Harry Stevens Papers, 1960s-1980s

Mss.Ms.Coll.99

Date: 1960-1989 | Size: 40 Linear feet

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Abstract

This collection consists almost entirely of photocopies of secondary and primary materials relating to Shawnee history and culture, and the history of the Ohio River region.

Background note

Harry Robert Stevens, born in 1914. received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1946. During his career he was an assistant, associate and full professor of United States history at the University of Cincinnati, Michigan State University, and Duke University, respectively. In 1976, he became an emeritus professor at Ohio University. His specialty is nineteenth century political, intellectual and frontier America. Many of his published scholarly articles appear in the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio and the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. Other published works include A Study of Notable Ohioans (1937), Six twenty: Margaretta Hunt and the Baker-Hunt foundation (1942), Early Jackson Party in Ohio (1957).

Scope and content

This collection consists almost entirely of photocopies of secondary and primary materials relating to Shawnee history and culture, and the history of the Ohio River region. Nearly all of the materials are copies of published sources, from the 18th to 20th century, with Stevens' notes on them. The collection is organized according to the topics by which Stevens kept his copies and notes, covering a very broad range of subject matter.

Native American Images note : 642 black and white photocopies, with a few black and white silver gelatin photographs, negatives, and newspaper clippings of images of Shawnee chiefs and settlements copied from 1980-1982. Collected by Stevens for historical research, the images are from various archival source materials and published works. Of interest, photocopies of photographs by Jim Lynch of a 1936 Shawnee settlement in Sperry, Oklahoma. Many portraits of Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Black Hoof, and Cornstalk.

Collection Information

Physical description

40 linear feet.

Provenance

Gift through Herman H. Goldstine.

Processing information

This collection was processed into series and subseries sections by Brian Carpenter in 2016.

Indexing Terms

Personal Name(s)

Stevens, Harry R. (Harry Robert)
Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1763-1813
Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet

Subject(s)

Photocopies
Shawnee Indians
Shawnee Indians -- History

Detailed Inventory


Series 1: Absentee Shawnee			Request Series
Arkansas and Red River		Box 1	Request File
Bibliographies; Catalogues; Guides; Indexes; Archives; Misc.		Box 1	Request File
By Periods: 1839-1985		Box 1	Request File
General, Comprehensive, Bibliographies		Box 1: Box 1	Request File
In Kansas		Box 1	Request File
Oklahoma		Box 1	Request File
Shawnee Spanish Relations, 1541-1715: French and Spanish Louisiana, 1701-1803		Box 2	Request File
Texas: Authors: R.C. Adams to Earnest Winkler		Box 2	Request File
Texas and New Mexico: General, Bibliography, Periods, Areas, Maps		Box 3	Request Item

Series 2: Associates, Commentators, Scholars			Request Series
Adams to Craig		Box 3	Request File
Davis to Finlay		Box 3	Request File
Foreman to Gregg		Box 4	Request File
Halbert to Hanna		Box 4	Request File
Harrington to Lossing		Box 4	Request File
Marston to Powell		Box 4	Request File
Royce to Spencer		Box 5	Request File
Tanner to Trowbridge		Box 5	Request File
Underhill to Wright		Box 5	Request File

Series 3: Biography			Request Series
Collective Catalogue & Bibliography		Box 6	Request File
Indexed by Name			Request Item
Aawabaneshekaw to Husstler		Box 6	Request File
Ill-en-es-a to John Owl		Box 6	Request File
Paaksgee to John Young		Box 7	Request File
Individuals			Request Item
Ackowanothio to Aracoma		Box 7	Request File
Baby, Duperron to Blackfish		Box 8	Request File
Black Hoof to Blanchard		Box 8	Request File
Blue Jacket to Chief Butler		Box 8	Request File
Caesar to Cornatzer		Box 9	Request File
Cornstalk to Peter Cornstalk		Box 9	Request File
Cutteway to Ellis		Box 10	Request File
Charles Fish to William Greyfeather		Box 10	Request File
Hardman to John Johnson		Box 10	Request File
Kakawipilathy to Kumskaka		Box 10	Request File
Lavissimo to Louis Lorimier		Box 10	Request File
George McDougal to Moluntha		Box 11	Request File
Nay-thah-wa-i-nah to Nonhelema		Box 11	Request File
Pah-te-coo-saw to Powhatan		Box 11	Request File
Jennie Segar and Nancy Skye		Box 12	Request File
Captain Snake to William Switch		Box 12	Request File
Tanawa to Tecumsapease		Box 12	Request File
Tenskwatawa	5 folders	Box 12	Request File
Captain Tom to Webb Tyner		Box 13	Request File
Waappee Monneeto to Washington		Box 13	Request File
Wawwilaway to Mary Williams		Box 13	Request File
Willipie to Isaac Zane		Box 13	Request File

