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Delaware

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent) .... North and Central America (continent) (P) Hierarchy of United States (nation) ........ United States (nation) (P) Hierarchy of Delaware (state) ............ Delaware (state) (P)

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Carte des États-Unis d’Amérique, 1830

 Item — Drawer E-12, Folder: Map 117
Identifier: 3976.554
Translated Title

Map of the United States of America



Description

From catalog info:
U.S./Canada/Mexico
Thierry, French Engraver
Paris: [1830]
Scale: 1:15,400,000
Atlas plate no.75 from Geographie Moderne.
Shows Louisiana and Oregon Territory as part of U.S. Oklahoma, shown as part of Arkansas Territory.
Not found in Phillips






Dates: 1830
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Communication from Three Delaware Chiefs to Grand Council of Indian Nations on North Fork of Canadian River, June 9, 1861

 Item — Folder 1106: [Barcode: 187.1106]
Identifier: 4026.1273-.1
Description

Communication from three Delaware Chiefs to Grand Council of Indian Nations on North Fork of Canadian River urging neutrality in Civil War. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1106

Dates: June 9, 1861
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

George Washington's speech to Delaware Delegates regarding a proposed memorial to Congress, May 12, 1779

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 256.1]
Identifier: 4026.8413
Description

George Washington's speech to Delaware Delegates, which he delivered at his Middlebrook headquarters, regarding a memorial that they proposed to present to Congress wherein he promises friendship. Folder 1

Dates: May 12, 1779
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / ZZ.019, Manuscript Collection: George Washington

Hand written biography of Rev. Charles Ketchum or Wan-do'-hwas, third councilor of the Delewares, 1850s

 Item — Folder 255A: [Barcode: 61.255A]
Identifier: 4026.3524
Description

Biography reads: "Born 1812, has always been an advocate of education and Religion among his people and still labors to that end". Folder 255A

Dates: 1850s
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.58, Manuscript Collection: John Drew

Letter from Delaware Delegation to 'Friends and Brothers' (Cherokee), November 28, 1860

 Item — Folder 1084: [Barcode: 187.1084]
Identifier: 4026.1251
Description

Letter from Delaware Delegation (Sarcoxie, Neconnocoa, Charlie, Big Nigger, and Joseph Thompson) to 'Friends and Brothers' (Cherokee) seeking to buy 200 sections of Cherokee Land. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 1084

Dates: November 28, 1860
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Manuscript Collection: Black Beaver

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.20
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Black Beaver was born at Belleville, Illinois, in 1806 and died at Anadarko, Oklahoma, in 1880. He was an interpreter at the earliest conference with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Washita tribes held by Colonel Dodge on the Red River in 1834. One of the most noted latter-day Delawares, he was guide and scout for Captain John C. Fremont on a trip to the Pacific Coast. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he had settled on a fine ranch...
Dates: August 19, 1877
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Black Beaver

Manuscript Collection: Wyandotte Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.229
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: There are two treaties among these items. One dated May 16, 1836, is printed; the other is an original document on parchment, dated July 4, 1805, between the United States of America and the chiefs and head men of the Wyandotte, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi Nations "...holden at Fort Industry on the Miami of the Lake ... " The Indian signatures are in pictograph style. A copy of laws regulating...
Dates: 1805-1855
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Wyandotte Papers

Map of North America with the settlements of Virginia and the course of Ohio, 1755

 Item — Case MC-2, Folder: Map 38
Identifier: 3976.579
Description

From catalog info:
North America
Jean d'Anville (1697-1782)
A map of North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville. Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio.
London: Thomas Jefferys, Publisher, 1755
Scale: 1:6,000,000
Shows British Colonies & boundaries, towns, forts, Indian Tribes, streams
Hargrett Catalog, p.34[0?]
Phillips, Maps, p.576.
Tooley's Dictionary, p.335.








Dates: 1755
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of the eastern United States, 1838

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3926.115
Descriptive Title

Traveller's Guide- S. Augustus Mitchell

Dates: 1838
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of The United States Drawn from the most approved Surveys, 1826

 Item — Drawer MC-4, Folder: Map 111
Identifier: 3926.695
Description

From catalog info:
United States
Merchant, G.W., American Engraver, Albany.
Colored.
Publisher: Solomon Schoyer, New York, 1826
Scale: One inch equals 110 miles; 1:7,000,000
Hargrett Catalogs p.341
Tooley, p. 435






Dates: Publication: 1826
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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