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Coffee, Joshua A. Papers, 1827.

Title: Papers, 1827.

Correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (3 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50657200 View

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Lantern slide collection, [188-?] - [19--?].

Title: Lantern slide collection, [188-?] - [19--?].

This collection contains nearly 1000 lantern slides, measuring ca. 4 X 3. The bulk of the collection was produced for educational purposes and documents U.S. history, science, industry, and locations throughout the world. Almost 200 of the slides pertain directly to Alabama and include images of individuals and ADAH materials such as the McKinney and Hall prints and Audubon prints.

ArchivalResource: 3.66 cubic ft. (2 records center cartons and 5 archives boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498726 View

Bank of Columbia (Georgetown, Washington, D.C.). Bank of Columbia Records. 1794-1828 (inclusive).

Title: Bank of Columbia Records. 1794-1828 (inclusive).

The Bank of Columbia Records has correspondence and legal and financial papers that document the history of the bank and its depositors. The collection holds letters, predominantly single letters, from many prominent citizens of Georgetown and Washington in the early nineteenth century, as well as from Treasury Department officials and officers of the Bank of the United States.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes 1.04 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145522320 View

Jacob Butler Varnum papers 1811-1888 1811-1833 Varnum, Jacob Butler papers

Title: Jacob Butler Varnum papers 1811-1888 1811-1833 Varnum, Jacob Butler papers

The Jacob Butler Varnum papers contain letters and documents related to Varnum's career as a factor at United States Indian trading posts in Sandusky, Ohio, and Fort Dearborn, Chicago; as a captain in the 40th Massachusetts Infantry during the War of 1812; and as a Washington D.C. merchant after he left government service. Included are letters and instructions from government officials concerning trade with Indians, as well as letters from Varnum to his father, Senator Joseph B. Varnum, concerning his activities as factor.

ArchivalResource: 79 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1143var?rgn=main;view=text View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849. Albert Gallatin papers, 1783-1847.

Title: Albert Gallatin papers, 1783-1847.

Correspondence, writings, and notes, relating to such topics as the Treasury Department, the trial of Aaron Burr, U.S. relations with France, the Oregon boundary question, and Gallatin's ethnological work on Indian tribes of Mexico and on Indian languages. Correspondents include Daniel W. Coxe, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Lincoln, Thomas L. McKenney, Caesar A. Rodney, and William Short.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.3 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82919649 View

Force, Peter, 1790-1868. Papers, 1825-1856.

Title: Papers, 1825-1856.

Miscellaneous letters, including one from Thomas Loraine McKenney, 1825 August 15, concerning John C. Calhoun's role in passage of a treaty between the Creek Indians and the state of Georgia; a letter of introduction from George Perkins Marsh, 1849 September 5, on behalf of James Meacham, his successor as representative from Vermont; letters from David Lowry Swain, 1854 March 29 and 1856 August 14, sending Force writings on North Carolina history; and a letter from James Cochran Dobbin, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1856 May 31, concerning a suggestion made by Swain.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19647098 View

Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, 1826

Title: Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes 1826

The is a record of a journey undertaken by Thomas L. McKenney and Lewis Cass, from Washington, D.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., to negotiate a treaty with the Chippewa and other Indians. McKenney, the Superindenant of Indian Affairs, includes an account of travel on the Great Lakes, and more memorably, a description of the "character" and customs of the Chippewa Indians, an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. The manuscript, a fair copy of the original sent to a London publisher, is illustrated throughout with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons. It was originally published in Baltimore in 1827. Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes, of the character & customs of the Chippeway Indians & of incidents connected with the treaty of Fond du Lac... to which is super added a vocabulary of the Algic, or Chippeway language...

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Volume(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.917.7.M19-ead.xml View

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Letter to Kenneth Wood [manuscript], 1943, November 27.

Title: Letter to Kenneth Wood [manuscript], 1943, November 27.

Roberts discusses his character Langdon Towne who was not based specifically on Paul Kane and George Catlin but was motivated by the same ideas. He also mentions Weinold Reiss, and the McKenney-Hall portrait gallery of American Indians.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647847833 View

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: Thomas Forsyth papers, 1804-1833.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Thomas Forsyth papers, 1804-1833.

