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Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Wheeler-Voegelin
Abstract

Notes and draft materials for writings on Native Americans, and Indian Claims Commission case documents and research reports, created by anthropologist Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin. Also field notebooks, photographs and correspondence.

Dates: 1934-1985

Francis Jennings papers

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Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Jennings
Abstract Colonial historian and former director of the Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center, 1976-1981, who after a teaching and union activities in Philadelphia, and investigation by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, returned to graduate school, received in Ph.D. in history in 1965, and began a distinguished academic career. Jennings's first book, The Invasion of America, published in 1975, explored the violence and brutality of European settlement. Jennings's papers include...
Dates: 1923-2000

George Croghan letters

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Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-195
Abstract A collection of four letters and one order primarily from Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania relating to Croghan's official duties between 1763 and 1770. In the first letter dated Mar. 1763 Croghan reports to Sir William Johnson that a draft (unidentified) was completed by his assistant Thomas Hutchins, future geographer of the U.S. In the second letter (copy) dated June 1766 to Gen. Gage, Croghan urges him to encourage the colonial governors to maintain peace with the Indians and mentions his plans...
Dates: 1763-1770

John Norton papers

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Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-654
Abstract Schoolmaster, interpreter, Mohawk chief, army officer, and author; also known as Teyoninhokarawen. Probably born in Scotland of Cherokee and Scottish parents, Norton was adopted by the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, as nephew, deputy, and successor (appointed non-hereditary chief for war and diplomacy in 1799). Addresses and correspondence of John Norton, with speeches and petitions of the Grand River Indians, chiefly dating 1804-1810. Includes a contemporary copy of "The address of...
Dates: 1804-1816; Majority of material found within 1804-1810

Lewis family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

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Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Bible. John. Mohawk. Norton. 1804 -- Publishing -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
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Cherokee Indians 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
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Dakota Indians 1
Delaware Indians 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Fort Pitt (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Fort Stanwix (Rome, N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Fox Indians 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Grand River (Ont.) -- History -- Sources 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- Sources 1
Haudenosaunee 1
Historians 1
Indian agents -- Pennsylvania -- Correspondence 1
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Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Indians of North America -- Claims 1
Indians of North America -- Government relations 1
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789 -- Sources 1
Indians of North America -- Land tenure 1
Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Ontario -- Grand River -- History -- Sources 1
Indians of North America -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Indians of North America -- Treaties -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Indigenous Peoples 1
Indigenous peoples -- Great Britain -- Colonies 1
Iroquois Indians -- Government relations -- History -- Sources 1
Iroquois Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Kaskaskia Indians 1
Kickapoo Indians 1
Klamath Indians 1
Land companies -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Land grants -- Ontario -- Grand River -- History -- Sources 1
Legal documents -- United States -- 1951-2000 1
Letter books -- 1801-1850 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Manuscripts, Canadian 1
Manuscripts, English 1
Miami Indians 1
Modoc Indians 1
Mohawk Indians -- Ontario -- Grand River -- History -- Sources 1
Nez Percé Indians -- Photographs 1
Ojibwa Indians 1
Ottawa Indians 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources 1
Pequot 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
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Piankashaw Indians 1
Potawatomi Indians 1
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Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
Rural families -- Indiana -- History 1
Sauk Indians 1
School prose, American -- Indiana 1
Seneca Indians 1
Shawnee Indians 1
Shawnee Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Shawnee Indians -- Photographs 1
Shoshoni Indians 1
Slave bills of sale -- Specimens 1
Society of Friends 1
Speeches -- Canada -- 1801-1850 1
Speeches -- England -- 1801-1850 1
Teachers -- Indiana -- History 1
Travelers -- Europe -- Diaries 1
Tubatulabal Indians 1
Tubatulabal Indians -- Photographs 1
Wampanoag [Wôpanâak] 1
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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) 2
Baerreis, David A., 1916-1989 1
Barclay, Robert, 1751-1830 1
Barney, Ralph A. 1
Berthrong, Donald J. 1