Guide to the Hartley Burr Alexander Papers

Series 1: Personal and biographical material, 1834-1991.

Physical Description: 0.25 linear foot

Scope and Contents note

This series contains materials relating to the personal lives of Hartley Burr Alexander and members of his family. The materials include Alexander's 1935 curriculum vitae and bibliography, a manuscript of his early memories, his marriage certificate, and a series of scrapbooks, arranged chronologically, of clippings and other documents relating to his life and activities from 1882 to approximately 1935. The series also includes contracts, royalty statements, and other financial papers relating to Alexander's publications, a 1929 issue of Present Day American Literature with articles on Alexander, and a number of tributes to Alexander after his death. The Alexander family papers consist largely of obituaries; the Griggs family papers include Nathan Kirk Griggs' admission to the Nebraska State and Federal bars, several addresses and songs, and papers relating to his position as United States Consul in Chemnitz, Saxony.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 1, Folder 1

Alexander, Hartley Burr--Curriculum vitae / Memories, 1935.

Scope and Contents note

Includes bibliography of publications and manuscript of "Memories".

Book contracts, invoices, and royalty statements, 1918-1938.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 1, Folder 4

Contract agreements, 1918-1934.

Box 1, Folder 5

Invoices from publishing companies, 1928-1935.

Box 1, Folder 6

Royalty statements, 1926-1938.

Box 2, Folder 54

Christmas greeting cards created by Hartley Burr and Nelly Griggs Alexander, 1928-1937.

Family papers, 1834-1936.

Physical Description: 23 folders.

Alexander family, 1888-1936.

Physical Description: 8 folders.

General Physical Description note: Scrapbook.

Box 6, Folder 59

Alexander, Charlotte Morton, 1923.

Box 6, Folder 60

Alexander, George L., 1913.

Box 28, Folder 1

Alexander, George S.--Memorial sermon, 1888 / Obituaries, 1894. 1888-1894

Box 28, Folder 2

Alexander, Hartley Burr / Griggs, Nelly K.--Marriage certificate, 1908 July 15.

Box 2, Folder 56

Alexander, Hubert Griggs--Wedding announcement, 1936.

Alexander, Susan M., 1893.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 28, Folder 3

Obituary, 1893.

Box 6, Folder 63

Will, 1893.

Box 6, Folder 65

Capwell, Lydia-- Vegetable Medical Assistant (1835), reviewed in New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 67, no. 12, 1915 June.

Griggs family, 1834-1926.

Physical Description: 15 folders.

Box 8, Folder 1

Asher, Thomas J., of Fayette County, Indiana--Certificate of purchase of 80 acres of Federal land, Boone and Clinton Counties, Indiana, Township 20-N, Range 1-E, Setion 15, Crawfordsville Land Office, 1834 October 21.

Box 6, Folder 64

Buckmaster, Barbara Espie, 1926.

Box 8, Folder 2

Griggs, Emily (Saunders)--Poem, 1923.

Griggs, Nathan Kirk, 1866-1911.

Physical Description: 11 folders.

Box 6, Folder 66

Addresses, 1876, 1903.

Box 6, Folder 67

Admission to the Nebraska State and Federal bars, 1873.

Box 6, Folder 68

"Home and Mother" (poem), 1866 September 18.

Box 6, Folder 69

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, no date.

General Physical Description note: ALS; page 2 only.

Box 6, Folder 70

Newspaper clippings, circa 1895-1911.

Box 6, Folder 71, Box 28, Folder 4 (oversize)

Obituaries, 1910.

Box 6, Folder 72

Papers, 1909.

Box 7, Folder 73

Photograph, no date.

Box 8, Folder 3

Press notices (biographical accounts), no date.

Box 6, Folder 74

Songs, 1890.

Scope and Contents note

"Hoch der Pater!" manuscript.
"Pickaninny Lullaby", printed. c1890.

Box 6, Folder 75

United States Consul in Chemnitz, Saxony, 1878-1881.

Box 6, Folder 76

Griggs, Nelly--Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) application, 1907-1925.

Box 2, Folder 88

France--Consulate (Los Angeles)--Letter of recommendation, 1936.

Box 2, Folder 89

Institute of American Genealogy, 1938.

Box 1, Folder 3

Nebraska Hall of Fame induction, 1988-1991.

Box 1, Folder 8

Newspaper clippings, 1906-1937.

Box 6, Folder 44

Peiping tourist map, 1936.

Personal scrapbooks, 1882-circa 1935.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 7, Folder 1

Syracuse, Nebraska, Home Years, 1882-1894.

Box 7, Folder 2

Atlantic States Period, 1898-1908.

Box 7, Folder 3

University of Nebraska Pre-War Period, 1908-1914

Box 7, Folder 4

University of Nebraska War Period, 1914-1918.

Box 7, Folder 5

University of Nebraska Post-War Period, 1918-1929.

Box 28, Folder 5

Claremont, California, Scripps College, 1927-circa 1935.

Box 1, Folder 13

Resumé, circa 1930.

Box 6, Folder 39

Sylvester, Kittie, "Vignettes" [on Nelly Griggs Alexander], The Scripture (Scripps College), vol. 11, no. 9, 1940 December 3.

Tributes and biographical accounts by others,

Box 1, Folder 2

Cailliet, Emile, “The Man”, 1940.

Box 4, Folder 41

Cailliet, Emile, “Un représentant authentique de la Culture américaine: Hartley Burr Alexander”, Laguna Beach, Septembre 1935.

Box 6, Folder 5

Eames, Henry Purmort, “A Tribute to the Memory of Hartley Burr Alexander,” 1939.

Box 6, Folder 30

Giles, George H., letter referring to Hartley Burr Alexander, Nebraska Alumnus, vol. 36, no. 4, 1940 April.

Box 1, Folder 11

Jaqua, Ernest--Notes of telephone conversation about Alexander, 1971 December 9.

Box 6, Folder 38

Pound, Louise, “Hartley Alexander as an Undergraduate", Prairie Schooner, 22 1948.

Note

Pages 372-377.

Box 1, Folder 9

Present-Day American Literature, vol. 2, no. 3, 1929 July.

Note

"This issue concerns Hartley Burr Alexander".

Ansley, C. F., "Alexander--Boy and Man", 34-36.
Stepanek, O., "Hartley Alexander: Philosopher", 36-40.
Moore, Ruth Stanley, "Alexander, The Man", 40-42.
Brittain, J., E., "Alexander as Teacher", 42-43.

Box 1, Folder 12

Tributes (Scripps College), 1946, undated.

Box 1, Folder 7

World War I draft, 1917-1918.

Series 2: Correspondence, 1908-1939.

Physical Description: 1.75 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

This series contains correspondence between Alexander and his friends and colleagues from his editorial career with Dodd, Mead and Merriam publishing companies, his academic career at the University of Nebraska and Scripps College, his research on Native North Americans, and his extra-academic career as a designer of architectural inscriptions and ornamentation, as well as with members of his family, in particular his brother Arthur. The correspondence with T. Horace Evans, Lee Lawrie, and Hildreth Meiere is particularly extensive. Additional correspondence can be found in Series 3: Academic administration and teaching, Series 4: Native American research, and Series 6: Thematic design project files.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Box 1, Folder 14

Abbott, Keene and Mabel, 1909-1936.