Papers of Thomas Forsyth, a Chicago and Peoria, Illinois fur trader who served as Indian agent for the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Missouri from 1818-1830 at Rock Island. The papers contain materials on the War of 1812 in the West, including correspondence (1812-1817) of the territorial governors of Illinois and Missouri, Ninian Edwards and William Clark, concerning military operations in Illinois and American attempts to secure Indian allies.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 c.f. (9 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787803 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. Letter to Nicholas Biddle, concerning McKenney's History of the Indian tribes [manuscript] 19 May 1832.

Title: Letter to Nicholas Biddle, concerning McKenney's History of the Indian tribes [manuscript] 19 May 1832. 1832.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647960663 View

McKenney, Thomas, 1785-1859. Letter of introduction for Robert Montgomery Bird, 1834.

Title: Letter of introduction for Robert Montgomery Bird, 1834.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63551498 View

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. Agreement with John Bisco for the sale of History of the Aborigines of North America : holograph, 1847 Dec. 4.

Title: Agreement with John Bisco for the sale of History of the Aborigines of North America : holograph, 1847 Dec. 4.

The agreement is handwritten on one sheet, folded to make four pages. The document covers three of the pages and is signed by McKenny, acting for himself and for J.T. Bowen, and by John Bisco. A third signature is of witness Isaac H. Cady. The agreement provides that Bisco shall be the sole agent in New York City for the sale of the royal octavo edition of the "History of the Aborigines of North America," and contains the terms under which it may be sold.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 25 x 40 cm., folded to 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56596921 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIc-ead.xml View

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. Sketches of a tour to the lakes, 1826.

Title: Sketches of a tour to the lakes, 1826.

A record of a journey from Washington, D.C., to Lake Superior, with a description of the character and customs of the Chippewa Indians. Also includes an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, negotiated by McKenney and Lewis Cass, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. Illustrated with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. (750 p.) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632847 View

Fritzen, John, 1897-. John Fritzen papers, 1934-1967.

Title: John Fritzen papers, 1934-1967.

Articles, maps, and letters with data on portages, trails, explorations, fur trading posts, logging, and other aspects of the history of Jay Cooke State Park, Fond du Lac, the north shore of Lake Superior, and surrounding areas in northern Minnesota. Includes typed and photocopies.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (containing 10 items) and 2 maps.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523832 View

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. Letter of Thomas Loraine McKenney, 1825.

Title: Letter of Thomas Loraine McKenney, 1825.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79454524 View

Napier, Thomas, 1776 or 7-1860. Thomas Napier papers, 1803-1947; (bulk, 1803-1860).

Title: Thomas Napier papers, 1803-1947; (bulk, 1803-1860).

Chiefly letters and papers re settlement of the estate of John Fraser, an Englishman residing in East Florida; material documents Napier's guaridianship of Fraser's children in Africa. Includes letters, 14 Sept. 1822, Liverpool, England, Thomas Powell to Napier, Charleston, S.C., re claim of George Irving against theestate for "Sixty Negroes bought from Africa"; 15 Nov. 1847, New York, Thomas Napier to Samuel M. Woodruff, re difficulty locating Fraser's heirs in Africa; also including letter, 24 June 1859, Charleston, S.C., to James M. Gould, [St. Augustine, Fla.], dimissing Gould as his agent in Florida and advising him to pay his new agent, George R. Fairbanks. Other legal and business items include 5 bound volumes, 1847-1857, consisting of letterbooks containing personal and business correspondence, including 2 letters, 27 Aug. and 1 Dec. 1857, White Lake, [N.Y.], and Elizabeth, [N.J.?], from S[amson] V[ryling Stoddard] Wilder, re a proposed survey of Arkansas, Wall street panic and railroad speculation, the "Atlantic Telegraph," and Napier's good fortune in having left the "Anti-slavery" section while real estate values were high. Other items include document, 1856, granting power of attorney to Mrs. Rebecca Napier on behalf of the grandchildren of Simeon Theus; and letter, 6 Dec. 1857, Washington, D.C., from Cha[rle]s Sherman, re petition to be presented to Congress by Senator [Josiah James]Evans, previous claims defeated by James L. Orr and [Andrew Pickens]Butler, and suggesting letters from South Carolina to influence Orr. Personal correspondence includes Jan. ca. 1830, Charleston, S.C., Napier to daughter, Ann, North Hampton, Mass., re her school and family members in Massachusetts, and operations of the rice mill. Also includes 2 letters, 29 Sept and 7 Oct. 1857, Charleston, S.C.J.P. DeVeaux, to Napier, New York, re yellow fever and illness in his family. Other correspondents include Gen. D.V. Clinch, James Hibben, Jasper Corning, W. McLain ("Sec. & Treas. of the American ColonizationSociety"), Thomas L. McKenney, E.B. Gould, Dr. Samuel M. Elliott, Henry Trescott, the firm Petigru and King, and the North American Land Company.

ArchivalResource: 264 items and 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38092642 View

Christopher Van Deventer papers 1799-1925 Van Deventer, Christopher, papers

Title: Christopher Van Deventer papers 1799-1925 Van Deventer, Christopher, papers

The Christopher Van Deventer papers contain incoming and outgoing correspondence and documents concerning the War of 1812, the politics of the 1810s and 1820s, and the political career of John C. Calhoun.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1164.1van?rgn=main;view=text View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IId-ead.xml View

University of Cincinnati Libraries, Digital Projects Records, 1997-2006, 1995-2005

Title: University of Cincinnati Libraries, Digital Projects Records, 1997-2006 1995-2005

Records from the UC Digital Projects department including reports, subject files, project files, advertisements, and publications

ArchivalResource:

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0156 View

Varnum, Jacob Butler, 1788-1874. Jacob Butler Varnum papers, 1811-1888, bulk 1811-1833.

Title: Jacob Butler Varnum papers, 1811-1888, bulk 1811-1833.

The Jacob Butler Varnum papers contain letters and documents related to Varnum's career as a factor at United States Indian trading posts in Sandusky, Ohio, and Fort Dearborn, Chicago; as a captain in the 40th Massachusetts Infantry during the War of 1812; and as a Washington, D.C. merchant following his government service. Included are letters and instructions from government officials concerning trade with Indians, as well as letters from Varnum to his father, Senator Joseph B. Varnum, concerning his activities as factor.

ArchivalResource: 78 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768166730 View

History of the Indian tribes of North America subscriber list, 1828-1843

Title: History of the Indian tribes of North America subscriber list 1828-1843

One volume listing orders and subscribers to Thomas McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America. The orders, usually in autograph, indicate number of copies ordered, directions regarding delivery, or transfer of subscription rights to new parties

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 volume)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1944 View

Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859. Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance, 1826-1832.

Title: Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance, 1826-1832.

Two letters from Samuel Worcester, one a typed transcript. Also, letter from Alice Mary Robertson dated January 19, 1877, in which she writes her mother from the Department of the Interior and encloses the letters from Worcester who was her grandfather. Provenance letter from Grant Foreman to Frederic W. Hodge dated October 28, 1930, upon presentation of the letters for the Hodge Collection. One of the Worcester letters is dated April 12, 1826 from Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, addressed to Colonel Thomas L. McKenny [sic] at the War Department. The letter contains a chart on the Cherokee alphabet and a guide to pronunciation. The second letter from Worcester, dated May 11, 1832, is from the Penitentiary at Milledgeville, Georgia. The letter mentions his fellow prisoner Elizur Butler and their situation.

ArchivalResource: 11 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64063662 View

Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813. Draper manuscripts: Tecumseh papers, 1811-1931.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Tecumseh papers, 1811-1931.

Papers collected and arranged by Draper in preparation for writing a biography of the distinguished Shawnee chief and statesman, Tecumseh (1768-1813). Tecumseh proposed a program designed to halt western white settlement through a great Indian confederacy against further land cessions, through refusal to trade for or use white men's alcoholic beverages, and through adoption of a self-sufficient agricultural life. Along with the acquisition of papers of Tecumseh's early biographers, Benjamin Drake and his brother Daniel, Draper collected intensively on Tecumseh from about 1863 to his death.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 c.f. (13 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787472 View

Johnston, John, 1775-1861. John Johnston papers, 1801-1860.

Title: John Johnston papers, 1801-1860.

Papers of John Johston, and Indian agent of Piqua, Ohio, include papers from Johnston's career as factor and Indian agent spanning the territorial period, War of 1812, and settlement of Ohio. Includes correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and miscellaneous material.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43871494 View

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. Letters, 1820-1843.

Title: Letters, 1820-1843.

Small collection of four letters written by Thomas L. McKenney to various correspondents between 1820 and 1843.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (4 folders) ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38466450 View

Lyons, M. Bank draft, 1821 Jul 1.

Title: Bank draft, 1821 Jul 1.

Third copy of a bank draft for $115.80 on T. L. McKenney to Jacob M. Bondurant.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702129302 View

Indian portraits 1836-1858?

