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| Title: | Jones, Sara Tucker. Collection |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1670-1946 |
| Accession Number: | 2024-151 |
| Size: | 11 linear feet (8 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | This collection contains documents that relate to a project begun around 1936 at the University of Chicago known as the Ethno-History Collection. The purpose of this project was to locate and copy documents concerning the inaction of American Indians and whites. The material in this collection was acquired from the editor of the project, Sara Jones Tucker. |
This collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Jones, Sara Tucker. Collection, Acc #, Box #, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
This collection contains documents that relate to a project begun around 1936 at the University of Chicago known as the Ethno-History Collection. The purpose of this project was to locate and copy documents concerning the inaction of American Indians and whites. Initially focused on the earliest encounters in the Mississippi Valley, the project was broadened to include period from the first French and Spanish encounters to the early period of the American Republic.
The material in this collection was acquired from the editor of the project, Sara Jones Tucker.
The collection includes brief notes on the projects, lists and indices of the material collected, forms on which documents were described and abstracted, and copies of some of the microfilm. There are also notes on the Illinois by G. Hubert Smith, apparently an effort to demonstrate the value of the material that had been collected. There are also materials of Sara Jones Tucker produced by her own studies.
| Box 1 | Binder of the microfilm and photostat collections, undated |
| Box 1 | Forms describing documents in the Indian Record at the National Archives, 1800-1804 |
| Box 1 | Forms describing documents in the Indian Record at the National Archives, 1812-1832 |
| Box 1 | Forms describing documents in the Indian Record at the National Archives, 1817-1818 |
| Box 1 | Forms describing documents in the Indian Record at the National Archives, 1818 |
| Box 1 | Chronological List of Documents Microfilmed in Quebec, 1684-1734 |
| Box 2 | Writings by Tucker, 1942-1946 |
| Box 2 | “An Introduction to a Calendar of the Lewis Cass Letter Books, 1814-1823, and Some Ethnographic Notes Which were Derived from the Letters and Reports Which Are Contained in Those Books” |
| Box 2 | “The Life of the Illiniwek Before European Influence” |
| Box 2 | “Preliminary Summary of Data relating to Old Kaskaskia and the Illiniwek Indians for the Period 1670 to1700” |
| Box 2 | Maps, undated |
| Box 2 | Cass, Lewis Letter Book vol. 2 401, 0.2-188, 1817 |
| Box 2 | National Archives War Department, undated |
| Box 2 | Cass, Lewis, vol. 2 1817-1818 |
| Box 3 | Personal Name Index, Acc. 80-57, undated |
| Box 4 | Place Name Index, undated |
| Box 5 | Notes on the Illinois (Illiniwek) by G. Hubert Smith, undated |
| Box 5 | Introduction, by_____ |
| Box 6 | Bibliography and general ethnology, undated |
| Box 7 | Secondary Readings on Illinois, undated |
| Box 8 | Microfilms, undated |
| Box 8 | Reels 1-10, 12,13—National Archives |
| Box 8 | Reel 29—Historical Society of Pennsylvania, #865, 868, 860, 861, 867 |
| Box 8 | Reel 31—New York Historical Society, #862, 864, 869, 870 |
| Box 8 | Reel 34—American State papers |
| Box 8 | Reel 35-36—National Archives, CIA, 1804 and Superintendent of Indian trade Abstract 6 and Calendars |
| Box 8 | Reel 40—Obadiah Rich |
| Box 8 | Reel—unknown, undated |