Indians of Central America -- Guatemala.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 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.
Tunnell family letters
Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241311]
Identifier: 1691
Scope and content
Letters from Byron Tunnell and his wife, Bella, to his mother, Mrs. M.F. Tunnell of Oakland, California, describing life on a coffee plantation in Guatemala from the viewpoint of a North American overseer; included are comments on wages, living conditions, earthquakes, scenery and wildlife, the status of the Indian population, and family matters. Also, two letters to Mrs. Tunnell from California friends.
Dates:
1894-1895.