Photographs of the Menominee Warrior Society armed occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate, Gresham, Wisconsin, January-February 1975. Images include interiors and exteriors of the monastery, portraits of Menominee Warrior Society wearing ski masks, portraits of Wisconsin National Guard Colonel Hugh Simonson, a children's sweat lodge, and members of the Menominee Warrior Society hand-cuffed to members of the Shawano County Sheriff Department. Group portraits include members of the Menominee Warrior Society, Wisconsin National Guard soldiers, and supporters Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement and actor Marlon Brando. Incidental images include a portrait of Stanley Holder and a Tlingit woman scraping a deer hide with an ulu knife.
Description:
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions., Prints created by the photographer ca. 2000., Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Gresham (Wis.)
Subject (Name):
Alexian Brothers Novitiate (Gresham, Wis.), American Indian Movement, Banks, Dennis, Brando, Marlon, Luck, Owen Craig,--1947-, Menominee Warrior Society, Simonson, Hugh, and Wisconsin.--National Guard
Subject (Topic):
Indian children--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Pictorial works, Indians of North America--Portraits, Menominee Indians--Government relations, Menominee Indians--Pictorial works, Prisoners--Wisconsin--Shawano County, Sheriffs--Wisconsin--Shawano County, and Tlingit Indians--Pictorial works
Box 1 contains the correspondence, photographs, family records, the bulk of the military records, and the circa 2013 genealogical material and typescript. Box 2 contains Francis Marion Gibson's Army promotion certificates. and Family correspondence, photographs, and military records documenting the lives of family members of Francis M. Gibson. Gibson's military service in the Seventh Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army in Montana in the Battle of the Little Bighorn is particularly well documented. The papers include Gibson's military and family records, including his marriage certificate to Kate Garrett, Army promotion certificates, and burial plot records for Washington National Cemetery, 1869-1894, with a letter from Katherine Gibson Fougera about the marriage certificate, circa 1940; letters from Donald McIntosh to Mary Garrett McIntosh, 1876; letters from George Armstong Custer's widow, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, to Katherine Garrett Gibson, circa 1919 and undated; letters from General George H. Cameron to Francis Marion Gibson and Kate Garrett Gibson, 1916-1919; and letters concerning Gibson family history from E. S. Luce, Superintendent of the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, to Katherine Gibson Fougera, 1941-1955, with four photographs of the park enclosed. Accompanied by later genealogical material compiled by descendants and transcript of notes made by Kate Garrett Gibson in 1924, circa 2013.
Description:
Gift of Margaret Christensen, 2013.
Subject (Name):
Cameron, George H., Custer, Elizabeth Bacon,--1842-1933, Fougera, Katherine Gibson,--1882, Garrett family, Gibson family, Gibson, Francis M, Gibson, Kate Garrett,--1853-1934., Luce, E. S.,--active 1941-1955., McIntosh, Donald,--1838-1876., McIntosh, Mary Garrett,--1853-1910., and United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 7th
Subject (Topic):
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 and Soldiers--West (U.S.)
Cover title., Forms completed in ms., with presentation inscription from Walter H. Bosan, signed by Lt. W.K. Wood [commanding officer], with 18 autographs, and 59 mounted photographs on [8] p. at end, not noted in pagination, and p. [3] of wrappers. Spiralbound., and Includes section on each individual camp.
Publisher:
[Army-Navy Publishers, Inc.]
Subject (Name):
Bosan, Walter H.--Ownership, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Fort Missoula District, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Fort Missoula District, and Wood, W. K.--Autograph
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and objects documenting the life and work of Ralph C. Hamm. The two letters from Hamm to his mother, Margaret E. Hamm, deal with Hamm's writing, publication of his work, and prison life, including race relations, at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. There is also a memorandum from the Walpole facility. Writings include a typescript draft of a play and typescript drafts of poems from the collection Dear Stranger/The Wayfarer.
Description:
Purchased from Waiting for Godot Books on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2004. and Ralph C. Hamm, III, poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--Race relations and Walpole (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Hamm, Margaret E., Hamm, Ralph C., and Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century--Archives, American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Prisoners' writings, American, Prisons and race relations--United States, and Prisons--United States
Arthur Woods Wang photographs and profiles of authors and ranchers
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
A collection of 78 photographs, in three volumes, of authors, including Mark Van Doren, Roland Barthes, Elie Weisel, Arna Bontemps, Alger Hiss, Wole Soyinka, Arthur Kopit, and Eric Bentley. A fourth volume contains 17 photographs of Montana ranchers and their family members. Three typescript profiles by Wang - of Wesley Towner, Kingsley Martin, and Ted Joans - are included in a separate box.