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James N. Wheelan Army commissions

 Collection
Identifier: 9249
Scope and content

Printed commissions signed by the President and the Secretary of War, appointing James N. Wheelan to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (on two dates in 1899) and then to Brigadier General, retired (1904 and 1910). Signatories include Presidents William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Taft.

Dates: 1899-1910.

Jane Kaquatosh estate correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9259
Scope and content Collection of letters regarding the property of Jane Kaquatosh of Neopit Wisconsin. Her husband Robert Kaquatosh is described as full blood an Indian and when he died his estate passed on to Jane until her death. The letters discuss the nuances of dealing with a property that is on tribal land, but is now part of an estate of an individual who was not born on the reservation nor enrolled in the tribe, despite being a Menominee. Letters discuss Kaquatosh's children, George Humpherville,...
Dates: 1930-1937.

Japanese American relocation centers records

 Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: 31924065229159]
Identifier: 3830
Abstract

Includes documentation collected by military sociologists on two World War II-era Japanese-American relocation centers, along with sociological observations and studies.

Dates: 1935-1953.

Jefferson, New York legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240743]
Identifier: 1110m
Scope and content Indentures for the sale of land in Jefferson, Chemung County, New York. Most of them involve Samuel Watkins and his wife Cynthia Anne Watkins as the buyers or sellers; two of them involve William L. Denton. Other buyers or sellers include William P. Lee of Reading, Steuben County; and Alvin Coburn of Jefferson, selling land to Thomas Braham of Reading. Also included are legal documents incorporating the First Baptist Church and Society and the Methodist Episcopal Church in Jefferson, and an...
Dates: 1845-1849.

Latin American poster collection

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1
Identifier: 6626
Scope and content

Posters relating to solidarity and human rights in Latin American, particularly Cuba, Chile, and Nicaragua. Also posters from the Organization of American States commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Dates: 1970-1990.

Law Enforcement Assistance Administration oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-947
Scope and content

Interviews conducted by Jack Holl in cooperation with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice relating to a comparative study of English and American penal reform. Dr. Holl was a Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice







Dates: 1971.

Legal correspondence concerning Claude Strail

 Collection — Manuscript box 10 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241592]
Identifier: 1503m
Scope and content

Commitment paper for Claude, Joseph, and Frank Strail to St. John's Catholic Orphan Asylum, and subsequent correspondence and notes relating to the claim.

Dates: 1887-1904.

Legal documents concerning the death of Stanislas Kozaczek

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064916418]
Identifier: 1504
Scope and content Documents involved in the inquest and the settlement concerning Kozaczek's death and administration of his estate, including testimony from witnesses who saw the fatal accident, statements by his widow and the administrator of his estate, and a few letters among the parties concerned. Correspondents and other interested parties included the County Coroner, the Oneida County Surrogate Court, the New York Mills, the law firm Kernan & Kernan (Utica, N.Y.), and Kozaczek's widow Ludwika...
Dates: 1903-1906.

Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: 4779
Abstract Last will and testament of Colonel Pierre Benjamin Faneuil, Boston, Massachusetts, 1877; signed manuscript Revolutionary War pension request for Tyler Porter, with list of battles, Massachusetts, 1818; New York State Militia Return of Officers ... under Command of Brigadier-General Lyman Curtiss, 1834; Beebee & Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers, New York financial statement, 1851; will of Christian Gingery of Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, includes mention of "mulato Girl," 1778;...
Dates: 1773-1851.

Letter from Texas Indian agent

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9016
Scope and content Letter written from Fort Belkamo, Texas. Describes crimes committed by Wichita, Waco, and Keechi Indians against residents of Texas, including horse theft. Discusses meeting with Chief Kowaaka [sic] and Major H. H. Sibley to discuss theft. It goes on to describe the imprisonment of the Indians and then their escape, in which the Chief lost his life after killing one of the guards. The Chief also killed his wife and child. Mentions talks with a Comanche Chief Gatumsie [sic] and War Chief...
Dates: 1853 March 30.

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Indians of North America 21
Photographs 14
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 8
Posters. 6
Indians of Mexico 5
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Ithaca (N.Y.) 5
Fliers (printed matter) 4
Indentures. 4
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Politics and government. 4
Legal documents 4
New York (State) -- History. 4
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 4
New York (State) -- Social life and customs. 4
Postcards. 4
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 4
Broadsides 3
Ephemera. 3
Indians of North America -- Government relations 3
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 3
Mayas. 3
Nahuatl language. 3
Oral histories. 3
Real property -- New York (State) 3
Slavery -- United States. 3
Videocassettes 3
Videotapes. 3
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 3
Art festivals -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Aztecs -- History. 2
Aztecs. 2
Broadsides (notices) 2
Brochures. 2
CD-ROMs. 2
Canals -- New York (State) 2
Caricatures and cartoons -- France -- 18th century 2
Caricatures and cartoons -- France -- 19th century 2
Clocks and watches -- New York (State) 2
Cornell University -- Students. 2
Dakota Indians 2
Epidemics -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 2
Erie Canal (N.Y.) 2
Erotica 2
Eskimos. 2
Fan magazines 2
Iceland -- Description and travel. 2
Indians of North America -- Canada 2
Interactive multimedia 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Commerce. 2
Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 2
Manuscripts -- Mexico. 2
Maps. 2
Munsee Indians. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
Oneida Indians. 2
Palm leaf. 2
Patents. 2
Poetry -- United States -- 19th century 2
Political posters. 2
Portraits. 2
Printing -- Specimens. 2
Programs (documents) 2
Receipts (financial records). 2
Scrapbooks 2
Seneca Indians. 2
Shawnee Indians. 2
Songs 2
Student movements. 2
Temperance -- New York (State) 2
Testimonies. 2
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- History. 2
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 2
Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music. 2
United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877. 2
United States -- Politics and government. 2
Veterans. 2
Veterinary medicine -- Study and teaching. 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Atrocities 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States 2
Wills. 2
Witches -- Pictorial works. 2
Zines 2
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Biography. 1
Abolitionists -- Great Britain. 1
Abolitionists -- United States. 1
Academic freedom -- United States. 1
Academic libraries -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
Account books 1
Acolhua Indians. 1
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- History. 1
Adolescence -- Study and teaching. 1
Advertising -- Clothing and dress. 1
Advertising -- Motion pictures -- United States. 1
Advertising cards 1
Aerial views. 1
African American intellectuals. 1
African American poetry. 1
African American women. 1
Afrobeat. 1
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