Correspondence and drawings from students, business records and official correspondence accumulated by A.W. Smith while teaching in La Push, Neah Bay, and Mora, Washington (Territory and State). Significant correspondents include Myron Eells, Samuel G...
Description:
A.W. Smith was a teacher in the United States Indian School Service, and established a school in La Push, Washington Territory in 1882.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), La Push (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), and Mora (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Smith, A.W. (Allison W.)
Subject (Topic):
Quileute Indians, Social life and customs, Makah Indians, Indians of North America, Children's art, Education, and Indian agents
American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908 Foster, Charles, 1828-1904
Published / Created:
1880-1896
Call Number:
WA MSS S-903 (folio)
Image Count:
56
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters written for American Horse regarding early customs of the Sioux, their cultural advancement, and the tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek. Accompanied by a letter about Charles Foster's position on Indian affairs and a letter from Mrs. James Landy to...
Subject (Name):
American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908--Portraits, Foster, Charles, 1828-1904, Landy, Edwin F, and Landy, James
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Dakota Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America, and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
A history of Vancouver Barracks (later Fort Vancouver), the Indian wars, the San Juan Islands boundary dispute, and the death of Gen. Canby. The manuscript also contains copies of letters from Dr. William C. McKay, Ranald Macdonald, Gen. C. C. Augur's...
Description:
General Thomas Anderson, was colonel of the 14th Infantry and in command at Vancouver Barracks for many years.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Oregon, and San Juan Islands (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. and Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, History, and Boundaries
Cartes-de-visite photographs created by photographers in the United States and Canada of Indians of North America, ca. 1860-1875. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting men in traditional clothing, with a few examples of women and children. T...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Barker, Anthony, 1930-, Bliss, W. P., Carter, Charles Williams., Choate, John N., Cross, W. R. (William R.), Hamilton, C. L., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848., Mautz, Carl., Savage, C. R. 1832-1909. (Charles Roscoe),, Spotted Tail, 1823-1881., Witherell, A. W., Duffin & Caswell., and Jackson Brothers Photography.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Fox Indians, Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Paiute Indians, Paloos Indians, Sauk Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Ute Indians, and Yankton Indians
Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of p...
Description:
Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute cer...
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Pencil, ink, and color scenes of the Fraser River mining region, depicting Indians, Fort Hope Saw-Mill, Hell's Gate Cañon, a potlach at Fort Hope, and the town of Fort Hope
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Hope (B.C.), Fraser River Region (B.C.), and British Columbia.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Indians of North America, and Potlatch
