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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

Review of A history of the Indian wars with the first settlers of the United States, particularly in New England

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9047
Scope and content This review of a book was published in the Literary and Philosophical Repertory volume 1, 1813. This is a holographic copy of that review. The manuscript being reviewed was written by Reverend Daniel Clarke Sanders. The review raises theological issues and is quite disapproving of the book. The publication of this harsh, anonymous, review caused the suppression of the book and only a few copies were circulated. The book raised criticisms for its discussion of the cruelty to Indians in...
Dates: 1813.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Review of A history of the Indian wars with the first settlers of the United States, particularly in New England

Rhode Island field notebook

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9178
Dates: [undated]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Rhode Island field notebook

Rodolfo R. Schuller papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9172
Abstract Vocabulary collection on Central and South American languages. Includes correspondence between Schuller and other members of the Museum of the Native American regarding the collection. Five boxes of 3x5 index cards with vocabulary items noted along with bibliographic source or notations in other languages. Six boxes boxes of half sheets with vocabulary items, words, definition, and pronunciation, organized by "root" or what appears to be subject in some cases. A note from Schuller says that...
Dates: ca. 1925-1932.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Rodolfo R. Schuller papers

Ruins of Ake Yucatan

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9221
Scope and content

Eleven black and white photos taken by Stebbins in March 1903. Photos show the ruins and countryside.

Dates: 1903.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ruins of Ake Yucatan

Samuel A. Elliot collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9165
Abstract Contains reports to the Board of Indian commissioners, reports 1-107, bulletins regarding Indians to the 70th Congress, and bulletins from the American Indian Defense Association, Inc. The items are typed mimeos. Indexes for the 70th Congress and American Indian Defense association papers and for the Indian Commissioners reports are included. Various authors. A wide variety of topics are covered including Indian and government relations, land tenure, living conditions, laws, and government...
Dates: 1927-1935.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel A. Elliot collection

Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9051
Scope and content Two letters from Samuel Worcester, one a typed transcript. Also, letter from Alice Mary Robertson dated January 19, 1877, in which she writes her mother from the Department of the Interior and encloses the letters from Worcester who was her grandfather. Provenance letter from Grant Foreman to Frederic W. Hodge dated October 28, 1930, upon presentation of the letters for the Hodge Collection. One of the Worcester letters is dated April 12, 1826 from Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, addressed to...
Dates: 1826-1832.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9066
Scope and content

Report on field investigations in Santiago Tuxtla, January - April 1956, by Isabel Kelly and Hector Garcia Manzanedo. Manuscript discusses aspects of the geology, flora and fauna of the area, but most of the text is about the native people of the area. Covers all aspects of social and family life.

Dates: 1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz : Culture and health

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

Series VIII. Edward Curtis: Native Americans and The West, 1925

 Series
Scope and Contents

These gelatin silver glass plate positives were used to make photogravure printing plates to illustrate Curtis's The North American Indian.

Dates: 1925
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 8043, Stephan Loewentheil photograph collection

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Simon Butler : composed and drawn on stone

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