Alexander family correspondence,

Physical Description: 12 folders.

Box 2, Folder 31

Alexander, Alice [sister], 1910-1916.

Alexander, Arthur [brother], 1908-1929.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 2, Folder 33

1908-1909.

Box 2, Folder 34

1908-1929.

Box 2, Folder 37

Alexander, Charlotte (Lottie) [sister], circa 1908-1909, 1918.

Box 2, Folder 57

Alexander, Frances [niece], no date.

Note

Daughter of Arthur Alexander.

Box 1, Folder 15

Alexander, George [brother], 1909-1913.

Box 6, Folder 61

Alexander, George S. [father], 1884-1894.

Box 6, Folder 62

Alexander, Hubert [son], no date.

Box 2, Folder 59

Buckmaster, Dorothy (Griggs) [sister-in-law], 1908.

Box 2, Folder 68

Griggs, Nathan Kirk [father-in-law], 1890, 1909.

Box 2, Folder 69

Hastings, Mary R. [cousin], 1910.

Box 2, Folder 84

Wilcox, Nellie (Alexander) [cousin], 1928.

Box 2, Folder 75

Wilcox, Stella (Alexander) [cousin], 1908.

Box 1, Folder 16

Allen, F. Sturges, 1909-1913.

Box 1, Folder 17

Ansley, C. F., 1910-1913, 1918, 1927.

Box 1, Folder 18

Atkins, Elizabeth, 1923, 1926.

Box 2, Folder 58

Bennett, Dorothy A., 1938, undated.

Box 1, Folder 19

Biglow, S. Emily, 1908, 1911, 1918.

Box 1, Folder 20

Blish, Helen, 1924-1938.

Box 1, Folder 21

Bode, B[oyd] H., 1918, 1923

Box 2, Folder 38

Bryson, Lyman, 1927, 1936, 1937.

Box 1, Folder 22

Buckham, John Wright, 1920, 1929, 1936.

Box 1, Folder 23

Bureau of American Ethnology, 1910.

Box 1, Folder 24

Burkart, Anna, 1926.

Box 1, Folder 25

Bush, W. T., 1938.

Box 1, Folder 26

Cady, Rev. Frank T., 1910.

Box 1, Folder 27

Cardin, Fred, [1929], 1931.

Box 1, Folder 28

Carr, Geraldine Wilda, 1927, 1935.

Box 1, Folder 29

Carter, M. A. W., 1909-1910.

Box 2, Folder 60

Case, Earnest S., 1908.

Box 2, Folder 60

Cather, Willia, 1934.

Box 1, Folder 31

Chen, Kwei, 1925-1938.

Box 1, Folder 32

Christmas cards, undated.

Box 1, Folder 33

Chung, Henry, 1918.

Box 1, Folder 34

Commonwealth Club of California, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 61

Cook, Nilla Cram, 1932, 1935.

Box 2, Folder 40

Cornell, Maud A., 1909, 1924-1927.

Note

Maud Augusta Phillips, wife of Dalton T Cornell.

Box 1, Folder 35

Cunningham, Henry Francis, 1929-1938.

Box 2, Folder 62

D'Estournelles de Constant, Paul, 1935.

Box 1, Folder 36

E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1927-1935.

Box 2, Folder 63

Eames family, 1909.

Box 1, Folder 37

Esto Publishing Co., 1936.

Box 1, Folder 38, Box 1, Folder 39

Evans, T. Horace, 1902-1931.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 1, Folder 52

“Exhibition of Sculpture in the Open Air,” 1933.

Box 5, Folder 54

Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 1931-1932.

Box 1, Folder 42

Fifter, Orian W., 1926, 1929.

Box 2, Folder 64

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1929, 1937.

Box 1, Folder 43

Flanders, Ruth, 1927-1928.

Box 2, Folder 65

Flens, Hedwig, 1935.

Box 1, Folder 44

Fletcher, Alice C[unningham], 1913-1918.

Box 2, Folder 66

Gass, Sherlock Bronson, circa 1930-1936.

Box 2, Folder 67

Gilson, Etienne, 1926.

Box 1, Folder 45

Gray, Louis, 1908-1916.

Box 1, Folder 46

Guerin, E., 1918.

Box 1, Folder 47

Haggard, D. Avery, 1928.

Box 6, Folder 7

Haller, Bob, 1991.

Box 2, Folder 32

Hanke, Amos Otto, 1937-1938.

Box 1, Folder 48

Harper, J. C., 1934-1936.

Box 1, Folder 49

Harris, Celia, 1927, 1935.

Box 1, Folder 50

Henry Holt and Company, 1935.

Box 1, Folder 51

Howie, Hardinia B., 1913.

Box 2, Folder 70

Huguenin, Albert, 1925.

Box 1, Folder 53

Jacqua, Ernest J., 1927, 1935-1936.

Box 1, Folder 54

Johnson, Alvin, 1909, 1918.

Box 1, Folder 55

Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 1910-1911.

Box 1, Folder 56

Kasper, Victor Hugo, 1928-1934.

Box 2, Folder 71

Keller, Helen, 1925.

Box 1, Folder 57

Klett, Martha Ada, 1928, 1936-1937.

Box 1, Folder 58, Box 8, Folder 5 (Oversize)

Lamont, F., 1906, 1915.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Lawrie, Lee, 1923-1933.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 1, Folder 59, Box 1, Folder 60, Box 1, Folder 61

Incoming, 1923-1928.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 1, Folder 48, Box 1, Folder 49

Outgoing, 1926-1933.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 2, Folder 20

Legion of Honor (telegram), 1936.

Box 1, Folder 62

Lehmer, Derrick, 1918, 1922, 1931.

Box 1, Folder 63

Leorie, A. M., 1932.

Box 1, Folder 64

Lewis, E. H., [Edwin Herbert], 1911-1937.

Box 1, Folder 65

Lhasshekankrakrya, Anagarika (The Universal Union for the Diffusion of Busshism), [193-].

Box 1, Folder 66

Librarie Ernest Leroux, 1926-1935.

Box 2, Folder 72

Locke, Dorothy, 1928-1929.

Note

Companion of Hildreth Meiere.

Box 1, Folder 67

McCaleb, W. F., 1909-1910, 1932.

Box 2, Folder 73

McCombs, Frances, 1934.

Box 1, Folder 68

McDowell, Margaret, 1911-1913.

Box 1, Folder 69

Marshall Jones Company, 1918.

Box 2, Folder 74

Mead, Hunter, 1935, 1937.

Meiere, Hildreth, 1925-1936.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Incoming, 1925-1936.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 1, Folder 70

1925-1926.

Box 1, Folder 71

1927-1929.

Box 1, Folder 72

1930-1936.

