Scope and content Six colored photographs depicting life on the frontier. The photos include: taking cow robes (buffalo skins) at Timber Creek, 1878; Bull train, Main Street, Milestown, Montana Territory, 1880; Near Custer's Hill, June 25, 1877, one year after the battle, shows eight unmarked graves, from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, labeled as the last men to fall; Wild goats in the Badlands; A trail herd, Powder River, 1886; Buffalo hunters camp, a relic of the seventies. Each piece has the title and...

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Unpublished personal reflections on the author's contacts with the Seri Indians. Includes correspondence and color photographs from the author's collection of iron wood carvings and Seri baskets. A bibliography and list of suggested readings are also included.

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Photographs from Guerrero Mexico from negatives taken by William Niven. Photos show locals, cacti, buildings, and ruins.

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Large albumen photographs of Indian ruins, mounted on light board.

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Several pages of black and white photos of pottery vases and vessels. Listed as a collection of 612 vessels from Trujillo Peru with seven double spout vessels. The photos resemble Moche ceramics. There are many shapes and designs, several of animals and people.

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

Abstract Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry, newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs. Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to...