Indians of North America.

A glass plate positive of Edward S. Curtis' Cheyenne Maiden mounted into a light box.

Includes a power converter in a separate box.

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.

An Account of the History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations. 1820. Includes a photographic reproduction of a portrait of Johanna Maria Heckewelder, daughter of John Heckwelder, tipped in.

Second translation from the English by Felix Giraud, Ancien Chancel er du Consulat de France a Boston.

Because of the large amount of material, this collection has been divided into specific series: library; Outdoor Advertising Company archive; collection of the history of Native American peoples; John W. Shleppey artifacts; family papers; and miscellaneous collections

Lists of various institutions, members, tribal leaders, and so forth, dealing with Native American issues.

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).

A proclamation from the principal chief of the Cherokees naming November 25, 1886 as 'a day of thanksgiving and general praise.'

Consists of correspondence, ledgers, photographs, much dealing with Herman Johnson Vann, and his immediate family and business.