Skip to main content

Archives at Cornell

Indian captivities.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts and publications about Indians

 Collection
Identifier: 9087
Abstract Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers, particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony...
Dates: 1934-1938.

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.

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.

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.