Herman Haupt and family papers, 1864-1917.

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Herman Haupt and family papers, 1864-1917.

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Letters to Herman Haupt, Sr., from Mrs. Maud Booth, George S. Boutwell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry L. Dawes, Asa Gray, Abram S. Hewitt, George McClellan, and others; an autobiographical sketch and articles by Herman Haupt, Jr.; and a biographical sketch of Herman Haupt by A. J. D. Haupt. The articles deal with Indian mounds on the shore of Lac du Flambeau (Wisconsin), Ojibwe earthworks on the Mississippi River, and relics of La Salle found in South Haven Township, Michigan. An extensive manuscript on the ethnology of the North American Indians is in negative photostatic form, the original being in the Newberry Library, Chicago.

0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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