MS 1649 Legislative matters relating to New York and Ontario Iroquois Indians Claims
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Walter Pierce Ontario Lakers Collection
Walter C. Pierce (1946-1991) was a civic leader and founder of the Ontario Lakers Youth Organization in Washington, DC. The collection includes correspondence, certificates, flyers, proposals, newspaper clippings, political posters, city council resolutions, basketball tournament programs, and other items documenting Pierce's activism and activities of the Ontario Lakers.
Canadian Bridges Photograph Albums
The collection consists of two photograph albums documenting two Canadian drawbridges. One album, covering the years 1889 to 1911, documents the Coteau Bridge in Quebec. The Coteau Bridge crosses the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. It includes images of the bridge, the construction crew, and machinery. The other album, covering the years …
MS 3509 A critical analysis by Mr Hewitt on the "Archaeological Report, 1898. Being part of the Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario, Toronto, 1898"
Boyle, David, 1842-1911
The Report embodies a study of the Iroquois pagans and paganism on the Grand River Reserve, Ontario. (Report prepared by David Boyle, Ph. D.)
MS 4483 Notes and bibliography compiled for a history of Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada
Evans, James, 1801-1846
Includes a narrative of the Rev. James Evans, December 16, 1834, published in the Christian Guardian, January 28, 1835, and giving an eye-witness account of the "Conjurer's Great Feast or Medai Kech-e-we-goo-win" of the Chippewa. Evans' narrative is 5 pages.
Photographs and microfilm of Paul Kane paintings and sketchbook
1 Roll (microfilm)
84 Copy prints
Photographs of sketches and paintings made by Paul Kane in 1845-1856, including portraits and scenes of camps, dances, and a buffalo hunt, relating to the Ojibwa, Ottawa, Menominee, Potawatomi, Eastern Sioux, Cree, Assiniboine, Chinook, Cowlitz, Clallam, Cowichan and Babine. The sketchbook, of which the microfilm may be incomplete, includes many of …
Snake River Irrigation Project Photograph Album
A photograph album documenting an irrigation project on the Snake River in Arizona, precise location unknown. The images depict a dam, construction camp, excavation, ferries, cranes, pumping stations, canals and personnel.
Alfred Tamarin photographs for We Have not Vanished
65 Photographic prints (black and white, 8x10)
The Alfred Tamarin photograph collection consists of negatives and contact prints shot by Tamarin in 1971 during research for his publication We Have not Vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Tamarin made photographs among the Passamaquoddy, Mashpee Wampanoag, Narragansett, Cayuga [Six Nations/Grand River (Brantford, Ontario)], Mohawk [Akwesasne (St. Regis), Hogansburg, New York], Seneca, Lenape (Delaware), Nanticoke, Pamunkey, Chickahominy and Eastern Band of Cherokee communities, capturing both events and craftspeople at work.
Jeff Thomas photographs
The photographs include an image of Jack Moore, a Pima dancer, with the American flag painted on his face; a portrait of the dancer Kevin Haywahe (Assiniboine) wearing a wolf-hide and feather headdress with beaded sun wheel medallion and beaded appendage, elaborate face painting, pipe bead necklace and elaborately beaded breast ornament; an outdoor view of a young boy posed beside grafitti that reads "Cultural Revolution"; a young man standing in front of a grain elevator and wearing a t-shirt with an image of Christopher Columbus and the caption "Founder of the New World"; and a triptych documenting the urban Onondaga Iroquois experience in Ottawa, Ontario.
MS 7375 Correspondence between W.H. Holmes and C.T. Currelly
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Includes letters, xerox of photographs of exhibit, and notes. Concerns a exhibit of a Mohawk family group and another of cliff dwellers.
