Huntington Free Library

Cuadro historico : geroglifico de la peregrinacion de las tribus Aztecas que poblaron en valle de Mexico. Num. 1-2.

Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1

Identifier: 9155

Scope and content

A portion of the Atlas geografico, estadistico e historico de la Republica Mexicana, formado por Antonio Garcia y Cubas, Mexico. Imprenta de Jose Mariano Fernandez de Lara. Atlas mexicano, por Antonio Garcia y Cubas Cuadro I and II. Maps are surrounded by explanatory text in Spanish. The maps depict the migration of the Aztec people from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan over the period of several hundred years.

Dates: 1858; Undated

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cuadro historico : geroglifico de la peregrinacion de las tribus Aztecas que poblaron en valle de Mexico. Num. 1-2.

Daniel Claus journal and associated material

Collection — Huntington box 16

Identifier: 9151

Scope and content Bound journal of Daniel Claus that documents his stay at Caughnawaga from 1762-1766. There are three typescript copies of the journal by Lillian Doyle, two different versions. The manuscript appears to have been bound out of order. One transcript copy is ordered as the original is ordered the other is ordered as Lillian Doyle thought the pages should be bound, which is chronologically. Also included are 2 copies of a typed manuscript by E. J. Devine titled Historic Caughnawaga, a map...

Dates: 1762-1766.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Daniel Claus journal and associated material

Daughters of the American Revolution, American Indian Committee papers

Collection — Huntington box 1

Identifier: 9153

Scope and content Contents of a scrapbook that has been taken apart. Includes photocopies of all the items that were in the scrapbook, many of the original items are included as well, but some are missing. Includes, clippings, correspondence, committee reports, publications, postcards, and other ephemera documenting the Daughters of the American Revolution's involvement in Indian affairs. Much of the correspondence is to Leda Ferrell Rex (Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex), the National Chairman of the D.A.R.. Also...

Dates: 1941-1950, 1986.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Daughters of the American Revolution, American Indian Committee papers

De Cost Smith Onondaga vocabulary

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9217

Scope and content

Words in Onondaga language with translation. Recorded by Smith at the Onondaga Reservation, New York.

Dates: [ca. 1888]

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / De Cost Smith Onondaga vocabulary

Diligencias de la notica dada por la rancheria que vino a Picuries en 29 de Septiembre de 1695 ano. Octavo Cuaderno no. 118

Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1

Identifier: 9005

Scope and content Letter and two reports, transcript in Spanish, two versions of transcript in English. The first report is addressed to the Lord Governor and Captain General Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon from Secretary of Government and War Domingo de la Barreda. It comes with a cover letter mentioning the Apache retreat into New Mexico because of French attacks on them from Luis Granillo. The second section is signed by Domingo de la Barreda, Luis Granillo, and Alonso Garcia. It describes...

Dates: 1895.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Diligencias de la notica dada por la rancheria que vino a Picuries en 29 de Septiembre de 1695 ano. Octavo Cuaderno no. 118

Documents pertaining to the Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization Act

Collection — Huntington box 26

Identifier: 9182

Scope and content Collection contains transcripts and proceedings of testimony and hearings, meeting minutes, copies of bills, and a letter to Frederick A. Blossom from Will Rogers, chairman of the Committee. Contents include: Readjustment of Indian affairs, Hearings before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, 73d Congress, 9 parts; Bills H. R. 7902 and S.2755; The purpose and operation of the Wheeler-Howard Indian rights bill; Amendments to Wheeler-Howard bill; Testimony taken at ...

Dates: 1934.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Documents pertaining to the Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization Act

Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9030

Scope and content The handwritten documents are all copied from existing documents. They include a short biographical sketch about Chief Cornplanter and his sons; a letter written by John Langdale to Benjamin Franklin in 1764 about the nobility of character among the American Indians; a letter describing an incident involving a drunk Delaware Chief at a council meeting; a document about Chief Teedyuscung; extracts from a pamphlet entitled Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the...

Dates: 1763-1784.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies

Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1

Identifier: 9099

Scope and content

Pencil drawing of an elaborate carved pipe. The pipe has Indians on it and could be carved in the shape of a boat. Provenance is on the back of the drawing. It states that the pipe the drawing is based on was found in British Columbia.

Dates: 1857.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

Collection — Huntington box 41 - folder 1

Identifier: 9098

Scope and content

Paintings signed Broncho Charlie and dated 1942. This could be Broncho Charlie Miller, sometimes spelled Bronco, who was the youngest rider for the Pony Express and showman for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Two of the paintings are titled "Wild Horses", and "Hunting Buffalo 1878 Kansas"; the third is untitled. The untitled painting depicts Indians fighting and being killed with guns, and also has riders on horseback. A southwestern mesa landscape is in the background.

Dates: 1942.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

Dull Knife materials

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9257

Scope and content Includes a letter dated January 25, 1877 from J. Cashine at Sidney Nebraska to William H. Dorsey regarding a pipe and tobacco bag that belonged to a Cheyenne chief Dull Knife. The letter mentions Standing Elk, 100 Buck, Sitting Bull and Dull Knife being shot, Senator Pinchback. Also a letter dated July 4, 1878 from George Campbell of Company A of the 3rd Cavalry at Fort Laramie Wyoming to Thomas Nast discussing a bag taken off the body of the eldest daughter of Chief Dull Knife at the Fort...

Dates: 1877-1936.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dull Knife materials

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Cuadro historico : geroglifico de la peregrinacion de las tribus Aztecas que poblaron en valle de Mexico. Num. 1-2.

Daniel Claus journal and associated material

Daughters of the American Revolution, American Indian Committee papers

De Cost Smith Onondaga vocabulary

Diligencias de la notica dada por la rancheria que vino a Picuries en 29 de Septiembre de 1695 ano. Octavo Cuaderno no. 118

Documents pertaining to the Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization Act

Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies

Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains

Dull Knife materials

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