Manuscripts

Lecture notes on the American Southwest

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Description: This group of material consists of seven packets of notes and material, including photographs, that Campbell created for a series of lectures about the history and Indians of the American Southwest. The titles of the lectures are: The Indians; Spanish Explorers; The Indian Pueblos of New Mexico; Stories about the Pueblo Indians; The Conquest of New Mexico and the Mexican Settlers; The American Occupation; and Texas and Arizona. The lectures discuss the following subjects: the Acoma, Laguna, Navajo, Pueblo and Zuni Indians; Arizona history; California history; New Mexico history; Texas history; and Taos Pueblo. Campbell also uses material written by Mary Hunter Austin and Charles Fletcher Lummis in her lectures. The photographs are of Southwest Indians and landscapes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1943.
Call number: mssHM 67891-67897
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Stereographs of Indians of the Southwest, California, and other views by George Wharton James and G. L. Rose

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429 stereographs by photographers George Wharton James and G. L. Rose of the American Southwest with images of Native Americans, including Cahuilla Indians, and scenes in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Views of Hopi and Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico (many scenes at Acoma Pueblo); portraits of Hualapai Indians and school children in Arizona; canyons and landscape of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest. Notable in the collection are G. W. James's photographs of the Cahuilla Indian woman "Ramona" speaking into his phonograph, and other Cahuilla scenes published in his book "Through Ramona's Country." Other views in Southern California include the Plaza Church, Los Angeles; Mount Lowe railway and Alpine Tavern; San Juan Capistrano Mission; agriculture and farming in Riverside County, including fruit packing for the "Hemet Fruit Association"; Flores Adobe, South Pasadena; many views of Yosemite and horse and coach travelers; Mariposa Grove; camping wagons; hotel in Sonora, California. G. W. James appears in a few views; as does Horatio N. Rust and William W. Bass, trail builder in Grand Canyon.

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Manuscripts regarding the U.S. Army in the American Southwest

Manuscripts

This group of items consists of four manuscripts written by George H. Pettis regarding his experiences in the 1st Regiment of Infantry, California Volunteers in the American Southwest in the 1860s and 1870s. Two of the manuscripts are about the Civil War in New Mexico, and mention specifically Confederate Captain John Baylor, and the Union General H. H. Sibley, Captain Isaac Lynde, and General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. The other two manuscripts discuss Pettis' experiences in the Indian Wars in New Mexico and Texas including the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. He talks about Kit Carson, Colonel James H. Carleton, Fort Bascom, Fort Craig, and Fort Fillmore. He also talks in detail about the Navajo, Apache, Jicarilla, Kiowa and Ute Indians.

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Photographs of the American Southwest and Virginia

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Consists of 11 photographs. Five are snapshots of the Mission Santa Clara church building and items including a Latin liturgical text and chair. One of these is a photograph of a daguerreotype of the Mission prior to 1858. Three photographs, taken by George Wharton James were taken of Indigenous women at the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico, a procession for the Feast of St. Stephens at the Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, and an indigenous man named Moki on his burro returning to his home in Walpi, Arizona. The remaining three photographs, taken in Virginia, are of the Petersburg Harbor, Virginia, a portrait of Richmond College President Frederic William Boatwright, and a candid snapshot of Robert Alonzo Brock, Jr. at Richmond College.

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Horatio N. Rust Photograph Collection: Album of Indians of Southern California and the Southwest, approximately 1886-approximately 1905

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A photograph album compiled by Horatio Nelson Rust (1828-1906), U.S. Indian agent and archaeological artifact collector, documenting Indians living in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, approximately 1886-1905. Includes group portraits of Indian school students in California; members of the Cahuilla, Luiseno, Morongo, Mojave, Hopi, and Navajo tribes; the Indian Council at Pala, 1886; and scenes in Pechanga, Soboba and other native communities of Southern California. A smaller portion of the album includes Southwest and pueblo scenes; archaeological artifacts; and a few commercial photographs of North American Indians from elsewhere.

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Mai Richie Reed diaries

Manuscripts

Reed kept these diaries during two separate trips to the American southwest. They give a detailed description of Reed's experience traveling through New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Reed, and the friends with whom she was traveling, visited Acoma, Isleta Pueblo (where they witnessed a dance ceremony), and Laguna in New Mexico; Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon in Arizona; and La Jolla, San Diego, Pasadena, and the San Gabriel Mission in California. The diaries are illustrated with photographs from the trips and include Reed and her friends, the southwest landscape, the places she visited, and the Hopi, Navajo, and Isleta Indians (most of the photographs are labeled by Reed).

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Subseries B. Southwest

Visual Materials

Photographs include depictions of Indians, including in poses; Western models including cowboys in rodeos; and various buildings (Folder 1); Mother Lode towns, Carson City, Nevada, and Tyler, Texas (Folder 2); various landscape views depicting deserts and mountains (Folders 3-4); and oversize photographs depicting bison on a range and locations in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and unidentified sites.

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Lecture notes on the American Southwest

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