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Sermon in English and Massachuset by Josiah Cotton, preached to the Indians at Plymouth on Feb. 12, 1709/10 [i.e. 1710]. The sermon exhorts the Indians to renounce their sinful ways, especially their…

Ms. diary kept by Harriet B. Clark Caswell Broad during 1866-1868, containing personal and professional accounts of her life as a missionary to the Seneca Nation on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation…

Unsigned ms., probably from Alabama of 1836, summarizing a talk held May 30, 1836 between Opothleyaholo, chief of the Creek Indians, and Clement C. Clay, governor of Alabama, concerning Creek land own…

Account by Halliday Jackson of a trip he made with three other Quakers between Sept. 1 and Oct. 4, 1806, to the Seneca Indian settlements at Junesassa and Cattaraugus in western New York State near th…

Typescript letter with manuscript corrections prepared by A. P. Edgerton probably around 1881, the year the Miami Indians on the Meshingomesia Reserve in Indiana were granted individual allotments and…

Bound diary documenting Joseph Sumner's travels by rail and steamboat around Northeastern US, beginning and ending in Boston and visiting Detroit, Chicago, Burlington (IO), St. Louis, Cincinnati, Phil…

Digitized on an iVina A3 Bookedge Scanner FB6080E at 600 DPI and 24 bit depth.

October, 1845, speech by Jimmy Johnson, translated and abridged by Ely S. Parker (later U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs) which reiterates the religious and moral teachings of the Seneca prophet, H…

Transcript of a petition to ban the sale of alcohol to Indians, dated in St. Louis, Mo. on May 8, 1768, and addressed to Louis Saint-Ange de Bellerive, French commander of Illinois country, and M. La…

Claim, Jan. 14, 1815, by Tollowo Micco, a Creek Indian, for $14.50, covering the cost of four kegs of whiskey taken by ""the white people."" Creek Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins, who attested to the co…

This 1866 photograph shows the Highland Brewing Company's brewery in Highland. The view is from the north. Telegraph poles are visible in the photograph. This photograph was digitized by Darren Latham…

An unpublished typescript incorporating excerpts from the 23 interviews with Indian residents of Chicago carried out by the Chicago American Oral History Pilot Project.

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Duncan Liquor, 1945, three bottles of alcohol

Indictment dated Oct. 25, 1663 against Nathaniel Mott for selling ten quarts of liquor to Massachusetts Indians. Complaint issued by Indian James Natonamage charges that Mott exchanged liquor for Indi…

by Jno. B. Dowd. Cover title. Illustrated paper cover in colors. Printed in double columns. "May 21, 1919"--Title page. "Stories of adventure"--Title page. Previously printed as: Pluck and luck ; no.…

Six letters, dated between May 8-Nov. 14, 1686 in Québec, from Jacques de Brisay, marquis de Denonville, and governor of New France, to Pierre Arnoul, intendant for the navy in Rochefort, France. Bris…

Domestic/Community/Social Life; Bottle of alcohol, 1945