique du nord.

Wahacankaduta letters of introduction from Fort Totten

Wampanoag Indian research and field notes

Warner D. Miller collection

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