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Title
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P23 Native American/Western Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains over over 140 glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, and assorted prints. The images are primarily of Native American peoples, cowboys, and "Boomer" settlers in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the late-1880s through the early-1900s. The principal tribes represented include the Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Sac and Fox, Otoe, Pawnee and Apache. Many of the images were taken by prominent western photographers of the period including Thomas Croft, William S. Prettyman, George Cornish, and William E. Irwin. There are also fifteen photographs of Sioux Indians and U.S. soldiers taken by the Northwestern Photo Company during the 1890/91 conflict at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
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Date
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1880~/1901~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Proposed Charter and Minutes of Highland University
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Description
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The first section of this roll of microfilm contains the handwritten proposed charter of Highland University and minutes of the Board of Trustees, December 19, 1857, to November 12, 1868. It is noted on the microfilm that the original records are in the possession of Fenn Ward, Highland, Kansas. This note is dated October 15, 1958. The school was located in Highland, Doniphan County, Kansas, in the upper northeast corner of the state and within two miles of the older mission. It was under the care of the Highland Presbytery and ministered to the Sac and Fox Indians in that area. The school was chartered by the Territorial Legislature of Kansas in 1857 and was called Highland Presbyterial Academy.
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Date
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1857/1868
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Northeast Corner of Kansas Territory
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Description
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Map showing area immediately west of the Missouri River, in present-day Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties, Kansas. The right-hand side of the page is north. Map shows Indian lands, including the Iowa lands, Iowa Reserve, Sac and Fox lands recently ceded, Kickapoo Reserve, and "Half Breed lands" (i.e. Indians of mixed descent). Indicates many creeks and some towns (e.g. Fort Leavenworth, Atchison, Doniphan, Saint Joseph). The agency is indicated near Wolf River. Ink on lined paper, signed by Major Daniel Vanderslice, who served as Indian Agent from 1853 until Lincoln became President in 1861.
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Date
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1854
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Iowa
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Description
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Map of Iowa showing twenty counties in eastern Iowa, with the rest of the area depicted divided between the Sioux (mostly in present-day Minnesota), and Neutral Ground, Sauks and Foxes, Iowas and Pottawattamies.
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Date
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1840~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Iowa
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Description
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Map of Iowa showing thirty counties in eastern Iowa, with lands of Sauks and Foxes, Iowas, Pottawattamies indicated in the western sections.
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Date
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1846
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Sac and Fox Bark House
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Description
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Exterior view of a large bark house in a Sac & Fox Indian village. Several individuals are seated in front of the dwelling; third from left is Pa She Pa Ho, the Sac Chief.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph
