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Manuscript Collection: Deitz Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC.1980.57
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Two letters are from N. Longworth, Newark, New Jersey, to Mrs. Frances Hoskins, Savannah, Georgia. One asks about her welfare as well as her family's. He also speaks of home and that it has been a long time since he has been there, and the second comments on the length of time it took him to respond to her letter. He says that things have been busy and tells of recent events. Also included is an Ante-Nuptial agreement between...
Dates:
1802-1869
Manuscript Collection: E. H. English
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.62
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A letter from Little Rock, Arkansas, September, 1875, written by E. H. English, evidently a judge in the Arkansas courts, to Honorable I. T. Adair of the Cherokee Nation, tells of the reconstruction problems. He mentions troubles with carpet-baggers, but goes on to say ". . . after ten years of oppression, our people overthrew them, and put me back in my old place. They left the State as poor as Job's turkey, but I think it...
Dates:
1875
Manuscript Collection: Eastern Band Cherokee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.36
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Eastern Band of Cherokees were those who, under the leadership of John Ross, did not subscribe to the treaty of New Echota (1835) and had to be removed by force to the Western lands. However, there had been emigration to the West as early as 1810 by groups who wished to leave Georgia and the term "Western Cherokees" was applied to this group as well as to later emigrants. The papers in the Gilcrease files labeled "Eastern...
Dates:
1752-1907
Manuscript Collection: Eastern Indians
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.59
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A treaty of several tribes of Indians, primarily Seneca, Wyandotte, Delaware and Shawnee. Concluded at St Mary's, Ohio, in 1818, signed by John C. Calhoun in 1826. Accompanying the treaty is a large plat showing the allotment of lands, signed by Josiah Meigs.[Filed in Flat Storage - Cabinet B, Drawer 5, Folder 4]. Also contains an unsigned typescript entitled "Henry Turkeyfoot" comprising a two page biography of the Seneca...
Dates:
1818-1926
Manuscript Collection: Eatonton Gold Mining Company Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.60
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These papers consist of three reports concerning the business. One includes a resolution passed dealing with the company shares. One report says "business dull." Probably this is one of the gold mining companies whose trespass on Indian lands in Georgia was one cause of the removal of the tribes to the West.
Dates:
1830
Manuscript Collection: Edmond J. Gardner
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.73
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Edmond J. Gardner (1877-1935) was a student of Choctaw History and these documents include manuscripts on the Wheelock Church; Alfred Wright, missionary to the Choctaws; the Folsom families; Allen Wright; Pushmataha; the Removal; and Choctaw legends and customs. Mr. Gardner's father traveled the Trail of Tears with the Reverend Alfred Wright. Part Choctaw, Mr. Gardner was self-educated, and he was the only Choctaw who learned...
Dates:
1849-1936
Manuscript Collection: Edmund Franklin Ward
Collection
Identifier: MC.1980.213
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letters to and from E.F. Ward to Carolyn Tannehill Bradshaw regarding "Enter the Law", his biographical information and other personal or general nature topics.
Dates:
1974-1980
Manuscript Collection: Edward H. Kern
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.115
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Richard Kern (1821-1853) appears to be an artist and traveler. This letter is a personal one written to George R. Gliddon in Pittsburgh, dated Nov. 1, 1851. An elaborate sketch is on page one.
Dates:
1851
Manuscript Collection: Emil W. Lenders
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.126
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Emil William Lenders (n. d.), cowboy and artist, was born in London and educated in Germany, having studied art at the Academy of Munich. He painted buffalo at the 101 Ranch in the 1890's, and was later associated with Buffalo Bill (William Cody). The papers consist of three books containing color sketches of American Indians and their artifacts, including cattle brands, with notes; a catalog of Lender's collection of books; a...
Dates:
1879-1951
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