Family papers, 1844-1939.

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Family papers, 1844-1939.

1844-1939

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The collection contains miscellaneous Albuquerque Indian School documents and a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings concerning the institution. There are an assortment of legal records dealing with New Mexico land grants and property transfer for the Robert H. Longwell Land Case, regarding the Antonio Baca Grant and Borrego Springs Grant and the Cazin Property Case. There are a wide variety of printed ephemera dealing with schools, churches and civic organizations, some business and financial records dealing with the Highland Park extension in Albuquerque, and business correspondence between Charles A. Meigs and R.W.D. Bryan, dated 1871-1884. Also present are correspondence, reminiscences and an expedition map of the Polaris arctic expedition of the early 1870s. The collection also contains George Bryan's business correspondence detailing the University of New Mexico football schedule for 1920 and school yearbooks, including the 1919 Albuquerque High School yearbook, La Reata. Other Bryan family items include ninety-six postcards from various family members, some dating 1911-1912, but most undated, and two unidentified engravings on wood blocks.

2 boxes (.9 cu. ft.) + 1 oversize folder

eng, Latn

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Albuquerque Indian School

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Richard William Dickinson Bryan, Arctic explorer, educator, and lawyer, was born in New York on October 6, 1849. He served as a government astronomer on the Hall Arctic Expedition, 1871-1873. He received his law degree in 1876. In August 1882 he went to Albuquerque, New Mexico to become superintendent of the Albuquerque Indian School where he served until the Presbyterian home mission board ended its management of the school in 1886. As superintendent, he introduced industrial education to the s...

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Bryan, George S. (George Steinman), 1906-1970.

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United States North Polar Expedition (1871-1873)

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