Ethan Allen Hitchcock collection on Indian removal
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | Folder 6
Image Count:
23
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama, Florida, Fort Wayne (Ind.), Georgia, Southern States, and United States--History--1815-1861
Subject (Name):
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen,--1798-1870, Jesup, Thomas Sidney,--1788-1860, United States.--Army--Military life, and United States.--Office of Indian Affairs
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians, Creek War, 1836, Generals--United States, Indian agents, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, Indians of North America--Alabama, Indians of North America--Florida, Indians of North America--Georgia, Indians of North America--Government relations, Indians of North America--Treaties, Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875, and Soldiers--United States
The diary describes a journey from Albany, Illinois to Aspen, Colorado in the summer of 1886. The author and several other men drove horses overland to Kensaw, Nebraska, transported the stock by rail to Denver, and finally took them overland to Aspen. In Aspen, the author worked a mine with Ira Bacheler and others. Eddy comments on the towns they visited as well as the fields and crops. He occasionally mentions his partners, A. H. Hendrix who they met on the road, and the men he worked with in Aspen. The journal ends with the arrival of Eddy's wife and child in Aspen.
Description:
Diary has been written in from both directions. and The lower half of the first page of the journal has been torn off. Within the text, there is evidence that three pages were removed, but the narrative does not seem to be affected.
Subject (Geographic):
Aspen (Colo.), Colorado--Description and travel, Davenport (Iowa)--Description and travel, Glenwood (Iowa)--Description and travel, Homestead (Iowa)--Description and travel, Iowa City (Iowa)--Description and travel, Iowa--Description and travel, Nebraska--Description and travel, Plattsmouth (Neb.)--Description and travel, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Eddy, James A, Hendrix, A. H, Hightman, George, and Wagoner, G. A
Subject (Topic):
Horse industry--United States and Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Pitkin County
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled., Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored., Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Collection of company charters, pamphlets and regulations relating to the Dutch speculative mania
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Groote tafereel der dwaasheid
Description:
57 printed and 6 ms. items bound together under title page.: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid. and BEIN 2006 Folio 21: No. 28 of 63 items bound together.
Manuscript on parchment (rough, poorly prepared) of Petrus Quesvel, Directorium iuris. With Eleven short blessings at Easter for meat, cheese, bread, salt, and lard, added in the 15th century.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, with the leather sewn around the endbands., Part of outer column of f. 189 cut off, no loss of text., Red and blue split initials, 18- and 16-line, with elaborate penwork designs and plain full border in red and blue mark beginning of Books 1 and 2 (ff. 1r, 91r); smaller initial with partial border at beginning of Books 3 and 4 (ff. 191r, 297r) and for the two parts of art. 3 (ff. 428r, 439r). Numerous initials, 5- to 2-line, alternate blue with red flourishes and vice versa. Running titles in red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator, but rubrics never supplied. Initial strokes and underlining, in red, for arts. 2 and 3., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a hasty cursive schoolhand.
Subject (Name):
Quesvel, Petrus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia