Farmer's Almanac, 1878 edition, published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Contents: How may we best improve the farm? -- Golden rules for bee keeping -- Precautions against fire -- A drunken farm -- How to make Vienna rolls -- Beware of the...
Publicity and other material relating to the group Allen's Cheyenne Minstrels, performers of Western musical comedy.
This manuscript consists of a 14-page table of vocabulary elements and their corresponding hieroglyphs, Nahuatl name, English equivalent, and example word. The manuscript is titled “The Ancient Mexican Writing System”, written by Charles E. Dibble and edited by E. R....
This is a typed copy of an interview that appeared in Tucson, 1873 June 21. Written by A. P. K. Safford and Samuel Hughes, it describes early Arizona during the Spanish occupation recounted by Mariana Dias and two other women....
The collection is also referred to as the "Vertical Files Collection" and consists of published articles from newspapers, magazines, and academic journals.
The collection consists of published articles and biographies by Austin; reviews and interviews about Austin or her work; correspondence with Charles Flethcer Lummis and Frederick Webb Hodge; a book prospectus; and advertisements promoting her publications....
The principal item of this collection is a carbon trypescript copy of "Reminiscences" (of the far west, 1860-1918), 181 pages, by Edward Everett Ayer (1841-1927). Other items in this collection include a letter from Edward Ayer to Hector Alliot, a...
This collection consists of a typed manuscript and images created by Della Murray Banks of her 1899 trip to Yukon, Alaska. Collection also includes issues of magazine from 1945-1946 and a letter from the magazine's Associate Editor Ethel M. Dassow...
A brief biography of Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1859-1928.
Typed copy of a manuscript entitled written by Percy A. Bivins in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico on November 1, 1899. The typed document itself is not dated.
Lena Stovall Blakeney (1878 October 16-1964 June 19) was an artist who lived and worked in southeastern Oklahoma from 1903 until her death in 1964. Her works excelled in close observations of people and landscapes of southeastern Oklahoma during its...
The collection is comprised mainly of Bob Cormack's research on various topics in Western history, including the lives of John Lawrence and Will James.
Description of trip to Lynx Creek gold placer mine by Augustus Brichta in 1862 and 1863. Mention of Vulture Mine, and a hunt for Apache raiders on the war-path. Document remarks: Includes a Southwest Museum "Individual Manuscript Form" with additional...
An 1802 English document, a lease for a house, issued by a Mr. James Beek to a Mr. Philip Trinder. The term of the lease is 21 years.
Ronald Allen Brooks (1937-circa 1986) was an anthropologist and exhibit designer, including a year of employment in the exhibits department of the Southwest Museum in 1985. This collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and photocopied articles Brooks wrote or collected from...
This collections consists of newspaper articles, stamps, and images related to Spanish bullfighting and bullfighters from the mid 20th Century. Documents are dated as early as 1944 and as late as 1966, however there are some undated images most likely...
This collection includes copies of 1980 Census data tables that relate to "racial groups" and "American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut Persons" as well as an original typed list titled "The Largest 40 Cities in California, American Indians, Eskimo and Aleut-...
This collection consist of an informational pamphlet and fifty-two illustrated playing cards. Per the pamphlet "These cards contain a comprehensive outline history of California under the rule of Spain, beginning with the discovery of the Pacific Ocean, and including the...
This is a volume entitled "Camels in the Southwest: Term Study for the History of the West, University of Southern California," prepared by Myrtle McDonald, 1929 May 12. It contains a 21-page paper, 5-page bibliography, a hand-drawn map of Western...
This is an account of the Crabb Massacre that occurred in 1857 in Mexico, as remembered by John G. Capron. It is a typed, unsigned, and undated manuscript.
Incomplete script of The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop, from the novel by Hamlin Garland, Picturized by A. Van Buren Powell. Booklet by Garland describing landscapes in colorful terms, pulled from the December 1893 issue of
The collection includes correspondence, programs, newspaper articles, and drawings related to Carl Oscar Borg from 1906-1948. Carl Oscar (Oskar) Borg (born 3 March 1879, died 8 May 1947) was a Swedish born American painter who was known for his Western...
This collection of correspondence contains a copy of a letter sent from Arizona Copper Company manager Norman Carmichael to his sister regarding an auto trip by Carmichael and Frank C. Lockwood through Arizona to raise funds for World War I....