Tecumseh Biographies			Request Subseries
Richard C. Adams to Draper Mss.		Box 14	Request File
Joseph Badger to Samuel G. Drake		Box 14	Request File
Jacab P. Dunn to Carl Klinck		Box 14	Request File
John Law to Caroline P. Stecker		Box 15	Request File
Harold Teetor to Norman B. Woods		Box 15	Request File

Tenskwatawa Biographies			Request Subseries
Joseph Badger to Samuel G. Drake		Box 15	Request File
Jacob P. Dunn to James B. Finley		Box 16	Request File
Thomas Forsyth to Charles C. Trowbridge		Box 16	Request File

Series 4: Captives			Request Series
Captives and Captivities		Box 16	Request File
Benjamin Allen to Phoebe Cunningham		Box 16	Request File
Daniels to Henry Fox		Box 17	Request File
Gabriell to Mary Ingles		Box 17	Request File
Joseph Jackson to John Knight, Jr.		Box 17	Request File
Simon Kenton to Samuel Lusk		Box 17	Request File
Joseph McCoon to Hampton Northrop		Box 18	Request File
Henry Osten to Stephen Ruddell		Box 18	Request File
Charles Saunders to Benjamin Sutton		Box 18	Request File
John Tanner to Isaac Zane		Box 18	Request File

Series 5: Eastern Shawnee		Box 19	Request Series

Series 6: Economy			Request Series
Agriculture	3 folders	Box 19	Request File
Clothing	2 folders	Box 19	Request File
Food (incl. "Shawnee Cookbook")	2 folders	Box 19	Request File
General Economy	7 folders	Box 19	Request File
Land		Box 20	Request File
Livestock and Game	6 folders	Box 20	Request File
Shelter	4 folders	Box 20	Request File
Technologies	3 folders	Box 20	Request File
Trade	12 folders	Box 20	Request File
Trails: Trading Paths	1 folders	Box 20	Request File
Vocabularies and Economy	5 folders	Box 20	Request File

Series 7: External Relations			Request Series
Multi-national: Apache to Cherokee		Box 21	Request File
Multi-national: Cheyenne to "Creek"		Box 21	Request File
Multi-national: Delaware		Box 21	Request File
Multi-national: Iroquois League to Ottawa		Box 22	Request File
Multi-national: Pawnee to Yuchi		Box 22	Request File

Series 8: French Relations			Request Series
1616-1715		Box 23	Request File
1703-1749		Box 23	Request File
La Salle, Joutel, Tonty, Membré		Box 23	Request File
Margry Documents		Box 24	Request File

Series 9: Government Documents (or "U.S.-Shawnee Relations")			Request Series
Government Documents #1		Box 24	Request File
Government Documents #2		Box 24	Request File
Government Documents #3		Box 25	Request File
Government Documents #4		Box 25	Request File
Government Documents #5		Box 26	Request File
Government Documents #6		Box 26	Request File

Series 10: Language			Request Series
Algonquian Languages		Box 27	Request File
Algonquian Dictionaries, Non-Shawnee: Aubin to Zeisberger		Box 27	Request File
Classification		Box 28	Request File
Grammar; Syntax; Morphology		Box 28	Request File
General Information		Box 28	Request File
Indian Sign Languages		Box 28	Request File
Interpreters and Interpretations		Box 28	Request File
Manuscripts: Gatschet #1		Box 28	Request File
Manuscripts: Gatschet #2		Box 29	Request File
Manuscripts: Gatschet: BAE MS 1643 (first part)		Box 29	Request File
Manuscripts: Gatschet: BAE MS 1643 (second part)		Box 30	Request File
Manuscripts: Michelson		Box 30	Request File
Manuscripts: Voegelin-Harrington		Box 30	Request File
Nouns; Pronouns; Nominal Suffixes; Entities		Box 31	Request File
Orthography		Box 31	Request File
Other parts of speech		Box 31	Request File
Scholarly Studies: Adelung to Yegerlehner		Box 31	Request File
Sentences; Idioms; Interrogatives; Negatives; Usage		Box 32	Request File
Sound		Box 32	Request File
Sound: Joe Billy Tapes		Box 32	Request File
Sound: Scholarly Studies: Goddard to Voegelin		Box 32	Request File
Special Topics: Population, Literacy, History, Samples		Box 32	Request File
Translation		Box 32	Request File
Verbs		Box 33	Request File
Words; Word Complexes; Lexemes; Morphemes; Lexicons		Box 33	Request File

