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Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names
Found in 367 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Collection: John Howard Payne (Grant Foreman Collection)
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.169
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Howard Payne (1791-1852) visited the Cherokee country in the 1830's, and two of these letters are introductions to John Ross, the Cherokee Chief. There is an exchange of seven letters between them, mostly personal. Some letters and photostats concern the arrest of Ross and Payne. One letter from John Ridge offers his regrets that Payne cannot visit his house and mentions sending him various Cherokee papers. Payne was...
Dates:
1832-1945
Manuscript Collection: John Nicks
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.157
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Many of these papers concern the description and disposal of lands which were once a part of Lovely, Crawford, Rogers, and certain other counties in Arkansas after the Treaty of March 23, 1828, between the U.S. Government and the Cherokee Indians. This part of Arkansas became what is now the Fort Gibson area and from there on north to the Kansas and Missouri borders. Together with these papers are many giving power of attorney...
Dates:
1824-1885
Manuscript Collection: Joseph Henry Sharp
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.195
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letters between Sharp and Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Bryan of Tulsa Oklahoma, some about art, some with personal overtones.
Dates:
1930-1949
Manuscript Collection: Mary Jane Ross
Collection
Identifier: MC.1975.186
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A collection of letters, some written in Cherokee, receipts, birth and marriage certificates and newspaper clippings. Most letters are between Lewis and Henry Ross.
Dates:
1826 -1948
Manuscript Collection: Phillip Cole Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC.1940.47
Collection Overview
(Biographical material and acquisitions list added in 1967). Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Journal of the 7th Cavalry's Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, correspondence with Theodore W. Goldin, E. A. Brininstool, and others comprise this collection. (See also Benteen-Goldin letters under "Benteen.") Dr. Cole (c.1890-1940), a retired physician, and former president of A. Schrader and Sons Manufacturing Company, lived in Tarrytown, New York, on the Cole...
Dates:
1876-1937
Manuscript Collection: Samuel Bell Maxey
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.134
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-1895) was a Confederate general in charge of troops in Indian Territory and later became a senator from Texas. There are 200 letters, more of which are personal than official, and documents and maps (1861-65). There are only two letters after 1865 and they are dated 1881-82, one to the Secretary of the Interior and one to Jackson McCurtain, Choctaw Chief; both pertain to railroad charters in the Choctaw...
Dates:
1860-1882
Manuscript Collection: T.F. Healy
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.89
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: 4 folders cover the T.F. Healy papers, which consist of mostly receipts for purchases, rental agreements, or debts owed. Impressively included are 23 boxes of "clippings". In general, these seem to be newspaper or magazine articles about topics that interested Mr. Healy. Included are Business Interests like lumber, iron and steel, mining and railroads, Political Subjects, including political cartoons by Robert Nast, Tammany...
Dates:
late 18th to mid 20th century
Manuscript Collection: Thomas Moran
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.148
Scope and Contents
The Moran Papers comprise handwritten and typewritten primary sources as well as typed transcriptions of these sources. The collection includes correspondence, account books, published and unpublished manuscripts, autobiographical and biographical sketches, miscellaneous notes, published and unpublished articles, drafts of articles and manuscripts, diaries, newspaper and periodical clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and inventories of paintings and etchings, all related to the life and...
Dates:
1863-1947
Manuscript Collection: William R. Leigh
Collection
Identifier: MC.1963.125
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: William R. Leigh (1866-1955), traveler and artist, was a painter of wild animals, primitive people, and local color. His home was in New York City, but he traveled and studied in Europe when he was a young man, and later he traveled in Africa with the Carl Akely Expedition and with the Martin Johnsons (1926). The collection is the gift of his wife, Ethel Traphagen Leigh, presented by her brother, Edward Traphagen, after her...
Dates:
1883-1965
Memo by Chief John Ross Concerning Information to be Sought in Washington City Concerning Two Reservation Claims., March, 1845
Item — Folder 968: [Barcode: 187.968]
Identifier: 4026.1129
Description
Memo by Chief John Ross concerning information to be sought in Washington City concerning two reservation claims. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on two pages. Folder 968
Dates:
March, 1845