Outgoing, 1926-1932.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 2, Folder 50

1926.

Box 2, Folder 51

1927-1929.

Box 2, Folder 52

1930-1932.

Box 2, Folder 75

Merton, S. D., 1917.

Box 2, Folder 1

Newbold, William Romaine, 1909-1926.

Box 2, Folder 2

Newbranch, N. E., 1928, undated.

Box 2, Folder 3

Newman, George S., 1909-1912.

Box 2, Folder 42

Oliver, Frederick and Maryanna Hunt, 1936.

Box 2, Folder 4

Open Court Publishing Company, 1909-1922.

Box 2, Folder 5

Patterson, Austin, 1936.

Box 2, Folder 6

Peterson, Elmer G., 1938.

Box 2, Folder 7

Pijuan, Joseph, 1932, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 76

Porter, Edward, 1920, undated.

Box 2, Folder 8

Pound, Louise, 1933-1934.

Box 2, Folder 9

Primavera Press Inc., 1934-1935.

Box 2, Folder 11

Recknagel, Laura, 1936.

Box 2, Folder 12

Robbins, Rignald C., 1935.

Box 2, Folder 13

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1918.

Box 2, Folder 77

Rosborough, John M., 1935, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 14

Rowley, George (Mrs.), 1927, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 15

Sargent, Joseph A., 1908-1932.

Box 2, Folder 78

Sayer, James J., 1917, 1936.

Box 2, Folder 79

Schrank, Ernest G. H., 1937.

Box 2, Folder 16

Selleck, Willard C., 1930, 1938.

Box 2, Folder 17

Sharp, Frank C., 1927, 1928.

Box 2, Folder 44

Sheffield, Alfred, 1910-1913.

Box 2, Folder 41

Shreve, [James] Norm[an], 1908-1913.

Box 2, Folder 80

Smith, George Austin, 1936.

Box 2, Folder 43

Stanley, Ruth (Moore), 1928-1935.

Box 2, Folder 18

Steiner, Edward A., 1934, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 81

Stepanek, Orin, 1923-1936.

Box 2, Folder 19

Swift, Otis Peabody, 1937, undated.

Box 2, Folder 10

Te Ata, Princess, 1919, 1932, 1935.

Box 2, Folder 21

Theatre Arts Monthly, 1932.

Box 2, Folder 22

Van Name, W. G., 1908-1910, 1928.

Box 2, Folder 82

du Vevier de Streel, [Edmond], 1926-1927.

Box 2, Folder 83

Voorhis, Jerry, 1939 April 22.

General Physical Description note: Typescript. Pages 1-2 only.

Box 2, Folder 23

Webster, William, 1912.

Box 2, Folder 24

Werkmeister, W. H. (William Henry), 1918-1937.

Box 2, Folder 25

Westerman, W. L. (William Linn), 1918.

Box 2, Folder 26

Zeitlin, Jake, 1935.

General correspondence, 1909-1938.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 2, Folder 27

A-G, 1909-1938.

Box 2, Folder 28

H-M, 1909-1938.

Box 2, Folder 29

N-Y, 1909-1938.

Unidentified, 1908-1939, undated

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 2, Folder 35

John (1), 1937.

Box 2, Folder 36

John (2), 1937-1938.

Box 2, Folder 86

John (3), 1937.

Box 2, Folder 87

Lorna Mae, 1910, 1937.

Box 2, Folder 39

Marcy, 1910.

Box 2, Folder 45

Unidentified, 1908-1939.

Series 3: Academic administration and teaching, 1919-1937.

Physical Description: 0.75 linear foot

Arrangement note

The series contains three sub-series:

Sub-series 3.1: Lecture notes and course syllabi
Sub-series 3.2: University of Nebraska
Sub-series 3.3: Scripps College

Scope and Contents note

This series contains correspondence, bibliographies, course proposals, lecture notes and programs, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to Hartley Burr Alexander's careers at the University of Nebraska and Scripps College.

Sub-series 3.1 Lecture notes and course syllabi, 1919-1938.

Physical Description: 0.25 linear foot

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains correspondence, bibliographies, course proposals, lecture notes and programs, newspaper clippings, and other materials on anthropology, ethnology, art, and prehistoric culture. The materials appear to date from Alexander's career at Scripps College, and to relate to his role in the development of the core Humanities program at the College.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 6, Folder 3

Anthropology and Ethnology bibliographies, undated.

Box 3, Folder 1

Anthropology and Ethnology course material, undated.

Box 3, Folder 11

Anthropology and Ethnology notes and charts, undated.

Box 3, Folder 5

Art History handouts, undated.

Box 4, Folder 7

Costume Design, undated.

General Physical Description note: Mimeograph.

Box 6, Folder 2

Course and student paper outlines, 1933-1938.

Box 3, Folder 7

Lecture notes, undated.

Box 3, Folder 21

Non-American prehistory--Clippings and notes, 1930, 1937, undated.

Scope and Contents note

Includes drawing of sculpture of neighing horse, from Le Mas d’Azil cave, France (Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, St Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France).

Box 4, Folder 32

Note on the Rice Sprouting Song of Tinghsien, North China, circa 1936.

Box 3, Folder 9

Philosophy of culture: group topcs and refeerences, undated.

Sub-series 3.2 University of Nebraska, 1908-1930.

Physical Description: 0.25 linear foot

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to Alexander’s career as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska. The bulk of the material relates to Alexander’s resignation from his faculty position at the University.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Correspondence, 1908-1933.

Physical Description: 9 folders.

Box 3, Folder 53

Avery, Samuel (Chancellor)--Outgoing, 1922-1925.

Box 3, Folder 48

Genderson, L. E. (Office of Finance Secretary)--Incoming, 1924-1927.

James, Herman (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences), 1925-1928.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 3, Folder 49

Incoming, 1925-1928.

Box 3, Folder 54

Outgoing, 1925-1927.

Box 3, Folder 50

Jenson, Anton--Incoming, 1928-1930.

Warner, William P. (President of the Board of Regents), 1927.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 3, Folder 51

Incoming, 1927.

Box 3, Folder 55

Outgoing, 1927.

Miscellaneous, 1908-1933.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 3, Folder 52

Incoming, 1908-1927.

Box 3, Folder 56

Outgoing, 1922-1933.

Box 3, Folder 57

Newspaper clippings, 1933.

Box 3, Folder 58

Petition to keep Alexander at the University of Nebraska, 1927.

Box 3, Folder 59

Photographs, circa 1927.

Box 3, Folder 60

Reconstruction program, circa 1927.

Sub-series 3.3 Scripps College, 1932-1938.

Physical Description: 0.25 linear foot

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains addresses, reports, and other materials relating to Alexander’s career as Professor of Philosophy at Scripps College.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Box 4, Folder 14

Addresses to Scripps College classes, 1932-1934.

Box 2, Folder 91

Correspondence, 1935, 1938.