Series 11: Literature			Request Series
Biographies and Autobiography		Box 33	Request File
The Bible; Translators; Printers; Special Features		Box 33	Request File
Criticism; Style; Puzzles		Box 33	Request File
General		Box 33	Request File
The Gospel in Shawnee		Box 33	Request File
Journalism; Tosan		Box 34	Request File
The Lord's Prayer		Box 34	Request File
Minor Forms		Box 34	Request File
Oratory and Public Address		Box 34	Request File
Poetry, Song, and Verse		Box 34	Request File
Religious (including Siwinowe Eawekitake)		Box 34	Request File
Pertains to Christian texts in Shawnee.
Secular Epics, History, Legends		Box 34	Request File
Secular Epics, History, Legends: The Delaware Sources		Box 35	Request File
Secular Epics, History, Legends: The Lothar Drager File		Box 35	Request File
Secular Epics, History, Legends: Shawnee Texts		Box 35	Request File
Stories		Box 35	Request File
Stories: Horner Collection		Box 36	Request File

Series 12: Military and Diplomacy			Request Series
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1535-1750		Box 36	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1750-1764		Box 36	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1764-1773		Box 37	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1774: McDonald's Campaign, Dunmore's War		Box 37	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1775-1779		Box 38	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1779-1781		Box 38	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1782-1789		Box 39	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1790-1794		Box 39	Request File
Diplomacy and Military Action: 1800-1980		Box 39	Request File
War (and Military Topics)		Box 40	Request File
Weapons		Box 40	Request File

Series 13: Mixed Seneca and Shawnee		Box 40	Request Series

Series 14: Other			Request Series
Archaeology		Box 40	Request File
Archaeology: The Zimmerman Site		Box 41	Request File
Archives, Collected Documents, Manuscripts		Box 41	Request File
The Betcher Tecumseh Index		Box 41: Box 41	Request File
Bibliographies		Box 41	Request File
W. Brandon		Box 41	Request File
Catalogues		Box 41	Request File
Carrie DeVoe		Box 41	Request File
H. E. Driver		Box 41	Request File
Geography, Maps		Box 41	Request File
G.D. Harmon		Box 41	Request File
Identity, Origin, Homeland, Prehistory		Box 42	Request File
Indexes		Box 42	Request File
Kehoe		Box 42	Request File
Miscellaneous		Box 42	Request File
Organizations, Associations, Museums		Box 42	Request File
Publications		Box 42	Request File
Quakers - Kelsey		Box 42	Request File
Unclassified		Box 42	Request File
U.S. Documents, Inventories		Box 42	Request File
U.S. Documents, Unclassified		Box 42	Request File
U.S.-Shawnee Policies		Box 42	Request File

Series 15: Physical Anthropology			Request Series
Health and Disease		Box 43	Request File
Physical Anthropology		Box 43	Request File

Series 16: Population			Request Series
General: 1648-1774	10 folders	Box 43	Request File
General: 1775-1982		Box 44	Request File

Series 17: Portraits			Request Series
Artists	14 folders	Box 44	Request File
97 photocopies, 3 black and white photographs, 7 negatives of portraits by artists: George Catlin, Charles Bird Kind, James Otto Lewis, Margaret Reynolds, and John Stanley of Tecumseh and Shawnee chiefs.
Celebrations, Commemorations, Names, Onomastics	8 folders	Box 44	Request File
Collected	4 folders	Box 44	Request File
110 photocopies of portraits from published collections, such as McKenney & Hall, and Catlin.
Drama, Stage Play, Opera, Movies	6 folders	Box 44	Request File
Imagined	8 folders	Box 45	Request File
186 photocopies of Shawnees, Tecumseh
Individual	1 folder	Box 45	Request File
4 photocopies of portraits of Tecumseh
In Literature	9 folders	Box 45	Request File
37 photocopioes of portraits of Shawnees: Monowano, Kishkalwa, Paytoakootha, Quatawapea, Blackhoof.
Music	1 folder	Box 45	Request File
Photographs	10 folders	Box 45	Request File
202 photocopies of portraits of Shawnees, Sac-and-Fox, Sioux, Cherokee, particularly Tecumseh, Open Door, and Big Jim.