Title: Indian portraits 1836-1858?

Group of fourteen loose portraits from various editions of History of the Indian tribes of North America produced by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall in the mid-nineteenth century. Portraits include: HO-PO-ETHLE-YO-HO-LO, NEA-MATH-LA, NAH-ET-LUC-HOPE, David Vann, CA-TA-HE-CAS-SA, PUSH-MA-TA-HA, PEAH-MAS-KA, MO-HON-GO, TA-CHEE (2), TAI-O-MAH, John Ridge, MON-CHONSIA, and Spring Frog.

ArchivalResource: 14 portraits 40.7 to 54 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226633947 View

M'Kendree, William, 1757-1835. William M'Kendree papers, 1790-1855.

Title: William M'Kendree papers, 1790-1855.

The collection consists of the papers of William M'Kendree from 1790-1855. The papers include correspondence, legal documents, reports, biographical material, a notebook, and resolutions. Letters are mostly to M'Kendree from other church leaders, missionaries, and laypersons; some are from M'Kendree. Topics include slavery, the rivalry between Canadian and U.S. Methodists, British missionaries, the slander charge and controversy surrounding the Methodist clergyman Jesse Lee, and missionary work with Native American Indians. Legal papers include a copy of an 1801 Maryland law authorizing the building of a Methodist meeting house in Chestertown, affidavits concerning M'Kendree's bequest of land to establish a "literary institute," and a statement giving Canadian land to the Methodist Episcopal Church. There is a short autobiography by M'Kendree from his birth through 1800. The notebook contains a list of remedies and religious verses.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box and 1 oversized paper (OP))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863093 View

Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834. Papers, 1782-1838.

Title: Papers, 1782-1838.

This collection of the papers of E. I. du Pont was amassed by his descendant, Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954). The main body of E. I. du Pont's papers descended through Henry Algernon du Pont to Henry Francis du Pont and now forms part of the Hagley Museum & Library's Winterthur Manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134169 View

Central Michigan University. Office of the President. Visual collection, 1990,1uuu.

Title: Visual collection, 1990,1uuu.

Collection, 1990 and undated, probably 20th century, includes: a wooden, ceremonial shield with the inscription "a la Central Michigan University de la Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Noviembre 1990," measuring 9 x 7 inches in a blue polyester case which measures 12 x 10 inches; a framed copy of "A view of the Butte Des Morts Treaty Ground with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenney in 1827, Painted on the spot by J.O. Lewis, Lachman & Duval, Lith.rs, Philad.a," in a wooden frame with a blue mat, measuring 19 x 15 inches; "The Tourist Pocket Map of Michigan, Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads, Distances, & c by J.H. Young, Philadelphia, published by S. Augustus Mitchell, 1839, and reproduced by Beurmann-Marshall Inc., Lansing, Michigan," in a silver frame measuring 21.5 x 24.5 inches, with blue, red, and gray mats; and an oversized blue folder entitled "Three pictorial theses of Olomouc University", including three allegorical drawings of the university, a modern, colored map of the Czech Republic, and descriptions of the drawings in English, German, and Czechoslovakian, with the card of Dr. Lumomir Dvorak, Rector of Palacky University in Olomouc. The Tourist Pocket Map is probably a copy. The Clarke does have an original of this map. The copy of the lithograph documents the treaty meeting of Cass and McKenney with the Winnebago and Menominee Indians in Winnebago County, Wis. The original of the lithograph is at the Wis. Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 ov. folder : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48859600 View

Letters to David Brydie Mitchell, 1805-1829

Title: Letters to David Brydie Mitchell 1805-1829

David Brydie Mitchell was Governor of Georgia and a U.S. Indian agent. He received these letters, which relate mainly to the affairs of East Florida, the Creek and Seminole Indians, the recovery of Negro slaves held by the Indians, the Georgia Volunteers, and the War of 1812, between 1805 and 1829. Correspondents include John Abercrombie, Thomas L. McKenney, John H. McIntosh, Abraham A. Massias, Andrew Maybank, Daniel Newman, and Charles Tait

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4551 View

McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859. History of the Indian tribes of North America subscriber list, 1828-1843.

Title: History of the Indian tribes of North America subscriber list, 1828-1843.

One volume listing orders and subscribers to Thomas McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America. The orders, usually in autograph, indicate number of copies ordered, directions regarding delivery, or transfer of subscription rights to new parties.

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 volume)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768195820 View