Resources in Early American History
Foreign exactLanguage in genre [X]
Delaware Indians in subject [X]
Sorted by:  
Results:  2 Items   Page: 1
1Author:  Roux de Rochelle, Jean Baptiste Gaspard, 1762-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Etats-Unis d'amerique     
 Dates:  Circa 1837 
 Abstract:  These two bound volumes contain a printed copy of Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle Etats-Unis D'Amerique, a Frenchman's take on American history and culture, and a volume that contains what appears to be drafts of the images that were printed in the book. Many of the images in the second volume appear to be based upon more well-known works of art. Some are in color.

View finding aid for a full description

 
 Call #:  Mss.917.3.R76 
 Extent:  2 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Literature, Arts, and Culture 
 Genre:  Art | Foreign Language | Printed Material | Sketchbooks 
 Subjects:  Delaware Indians | Indians of North America -- Florida | Indians of North America -- North Carolina | Lumbee Indians | Mohawk Indians | Oneida Indians | Seminole Indians 
2Author:  Muhlenberg family.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Muhlenberg family papers, 1769-1866     
 Dates:  1769-1866 
 Abstract:  The collection contains miscellaneous papers from this prominent Pennsylvania family. Some of the material is in German. Included in the collection are diplomas and various certificates of family members, including Peter Muhlenberg's original certificate of membership in the Society of the Cincinnati. There is a significant amount of correspondence from Christian Dencke to the Muhlenbergs in 1798-1799, a period when he was setting up a mission to Indians in Ontario. The letters, in German and Latin, seem to discuss natural history.

View finding aid for a full description

 
 Call #:  Mss.B.M891 
 Extent:  4.25 Linear Feet 
 Topics:  American Revolution | Military History | Native America | Natural history | Pennsylvania History | Religion 
 Genre:  Family Correspondence | Foreign Language | General Correspondence | Military Records | Travel Narratives and Journals 
 Subjects:  Agriculture -- United States. | Barns. | Botany | Delaware Indians | Fungi. | Grasses. | Herbaria. | Lichens. | Lutheran Church -- Clergy. | Meteorology - Observations | Natural history. | Plants. | Shrubs. | Trees. | Zoology -- Vermont.