Series 18: Recordings		Box 46	Request Series

Series 19: Religion			Request Series
Abstractions		Box 47	Request File
Activities		Box 47	Request File
The Anthropologists		Box 47	Request File
Christianity: Moravian		Box 48	Request File
Christianity: Quaker		Box 48	Request File
Christian Approaches; Conversion; Denominations		Box 48	Request File
Comprehensive and "things"		Box 49	Request File
Cosmic Epics		Box 49	Request File
Deities and Supernatural Beings		Box 49	Request File
"Our Grandmother"		Box 50	Request File
Priests; Prophets; Shamans		Box 50	Request File
Sacred Dance		Box 50	Request File

Series 20: Society			Request Series
Domestic Government		Box 50	Request File
Education		Box 51	Request File
The Ethnologists: Franz Boas to E. W. Voegelin		Box 51	Request File
Ethnology		Box 51	Request File
The Individual		Box 52	Request File
Kinship		Box 52	Request File
Lore		Box 52	Request File
Medical Arts		Box 52	Request File
Music		Box 52	Request File
Name Groups; Clans; Gens; Totems; Bands		Box 53	Request File
Preservation - Extinction		Box 53	Request File
Secular Dance		Box 53	Request File
Social Structure; Customs; Daily Life		Box 53	Request File
Towns, General, Bibliography, Vocabulary, by geographical location (except Ohio)		Box 54	Request File
Towns: Ohio		Box 54	Request File

Series 21: States			Request Series
Alabama		Box 55	Request File
Arizona		Box 55	Request File
California		Box 55	Request File
Colorado		Box 55	Request File
Far West (includes Lewis & Clark)		Box 55	Request File
Florida		Box 55	Request File
Georgia		Box 55	Request File
Idaho		Box 55	Request File
Illinois		Box 55	Request File
Indiana		Box 56	Request File
Kansas: 1820-1844		Box 56	Request File
Kansas: Abel to Hyde	22 folders	Box 57	Request File
Kansas: Irving to Zornow	24 folders	Box 57	Request File
Kansas: Methodist and Quaker Missions	5 folders	Box 58	Request File
Kansas: Separate Bands		Box 58	Request File
Kentucky		Box 59	Request File
Maryland		Box 60	Request File
Massachusetts		Box 60	Request File
Michigan		Box 60	Request File
Mississippi		Box 60	Request File
Nebraska		Box 60	Request File
New Jersey		Box 60	Request File
New Mexico		Box 60	Request File
New York		Box 60	Request File
North Carolina		Box 60	Request File
Ohio: Adams County to Union County		Box 61	Request File
Ohio: By Author: Bullitt to Downes		Box 61	Request File
Ohio: By Author: Force to Heckewelder		Box 62	Request File
Ohio: By Author: Hildreth to Putnam		Box 62	Request File
Ohio: By Author: Randall to Taylor		Box 63	Request File
Ohio: By Author: Trent to Zeisberger		Box 63	Request File
Ohio: General		Box 64	Request File
Ohio: Hog Creek and Wapakonetta		Box 64	Request File
Ohio: Maps and Geography		Box 64	Request File
Oklahoma		Box 64	Request File
Pennsylvania: Allegheny to Wyoming Valley		Box 65	Request File
Pennsylvania: Brinton to Donehoo	11 folders	Box 65	Request File
Pennsylvania: Eshelman to Weiser		Box 66	Request File
Pennsylvania: General and History to 1832	16 folders	Box 66	Request File
South Carolina		Box 67	Request File
Tennessee		Box 67	Request File
Virginia		Box 67	Request File
West Virginia: Archaeology, Geography, History		Box 67	Request File
West Virginia: Bushnell-Withers		Box 68	Request File
Wyoming		Box 68	Request File

Series 22: Tribal Divisions			Request Series
The Divisional System and Minor Division		Box 69	Request File
Chillicothe Division		Box 69	Request File
Kispoko Division		Box 69	Request File
Mequachake Division		Box 69	Request File
Piqua Division		Box 69	Request File
Thawekila Division		Box 69	Request File

Series 23: Vocabulary			Request Series
Alford to Blalock	10 folders	Box 70	Request File
Blue Jacket to Butler	7 folders	Box 70	Request File
Cass to Du Simitiere	20 folders	Box 70	Request File
Edwards to Grayfeather	19 folders	Box 71	Request File
Hadley to Hockett	14 folders	Box 71	Request File
James to Muhlenberg	14 folders	Box 71	Request File
Parsons to Switch	13 folders	Box 72	Request File
Tooley to Yeates	14 folders	Box 72	Request File