Manuscript current account, signed, detailing financial transactions between the Massachusetts whaler Joseph Sturges and his Native American employee, Jacob Zakry (or Zachary) over a three-year period ending on March 4, 1719. Items charged to Zachary include payments to a relative and for clothing; 45 shillings a year for "3 whale seasons dyet;" and another charge for "3 years expense at Cape Cod." Items in Zachary's favor include "your share of the oyle of 3/4s of a whale" and "your share of a shark." Account signed by Joseph Sturges
Description:
In English., Date given in original as: "March 4th 1718/9.", and Accompanied by partial transcript and bookseller description.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
Subject (Name):
Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
The collection consists of journals, financial documents, account books, correspondence, photographs and maps that document the professional and personal life of George W. Conover. The bulk of the material dates from the turn of the twentieth century, a time when Oklahoma was transitioning to statehood and the town of Andarko was founded. Conover's interactions with Caddo, Wichita, Delaware, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians are documented in his financial records and journals. The collection also documents the distribution of land when the town of Andarko was founded in 1901. Conover's journals record daily personal and business activity and reflections on the death of his first wife Tomasa. Three printed maps (in broadside storage) depict Indian Territory, the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Reservation, and the Wichita Reservation
Description:
George W. Conover (1848-1936), a native of Philadelphia, was a merchant, rancher and Indian agent in southwestern Oklahoma. From 1870 to 1873 he worked at the Indian commissary at Fort Sill, after which he moved to the area of Andarko to become a rancher, merchant and farmer. He published an autobiography, Sixty years in Southwest Oklahoma (Anadarko, Oklahoma, N. T. Plummer book and job printer, 1927), in 1927. He was married twice; his first wife Tomasa died in 1900 and he married Laura (née Smith) in 1901. and Materials in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Andarko (Okla.), Caddo County (Okla.), Indian Territory., Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation (Okla.), Oklahoma, Wichita Reservation (Okla.), and Indian Territory
Subject (Name):
Conover, George W., 1848- and Conover, Tomasa.
Subject (Topic):
Businessmen, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Delaware Indians, Indian agents, Kiowa Indians, Land settlement, Indians of North America, Ranchers, Statehood (American politics), Wichita Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Indian reservations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Lantern slides of photographs that chiefly document an expedition led by Samuel Prescott Fay in the northern Canadian Rockies from Jasper, Alberta, to Hudson's Hope, British Columbia, from June to November 1914. The expedition received financial support from the United States Bureau of Biological Survey to collect and record wildlife species in the region, as well as determine the northern range of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The lantern slides were probably created to illustrate lectures delivered by Fay in 1915, The photographs include informal portraits of expedition members, including Fay, Frederick Archibald Brewster, Charles Robert Cross, Robert Boydell Jones, and John Barnes Symes. Images of the men include depictions of camp life and activities related to the expedition, including hiking, hunting, fishing, paddling canoes, and managing a herd of twenty horses that accompanied them. Other individuals depicted include Ewan Henri Moberly, a Métis homesteader at Grande Cache, Alberta, and the family of Cree Indian Joseph Calliou at Moberly Lake, British Columbia. A few images depict unidentified American Indians, and Photographs of landscapes depict the terrain encountered by the expedition, including mountains, alpine ridges, meadows, burned over forests, rivers, and bogs. Identified sites include Grande Cache, Jarvis Pass, Kinuseo Falls, Moberly Lake, Mount Alexander, Mount Herman, Mount Ida, Murray River, Sapphire Lake, Smoky River, and Thunder Mountain, later known as Mount Cross. Several lantern slides reproduce maps of the region traversed by the expedition
Description:
Samuel Prescott Fay (1884-1971) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1907. He was an early member of the American Alpine Club and first visited the northern Canadian Rockies in 1906. From 1912 to 1914, Fay made a series of expeditions in Alberta and British Columbia. During World War I, he volunteered with the American Ambulance Field Service, and later served as a first lieutenant and aerial observer in the United States Army. After the war, he worked as a stockbroker and an investment counselor, as well as a trustee for the American Field Service. Fay died at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts., Title devised by cataloger., and Stored in 3 boxes.
