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Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 7611 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript Collection: Connecticut Deeds

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.48
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection is primarily Land Deeds. Four are between Daniell Tracy and others, and 12 are between the Stone Family, primarily Benjamin Stone. Also included is a Contract between Harmon Stone and Town of Litchfield regarding $440 that will be paid after the new highway is constructed, and a letter from Leneau Church (?) to Fredrick Watson, Canaan, Connecticut, asking him to obtain subpoenas.

Dates: 1697-1848
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Connecticut Deeds

Manuscript Collection: Cornelius Vanderbilt

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.208
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A hand written letter dated March 15, 1818, to Thomas Gibbon from Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) would seem to have little historical significance. There is little punctuation and it is difficult to read. It appears that the Commodore is thanking Gibbon for a horse named "Goose." He also mentions sending Gibbon some fish and writes something concerning boats. A rather cryptic postscript reads: "I have kept out of the way for...
Dates: 1818
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Cornelius Vanderbilt

Manuscript Collection: E. H. English

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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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: E. H. English

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Eastern Band Cherokee Papers

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Eatonton Gold Mining Company Papers

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Edmond J. Gardner

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Edmund Franklin Ward

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Edward H. Kern

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Emil W. Lenders

Manuscript Collection: Ezra W. Borders

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1980.23
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The collection includes 4 handwritten diaries, mostly covering the Civil War. He also kept 2 books he carried throughout the war, which are fragmented: A Devotional Book with Soldier's Hymns", and "Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics". Also includes letters regarding family histories. See also: Photography file - Borders Family

Dates: 1836-1968
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Ezra W. Borders

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