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Collection
Identifier: 2011-003
Scope and Contents
Photographic record of the men and their activities at the Air Service Mechanics School, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1917-1919 in 2 photo ablums plus loose photos and press cutting regarding Williamette National Cemetery. Most photo pages were annotated in white pencil by the owner.
Dates:
1917 - 1957
Collection
Identifier: 1000-013
Content Description
A collection of books by British author Alan Sillitoe. They are by no means the sole books by him in the catalog.
To view the catalog, click on the "External Documents" link below, which will take you to the McFarlin book catalog for a list of all the included volumes.
Please note that this is a group of BOOKS and not manuscript materials.
Dates:
1958 - 1979
Collection
Identifier: 1990-003
Scope and Contents
Consists of memorabilia (football course books for players and coaches, photographs, press cuttings and printed ephemera) collected by Exendine documenting his football career at the Carlisle Indian School (Class of 1906 and co-team member with Jim Thorpe) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. For further biographical information on Exendine, please see Who's Who In Football by Ronald L. Mendell and Timothy B. Phares (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974) and an article by John L. Johnson in The...
Dates:
1889 - 1973
Collection
Identifier: 2005-006
Content Description
Albert C. Hansen was a Corporal with the American Expeditionary Force. This collection consists of letters from Hansen to his sister Ida M. Hansen and an unnamed brother, one photograph of a group of people, and various religious writings and commentary on Bible quotes.
Dates:
1884 - 1919; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1919
Collection
Identifier: 1000-140
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the photocopied typescript of Blair's "Memoirs," Observations on Plants of Eastern Oklahoma," and a carbon copy typescript of "Susceptibility of the Spadefoot Toad and the Tree Frog to Ouabain, Cymarin and Coumingine Hydrochloride." Also included in the collection are 188 letters, postcards and notes from various colleagues to Blair from 1940-1994Also included in the collection are Blair's military service records from 1943 to 1946 while serving in the...
Dates:
1943 - 1996
Collection
Identifier: 2003-001
Scope and Contents
Consists of 53 autograph and typescript letters and a variety of autograph and printed documents generated and/or received by the heirs of Albert Pike (Yvon and Lilian Pike) in their effort to receive monetary compensation for services rendered by Albert Pike in his capacity as legal counsel for the Choctaw Nation. Correspondents include Green McCurtain (Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation), James K. Jones (U. S. Senator of Arkansas), Archibald S. McKennon (U. S. Department of the...
Dates:
1872 - 1901
Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-174
Scope and Contents
Albert Pike (1809-1891) was an attorney for the Choctaw Nation when the Choctaws were attempting to secure from the U. S. Government the "Net Proceeds" of the sale of their lands in the East. According to a treaty with the Confederate States and the Pen-e-tegh-ca Band of the Comanche’s, a document called "Letters of Safeguard" was provided for To-sa-we, second Chief of this band of Indians. It is a manuscript document dated August 15, 1861, and signed by Albert Pike. Also included is Pike's...
Dates:
1861 - 1863
Item
Identifier: MC-1954-131
Scope and Contents
Entitled "The Nation of Indians called Charrikees," and written about 1698, this bound manuscript of forty-four pages is enclosed in a portfolio covered with buckram. Written by a man who was apparently an official at Williamsburg in Virginia, this document is interesting as well as informative because of its descriptions of Indian life before 1700.
Dates:
approximately 1698
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-147
Scope and Contents
Maj. Alexander Monypenny (n. d.) kept a diary during an expedition which he led against the Cherokees. The first entry was dated at Charlestown, March 20, 1761; the last entry was dated May 31, 1761, at Camp Moultrie. The diary contains the record of army movements and dealings with the Indians.The order book for New York and Charlestown is a record book-first entry "Orders on board the Brotherly Love Transport" at Sandy Hook, December 24, 1760. The last entry was made in camp at...
Dates:
1760 - 1761
Collection
Identifier: MC-1949-178
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of poems in his own hand, manuscripts, legal documents, a scrap book, a journal kept while he was Superintendent of the Creek Orphan Home at Okmulgee, personal letters, and transcripts of biographical material.
Dates:
1889 - 1907
