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American Fur Company collection
Collection
Identifier: L184
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a listing and description of items regarding the American Fur Company papers held at the New York Historical Society. Each item is listed chronologically and contains a brief description. Invoices and other non-correspondence are listed separately. Also included in the collection is an index and photo static copies of correspondence and letter book entries. Subjects discussed in the correspondence include Indian policies, travel, politics, education, religion,...
Dates:
1831-1849
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Armanis F. Knotts collection
Collection
Identifier: L084
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notes on Native Americans of northwest Indiana, including notes on trails, geography, culture, and language by Armanis Francis Knotts.
Dates:
1971-1975
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Barton Griffith papers
Collection — Folder: S2183
Identifier: S2183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostats of original letters written between 1821 and 1832, along with their typed transcripts, from members of the Griffith Family in Indiana to each other and to relatives in Pennsylvania, concerning family matters, daily life and settling in Indiana, unrest between Native Americans and white pioneers, trade, national politics including discussion of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson. All of the correspondents were probably Quakers, based on their...
Dates:
1821-1834
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Battle of Spurs Defeat" collection
Collection — Folder: S320
Identifier: S0320
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopied and carbon copy, typed document from William M. Crockett regarding waging war with Indians in the Northwest Territory, specifically in 1812.
Dates:
circa 1894-1969
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chauncy Carter and Edward McCartney account books
Collection — Folder: S2620
Identifier: S2620
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two account books used by Chauncy Carter and Edward McCartney to record goods bought by or traded with the Potawatomi people at Logansport from 1828 to 1830. The collection includes an undated list of trascribed names of Potawatami customers recorded in each account book.
Dates:
1828-1830
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Chief Charlie of the Eel River Tribe" draft
Collection — Folder: S2727
Identifier: S2727
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one historical record from Otis O. Bryan Ringo in Muncie, Indiana from 1938 regarding the Eel River Tribe.
Dates:
1938
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Clark County collection
Collection — Folder: S1654
Identifier: S1654
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several items related to Clark County, Indiana, including a 1900 picture and short description written by James M. VanHook of the first Methodist church built in Indiana and once located near Charlestown; a copy of "Early Precipitation Records for Jeffersonville, Indiana," a report by Dennis O'Harrow dated August 3, 1936; an undated copy of "The Jeffersonville Orphan Home" written by Ben F. Taylor, a former resident of the home; and "The Murder of Indians in Clark...
Dates:
1900-1930s, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Coe Hayne address
Collection
Identifier: S0618
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an 11-page address from Coe Hayne at the First Baptist Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 18, 1947, for "Isaac McCoy Day." The address is titled, "Stakes Set in the Wilderness" and it is a tribute to the work of Isaac McCoy. The collection also contains 2 typewritten pages entitled, "Isaac McCoy Memorials."
Dates:
1947
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection of Indian trade licenses
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2968
Scope and Contents
The collection contains photostats of trade licenses, oaths, and bonds in manuscript and printed form, in French and English, and lists of licenses granted for the years 1766 to 1790. These photostats were made by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1925 from negatives received from the Canadian Archives and from negatives in the possession of Professor Wayne E. Stevens of Dartmouth College. The materials document the British and French trade in the Ohio Valley.
Dates:
circa 1925
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Daniel Bearss collection
Collection
Identifier: L013
Scope and Contents
The collection consists principally of Bearss’ receipts, invoices, land documents, and account books relating to his business and land interests in Peru, Indiana. Also included are account books for his transactions with the Miami people (1838–1842), his Peru general store (1835–1845), and Peru sawmill (1851–1853). The collection also contains a letterbook containing copies of his letters relating to his claims against the Indiana and other business matters, correspondence (business...
Dates:
1830-1902
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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