Indians of North America
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders
Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9190
Scope and content
Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to...
Dates:
[ca.1900].
Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9015
Scope and content
This collection of letters and notes relates to Geronimo and other Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war. The letters were written at Mount Vernon Barracks and Fort Sill and include documents signed by Geronimo. There is some documentation of the Apache culture. Provenance note from Agnes K. Capron, wife of Allyn Capron, dated March 26, 1938, to George Gustav Heye. Notes by Capron, 7 pages and copies of notes about Apache culture, legends, religion, thoughts about white men. 5 leaves of notes...
Dates:
1884-1896.
Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington
Collection — Huntington box 35
Identifier: 9112
Scope and content
Scrapbook containing pictures of Remington paintings and sculptures, newspaper clippings about Remington or showing Remington artwork, and program from a Remington exhibition. Articles cut from the Saturday Evening Post and Detroit Free Press. Articles containing biographical information about Remington as well as information about frontier life.
Dates:
1905-1930.