Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers, 1882-1944.

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Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers, 1882-1944.

1882-1944

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM09184.xml

Primarily letters to Keppler, including a record of events and people at the Tonawanda and Cattaraugus reservations, among others, over the first part of the twentieth century. Well known correspondents include noted Seneca scholar, Arthur C. Parker; artist, Jesse Cornplanter; and Mohawk poet, E. Pauline Johnson. Other parts of the collection include newspapers clippings on Iroquois subjects, government documents, Seneca vocabulary collected by Keppler, and other miscellaneous documents related to the Iroquois and the Six Nations. Newspaper clippings, obituaries, pamphlets, photographs, and notes are included with the correspondence. Collection contains indexes of correspondents chronologically as well as a card file of correspondents listed alphabetically. Other information includes correspondence about the collection itself, biographic information about the correspondents, clippings and documents regarding New York State land claims by the Caughnawagas and Saint Regis Indians, The New York State Museum, genealogic information, obituaries, clippings about the Wanamaker National Indian Memorial, photographs of a silver cross pendent, and correspondence regarding Iroquois masks.

3 cubic feet, 3 boxes

eng, Latn

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6401595

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