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Douglas James Moore Diary, 1863-1891; Bulk 1863-1865
Collection
Identifier: 1500-001-29
Content Description
Frontier diary kept by a member of the Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, with entries dating from Dec 1863 to Jun 1891. Includes accounts of encounters with the Sioux and Cheyenne, with 2 brief handwritten draft summaries of diary entries (both dated in 1973).Materials laid in: one blue ribbon with inscription "3d Annual Reunion, 11th Kansas Vol. Cav., Topeka, Kas. Sept. 29, 1885" ; two leaves of lined note paper, one dated 27 Oct [19]73, and 28 Jun 1973, each with handwritten notes on...
Dates:
1863 - 1891; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1865
Edward Curtis framed photograph of a Cheyenne maiden, Undated
Item — Box: 1 Ovrsz
Identifier: 2016-017
Content Description
A glass plate positive of Edward S. Curtis' Cheyenne Maiden mounted into a light box.
Includes a power converter in a separate box.
Dates:
1927
Heber Mansfield Creel Papers, 1878-1881
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-50
Scope and Contents
Lt. Heber M. Creel, of the 7th Cavalry, was assigned to study the ethnology of the Cheyennes. These manuscripts contain a large amount of material concerning the language of the Cheyenne as well as ethnology and philology.
Dates:
1878 - 1881
Indians of North America historical manuscripts and documents, 1724-1981
Collection
Identifier: 1975-006
Scope and Contents
This artificial collection was brought together initially as the the old American Indian Law and History Collection from miscellaneous acquisitions that had accrued over twenty years of collecting. Later the collection's scope was broadened somewhat and the title was changed. It is presently a collection of historical documents, correspondence, photographs and ephemera relating to the governments, citizenship, and lands primarily of those tribes located in Oklahoma Indian Territory. The...
Dates:
1724 - 1981
Phonodisc collection, 1924-1978
Collection
Identifier: 1978-013
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection containing 45 rpm discs, 78 rpm discs, 10 inch discs, 12 inch discs, thirty-four 33 1/3 rpm discs, and one 10.5" reel mono recording.
Dates:
1921 - 1978
Robert Bruce papers, 1863-1950
Collection
Identifier: 1978-001
Scope and Contents
Consists of the source materials collected by Robert Bruce while researching his book, The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts: Narratives and Reminiscences of Military Service on the Old Frontier. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society, [1932]. Materials dating from before 1900 are comprised of photographs or photostats of original materials obtained by Bruce during the course of his research. Included are original and photostat copies of correspondence between Bruce and...
Dates:
1863 - 1950