Scope and Contents note

J. C. Harper to H. B. Alexander, 23 September 1935.
Scripps College faculty to the President and Board of Trustees, 30 September 1935. Typescript copy. 2 pages.
Arnold Bergstraesser to H. B. Alexander, concerning the Scripps College Humanities program, 20 May 1938. TSL. 6 pages.
Student sympathy card, no date. Hand-drawn, poem, with illustrations.

Box 4, Folder 24

“Notes on Library Needs in California", 1936-1937.

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence between J. C. Harper and William S. Ament, January 1937.

Box 4, Folder 35

Scripps College: Aims and Needs, 1935.

Box 3, Folder 4

Scripps College Bulletin materials, 1934-1935, undated.

Box 2, Folder 90

Student protest letter, 1938.

Box 3, Folder 10

Student records (Pomona College), 1934.

Box 6, Folder 77

Mason, Gregory, 1936.

Note

Gregory Mason (1889-1968), writer and reporter, PhD University of Southern California, 1941-1954 chairman of the department of journalism, New York University.

Scope and Contents note

Curriculum vitae and list of questions in anthropolgy, archaeology, and ethnography, probably in connection with Mason's graduate studies at the University of Southern California.

Series 4: Native American research, 1923-1937.

Physical Description: 0.5 linear foot

Scope and Contents note

This series contains correspondence, clippings, and notes on Native American art and culture, created and collected by Hartley Burr Alexander in the course of his research. Of special interest are several letters from A. Wetmore, Assistant Secretary at the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum in Washington, D.C. discussing collections of paintings made by various groups of Plains Indians.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Correspondence,

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 2, Folder 55

1924-1933.

Box 3, Folder 12

1932-1937.

Box 3, Folder 13

Wetmore, A., 1936.

Amos Bad Heart Bull Manuscript, undated.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 4, Folder 9

Description, undated.

Box 3, Folder 14

Episode I. Events Perhaps Earlier than 1856, undated.

Box 3, Folder 17

Native Americans-Clippings, 1923, 1928, undated.

Box 3, Folder 19

Native Americans--Notes, undated.

Series 5: Native American art, late 19th-cearly 20th centuries.

Physical Description: 5 linear feet

Arrangement note

The series contains two sub-series:

Sub-series 5.1: Original artwork
Sub-series 5.2: Photographic reproductions

Scope and Contents note

This series contains originals and photographic images of Native North American works of art, primarily watercolors, from the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. The original works are attributed to Awa Tsireh (San Ildefonso), "San Juanito Garcia" (unknown), Fred Kabotie (Hopi), Kills Two (Oglala Sioux), Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso), Oqwa Pi (San Ildefonso), Tonita Peña (San Ildefonso), Otis Polelonema (Hopi), Romando Vigil (San Ildefonso), and Thomas Vigil (Tesuque). The art works present examples of the broad aesthetic of Native American modern painting for both Pueblo and Plains artists: representational, depicting flat figures with clear outlines and unadorned backgrounds, and generally lacking in references to modern life. While primarily produced for outside audiences, the works are 'native' in their function as historical records of Indian life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The paintings by Kills Two are reproduced in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1 (Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, [1938]), for which Hartley Burr Alexander provided the introduction and notes.

The photographic reproductions are of 19th- and early 20th-century Plains paintings and watercolors by Katsikodi (Shoshone), Amos Bad Heart Bull [Buffalo] (Oglala Sioux), and Silver Horn (Kiowa). They were prepared for publication in Sioux Indian Painting, vols. 1-2 (Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, [1938]). The images of the works of Amos Bad Heart Bull (vol. 1, plates 12 and 13, and all of vol. 2) are particularly important, as his original sketchbook no longer survives.

Box 26, Folder 26

Books on American Indian painting and decorative art--Lists of illustrations, 1936, 1950.

Scope and Contents note

Jacobson, O. B., and Jeanne D'Ucel, American Indian Painters, vols. 1-2 (Nice: C. Szwedzicki, 1950).
Sides, Dorothy Smith, Decorative art of the Southwestern Indians (Santa Ana, CA: Fine Arts Press, 1936).

Sub-Series 5.1: Original artwork, circa 1890-1935.

Scope and contents

This sub-series contains original paintings by Native North American artists, collected by Hartley Burr Alexander during his years at the University of Nebraska.

Artist Biographies

The following artists are represented in this sub-series. In an attempt at consistency, names are listed and spelled as found in J. J. Brody, Pueblo Indian Painting: Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico, 1900-1930 (Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research, 1997). Artists' names (Native and/or European) and spellings may differ slightly from publication to publication.

Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal) (San Ildefonso, 1898-1955). Awa Tsireh was influenced by his uncle, Crescencio Martinez, a key first-generation Native Modern artist. He received art training while at the San Ildefonso Day School, and the anthropologist Edgar Hewitt commissioned works from him. By the 1920s his work was receiving recognition on the art market. During his career he worked closely with Fred Kabotie (Hopi) as well as other San Ildefonso artists. See Molly Mullin, "Awa Tsireh," in Carole Barrett and Harvey Markowitz, ed., American Indian Biographies (rev. ed.; Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005).

"San Juanito Garcia" (unknown). This name has been placed in quotations because no published reference to this artist has been located. The name could refer to either Jose Garcia (Santo Domingo, 1914-?) or Lorenzo Garcia (Santo Domingo, dates unknown).

Fred Kabotie (Naqavoy'ma) (Hopi, 1900-1986). Kabotie is a central figure in Native American Modern painting. He attended the Santa Fe Indian School c. 1920 and received art instruction from Elizabeth DeHuff, the progressively-minded wife of the superintendent. He graduated from Santa Fe High School (a non-Indian school) in 1924. As a painter, Kabotie was very successful on the art market. He also worked as an art educator, muralist, and community leader.

Kills Two (Oglala Sioux, 1869-1927). Kills Two, who lived on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, worked primarily in watercolor on hide and muslin. According to various sources, he was employed as a police officer on the reservation. See Patrick D. Lester, "Kills Two," Biographical Directory of Native American Painters (Tulsa, OK: Sir Publications, 1995).

Julian Martinez (Po-Ca-No) (San Ildefonso, 1879-1943). In 1904, Julian Martinez married the internationally acclaimed San Ildefonso potter, Maria (Montoya) Martinez. Through their collective pottery production (Maria building the pots, Julian decorating them), they created some of the most influential and technically astounding works of Native American Modern art. Both artists were strongly influenced by the findings of early twentieth century archaeological excavations of pre-Columbian pottery in the San Ildefonso area. Martinez was also an accomplished easel painter.

Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez) (San Ildefonso, 1899-1971). Oqwa Pi was educated at the Santa Fe Indian School, where he painted murals in addition to working with watercolors. He also served as lieutenant governor, and later as governor, of his pueblo (Jeanne Snodgrass, American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory [New York: Museum of the American Indian, 1968], 135).

