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A muster roll of Cherokee Indians who emigrated to the west of the Mississippi in the years 1831-1834
Albert A. Exendine papers, 1889-1973
Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932
An act to define the status of freedmen and their descendants now resident in the Cherokee Nation and who were slaves in the country at the commencement of the rebellion, approximately 1881
Annie Heloise Abel Manuscripts, approximately 1910
Manuscript of The Slaveholding Indians, which includes The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist; The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War; and The American Indian Under Reconstruction. Includes preliminary pages, footnotes, bibliography, maps, and printer's proofs of photographic illustrations.
Continental Army Indian Enlistment Manuscript, 1776-09-28
Manuscript document dated Septem. 28th, 1776; "We whose names are hereunto subscribed have this day voluntarily enlisted ourselves with the American Continental Army during the present war with Grat Brittan[sic]..."; 21 names are affixed
Eastern Cherokees in North Carolina letter from the Secretary of the Interior in response to resolution of the House of February 25, 1882, relative to the lands and funds of the Eastern Band of North Carolina Cherokees.
Report prepared in the office of H. Price, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. "May 11, 1882.--Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed." This copy is imperfect: pages 20-54 and maps lacking; pages have been separated and pasted onto sheets of legal-size writing paper with extensive handwritten notes throughout.
Edward Curtis framed photograph of a Cheyenne maiden, Undated
A glass plate positive of Edward S. Curtis' Cheyenne Maiden mounted into a light box.
Includes a power converter in a separate box.
Edward H. Boos Flathead reservation photographs, 1900-1907
Consists of 16 photographic prints by Edward H. Boos (advertising manager of the Missoula Mercantile Company, Missoula, Montana) featuring the Native American residents of the Flathead Reservation in western Montana. Most of the prints bear Boos's official seal.
Ellis Clarke Soper collection, Undated
The Soper collection curently contains historical photographs, lithographs and some artifacts highlighting some aspects of 19th century American life, Native Americans and the westward expansion.