Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pamphlets
Stereographs
Color postcards
Color prints
Copy negatives
Copy prints
Prints
Place:
Tesuque Pueblo (N.M.)
Date:
circa 1880-1950
Scope and Contents note:
Ed Brady's collection of photographs and postcards of Native American camps, people, crafts, schools, and dances, as well as agency personnel at various reservations. A majority of the original prints are photographs by Lee Moorhouse, including images of American Indian dwellings, camps, Kate Drexel School, children in cradleboards, and formal and informal portraits. Additionally, there are photographs made by E. Potts at Tesuque Pueblo on November 12, 1924 during the feast day; images are mostly of Tewa people dancing the Buffalo-Deer Dance.
The collection also includes a stereograph depicting Taos people in front of Taos Pueblo, as well as photographic postcards of Omaha men in Walthill, Nebraska, American Indians at a camp in Idaho, Indians at a camp near International Falls, Minnesota, a Navajo camp in Arizona, an elevated view of a camp with numerous tipis, possibly for a rodeo, two Alaskan Eskimo girls, and a reenactment of the Battle of Little Bighorn aftermath. There is also a pamphlet entitled "Old Travois Trails," from 1941, which was possibly originally collected by Dr. W. A. Russell, a doctor for the Fort Peck Agency.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 90-8, NAA Photo Lot 81-39, NAA Photo Lot 89-28
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photo Lot 81-39 has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 90-8. These photographs were also collected by Ed Brady and form part of this collection.
Brady also donated Indian police badges to the Department of Anthropology in accessions 343151 and 378681.
Additional photographs by Moorhouse can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 78 and the BAE historical negatives.
The University of Oregon Special Collections holds a large collection of Lee Moorhouse photographs, 1888-1925 (PH036).
Additional photographs published by the Keystone View Company can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4551, Photo Lot 140 and Photo Lot 90-1.
The University of Washington holds Ed Brady photographs of the Mount St. Helens Eruption (PH Coll 889).
2 Volumes (Volume I vii + 185; Volume II iv + 134)
Type:
Archival materials
Volumes
Printed material
Place:
Alabama -- Antiquities
Mississippi -- Antiquities
Alabama -- Archeology
Mississippi -- Archeology
Date:
March 1978
Scope and Contents:
First volume by James R. Atkinson consists of methodology, lithics, ceramics, environmental settings. Second volume by Jack D. Elliott, Jr. consists of site descriptions.
Restrictions:
Item in off site storage. Contact archives for information on availability.
Telephony a detailed exposition of the telephone exchange systems of the British post office by J. Atkinson. A new edition of Telephony [by] Herbert and Procter
The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day ... with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars ... : and with tables of amplitude ... : with the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation ... / by Andrew Wakely ... ; carefully corrected and very much enlarged with many useful additions by J. Atkinson .....
The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day ..., with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars ... : and tables of amplitude ... : with the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation ... / by Andrew Wakely ... ; carefully corrected, and very much enlarged, with many useful additions by Ja. Atkinson ..
The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day ... with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars ... : with tables of amplitudes and declination ... : with a description of the most useful instruments in practice in the art of navigation ... / by Andrew Wakely ... ; enlarged with many useful additions by J. Atkinson ; the whole revised, co...
The whole art of navigation : in five books : containing the principles of navigation, geometry and astronomy : the practical part of navigation and the explanation of sea-terms : the description and use of such instruments, as are useful in taking observations at sea : the use of a large sinical quadrant, performing with exactness, all questions relating to navigation, render'd easy to the meanes...
As part of the Bureau's function the officers and agents were responsible for the protection of the legal rights of freedmen, which included assistance in drawing up contracts for labor. There is a series of contracts, January 1865–October 1868, which is arranged chronologically. These agreements between freedmen laborers and employers stated such terms of employment as pay, clothing, and medical care due the freedmen, the part of the crop retained by freedmen, and sometimes whether a plot of ground for growing subsistence crops was to be provided for the freedman.
Collection Restrictions:
Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org.
Collection Citation:
Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Lists, Reports, and Correspondence Pertaining to Land and Property
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
Jan. 23, 1864–Sept. 30, 1868
Scope and Contents:
Lists, reports, and correspondence pertaining to land and property, arranged by type of record. There are three kinds of lists: lists of abandoned land, October 1865–January 1868, arranged in two alphabetical sequences (first by county and then by general geographical area): consolidated lists of abandoned land and property, September 30, 1865–September 30, 1868, arranged chronologically; and a list of personal property (debts) held by the Bureau, November 15, 1866. Reports relating to land and property include reports relating to restoration of abandoned land, February 14–December 19, 1867, arranged chronologically; a report on abandoned land and property leased in Memphis, October 1865. The correspondent relating to the restoration of property, January 23, 1864–January 23, 1868, is arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent.
Collection Restrictions:
Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org.
Collection Citation:
Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
