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Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names

Found in 7611 Collections and/or Records:

Manuscript Collection: John Stuart

 Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.201
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Captain John Stuart ( -1838) of Company C, 7th Regiment , U. S. Army, originally from Kentucky, spent most of his life in Indian Territory, serving in the army at Fort Gibson, Fort Smith, and Fort Coffee. The latter was established by him in 1833. This eleven page letter, written on June 18, 1836, to Adjutant General R. Jones, from Fort Coffee, discusses the situation of the troops in Arkansas Territory. In 1838 he established...
Dates: 1836
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Stuart

Manuscript Collection: John W. Swain

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Identifier: MC.1954.202
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection of papers contains a declaration of citizenship to John W. Swain in the Cherokee Nation (1882), a letter signed by D.W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief of the Cherokees, a letter to Rebecca Swain from Senator Robert Owen, letters regarding family matters, a divorce decree, bills of sale, etc.

Dates: 1857-1911
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John W. Swain

Manuscript Collection: John Wesley Powell

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Identifier: MC.1970.179
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Painted letter (hand addressed and signed) from J.W. Powell to W. Eakes in New York Includes an abstract of transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, D.C., 1880-1881.

Dates: April 24, 1866
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Wesley Powell

Manuscript Collection: Johnathan Williams

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Identifier: MC.1964.222
Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Jonathan Williams (1750-1815), a grand­ nephew of Benjamin Franklin, was a diplomat, business man, army officer and engineer. He was with Franklin in Paris and Superintendent of West Point 1805-12. This circular letter of the Military Philosophical Society announces the annual meeting and the agenda of business to be conducted. Williams was president of the society at that time.

Dates: 1813
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Johnathan Williams

Manuscript Collection: Joseph Henry Sharp

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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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Joseph Henry Sharp

Manuscript Collection: Joseph Martin

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Identifier: MC.1954.133
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Joseph Martin (1740-1808) was one of three commissioners appointed by the governor of Virginia to treat with the Southern Indians. In that same year North Carolina also engaged his services as agent among the Cherokees and Chickamaugas. In 1785, as commissioner of the National Government, he engaged in the negotiation of the Treaty of Hopewell. In this letter dated March 12, 1785, he writes to Alexander Martin, Governor of...
Dates: 1785
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Joseph Martin

Manuscript Collection: Josiah Gregg

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Identifier: MC.1954.79
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Often called "the Historian of the Santa Fe Trade," Josiah Gregg (1806-1850) was an early trader, and the author of Commerce of the Prairies, published in 1844: These papers consist of sixteen letters to his brother John concerning business and trade and also tell something of his work as a doctor. There are several "memorandum books." One notebook contains notes made while he was in medical school at Louisville, Kentucky. A...
Dates: 1827-1858
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Josiah Gregg

Manuscript Collection: Knox Willett Letters

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Identifier: MC.1954.117
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Henry Knox (1750-1806), Secretary of War, and formerly a Revolutionary General, writes to Marinus Willett on July 3, 1790, about negotiations with the Creeks concerning treaties and agreements. Willett answers Knox on July12. Alexander McGillivray, the noted Creek Chief, is mentioned in both letters. Knox warns Willett about a Captain or Colonel Howard sent by the Spaniards to watch Chief McGillivray. Colonel Willett...
Dates: 1790
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Knox Willett Letters

Manuscript Collection: Leslie, Panton, and Company Papers

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Identifier: MC.1954.165
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: William Panton (circa 1742-1801) was a merchant and trader in Little Tallassee, near Pensacola, New Florida. He was a partner in the firm, Panton, Leslie, and Company. He was a close friend of Alexander McGillivray (c.1759-1793), Chief of the Creeks in the latter part of the 18th century, who was also a Spanish agent to the Indians for he thought the Creeks were better off under the Spaniards than the English. McGillivray was...
Dates: 1741-1861
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Leslie, Panton, and Company Papers

Manuscript Collection: Levi Gritts

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Identifier: MC.1970.80
Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection includes a teacher's certificate authorizing Levi Gritts to teach in Cherokee Nation primary schools, Gritts letter of application to the university of Oklahoma President Joseph Brant for the position of teacher of the Cherokee Language and two letters of recommendation for Gritts. Also included is "Cherokee Hymns" published by Phoenix Publications in Chicago, examples of the Cherokee syllabary, "Will Rogers"...
Dates: 1902 - 1962
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: Levi Gritts

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