Tonita Peña (San Ildefonso, 1893-1949). Peña was a major figure in the Native American Modern painting movement. She began receiving art instruction at an early age at the San Ildefonso Day School (1899-1905). In addition to working as a painter, Peña was a mother and art educator, and was employed as a muralist by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. She is primarily known for her works in watercolor, and painted domestic and dance scenes. Peña's work significantly influenced key artists of the Santa Fe school, including Pablita Velarde. See Cheryl Claassen, "Peña, Tonita," in Carole Barrett and Harvey Markowitz, ed., American Indian Biographies (rev. ed.; Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005).

Otis Polelonema (Hopi, 1902-1981). A contemporary of Fred Kabotie, Polelonema attended the Santa Fe Indian School from 1914-1920 and graduated from Santa Fe High School. Like Kabotie, Polelonema received art instruction from Elizabeth DeHuff, wife of the school superintendant, who encouraged the students to draw on traditional knowledge and sources in their work. He was also employed by the Works Progress Administration.

Romando Vigil (Tse Ye Mu) (San Ildefonso, 1902-1978). Sources conflict concerning Romando Vigil's art training. He is described as attending the Santa Fe Indian School ( Biographical Directory of Native American Painters ), where he potentially could have received art training, and as having no formal art training (Margaret Archuleta and Rennard Strickland, Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century [New York: The New Press, 1991]). He was apparently employed for a time by the Walt Disney Studios. See Patrick D. Lester, "Vigil, Romando," Biographical Directory of Native American Painters (Tulsa, OK: Sir Publications, 1995).

Thomas (Tomas) Vigil (Pan Yo Pin) (Tesuque, c. 1889-1960). Thomas Vigil was educated at St. Catherine's School from 1904 to 1907. See Patrick D. Lester, "Vigil, Thomas," Biographical Directory of Native American Painters (Tulsa, OK: Sir Publications, 1995).

The materials are arranged alphabetically by artist.

Pueblo Indian, circa 1910-1935.

Physical Description: 19 folders.

Scope and Contents

These folders contain artwork by Thomas Vigil, Awa Tsireh, Otis Polelonema, Tonita Pena, Oqwa Pi, Romando Vigil, and Julian Martinez.

Box 23, Folder 11

Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal)--Matachines dancer, circa 1920-1930.

Box 23, Folder 12

Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal)--Matachines dancer, circa 1920-1930.

Box 23, Folder 4

Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal)--Pueblo woman, circa 1920-1930.

Box 25, Folder 6

Kabotie, Fred--Eagle and mudhead kachinas, circa 1923-1935.

Box 25, Folder 7

Kabotie, Fred--Hopi buffalo dance, circa 1923-1935.

Box 23, Folder 8

Martinez, Julian--Man on horseback, circa 1900-1930.

Box 23, Folder 9

Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez)--Clown and bird kachinas, circa 1920-1930.

Box 23, Folder 7

Peña, Tomita--Cochiti corn dance, no date.

Box 23, Folder 5

Polelonema, Otis--Hemis kachina with corn, circa 1925-1935.

Box 23, Folder 6

Polelonema, Otis--Hopi woman, circa 1925-1935.

Box 25, Folder 5

"San Juanito Garcia" (unknown)--Two dancers, circa 1915-1930.

Box 23, Folder 10

Tse Ye Mu (Romando Vigil)--Bird and rainbow, circa 1925-1935.

Box 25, Folder 1

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Two men ploughing and sowing with two oxen circa 1910-1930.

Box 25, Folder 2

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Two men, one hoeing, one with scarecrow, circa 1910-1930.

Box 23, Folder 1

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Two men in a corn field, circa 1910-1930.

Box 25, Folder 4

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Harvesting corn, circa 1910-1930.

Box 25, Folder 3

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Shucking and sorting corn, circa 1910-1930.

Box 23, Folder 2

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Man with drum and two women grinding corn, circa 1910-1930.

Box 23, Folder 3

Vigil, Tomas / Pan Yo Pin--Two women with a child, circa 1910-1930.

Kills Two (Oglala Sioux), circa 1890-1920.

Physical Description: 10 folders.

Scope and Contents

These folders contain artwork by Kills Two.

Box 24, Folder 1

Crow Indian and Sioux, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 3.

Box 24, Folder 2

Hunting buffalo, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 11 A.

Box 24, Folder 3

Red Walker, Sioux warrior, bested by pursuing Crows, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 4.

Box 24, Folder 4

Sioux warrior with saber, attacking a Crow Indian, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 5.

Box 24, Folder 5

Pawnee and Sioux in battle, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 6.

Box 24, Folder 6

Mounted Sioux with saber attacks a Pawnee, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 7.

Box 24, Folder 7

Indian horse dance, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 9.

Box 24, Folder 8

General Custer confronts Crazy Horse, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 10.

Box 24, Folder 9

Warrior falling from his wounded and dying pony, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 8.

Box 24, Folder 10

Sioux Indian old fashion traveling, circa 1890-1920.

General note

Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 11 B.

Box 4, Folder 55

Valuations of original artworks owned by Hartley Burr Alexander and others, circa 1930.

Sub-Series 5.2: Photographic reproductions, circa 1915-1938.

Scope and Contents

These folders contain photographs prepared for publication in Sioux Indian Painting, vols. 1-2 (Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, [1938]), for which Alexander provided the introduction and notes. With only a few exceptions the artworks are by Amos Bad Heart Bull [formerly known as Amos Bad Heart Buffalo] (Oglala Sioux), Katsikodi (Shoshone), Kills Two (Oglala Sioux), and Silver Horn (Kiowa). The images of the works of Amos Bad Heart Bull (vol. 1, plates 12 and 13, and all of vol. 2) are particularly important, as his original sketchbook, which was in the 1930s in the hands of his sister, Dolly Pretty Cloud, was buried with her in 1947.

Box 6, Folder 51

Amos Bad Heart Bull [Buffalo] manuscript, undated.

Box 6, Folder 58

Pueblo Indian artwork--Snake dances, no date.

Scope and Contents note

Fred Kabotie--Snake dance.
Miguel Martinez--Snake dancers.

Sioux Indian Painting, volume 1, 1938.

Note

Plates 3-11B are reproductions of works by Kills Two, the originals of which are in Sub-series 5.1.

The materials are arranged in plate number order.

Box 26, Folder 1

Kills Two (Oglala Sioux)--Sioux warriors on horseback, circa 1890-1920.

General Physical Description note: 2 photographs: b & w.

General note

"Owned by _____ Martin, Pine Ridge (?)" Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, cover.

Box 26, Folder 2

Mandan Indians--Painted buffalo robe secured by Lewis and Clark, 1803.

General note

Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 1.

Box 26, Folder 3

Pretty Hawk (Yanktonnais Sioux)--Painted lining or inner hanging of a lodge, 1864.

General note

Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 2.

Box 26, Folder 4

Amos Bad Heart Bull [Buffalo] (Ogala Lakota)--Detail of a tribal march, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original, Amos Bad Heart Bull sketchbook, #3b (Helen H. Blish, A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux [Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1967], no. 7). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting , vol. 1, plate 12.