This collection includes a hand-written manuscript by Jeanne Carr, articles by C. F. Shoop from 1959 and 1962 on Carr scholar Frank T. Thompson and his research on the Carr home, a1951 article by Thompson, and a Jeanne Carr obituary...
The Carrie Plato Kahn Papers Collection includes 67 items ranging in date from 1887 to 1953. It is organized into five different series: Photographs, Personal Papers, Business Papers, Correspondence, and Tourist Material.
Jack Case was an American rodeo trick rider and Hollywood stuntman popular in the 1930s. This collection includes correspondence and records regarding Case’s personal and business life, photographs, and promotional materials for rodeo shows, including his performing horse Rex.
Sixty-five pages of parchment manuscript book of Catholic church liturgy used in a California mission. This collection also includes a page of missal from a convent.
Twenty-one pages consisting of hand-drawn illustrations of caves and petroglyphs of California. Illustrations also includes site maps, images of cave interiors, and drawings of the rock art....
This is a typed manuscript entitled by Adelaide Chamberlain.
The Charles King Collection contains 22 items ranging in date from 1887 to 1974. It is organized into four series: Articles and Stories by Charles King, Articles about Charles King, Images, and Advertisements. The bulk of the collection is the...
Clum was an Arizona Pioneer and Apache Indian agent at San Carlos. This collection contains manuscripts by John P. Clum, and newspaper clippings about John P. Clum, ranging from 1928 to 1957.
This collection pertains to the California Cliff Dwellings Club which is chapter of Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association. Materials are dated 1895-1953 and include a bibliography, booklets, correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts, meeting minutes, notes, songs, and speeches.
Two typed manuscripts regarding the history of the Colorado River between 1868 and 1872.
The collection consists of two copies of a publication of D. E. Conner's account of the Walker Expedition in Arizona and typed copies of three letters to a Miss Hall in 1910.
This is a typed carbon copy of reports and correspondence from L. P. Cordon and Sons to an unknown recipient, regarding land settlement in Forest Dale Ward (or Forestdale Ward) and Woodruff, Arizona between 1876 and 1882.
This is a typed copy of the daily journal of Susan M. Cranstone on an Oregon Trail journey by covered wagon from Woodstock, Ohio to Dalles, Oregon, May 8, 1851 to Aug. 27, 1851.
Frances Densmore was an American ethnographer and ethnomusicologist born in 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She wrote more than 20 books and 100 articles. She also made more than 2,000 wax cylinder recordings of Native music, including recordings for the...
This is a typed translation of the , Madrid, 1756, second edition made by Charles Fletcher Lummis at an unknown date.
Collection consists of documents related to the 34 John Woodhouse pencil sketches donated to the Southwest Museum by Maria R. Audubon through Eva Scott Fenyes, 1912 May 14. The materials date from 1906 to 1953. John Woodhouse Audubon (born 1812...
John Dunkel (1915 February 21- 2001, February 22) was a radio and television writer, most prolific in the television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. This collection of scripts and other papers spans from 1945-1988 and includes completed scripts, stories,...
This file contains a 37-page typed manuscript entitled "Early Days in Arizona as seen by Thomas Thompson Hunter." The topics of the manuscript include travel through Apache country, stories of relations between the United States government and the Native Americans...
The collection is comprised of 160 photocopies of drawings that depict figurines, which were likely produced by the Jama Coaque (200 B.C.–800 A.D.) culture in the province of Manabí in Ecuador. Date that the photocopies were made is unknown. In...
(John) Edward Borein (born October 21, 1873, died May 19, 1945) was a prominent and prolific artist of Western themes who created illustrations, oil and watercolor paintings, and etchings. Collections consists of 234 pencil drawings and watercolors by Ed Borein....
The collection is primarily Edward Finney's PR archive on Tex Ritter.
This is a small, leather-bound, 6-ring looseleaf notebook with the title "Seneca Dictionary" by Joseph Keppler, compiled between 1914 and 1944. Entries are hand-written in English with Seneca translations on the opposite page.
The Erl H. Ellis papers represent his work with the Westerners International from the late 1950s through the early 1980s.
This collection consists largely of Mrs. Estabrook's handwritten notes and illustrations copied from various publications. Materials also include magazine and newspaper clippings, publications, and photographic negatives and prints. Materials date from 1922-1941, and much of the collection is undated.
This is a collection of two typed letters by Petra Etchelly from 1872 July. One letter was from the papers of the Pioneers Society and regards Sonoita Valley in Arizona.
The Works Progress Administration of 1935 created a Federal Art Project to support artists and provide collection and exhibit maintenance and reference material to museums during the Great Depression. The National Parks Service carried out one such Federal Art Project...
The Turbesé Lummis Fiske and Frances Douglas papers are mostly personal documents, with some manuscripts and realia, spanning from 1890-1967. They include the papers of Henry Herbert Knibbs from 1929-1945, and include correspondence from, to, and about Charles Fletcher Lummis.
The collection consists of ephemera, institutional records, and Gamut Club guest registers.
Orvon Gene Autry (born September 29, 1907 - died October 2, 1998) was a legendary recording and movie star whose career spanned over 60 years in the entertainment industry. Sometimes called “The Singing Cowboy,” Autry was also a broadcast executive...
Charles Baldwin Genung was an Arizona pioneer in the 1860s and 1870s. This collection includes carbon copies of typed manuscripts by Genung, recounting his experiences in the 1860s and 1870s.
Items related to the business careers of Amos and Ebenezer Gould.
This collection is primarily drawings by Mrs. Graham of, and newspaper clippings about, California missions from 1927-1937. The drawings in this manuscript collection are done in pencil, and appear to be based on photographs. Other materials include biographical materials, maps,...
This manuscript contains the story of Arizona pioneer S. W. Grant as told to Edith O Kitt on 1924 December 9.
Fordyce Grinnell, Jr. (1882-1943), was a noted lepidopterist in Southern California and founded the Lorquin Natural History Club (now the Lorquin Entomological Society) in June 1913. Grinnell was an assistant curator of entomology at the Southwest Museum from 1916-1917, and...
This is a typed copy of a manuscript entitled "The Tonto Basin Row" by Sharlot Mabridth Hall, which may have appeared in the newspaper in August 1887.
This is a typed copy of a manuscript by Walter Kerr Halsted entitled "My Trip to California in '49," wherein Halsted recounts the four years he spent traveling to and living in California, starting in 1849. Halsted was 91 at...
Harmon Pritchard Collection includes samples of his artwork, illustrations, and personal papers.
Dr. Hector Alliot (1862-1919), was the first curator for the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute collections in 1901, and in 1912, he oversaw its transfer to the Southwest Museum where he became Director in 1917. The collection consists of...
Major General Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) was a Major General in the United States Army and served in the military from 1825-1869. This collection of biographical material spans from 1864-1880 and includes two book excerpts and typed copies of a...
This is a typed copy of a letter from William H. Hilton written to Major E. A. Sherman on 1906 October 1, recounting a pack, or wagon, train trip Hilton made for the U. S. Government from San Diego to...
Scrapbooks of newspaper articles written from 1965-1968, featuring Historic Houses of California and the West arranged alphabetically by geographical location or edifice name into two three-ring binders. Some photographs are also included in the collection....
Father William McDermott Hughes (1880-1939) was a Catholic priest who traveled through California getting Native American storytellers to tell their tales to him. This collection includes Hughes's initial hand-written manuscripts produced mostly between 1910 and 1911 as well as typed...
This is a document comprised of four sheets printed with lists of Spanish and English words and corresponding typed Huichol words. The document was recorded from informant Francisco Tejon by Donald Bush Cordry at la Mesa, Nayarit, 1937 November 29.
Photocopy of the original report printed in the , volume XIV, August 8, 1868 issue....
The International Gay Rodeo Association Insitutional Archives consist of administrative records, memorabilia, posters, publications and clothing from 1982-2009. Most of the materials are regarding the planning, production, and reviews of regional chapter rodeos as well as the final rodeo for...
Scrapbook of articles about Inyo County; letter from John L. Von Blon, a journalist and photographer, to "Bill," regarding publicity for Red Rock Canyon; and copy of article regarding Red Rock Canyon by Von Blon.
The papers in the Irene Vickrey collection reflect, for the most part, her work on the Besh-Ba-Gowah archaeological project.
Revised final draft of film script by The American Film Institute. Horror movie involving Mexican witchcraft partially filmed at the Southwest Museum.
This collection includes certificates, correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts, legal papers, and a scrapbook regarding the professional career of Grant Jackson. Materials are from 1886-1924.
