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Indians of North America -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Tamarin papers

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9070
Scope and content Correspondence, notes, photography permissions, and documents accumulated during research for the publication of his book We Have Not Vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Folder one contains copy of a draft of the publication titled "American Indians Today on the Atlantic Seaboard." Has the original photos that were to be used for the publication taped or laid into the pages. Folder two, list of George Catlin slides. Folder three, edits, revisions, additions, other historical...
Dates: 1968-1975.

Botsford family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3121
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, deeds, account books, poems and photographs of the Frank Botsford family of the Town of Jerusalem, Yates Co., New York.

Dates: 1792-1974.

Charles F. Mulks papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3654
Abstract

Includes 24 scrapbooks and 12 notebooks compiled by Mulks with material relating to Tompkins County and nearby areas..

Dates: 1799-1905, 1975.

Charles Thomas Andrews papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2180
Abstract

Annotated scrapbooks include correspondence, broadsides, pamphlets, historical sketches, addresses, clippings, and editorials relating to his positions, and to Republican and Progressive Party politics, conditions in Cuba and Puerto Rico, education and welfare of New York Indians, and genealogical data on Andrews and Clark families. Also, correspondence, addresses, manuscript essays, school newspapers, and other printed items.

Dates: 1840-1922.

Cornell University President's and Provost's Office memorabilia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-12-1884
Scope and content

Collection consists of papers and memorabilia presented to Cornell University Provosts and Presidents, particularly from Cornell President Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes.

Dates: 1980-1994, 2020

Dole vs. Fellows legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 31 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246336]
Identifier: 1111m
Scope and content

Printed documents laying out the various sides of the case as it came before the New York State Supreme Court and the state Court of Appeals. Included are the points made by the attorneys for the defendant and the plaintiff, and opinions of two judges.

Dates: 1850-1854.

Erl Bates papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-24-790
Abstract

Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.

Dates: [ca. 1920-1960].

Gilbert Hagerty papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3184
Scope and content Writings by Gilbert Hagerty include a Mohawk dramatization, produced for Dr. Erl Bates of Cornell University, ca. 1930; "Some Early American Buttons," (7 pp. reprint from York State Tradition); "The Iron Trade-Knife in Oneida Territory," (21 pp. reprint from Pennsylvania Archaeologist, Vol. 33, July, 1963; "Oneida Miscellany," 1975 (50 pp. multicopy published by the New York State Archaeological Association). Also, a copy of deLeary's Journals, translated from the French and used in...
Dates: [ca. 1930]-1975.

Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9184
Abstract Primarily letters to Keppler, including a record of events and people at the Tonawanda and Cattaraugus reservations, among others, over the first part of the twentieth century. Well known correspondents include noted Seneca scholar, Arthur C. Parker; artist, Jesse Cornplanter; and Mohawk poet, E. Pauline Johnson. Other parts of the collection include newspapers clippings on Iroquois subjects, government documents, Seneca vocabulary collected by Keppler, and other miscellaneous documents...
Dates: 1882-1944.

Notes on Moravian missions

 Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9080
Scope and content

Handwritten notebook. Gives a history of the Moravian Church and missions and their work with Indians. One section deals with the Moravian mission in Dutchess County, New York. There is mention of baptisms and giving Indians names. Works of George Loskiel, a Moravian historian, are used to write parts of the history. A laid in newspaper clipping about the ghost dance of the Cheyenne and Apache Indians is also included.

Dates: [18--?]