Box 26, Folder 5

Amos Bad Heart Bull [Buffalo] (Oglala Sioux)--Tribal migration, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original, Amos Bad Heart Bull sketchbook, #2a-b (Helen H. Blish, A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux [Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1967], no. 5). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting , vol. 1, plate 13.

Box 26, Folder 6

Washakie (chief, Shoshone)--Hunting scenes, 1898.

General note

Collection of C. A. Carter, Los Angeles, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 14.

Box 26, Folder 7

Katsikodi (Shoshone)--Buffalo hunt, circa 1900-1910.

General note

Collection of H. B. Alexander, Claremont, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 15.

Box 26, Folder 8

Katsikodi (Shoshone)--Buffalo hunt (enlargement), circa 1900-1910.

General note

Collection of H. B. Alexander, Claremont, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 16.

Box 26, Folder 9

Katsikodi (Shoshone)--Buffalo hunt (enlargement), circa 1900-1910.

General note

Collection of H. B. Alexander, Claremont, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 17.

Box 26, Folder 10

Katsikodi (Shoshone)--Buffalo hunt (enlargement), circa 1900-1910.

General note

Collection of H. B. Alexander, Claremont, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 18.

Box 26, Folder 11

Charles Washakie (Shoshone)--Shoshone dance, circa 1890.

General note

Collection of C. A. Carter, Los Angeles, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 19.

Box 26, Folder 12

Shoshone artist (unidentified)--Shoshone Sun Dance, 1900.

General note

Collection of C. A. Carter, Los Angeles, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 20.

Box 26, Folder 13

Silver Horn (Kiowa)--Erection of the Sun Dance lodge of the Kiowa, circa 1900-1910.

General note

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 21.

Box 26, Folder 14

Silver Horn (Kiowa)--Sun Dance ritual, circa 1900-1910.

General note

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 22.

Box 26, Folder 15

Silver Horn (Kiowa)--Sun Dance ritual, circa 1900-1910.

General note

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 23.

Box 26, Folder 16

Silver Horn (Kiowa)--Legendary episodes, circa 1900-1910.

General note

Collection of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 24.

Box 26, Folder 17

Silver Horn (Kiowa)--Legendary episodes (enlargement), circa 1900-1910.

General note

Collection of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 1, plate 25.

Sioux Indian Painting, volume 2: Amos Bad Heart Bull [Buffalo] sketchbook, 1938.

Physical Description: 30 folders.

General note

Oglala Lakota (Sioux) artist Amos Bad Heart Bull (formerly called Amos Bad Heart Buffalo) (circa 1868/69-1913), was the son of Bad Heart Bull, and the nephew of the Oglala chief, Red Cloud. Amos joined the US army as a young man, and served as a scout at Fort Robertson with his uncle, Grant Short Bull. Over the years he purchased four accounting ledgers in which he depicted the history and customs of the Oglala from approximately the middle of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th century. By the late 1920s, only one of these ledgers survived, in the hands of his younger sister, Mrs. Dolly Pretty Cloud. The manuscript came to Hartley Burr Alexander's attention in the early 1920s, and influenced his thematic designs for the Nebraska State Capitol, particularly in the East (original Senate) Chamber. In addition, his graduate student, Helen Blish (1898-1941), used it as the subject of her 1928 University of Nebraska masters thesis, "The Amos Bad Heart Buffalo Manuscript: A Native Pictographic Historical Record of the Oglala Dakotas". At some time either before or shortly after Blish presented her thesis, Alexander was permitted to borrow the volume and make a photographic record of it; color plates of what were considered the most important, or representative, images--including many of the Battle of the Little Big Horn--constitute the whole of vol. 2 of Sioux Indian Painting (1938). In addition, Blish submitted a three volume report, the product of her research and analysis of the pictorial record, to the Carnegie Institution in 1934. With the rise of interest in Native American history in the 1960s, Blish's study was published in 1967 by the University of Nebraska Press as A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux . The photographic images constitute an original record, as, in accordance with her wishes, the original volume was buried with Mrs. Pretty Cloud when she died in 1947.

Scope and Contents note

Includes a few photographs not included in the printed work. Numbers according to Helen H. Blish, A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1967), which differ from those assigned by Hartley Burr Alexander.

The materials are arranged in order of numbers assigned by Blish.

Box 27, Folder 1

Warriors on their way to the "smoothing-the-place" dance, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #201b (Blish, no. 383). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, cover.

Box 27, Folder 2

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Topographical chart of the battlefield, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #55b (Blish, no. 129). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 1.

Box 27, Folder 3

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Opening of battle, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #56b (Blish, no. 131). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 2.

Box 27, Folder 4

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #60a (Blish, no. 137). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 3.

Box 27, Folder 5

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #61b (Blish, no. 140). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 4.

Box 27, Folder 6

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #63a (Blish, no. 143). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 5.

Box 27, Folder 7

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #63b (Blish, no. 144). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 6.

Box 27, Folder 8

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #64a (Blish, no. 145). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 7.

Box 27, Folder 9

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #64b (Blish, no. 146). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 8.

Box 27, Folder 10

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #65a (Blish, no. 147). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 9.

Box 27, Folder 11

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #65b (Blish, no. 148). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 10.

Box 27, Folder 12

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #66a (Blish, no. 149). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 11.

Box 27, Folder 13

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Retreat of Reno's command, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #67a (Blish, no. 151). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 12.

Box 27, Folder 14

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Troopers being driven across the river, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #70b (Blish, no. 158). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 13.

Box 27, Folder 15

Battle of the Little Big Horn--End of the battle, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #73b (Blish, no. 162). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 14.

Box 27, Folder 16

Battle of the Little Big Horn--End of the battle, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #76a (Blish, no. 166). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 15.

Box 27, Folder 17

Battle of the Little Big Horn--General Custer's dismounted troops under attack, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #84a (Blish, no. 178). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 16.

Box 27, Folder 18

Battle of the Little Big Horn--Last stage of the battle, June 25-26, 1876.

General note

Original #87a (Blish, no. 182). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 17.

Box 27, Folder 19

Death of Crazy Horse, 1877.

General note

Original #156a-b (Blish, no. 304). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 18.

Box 27, Folder 20

Ghost Dance of Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890.

General note

Original #165a-b (Blish, no. 317). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 19.

Box 27, Folder 21

Give-away celebration, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #177b (Blish, no. 337). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 20.

Box 27, Folder 22

Oglala Victory, or Scalp Dance, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #39b (Blish, no. 85). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 21.

Box 27, Folder 23

"Smoothing-the-place-dance", circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #213b (Blish, no. 407). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 22.

Box 27, Folder 24

Grass Dance, "charging the dog", circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #215b (Blish, no. 410). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 23.

Box 27, Folder 25

Omaha Dance, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #214a (Blish, no. 408). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 24.

Box 27, Folder 26

Oglalas from White Clay District herding their cattle, December 3, 1900.

General note

Original #216b (Blish, no. 412). Printed in Sioux Indian Painting, vol. 2, plate 25.