The Jayhawkers of '49 were a Death Valley pioneering party, many of which died of starvation en route in 1849. This collection includes newspaper articles on the reunion of the survivors in 1913 and a newspaper clipping on member Colonel...
Records of John Bratt and Co. Ranching firm
Correspondence, papers and photographs of Keogh returned to his family in Ireland after his death, together with letters received by the family relating to Keogh, and newspaper clippings. The family assembled two albums to honor the memory of Keogh, the...
This is a hand-written document of English words with Keres equivalent, except two pages of Keres to English, probably created by Adolph Bandelier, circa 1883. The document consists of 22 sheets of notebook paper with notes handwritten in ink.
Emit Akins Kirkendall (1878 June 1 - 1958 January 23) was a Spanish-American War veteran, an inventor of agricultural tools, and a real estate agent in Baker, Oregon. His collection of papers, correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia span from 1899-1977 and...
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America, TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: Know ye, That, in consideration of military service performed by William Taylor (a Major for the seventh year of his service) to the...
This collection of papers spanning from 1999-2000 document First Assistant Craig J. Lane’s work on production of the television movies The Secret of Giving (1999) and By Dawn’s Early Light (2000). Craig J. Lane (b. October 10, 1961) lives and...
This collection consists of Linda Levi's personal and family photographs; prints and images of her artwork; and exhibit announcements and catalogs related to her group and solo shows. Also included is Levi's resume, newspaper articles, and press releases....
Frank Dunham Lewis, born 1863, was a U. S. Special Indian Agent appointed in 1889, and served as delegate from the 78th district to the 35th session of the California Assembly in 1903. This collection consists mainly of Lewis' incoming...
This collection consists of an autograph book from the Hayward Indian School in Hayward, Wisconsin; drawings from the Hopi Indian Reservation in Keams Canyon, Arizona; and written exams from the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California. The Sherman Institute is now...
The Lottie L. Tillotson collection contains material that Tillotson collected on her travels throughout the American West between 1896 and 1903.
Research files for the publication, The Shadow of the Arrow, a History of Death Valley and Early Travelers Through the Area. The files consist of photostatic and typed copies of documents and maps, and a total of 133 photographs.
Dr. J. J. (Joseph James) Markey (1897-1985) was a physician and amateur archaeologist and was president of the San Luis Rey Historical Society in 1957. This collection of papers and photographs includes newspaper clippings following Markey’s archaeological exploits, photographs of...
The collection contains information about, and works by, Mary Emily Foy.
Major Washington Matthews, M.D., LL.D. (1881-1905) was a surgeon with the United States Army and a scholar and writer on Navajo culture and people. This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook from 1893-1945 related...
The collection is comprised mainly of photographs, collected by Maurice Frink, of Miss Indian America contestants from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s as well as his collection of 12 salt prints of Ogallala Sioux men, dated 1898-1900.
This collection contains materials from 1891-1934, including two sets of transcripts from the 1930 radio program written by James H. McClintock, writings by McClintock appearing in brochures, magazines, and newspapers, as well as two obituary notices for McClintock.
This is a collection of newspaper clippings from 1961-1969 regarding relations between Mexico and the United States, as well as two English bibiliographies on Mexico from 1968 and two issues of magazine from 1966 and 1968.
The Sepulveda family played a prominent role in Southern California history and development. The most well-known family branch were the recipients of a 35,000 acre land grant that later became Rancho Palos Verdes. This collection spans 1834-1952 and includes clippings,...
This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, drawings, and maps from 1894-1902 regarding charges that polygamous Mormons forced Hopi Indians from land and water that they had used for years.
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk was a Civil War veteran and a doctor of Eclectic Medicine. His interest in collecting publications on Arizona led him to create the Munk Library of Arizoniana, housed at the Southwest Museum. The includes papers,...
Presumably the account is of the author's own experience. Manuscript includes 21 pages of an incomplete and handwritten account. The account is about a girl, presumably the author, growing up in England and going to America after the death of...
Newspaper and magazine clippings on Native American education, economics, and rights, collected in 1967 and 1968. Some clippings focus on California.
This is a carbon copy of a typed manuscript of the Book of Luke from the Bible, translated into Navajo.
This collection includes a typed copy of the Marine Corps Hymn in English; a copy of the Hymn translated into Navajo by Private First Class Jimmie K. King; and a letter to Frederick Webb Hodge from Philip Johnston, dated 1943...
