The description of this slide reflects the way that Erdoes organized 35mm slides. Erdoes arranged his slides in labeled containers that were sub-divided into labeled sections. The title for this image has been transcribed from its sub-section label; images of other slides from the same sub-section share the container title. The date listed here reflects a span of known dates associated the sub-section. In some cases, titles have been expanded to note particular individuals who appear frequently and who were identified by Erdoes in captions. Individual slide captions have not been transcribed or captured during digitization.
Subject (Topic):
Indian activists--North America and Indians of North America --Civil rights --20th century
Clipping, The Cherokee Alphabet, glued to p. [7]., First of 7 items bound together. Binder's title: Tracts. Indian languages. Osage, Cherokee, Choctaw, Iroquois., and In syllabic characters.
Samuel F. Tappan papers relating to the Sand Creek Massacre
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Manuscript and typescript carbon letters, clippings and other documents relating to the Massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado. Included in the papers is a holograph manuscript draft of a letter to the editor of the New York Times dated July 26, 1897, in which Tappan corrects statements made in the newspaper regarding the massacre; an undated typescript carbon letter to an unidentified recipient in which Tappan discusses the military commission that investigated the massacre; a photocopy of a notarized statement dated June 1, 1957, by Frank M. Wynkoop which describes a meeting with the commander of the Sand Creek troops, Colonel John M. Chivington; a photocopy of a broadside entitled The Indian Question; a clipping of Tappan's letter to the editor of the New York Tribune dated September 16, 1867, regarding the "origins of the Indian War"; and newspaper clippings relating to the Massacre and Tappan obituary notices.
Description:
Born in 1831 in Manchester, Massachusetts, Tappan went to Kansas in 1854 and joined the movement to make Kansas a free state. In 1860, after holding various state offices in Kansas, he moved to Colorado and commanded the First Colorado Cavalry Regiment. Tappan presided over the first investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre in which hundreds of surrendered and partially disarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho were killed in a surprise attack by troops under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington in 1864. After attaining the rank of colonel in 1865, he was mustered out of the Army and appointed a member of the United States Indian Peace Commission. He promoted emigration to Oregon while employed by the Oregon Steamship and Railroad Company, and was superintendent of the Nebraska Indian Industrial School. He was a correspondent to major newspapers throughout the United States, and wrote frequently on American Indian human rights issues. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1913.
Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written by Read and one by E. D. Grafton; copies of accounts by Leon Vanloo and Davis L. James, describing how and where Read wrote the poem; a collage by Grafton showing Murdoch reciting the poem; photographs of Read and his wife Hattie by Grafton and others; and clippings regarding the placement of a plaque on the house in which the poem was written.
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Literary Club of Cincinnati, Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893, Read, Harriet Denison Butler, Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872, Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888--Poetry, and Vanloo, Leon
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American --19th century --Archives and Poets, American
Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written by Read and one by E. D. Grafton; copies of accounts by Leon Vanloo and Davis L. James, describing how and where Read wrote the poem; a collage by Grafton showing Murdoch reciting the poem; photographs of Read and his wife Hattie by Grafton and others; and clippings regarding the placement of a plaque on the house in which the poem was written.
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Literary Club of Cincinnati, Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893, Read, Harriet Denison Butler, Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872, Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888--Poetry, and Vanloo, Leon
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American --19th century --Archives and Poets, American
