Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1876
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
[Drawings for The Old Santa Fe Trail]
Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Inman/Willing
Abstract
Nineteen pen and ink drawings on board of varying sizes, largely unsigned with the exception of one drawing signed "C. F. Tiedemann 93," and another initialed "CFT." Fourteen of the drawings can be found as tail pieces and initials within Henry Inman's The Old Santa Fe Trail (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897), a work that charts the illustrious history of the Santa Fe Trail, a nineteenth century transportation route that connected...
Dates:
approximately 1890-1897
Elmo Scott Watson papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Watson
Abstract
Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.
Dates:
1816-1951; Majority of material found within 1920-1951
Irving Samuel Cutter Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3221
Abstract
Mainly research materials (correspondence, biographical information, articles) gathered for an article on Henry Rinalda Porter, a surgeon at the Battle of Little Big Horn, with photographs of Porter, the Custer battlefield, and Indians involved in the fight. Also includes a George Crook letter and sketches by Charles M. Russell.
Dates:
1884-1934
John S. Gray research papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Gray
Abstract
Meticulous research notes, writings, and correspondence of Dr. John S. Gray, Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University and a member of the Chicago Corral of Westerners. Dr. Gray's research focuses on the American West, particularly U.S. - Indian relations.
Dates:
1942-1991
Louis McLane Hamilton collection
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-356
Abstract
Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867, possibly collected by Benson John Lossing, concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita. Includes correspondence of Philip Hamilton (father) to Lossing, and Robert Mayhew West (forwarding copy of 7th Cavalry resolution on Hamilton's death to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle); ms. extracts from Custer's July 6, 1867, order praising Hamilton's...
Dates:
1867-1869
Olin D. Wheeler papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3220
Abstract
Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.
Dates:
1892-1924
[Sioux Indian Drawings]
Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Sioux.Indian
Abstract
One hundred sixty unsigned, numbered drawings attributed to "Sioux Indians" (a general, blanket term used to describe the Santee, the Yankton-Yanktonai, and the Lakota peoples) living in Fort Yates, North Dakota during the cataclysmic winter of 1913-1914, a period known as the "Starving Time." Aaron McGaffey Bead, an Episcopal missionary to the Indians of North Dakota, provided paper and art supplies to the residents of Fort Yates during this period and paid 50-75 cents for each drawing,...
Dates:
1913-1914
Additional filters:
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- Manuscripts, American 5
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 2
- Artists -- United States 1
- Big Hole, Battle of the, Mont., 1877 -- Photographs 1
- Bozeman Trail 1
- Cavalry pioneer troops -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Cheyenne Indians -- Wars -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Children's drawings 1
- Clippings -- West (U.S.) 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie -- 1851-1900 1
- Correspondence -- Oklahoma -- Fort Supply -- 1851-1900 1
- Cowboys -- West (U.S.) 1
- Drawings 1
- Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
- Explorers -- West (U.S.) 1
- Fort Abraham Lincoln (N.D.) -- Photographs 1
- Fort Berthold (N.D.) -- Photographs 1
- Fort Collins (Colo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Phil Kearney (Wyo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Union (N.D.) -- Photographs 1
- Fort Yates (N.D.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life in art 1
- Fur trade -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Generals -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Horses 1
- Indians of North America -- 1880-1920 1
- Indians of North America -- Maps 1
- Indians of North America -- Portraits 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 1
- Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Wars -- 1866-1895 1
- Journalism -- Study and teaching -- Illinois 1
- Journalists -- West (U.S.) 1
- Lakota Indians 1
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) 1
- Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.) -- Photographs 1
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 -- Maps 1
- Manuscript maps 1
- Newspapers -- West (U.S.) 1
- Obituaries -- 1851-1900 1
- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Outlaws -- West (U.S.) 1
- Pacific railroads -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Photographers -- West (U.S.) 1
- Photographs -- North Dakota -- 1851-1900 1
- Photographs -- North Dakota -- 1901-1950 1
- Photographs -- West (U.S.) 1
- Pioneers -- West (U.S.) 1
- Resolutions -- Oklahoma -- Fort Supply -- 1851-1900 1
- Santa Fe National Historic Trail 1
- Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Sioux Nation 1
- Sketches -- West (U.S.) 1
- Stagecoach lines -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- United States -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Utah Expedition (1857-1878) 1
- Washita Campaign, 1868-1869 -- Sources 1
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources 1
- West (U.S.) -- In art 1 + ∧ less
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