Box 1
Container
Contains 23 Results:
[Documents in the Spanish and two of the early tongues of Florida, Apalachian and Timuquan.], compiled by Buckingham Smith, ca. 1688-1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
ca. 1688-1864
Correspondence between John A. Swenson and Jeff Kaimowitz (Director, Watkinson Library), 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1989
Kamloops Wawa - Vol. IV, no. 11 (single issue of "newspaper in shorthand circulating among the Natives" of Kamloops, British Columbia), 1895-11
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Kamloops Wawa. Vol.IV No.11, November, 1895. A solicitation for subscriptions to this newspaper published in Chinook Jargon by use of Duployan shorthand (a French shorthand)by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada. Small quarto folded specimen copy of Vol.1 No. 1.
Dates:
1895-11
A Brief Statement of the Objects, Achievements and Needs of the Indian Rights Association (Philadelphia, PA), 1887
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
A Brief Statement of the Objects, Achievements and Needs of the Indian Rights Association Philadelphia, 1887. 8p.
Dates:
1887
Archaeological representations of potsherds, stone tools, and other carved implements, labeled as from archaeological text, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
undated
Notes taken by Samuel Gardner Drake, for a possible "Indian dictionary" (including names of tribes and geographical place-names), undated, possibly ca. 1869
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
undated, possibly ca. 1869
Letter by William Henry Holmes (Chief of Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution) to Frank B. Gay (Librarian, Watkinson Library), with enclosed draft notes written by Cyrus Thomas (Bureau of American Ethnology) entitled "List of Linguistic Families and Tribal Languages of Mexico and Central America", May 26, 1904
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
May 26, 1904
Photocopies of manuscript notebook written by Edwin James, and exhibit catalog "Middlebury's Edwin James and James's America, April-July 1984" , 1984-2000
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1984-2000
Photograph, portrait of "Little Charley Washington" (standing pose), signed A. J. Frost, 1905
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1905
Playing cards (two) - made by indigenous peoples, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Two playing cards are located in this folder.
Dates:
undated