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
- Smith, De Cost,1864-1939. (Person)
- Cameron, Edgar Spier, 1862-1944. (Person)
- Drake, A. W. (Person)
- Graff, B. M. (Person)
- Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928. (Person)
- Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933. (Title of work: Boots and saddles..) (Person)
- Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940. (Title of work: Costumed human figure from Tampico, Washington..) (Person)
- Linnaean Society of New York. (Organization)
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs (Organization)
- Huntington Free Library. (Former owner, Organization)
- Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. (Former owner, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
DeCost Smith was born in Skaneateles New York. His devotion to Indian subjects in his artwork gained him appreciation and allowed him to continue to record their lives and customs.
Extent
1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
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.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
Original Huntington Free Library box numbers have been retained.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Newspapers, Photographs, Printed Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Evan Fay Earle
- Date completed:
- March 2006
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle March 2006
- Bodmer, Karl, 1809-1893.
- Charles, Frank T.
- Cree Indians.
- Crow Indians.
- Dakota Indians.
- Fort Buford (N.D.)
- Indian reservations -- United States.
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Clothing.
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains.
- Indians of North America -- Languages.
- Indians of North America -- Missions.
- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works.
- Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.
- Indians of North America -- Tobacco use.
- Iroquois Indians
- Iroquois Indians -- Folklore.
- Low Dog.
- Maps
- Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Omaha Indians.
- Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.)
- Onondaga Indians.
- Paintings.
- Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883.
- Siksika Indians.
- Simcoe, Lake (Ont.)
- Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890.
- Sketches.
- Stockbridge Indians.
- Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians.
- Wyandot Indians.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Evan Fay Earle
- Date
- March 2006
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu