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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\AGENTS FACET\People\people\Individuals\

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

The Removal of the Cherokee, circa 1927

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 65
Identifier: 4027.5291
Description

Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65

Dates: circa 1927

Typescript of Recollections of Allen Ross (1817-1891), December 25, 1890

 Item — Folder 1338: [Barcode: 187.1338]
Identifier: 4026.1894
Description

Typescript of recollections of Allen Ross (1817-1891). Including plan to execute Ridges and Boudinot in 1839. Three sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on the recto and each. Folder 1338

Dates: December 25, 1890