This is a small, bound notebook containing hand-written Navajo words arranged alphabetically with English equivalents, recorded by L. R. Paxton, possibly in the early 1880s. L. R. Paxton was a trader in northern Arizona in the early 1880s. His daughter...
The journal titled, "Incidents of a Voyage from New York to San Francisco around Cape Horn in the good ship Carrington , F.B. French Commander. Commenced Dec 15, 1852. Ended April 20th 1853," was hand-written by Myer J. Newmark when...
The Northern California Indian Association, formed in 1894, was a branch of the Women’s National Indian Association, which formed in Philadelphia in 1879. The Northern California Indian Association, based in San Jose, CA, campaigned for “the physical, moral, and educational...
This is a collection of a typed copy of a manuscript entitled "Notes on the Navajo Language" by Father Leopold Ostermann of St. Michael's, Arizona, 1905 and a three-page typed document entitled "Adjectives and Names of Colors," undated, possibly by...
Nudie Cohn, born Nuta Kotlyrenko in Kiev (1902 December 15 - 1984 May 9), was a Russian immigrant who moved to America in 1913. Born into a family of boot makers and tailors, he made a name for himself in...
This is a hand-written manuscript in Spanish documenting the history of New Mexico from 1534 to 1763. No author or date is noted on the document.
This is a collection of currency and checks from 1854-1918 from the Canada, Germany, Haiti, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.
The collection consists of the documents of father and son, William C. and Frank M. Parcher from 1911 to 1931. William’s portion includes documents from his time with the Bishop Chamber of Commerce circa 1918-1921. Frank’s portion includes professional documents...
Henry S. Parkin was a trader and married to a Sioux woman. The Parkin Store, later called the Cannonball Mercantile Company, operated in Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota from 1879 to 1930. A majority of their clientele were Sioux Indians....
This collection consists of published material and personal papers. The published materials include magazine and newspaper articles about De Longpre's 50th birthday celebration
Tom Pavatea was a Hopi Indian who was a trader on the Hopi reservation beginning in the late 1890s and running through the 1940s. This collection includes official correspondence and papers of Tom Pavatea from 1933 to 1947.
Items in this collection date from 1861-1983 and include stamps, covers or envelopes, newspaper clippings, typed articles, and correspondence. Materials include an envelope collection of covers from 1861 that mostly deal with politics, race relations, and the Civil War; stamps,...
This collection consists of a manuscript, original ink drawings, and pencil sketches for a coloring book titled , illustrated by Jack McCord. It was developed in conjunction with a Southwest Museum exhibit of the same name that ran from 2002...
This collection contains mostly hand-written and type-written notes Dr. Lorayne Horka took from original sources regarding the Pico family and land claims in California. Some of these notes were taken from materials at the Bancroft Library at the University of...
Materials related to the life and career of Western actor Raven Grey Eagle, a.k.a. Andy Florio.
This collection includes letters written by Virginia Elizabeth Reed, a member of the Donner Party, at age 12, as well as manuscripts written about her by George Wharton James and Frances Watkins. This collection also includes magazine articles and newspaper...
The materials predominately consist of color slides taken during Robert S. Curry's travels to Mayan cities, California, and the Southwest.
Collection relating to the life of cowboy and sharpshooter Stephen Hicks, also known as "Rocky Mountain Steve."
Singer, songwriter, and actor Eugene “Smokey” Rogers (1917-1993) was a successful and influential part of the country music scene in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s. He performed in bands with Spade Cooley and Tex Williams, hosted his own...
Posters, clippings, scripts, programs, photographs, lettersheets, sheet music and documents relating to the career of Texan, Samuel Franklin Cody, as a Wild West showman, sharpshooter, actor, playwright, horseman and aviator in Great Britain and Western Europe.
This is a collection of bibliographic information on index cards in English, French, and German. The collection is entirely undated. Cards contain bibliographic information on anthropology and archaeology resources, mostly dealing with early man and prehistoric studies. The cards display...
Ruldolf Schuller (1873-1932) was an Austrian linguist and philologist whose primary concentration was on Indian languages of Central and South America, and who was working on a translation of the Popol Vuh, the creation story from the Quiché (K'iche') Maya...
A scrapbook of newspaper articles from publications such as the and the , circa 1885. The majority of articles are written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and are accounts of his "Tramp Across the Continent" from 1884-1885.
