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Huntington Free Library. Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders [ca.1900].

Title: Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders [ca.1900].

Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to New York. Brochures include: Hotel Astor Indian Hall; Exhibition and Sale of the Riggs collection of Navajo Indian Rugs and curios, John Wanamaker; Rough Rider robes of the Wild West; Gross Kelly & Co. genuine reservation Indian handmade rugs, jewelry, novelties; Popular presents, Benham Indian Trading Company; Alaska Indian basketry, Alaska Steamship Company; Candelario, the Curio Man, genuine Indian and Mexican Curios; Et-Sity-Tsosie, Little Silver Smith of the Noschiti trading post; Inklings apropos Pre-Columbian relics and the ruins wherein found, Reamer Ling Collector; Catalogue of a unique collection of Cliff Dweller relics taken from the lately discovered ruins of southwestern Colorado and adjacent parts of Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, Art Institute Building, Chicago, C. H. Green proprietor; The Navajo, weaving and blankets, Crystal Navajo Reservation, C. G. Newcomb and J. B. Moore Indian traders, 2 copies; Good Things from the West, Navajo blankets from the collection of Herbert A. Coffeen; Charles Ilfeld Company, genuine Southwest Indian artcraft, Mexican imports, and novelties, with price list and weaving sample; A Modern Navajo blanket, four plates from Indian Print Shop Indian School Journal The Navajo, fine Navajo blankets, rugs, ceremonial baskets, silverware, jewelry, curios, etc., C. G. Newcomb, J. B. Moore; The use of Navajo blankets as a home decoration, C. N. Cotton Co.; Catalogue and price list Navajo blankets and Indian curios, J. L. Hubbell Indian trader, 2 copies; Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Alaska Eskimo and Indian relics, J. E. "Daddy" Standley, includes post card with quote from George Heye; Indian Baskets of the Hupa and Klamath Tribes, A. Brizard; Collection of curios from the ancient mounds and ruins in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, C. J. Dyer; Catalogue of the celebrated Indian collection of the late Mr. John H. McIlvain of Philadelphia comprising an extraordinary large number of specimens of the handicraft of the American Indians, Thomas Birch's Sons; Maisel's Indian Trading post catalog, jewelry, metalwork, gold, silver, rugs and Navajo blankets.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

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Coffeen Family. Coffeen Family papers, ca. 1880s-1999.

Title: Coffeen Family papers, ca. 1880s-1999.

The Coffeen Family papers contain family history and biographies written and gathered by William W. Coffeen (great-nephew of Henry Asa Coffeen) and Virginia Moseley (granddaughter of Edward Gillette). There are also photographs, postcards, and bound volumes of each edition of "The Teepee Book," a magazine published in Sheridan, Wyoming, by Herbert Allen Coffeen. Of special note is the biographical information on Henry Asa Coffeen and also on Edward Gillette. Gillette's papers include a scrapbook of the Dome Lake Club, a private fishing resort in the Bighorn National Forest, a booklet he wrote entitled "The First Trip Through the Big Horn Canon," and a copy of his "Indian Stories." The Coffeen and later the Gillette family's Absaraka Ranch is documented in several photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1.15 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

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