Subject (Geographic):
Alberta, Alexander, Mount (B.C.), British Columbia, Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Cross, Mount (B.C.), Grande Cache (Alta.), Herman, Mount (B.C.), Hudson's Hope Region (B.C.), Ida, Mount (B.C.), Jarvis Pass (B.C.), Jasper (Alta.), Kinuseo Falls (B.C.), Moberly Lake (B.C.), Murray River (B.C.), Peace River (B.C. and Alta.), Sapphire Lake (B.C.), Smoky River (Alta.), Yellowhead Mountain (Alta. and B.C.), and Yellowhead Pass region (Alta. and B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Brewster, Frederick Archibald, 1884-1969., Calliou, Joseph, ca. 1890-1960., Cross, Charles Robert, 1881-1915., Fay, Samuel Prescott, 1884-1971., Jones, Robert Boydell, 1893-1954., Moberly, Ewan Henri, 1859-1918., Symes, John Barnes, 1891-1917., and United States. Bureau of Biological Survey.
Subject (Topic):
Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Métis, and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
Lantern slides of photographs that chiefly document an expedition led by Samuel Prescott Fay in the northern Canadian Rockies from Jasper, Alberta, to Hudson's Hope, British Columbia, from June to November 1914. The expedition received financial support from the United States Bureau of Biological Survey to collect and record wildlife species in the region, as well as determine the northern range of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The lantern slides were probably created to illustrate lectures delivered by Fay in 1915, The photographs include informal portraits of expedition members, including Fay, Frederick Archibald Brewster, Charles Robert Cross, Robert Boydell Jones, and John Barnes Symes. Images of the men include depictions of camp life and activities related to the expedition, including hiking, hunting, fishing, paddling canoes, and managing a herd of twenty horses that accompanied them. Other individuals depicted include Ewan Henri Moberly, a Métis homesteader at Grande Cache, Alberta, and the family of Cree Indian Joseph Calliou at Moberly Lake, British Columbia. A few images depict unidentified American Indians, and Photographs of landscapes depict the terrain encountered by the expedition, including mountains, alpine ridges, meadows, burned over forests, rivers, and bogs. Identified sites include Grande Cache, Jarvis Pass, Kinuseo Falls, Moberly Lake, Mount Alexander, Mount Herman, Mount Ida, Murray River, Sapphire Lake, Smoky River, and Thunder Mountain, later known as Mount Cross. Several lantern slides reproduce maps of the region traversed by the expedition
Description:
Samuel Prescott Fay (1884-1971) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1907. He was an early member of the American Alpine Club and first visited the northern Canadian Rockies in 1906. From 1912 to 1914, Fay made a series of expeditions in Alberta and British Columbia. During World War I, he volunteered with the American Ambulance Field Service, and later served as a first lieutenant and aerial observer in the United States Army. After the war, he worked as a stockbroker and an investment counselor, as well as a trustee for the American Field Service. Fay died at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts., Title devised by cataloger., and Stored in 3 boxes.
Subject (Geographic):
Alberta, Alexander, Mount (B.C.), British Columbia, Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Cross, Mount (B.C.), Grande Cache (Alta.), Herman, Mount (B.C.), Hudson's Hope Region (B.C.), Ida, Mount (B.C.), Jarvis Pass (B.C.), Jasper (Alta.), Kinuseo Falls (B.C.), Moberly Lake (B.C.), Murray River (B.C.), Peace River (B.C. and Alta.), Sapphire Lake (B.C.), Smoky River (Alta.), Yellowhead Mountain (Alta. and B.C.), and Yellowhead Pass region (Alta. and B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Brewster, Frederick Archibald, 1884-1969., Calliou, Joseph, ca. 1890-1960., Cross, Charles Robert, 1881-1915., Fay, Samuel Prescott, 1884-1971., Jones, Robert Boydell, 1893-1954., Moberly, Ewan Henri, 1859-1918., Symes, John Barnes, 1891-1917., and United States. Bureau of Biological Survey.
Subject (Topic):
Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Métis, and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep
Photograph album of cabinet card views of Salt Lake City, Fort Douglas, Green River and Ogden, Utah, and studio portraits of Ute and Sioux Indians. Salt Lake City views include the Triumphal Arch, the Eagle Gate, the City and County Building, the Mormon Tabernacle under construction, Brigham Young's Schoolhouse, Brigham Young's grave, and the Old Curiosity Shop, and colored views of the Salt Air Palace, the City and County buiding, and the Brighton Hotel in Silver Lake, There are also portraits of Major John Gilbert, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, George Cannon, Heber J. Grant, and Brigham Young, and Most photographs are by C.R. Savage, with twelve images by Sainsbury & Johnson, one composite image showing stages in the construction of the Tabernacle by Chas. W. Carter, and a stereocard by Halsey & Coffin. Some cabinet cards are from the Bureau of Information and Church Literature of the Mormon Church
Description:
Cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite (1) and stereographs (5), many with advertisments on versos, some accompanied by manuscript captions. and Accompanied by a container list (in box 1).