This is a note and envelope sent to Frederick Webb Hodge by Brother Claudius Antony of St. Mary's College, California, 1934 January 21. The Cover, which is also the envelope, is postmarked Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1934, and is stamped with "Sequoyah's...
These are some of the records of the Shea Copper Company from 1916-1937. Included are administrative papers, stock certificates, and correspondence regarding transfer requests.
This collection consists primarily of sheet music from notable and local musicians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries on topics relating to California, Arizona, Spanish folksongs, and music influenced by or transcribed from Native American songs, chants and...
The Southwest Society was an active branch of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903-1917. The Society was founded by Charles F. Lummis with the intent of eventually opening a museum of artifacts of the Southwest. Southwest Society Institutional Archives...
This is a collection of English translations of the Spanish Archives of New Mexico, which was an endeavor of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the mid-1930s. Records in this collection document matters of estates, land grants, wills, government, and...
Gotlieb Adam Steiner (1844 March 28-1916 February 18) made a successful living in the steel industry in Southwestern Pennsylvania with the Schoenberger Steel Company, but his passion was collecting baskets woven by Native Americans. The Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
The collection consists of personal notebooks, diaries, correspondence, essays and drawings by Rev. Stephen Bowers, and newspaper clippings.
This is a typed copy of a manuscript entitled "Story of Capt. W. R. Johnson" relating his experiences in the cattle trade and story of Lieutenant Winters and Colonel Stone's encounter with Indians in Arizona, from the , 1891 January...
This collection consists of 4 typed pages of stories and words of Tachi Indian songs that are meant to accompany the record album created by the Tachis on the Santa Rosa Indian Reservation near Lemoore, California, 1940 February 23. According...
A transciption of the journal of Father Sigismundo Taraval, a Milanese Jesuit of Spanish ancestry, who recounts his first hand experiences of clashes with the indigenous people of Baja California. Taraval’s account was written beginning in 1734 and continued through...
Autobiographical manuscript typed on April 17, 1900 by Matthew Teed, who was born in England in 1828, was a carpenter, and came to the United States in 1849 or 1850. Teed was an early pioneer of the American West. Manuscript...
Dr. Toshio Yatsushiro (b. 1917) is an anthropologist born in the United States to Japanese parents. Yatsushiro started advising and doing research for the federal government when he and his family were incarcerated in the Poston War Relocation Authority Camp...
This is a typed copy of a manuscript entitled "Notes of an Interview With Hon. Thomas Gates by E.J. Trippel." The document is undated but the content within refers to a prison riot known as the Gates Riot which occurred...
Tyler Beard (1954 September 1 - 2007 December 20) was renowned for his expertise on cowboy boots and other aspects of Western style. Beard and his wife Teresa opened a Western apparel, boots, and antiques outfit called "True West" in...
Manuscript is a photostat of the original, dictated by Joel P. Walker to R. A. Thompson of Santa Rosa, California and handwritten by Thompson in 1878. Walker (b. 1797) was a soldier under General Jackson in Alabama and Florida, and...
Frances Emma Watkins, born December 27, 1899 and died circa 1987, was an anthropologist specializing in the American Southwest, publishing mostly in the 1930s and 1940s. Watkins was an employee of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian from 1930...
Western television programming features stories of the American West, usually occurring during the historical period of westward expansion, from 1865-1900, and typically set in the western United States or northern Mexico. Popular series in this genre include , , and...
This collection contains correspondence and memoirs from 1942-1950 between Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Mary J. Workman, and Dora B. Weatherwax regarding the origin of Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles, California and the involvement of John Henry Bryant in...
The documents that make up The Williams Family Papers pertain, for the most part, to the life and business dealings of Alfred Leonzo ("A.L.") Williams, although other Williams family members are also prominently represented in the collection.
William Ernst Winter (1899-1966) was a San Jose businessman with a voracious interest in Maya culture and the Mayan calendar. Winter studied Maya archaeology from at least 1932 until 1961, and created an entire library of hand-drawn glyphs. This collection...
William “Bill” Lawton Wright (1902 March 23 - 1962 September 2) was a newspaper reporter in San Diego and San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s. He pursued an interest in San Diego County history and discovered that the location...
This is a bound journal with the title "Zuni Vocabulary" by Matilda Coxe Stevenson, 1903. Vocabularly is listed in alphabetical divisions by English word or phrase with Zuni equivalent.