Box 27, Folder 27

Red Cloud talking about the buying of the Black Hills, September 26, 1876.

General note

Original #94a-b (Blish, no. 197).

Box 27, Folder 28

"Greater Indian Shows, July 4, 1898 and 1903". 1898-1903.

General note

Original #178b (Blish, no. 339).

Box 27, Folder 29

Courting scene, circa 1894-1910.

General note

Original #187a (Blish, no. 355).

Box 26, Folder 25

Sioux buffalo robe, no date.

General Physical Description note: 2 photographs.

General note

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Catalog No. 7895.

Series 6: Thematic design project files, 1919-1937 [1992].

Physical Description: 7 linear feet

Arrangement note

The materials are organized into fourteen sub-series:

Sub-series 6.1: General files
Sub-series 6.2: Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Sub-series 6.3: Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.
Sub-series 6.4: Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sub-series 6.5: Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sub-series 6.6: Joslyn Memorial Building, Omaha, Nebraska
Sub-series 6.7: Kansas City, Missouri, City Hall
Sub-series 6.8: Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California
Sub-series 6.9: Miscellaneous projects
Sub-series 6.10: Nebraska State Capital, Lincoln, Nebraska
Sub-series 6.11: Oregon State Capitol, Salem, Oregon
Sub-series 6.12: Pennsylvania State Finance Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Sub-series 6.13: Rockefeller Center, New York, New York
Sub-series 6.14: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium

Scope and Contents note

This series contains correspondence, photographs, architectural drawings and blueprints, newspaper clippings, and other materials documenting Alexander's work between 1922 and 1935 as "thematic designer" of sculpture, inscriptions, and other ornamentation for large public buildings, including, in chronological order,

Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1919-1933
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California, 1924-1931
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926-1932
Joslyn Memorial Building, Omaha, Nebraska, 1929-1932
Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois, 1930-1933
Pennsylvania State Finance Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1930-1938
Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, 1930-1933
Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C., 1932-1935
Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1932-1934
Kansas City, Missouri, City Hall, 1936
Oregon State Capitol, Salem, Oregon, 1936-1937
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium, 1935-1936

The Miscellaneous Projects subseries, 1927-1934, contains correspondence, sketches, and other materials on proposed projects--Myron Taylor Hall of Law, Cornell University; Great Cathedral, Lincoln, Nebraska; Los Angeles Times Building; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office, New York City; St. Paul, Minnesota, City Hall and County Court House--several of which were never taken up. The series includes extensive correspondence with the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, as well as correspondence with sculptor Lee Lawrie and muralist Hildreth Meiere.

Sub-Series 6.1: General files, 1924-1937.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 4, Folder 3

Advertising Pamphlet for Hartley Burr Alexander's thematic design practice, undated.

Box 3, Folder 3

Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939--Presentation of Indian cultures, 1936-1937.

Box 3, Folder 22

Haugseth, Anders John--Illustrations, undated.

Box 6, Folder 42

Meiere, Hildreth--Newspaper clippings and photographs, 1924-1925.

Sub-Series 6.2: Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago Illinois, 1930-1933.

Physical Description: 10 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, building, exhibition area, and grounds layouts, pamphlets, and photographs of buildings and models for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. The bulk of the correspondence concerns the symbolic and decorative features of the buildings and landscaping.

Map-case HBA, Folder 1

Architectural blueprints and drawings, 1931-1933.

Box 17, Folder 2

Scrapbook cover, 1933.

Box 17, Folder 3

Correspondence, 1930 October 2 - 1932 October 26.

Box 17, Folder 4

Invitation to Opening Ceremony, 1933.

Layouts, 1930-1933.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 17, Folder 5

Electricity building layout, 1930.

Box 17, Folder 6

Exhibition area layout, Hall of Science, 1933.

Box 17, Folder 7

Pamphlets, 1933.

Box 17, Folder 8, Box 17, Folder 9

Photographs, 1931-1933.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 17, Folder 10

Schedule of Special Features for the Exposition Grounds, 1933.

Box 17, Folder 11

Synopses, Structures and Features, 1930.

Sub-Series 6.3: Department of Justice, Washington D.C., 1932-1935.

Physical Description: 7 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and photographs detailing the symbolic decorative and inscription features created for the Department of Justice building in Washington D.C. The correspondence is primarily between Alexander, sculptor C. P. Jennewein, and the architects Zantzinger, Borie, & Medary. Several drawings and photographs sent to Alexander by C. P. Jennewein, remain attached to the original letters.

Box 18, Folder 1

Correspondence, 1932-1935.

Box 3, Folder 2

Inscription notes circa 1932-1933.

Photographs, 1932-1935.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 18, Folder 2

General, 1932-1935.

Box 18, Folder 3

Attorney General’s and Soliciter General’s Suites, 1932-1935.

Box 18, Folder 4

Entrance Court, 1932-1935.

Box 18, Folder 5

Interiors, 1932-1935.

Box 18, Folder 6

Library Lobby, 1932-1935.

Sub-Series 6.4: Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1932-1934.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, photographs, and a synopsis of the sculpture and inscriptions designed for the Ellen Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The correspondence file contains letters to and from architect Paul Cret, and the architectural firm Zantzinger, Borie, & Medary, discussing the symbolic decorative and inscription features of the memorial.

Box 18, Folder 8

Correspondence, 1932-1934.

Box 18, Folder 9

Fairmount Park Art Association, Annual Meeting, Invitation, 1934.

Box 18, Folder 7

Fairmount Park Art Association, 62nd Annual Report, Publication No.73, 1934.

Box 18, Folder 10

Photographs, 1932-1934.

Box 18, Folder 11, Map-case HBA, Folder 3

Synopsis of the Sculpture and Inscriptions, 1932.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Sub-Series 6.5: Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926-1932.

Physical Description: 9 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, photographs, a pamphlet, and a synopsis of the decorations and inscriptions created for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The correspondence primarily discusses the symbolism of the exterior of the building and the re-arrangement of inscriptions over the great arches.

Box 19, Folder 8

Scrapbook cover, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 9

Correspondence, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 10

Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, “A Substantial New Building for a Substantial Old Company", 1927.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Photographs, 1926-1932.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 19, Folder 11

General, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 12

Archway grill ornaments, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 13

Engraved figures, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 14

Geometric ornament, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 15

Façade ornament, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 16

Symbolic ornament, 1926-1932.

Box 19, Folder 17

Synopses of Decorations and Inscriptions, 1926-1932.

Sub-Series 6.6: Joslyn Memorial Building, Omaha, Nebraska, 1929-1932.

Physical Description: 7 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, texts, photographs, newspaper clippings, and the in house journal of a lighting fixture company relating to the inscriptions, sculptures, and other decorative features of the Joslyn Memorial Building in Omaha, Nebraska. The bulk of the correspondence is between Alexander, architects John and Alan McDonald, and sculptor John David Brein.

Correspondence, 1929-1932.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 19, Folder 2

1929.

Box 19, Folder 3

1931.

Box 19, Folder 4

1932.

