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Albert A. Exendine papers, 1889-1973
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
Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932
Collection
Identifier: 1931-001
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, Creek (Muskogee) tribal materials, scrapbooks, photos, memorabilia and printed matter, pertaining to Samuel Austein Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees, his daughter Anna Eliza Worcester Roberston, his granddaughter Alice Mary Robertson, her father William Schenck Roberson, other members of her family, the reverent Timothy Hill, Robert McGill Loughridge, John Lowrie, James C. Pilling, and Pleasant Porter. Concerns missions, indian education, printing...
Dates:
1815 - 1932
Postcard collection, Undated
Collection
Identifier: 1500-033
Scope and Contents
Consists of postcards collected from a variety of individuals including Lilah Lindsey, John W. Shleppey, and Richard Tenney. The collection is housed in 12 document boxes and is grouped into 7 categories: United States, American Indians, People (identified and unidentified), Transportation (airplanes, trains, automobiles, ships), Art and Artifacts, Greeting Cards and Business Advertisements, Foreign Countries, and oversize material.Postcards for the United States are grouped...
Dates:
Undated
Robert W. DeMoss manuscripts, Undated
Collection
Identifier: 2006-009
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of the typescripts for "Angie Debo: Link to the Battle of Round Mountain" and "Location of Round Mountain and Caving Banks".
Dates:
Undated
Seger Colony Ledger
Collection
Identifier: 2023-010
Scope and Contents
Colony was founded in 1886 by John Homer Seger as a settlement for Arapaho after conflicts with white settlement on their lands. Seger had arrived in the region in 1872 to work at the Indian agency on the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation. Seven years after founding Colony, he began an industrial training school which largely taught farming and agriculture to the Native American residents (who included Arapaho and Cheyenne but also members of other tribes).
Dates:
1903 - 1904
Western Creek Nations Grand Council Records Ledger, 1835-1837
Item
Identifier: 1000-188
Content Description
"Attached hereto are original minutes of 1832 [sic] of the Western Agency of Creeks (also referred to as Grand Council and Council)...These records are of probate variety; having to do with estates, appraisals, adjustment of debts; and are also a record of slaves bought and sold." Signed Thomas B. Donaldson, Feb. 14, 1942.Typescript letter from Thomas B. Donaldson describing provenance of records.
Photocopy of document reading "L.C. Perryman Hotalke marthalar. Okmulgee Oct. 27,...
Dates:
1835 - 1837