Letter : Kansas City, Mo., to the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology [John Wesley Powell], Washington, D.C., 1889 July 1.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Native American tribes from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The Bureau's founding director was John Wesley Powell. In 1897, the Bureau's name was changed from Bureau of Ethnology to Bureau of American Ethnology to indicate the primary geographic limit of its focus. In 1965, the BAE merged with the Smithsonian Ins...

Lykins, W. H. R.,

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Son of Johnston Lykins, a colleague of Robert Simerwell. From the description of Letter : Kansas City, Mo., to the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology [John Wesley Powell], Washington, D.C., 1889 July 1. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38451372 ...

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902

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Wallace Earle Stegner is an author. From the guide to the Papers, 1868-1879, relating to John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River, 1868-1879, (American Philosophical Society) John Wesley Powell was a geologist, ethnologist, and director of the United States Geological Survey; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1889. From the guide to the John Wesley Powell correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey, 1869-1879, (American Philosophical So...

Simerwell, Robert, 1786-1868,

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Blacksmith; Baptist missionary to the Shawnee, Potawatomi; farmer. Of Michigan Territory; present Johnson, Franklin, Shawnee Counties, Kan. From the description of Robert Simerwell papers, 1822-1867. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 53101340 ...