Subject (Geographic):
Utah, Salt Lake City (Utah), Fort Douglas (Utah), Green River (Utah), and Ogden (Utah)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Ute Indians, Dakota Indians, and Mormons
Albums of photographic prints compiled by ethnobotanist Victor King Chesnut of Yuki Indians, Wailaki Indians, and botanical specimens on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, ca. 1898. Photographers of several of the images include William J. Nolan of Covelo, California, and L. E. Hunt, Images of the Round Valley Indian Reservation include views of the Round Valley, the Round Valley Indian School, a church, a sweathouse located near Burgess Creek, vernacular structures of the Yuki Indians, and houses built by the government. Images of locations near Ukiah, California, include a Yuki Indian village and a Pomo Indian sweathouse, Images depicting daily activities of Yuki Indians include men and women grinding acorn meal, women gathering wild grass seeds for pinole meal, and men and women smoking venison over a campfire. An image shows the manufacturing sequence from raw plant to a finished fishing net. Several images show baskets made by Yuki Indians, including those used in preparing acorns, Informal portraits of identified persons include Yuki Indian Nettie Smith and her children, who had an African American father; Happy Jack, a white man, his Yuki Indian wife, and their child; the Yuki Indian family of U. or V. Webster; and a group portrait that includes Yuki Indian Mary Anderson, Victor King Chesnut, William J. Nolan and his wife, Mr. Truebody, and Mr. Patrick. Portraits of unidentified persons include an image depicting three generations of Yuki Indian women, a white woman identified as a field matron, and an elderly woman identified as a Redwood Indian (Whilkut Indian). Several group portraits show Yuki and Wailaki Indian boys and girls dressed in school uniforms on commencement day for the Round Valley Indian School, Numerous images depict shrubs and trees endemic to the Round Valley, including several species of oak trees and pine trees, and The first album includes a typed transcription of a poem by J. Torrey Connor, “On a Indian Basket”
Description:
Victor King Chesnut worked for the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, 1894-1904. In 1902, Chesnut published "Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California" based on ethnobotanical information procured at the Round Valley Indian Reservation. He later worked as a professor of chemistry and geology at Montana Agricultural College, 1904-1907, and returned to work with the United States Department of Agriculture until his retirement in 1933., Title devised by cataloger., Albums numbered sequentially; several images in the first two albums have duplicate photographic prints in the third album., Individual photographic prints are 9.5 x 15 cm. and smaller., Manuscript captions on leaves below prints and in indices., and Ink stamps and inscriptions of "V. K. Chesnut" on the verso of several prints.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Round Valley Indian Reservation, California., Round Valley (Calif.), Round Valley Indian Reservation (Calif.), and Ukiah (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Chesnut, V. K. 1867-1938. (Victor King),, Connor, J. Torrey, 1869-1937., Hunt, L. E., Nolan, William J., Smith, Nettie., and Round Valley Indian School
Subject (Topic):
Acorns as food, Ethnobotany, Indians of North America, Photography of trees, Pomo Indians, Shrubs, Sweatbaths, Trees, Wailaki Indians, Whilkut Indians, and Yuki Indians
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:
Title devised by cataloger., Prints created by the photographer ca. 2000., and Photographs signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Wisconsin, Shawano County., and Gresham (Wis.)
Subject (Name):
Banks, Dennis., Brando, Marlon., Luck, Owen Craig, 1947-, Simonson, Hugh., Alexian Brothers Novitiate (Gresham, Wis.), American Indian Movement., Menominee Warrior Society., and Wisconsin. National Guard.
