| | 1 | Author: | Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 | | | | | Ethnologist, lawyer. Practiced law in Rochester, New York, from 1851; New York State Assembly, 1861-1868, State Senate, 1868-1869; active in the study of American ethnology, from the early 1840s; wrote on the history and customs of the American Indians and on social evolution; organizer and first chairman of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1875 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Lewis Morgan and Ely Samuel Parker
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1844-1853 | | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence between Morgan and Parker as well as between Morgan and Caroline Parker and others. Ely Parker became a primary consultant to Morgan in his work. Subjects include Grand Order of the Iroquois; education; Indian names and definitions; Grand Confederacy of Iroquois; request of Parker to make full report of Council and it's speeches and ceremonies; correspondent employment for Parker; payment of articles the Parker family was making and collecting for Morgan; publication "League of the Iroquois"; personal | | | | Source: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895 | | | | | Seneca chief, soldier, engineer. Student of law and then of civil engineering; civil engineer and superintendent of government works at Galena, Ill., 1857-1862; U.S. army, from captain of engineers to brigadier-general, 1862-1869; U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs, 1869-1871; businessman, 1871-1895 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Lewis Morgan and Ely Samuel Parker
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1844-1853 | | | | Extent: | 14 letters | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence between Morgan and Parker as well as between Morgan and Caroline Parker and others. Ely Parker became a primary consultant to Morgan in his work. Subjects include Grand Order of the Iroquois; education; Indian names and definitions; Grand Confederacy of Iroquois; request of Parker to make full report of Council and it's speeches and ceremonies; correspondent employment for Parker; payment of articles the Parker family was making and collecting for Morgan; publication "League of the Iroquois"; personal | | | | Source: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 3 | Author: | Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895 | | | | | Seneca chief, soldier, engineer. Student of law and then of civil engineering; civil engineer and superintendent of government works at Galena, Ill., 1857-1862; U.S. army, from captain of engineers to brigadier-general, 1862-1869; U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs, 1869-1871; businessman, 1871-1895 | |
| | | Title: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1794-1946 | | | | Extent: | 2 linear feet (approximately 600 items) | | | | Abstract: | Printed and manuscript sources on Indian affairs and Ely Parker's life and career, collected by Arthur C. Parker. Includes various Parker family materials; comments and manuscripts of Arthur Parker; linguistic materials dealing with the Seneca, collected by Albert Wright; Seneca historical records gathered by Arthur Parker. Correspondents include Lewis H. Morgan, Henry R. Schoolcraft, Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster | | | | Source: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | |
| 4 | Author: | Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895 | | | | | Seneca chief, soldier, engineer. Student of law and then of civil engineering; civil engineer and superintendent of government works at Galena, Ill., 1857-1862; U.S. army, from captain of engineers to brigadier-general, 1862-1869; U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs, 1869-1871; businessman, 1871-1895 | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Henry Schoolcraft
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 May 1849 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Request for information about Indians | | | | Source: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Personal matters | |
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