41 original oil paintings, and drawings.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, notebooks, brochures, manuscripts, maps, paintings, and sketches. Focus areas of the notes for articles, speeches, and books cover a wide variety of topics including the Onondaga Indians and their reservation, festivals and culture, Sitting Bull using a telephone, Tendoi The climber, articles by Elizabeth Custer, Moravian missions, history of Amenia, N.Y., Fort Buford, manuscript regarding Indian attitudes towards African Americans, Low Dog, Jean Francois Millet and his Indian paintings, Stockbridge, Karl Bodmer, Indian costumes, and articles from Century and Antiques Magazine. Correspondence from the United States Indian Service, Luther Kelly, B. M. Graff, Edgar S. Cameron, and the Linnaean Society of New York. Pamphlets include information on saddles, big game hunting, and Iroquois mythology. Maps, from the late 1800s, are annotated by Smith with the paths he traveled by wagon. Maps include Oregon, Indian reservations of the United States, and western and southwestern United States. Oil paintings, charcoal and pencil sketches, of Indians and reservations.
Dates
- 1880-1943.
Creator
- From the Collection: Smith, De Cost,1864-1939. (Person)
- From the Collection: Cameron, Edgar Spier, 1862-1944. (Person)
- From the Collection: Drake, A. W. (Person)
- From the Collection: Graff, B. M. (Person)
- From the Collection: Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928. (Person)
- From the Collection: Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933. (Title of work: Boots and saddles..) (Person)
- From the Collection: Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940. (Title of work: Costumed human figure from Tampico, Washington..) (Person)
- From the Collection: Linnaean Society of New York. (Organization)
- From the Collection: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs (Organization)
- From the Collection: Huntington Free Library. (Former owner, Organization)
- From the Collection: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. (Former owner, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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