Subject (Topic):
Indian children, Indians of North America, Menominee Indians, Government relations, Prisoners, Sheriffs, and Tlingit Indians
The work documents the travels of Maximilian Prinz zu Wied and Karl Bodmer, primarily in the Missouri River Valley, 1832-1834, with descriptions and depictions of the Indigenous people of the region, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, Dakota, and Cree
Alternative Title:
Title of volume 3, on printed wrappers
Description:
BEIN ZZc20 839wi copy 1: Plates are colored., BEIN ZZc20 839wi copy 2: Plates are uncolored. Bookplate: From the library of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, 1863-1935, Chicago. Acquired with: Wied, Maximilian. ALS to [Samuel G. Morton]. Neuwied : 1841 Feb. 20. 2 L., and a transcript in an unidentified hand, 2 L. (WA MSS S-2144;W634)., BEIN 2003 Folio 86: Unbound sheets; plates are uncolored. With 8 original printed wrappers for text, for Hefts 3-4, 5, 6-7, 12-13, 14, 15-17, 18, 19-20; Heft numbers written on wrappers in ms. All plates (both Kupfern and Vignetten) unbound in 10 original printed wrappers for Hefts 1-2, 3-4, 5, 6-7, 8-11, 12-13, 14, 15-17, 18, 19-20; Heft numbers written on wrappers in ms.; number of plates in each wrapper also written in ms.; printed title on wrappers is: Kupfer zu Prinz Maximilians von Wied Reise durch Nord-Amerika. Bookplate of Paul Mellon., Includes 81 plates, largely in aquatint, after drawings by Karl Bodmer, each bearing his blind stamp. Vignettes I-XXXIII are bound in with the text; tableaux 1-48 are bound in the third (atlas) volume, along with the folding map., "Verzeichniss der resp. Herren Subscribenten"--Volume 2, pages [v]-xvi., "Sprachproben verschiedener Völkerstämme des nord-westlichen Americas"--Volume 2, pages [455]-653., Includes bibliographical references., and BAC Folio B 2023 4: Plates are hand-colored. Includes the plan of Fort Clark, the table of temperatures at the fort, the folding map showing the route of the expedition, and the key plate to tab. 21 (all often lacking). From the library of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, with his ink stamp. Bound in contemporary black quarter calf and black cloth, with the original printed wrappers of volume 3 (the atlas volume) bound in.
Publisher:
Bei J. Hoelscher and Gedruckt bei Dubois und Werle
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Missouri River Valey, Great Plains., Missouri River Valley., and United States.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Mandan Indians, Hidatsa Indians, Assiniboine Indians, Dakota Indians, Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Languages, and Natural history
Autograph manuscript diary written by Robert J. Brown during travel from Boston to Florida Territory, 1834-1835. Entries describe travel by steamboat, stagecoach, and railroad, and record impressions of natural features, commerce, urban development, and social life in cities, towns, and regions including New York City; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia, and the Tidewater region; Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah and Augusta, Georgia; Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida Territory, and the St. Johns River region; and Mobile, Alabama, Entries dated 1834 December describe visits to federal government buildings in Washington, D.C, including observation of debates about federal bank legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Entries recorded in Virginia and South Carolina, 1834 December-1835 January, include references to slavery and the slave trade in Richmond and Charleston, During 1835 January-February, Brown was a guest of Orlando Savage Rees at Spring Garden, Rees’s sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory. These entries include detailed description of sugar production and the working and living conditions of enslaved African Americans, and Other entries relating to Florida Territory describe St. Augustine; camping, hunting, and fishing on the Saint Johns River, with references to alligator hunting and orange cultivation; and encounters with Native Americans. A few entries dated 1835 March-April, apparently incomplete, relate to travel in the Florida Panhandle with description of Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama
Description:
Spring Garden, a sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory, was acquired in 1830 by Orlando Savage Rees (1796-1852), of Stateburg, South Carolina. In 1835 December, during the Second Seminole War, Spring Garden was occupied by Seminole Indians and Black Seminoles, who liberated African Americans enslaved on the plantation., In English., and Binding: contemporary three-quarter calf over blue morocco, with gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Florida, Volusia County., Florida., South Carolina, Charleston., Virginia, Richmond., South Carolina., Virginia., De Leon Springs (Fla.), Florida Panhandle (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Johns River (Fla.), South Atlantic States, Spring Garden Plantation (Fla.), United States, Volusia County (Fla.), and Washington (D.C.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835. and Rees, Orlando Savage, 1796-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Alligator hunting, Black Seminoles, Indians of North America, Orange growers, Seminole Indians, Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842, Slave trade, Slavery, Sugar, Manufacture and refining, Sugar plantations, Description and travel, and History
