Letters : from John S. Clark, Auburn, N.Y. 1907 Feb. 12-Aug. 1.

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Letters : from John S. Clark, Auburn, N.Y. 1907 Feb. 12-Aug. 1.

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Letters concern Clark's research on the origin of the name Point Abino (a peninsula on the northerneastern shore of Lake Erie). Also, a letter to Samson from W.H. Holmes, chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 3 Apr. 1907, claiming the name is not of Indian origin; a map drawn by Clark "relating to De La Salle's imaginary Ohio"; and a typescript extract from Isaac Weld's Travels through the states of North America ..., 1800.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Weld, Isaac, 1774-1856

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Clark, John S., 1823-1912

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Samson, William Holland, 1860-1917.

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Editor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Post express; served as president of the Rochester Historical Society. From the description of Letters : from John S. Clark, Auburn, N.Y. 1907 Feb. 12-Aug. 1. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56822581 ...

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933

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Participated in Hayden Geological Survey. Named six Colorado mountains. From the description of Explorations in the Rocky Mountains, 1872-1887, [1932?]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 16905051 William Henry Holmes, archaeologist and artist, served as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution from 1902-1920. From the description of Letter : Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, to My dear Mr. [E.A.] Bur...