Box 19, Folder 5

Inscriptions, 1929-1932.

Box 19, Folder 1

The Kaleidescope (Kantuck and Company, Inc.), 1932.

Box 19, Folder 7

Newspaper clippings, 1930.

Box 19, Folder 6

Photographs, 1929-1932.

Sub-Series 6.7: Kansas City, Missouri, City Hall, 1936.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, sketches, elevations, and photographs relating primarily to the sculptures designed for the City Hall of Kansas City, Missouri. The correspondence is between Alexander and the three sculptors commissioned to undertake the work: C. P. (Paul) Jennewein, of New York City; Ulric H. Ellerhausen, of Towaco, New Jersey; and Walter Hancock, of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Box 3, Folder 30

Correspondence, 1936.

Box 3, Folder 31

Photographs of sculptures, 1936.

Map-case HBA, Folder 4

Sketches, and Elevations of Sculptures, 1936.

Sub-Series 6.8: Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California, 1924-1931, 1934.

Physical Description: 15 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, photographs, publications, reports, and a separate scehem and synopsis of the sculpture and inscriptions designed for the Los Angeles Public Library. The correspondence is between Alexander, architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, his successor Carleton Monroe Winslow, and Los Angeles City Librarian Everett R. Perry. Alexander's correspondence with sculptor Lee Lawrie, who was responsible for the sculptural elements of the library, is found in Box 1, Folders 48-49 and 59-61. The photographs are particularly extensive.

Box 16, Folder 1

Scrapbook cover, 1924-1931.

Box 16, Folder 3

Correspondence, 1924-1929, 1934.

Box 16, Folder 2

Dedicatory Exercises of the Central Library Building (booklet), July 15, 1926.

Box 16, Folder 14

Inscriptions, 1924-1926.

Photographs, 1926-1931.

Physical Description: 7 folders.

Box 16, Folder 4

General, 1926-1931.

Box 16, Folder 5

Children’s entrance and court, 1926-1931.

Box 16, Folder 6

Interiors, 1926-1931.

Box 16, Folder 7

North façade, 1926-1931.

Box 16, Folder 8

Tower sculpture, 1926-1931.

Box 16, Folder 9

West entrance, 1926-1931.

Box 16, Folder 10

West façade, 1926-1931.

Publications, 1927-1931.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 16, Folder 12

Alexander, Hartley Burr, "The Sculpture of Lee Lawrie", Architectural Forum , May 1931.

Box 16, Folder 11

"Like Stepping Into a Story Book", Library Bureau, 1927.

Box 16, Folder 13

Publicity, 1926-1933, undated.

Box 16, Folder 15

Scheme and Thematic Synopsis of the Sculpture and Inscriptions, 1924-1926.

Sub-Series 6.9: Miscellaneous projects, 1927-1934.

Physical Description: 13 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, photographs, blueprints, and notes relating to the following projects undertaken, or entertained but not taken on, by Alexander:

Cornell University Myron Taylor Hall of Law, Ithaca, New York
Great Cathedral, Lincoln, Nebraska
Los Angeles Times Building, Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office Building, New York City
St. Paul, Minnesota, City Hall

Correspondence, 1929-1934.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 20, Folder 1

1929 September 19 - 1930 December 30. 1929-1930

Box 20, Folder 2

1931 January 4 - 1932 December 14. 1931-1932

Box 20, Folder 3

Flint Faience & Tile Company, Flint, Michigan, 1933 June 6.

Box 20, Folder 4

1933 July 3 - 1934 January 17. 1933-1934

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York--Myron Taylor Hall of Law, 1930-1933.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Map-case HBA, Folder 2

Blueprint, 1933.

Box 20, Folder 5

Correspondence and clippings, 1930-1933.

Box 20, Folder 6

Photographs, circa 1933.

Box 20, Folder 7

Great Cathedral, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1930.

Scope and Contents note

Includes published address, "The Last Architecture", by Hartley Burr Alexander, delivered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sunday, April 6, 1930.

Los Angeles Times Building, Los Angeles, California, circa 1930.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Map-case HBA, Folder 5

Blueprint, circa 1930.

Box 20, Folder 8

Photograph, circa 1930.

Box 20, Folder 9

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Home Office, New York, New York, 1931.

Box 20, Folder 10

St. Paul, Minnesota, City Hall and Court House, circa 1930.

Box 20, Folder 10 A

Drawings and blueprint for unidentified structure(s), circa 1930.

Sub-Series 6.10: Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1919-1933, 1992.

General Physical Description note: 9 folders + 1 scrapbook.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, blueprints, a scrapbook, and a Synopsis of Decorations and Inscriptions, relating to Alexander's work as thematic designer for the Nebraska State Capitol. This was Alexander's first project, and the correspondence, almost all of it with architect Bertram Goodhue, is particularly illuminating. Additional correspondence relating to this project with sculptor Lee Lawrie is found in Box 1, Folders 48-49 and 59-61, and with muralist Hildreth Meiere is found in Box 1, Folders 70-72, and Box 2, Folders 50-52. The series includes blueprints for the Nebraska World War Memorial within the State Capitol, and slides of materials in the collection prepared for Margaret Dale Masters, Hartley Burr Alexander, Writer-in-stone (Lincoln, NE : J. North Printing Co., c1992)

Blueprints, 1923-1927.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Map-case HBA, Folder 6

1923-1927.

Map-case HBA, Folder 7

Undated (1923-1927).

Correspondence, 1922-1927

Physical Description: 4 folders.

“Goodhue Correspondence” (Bertram Goodhue, Architect), 1922-1924.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 3, Folder 34

1922.

Box 3, Folder 35

1922-1924.

Box 3, Folder 36

1923.

Box 3, Folder 37

Miscellaneous, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1932.

Map-case HBA, Folder 8

Nebraska World War Memorial--Blueprints, 1934.

Box 21

Scrapbook, 1919-1933.

Box 3, Folder 24

Slides of blueprints, papers, and photographs, 1992.

General note

Prepared for Margaret Dale Masters, Hartley Burr Alexander, Writer-in-stone (Lincoln, NE : J. North Printing Co., c1992).

Box 3, Folder 38

Synopsis of Decorations and Inscriptions, undated.

Sub-Series 6.11: Oregon State Capitol, Salem, Oregon, 1936-1937.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and blueprints relating to Alexander's design of inscriptions for the Oregon State Capitol.

Map-case HBA, Folder 9

Blueprints for Inscription Work, 1936.

General note

Found empty, 7 July 2015.

Box 3, Folder 44

Correspondence, 1936-1937.

Sub-Series 6.12: Pennsylvania State Finance Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1930-1938, undated.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, photographs, and sketches and elevations relating to Alexander's work as thematic designer for the Pennsylvania State Finance Building.

Box 3, Folder 45

Correspondence, 1930-1938.

Box 3, Folder 45

Photographs, 1930, undated.

Map-case HBA, Folder 10

Sketches and Elevations, 1938, undated.

Sub-Series 6.13: Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, 1930-1933.

Physical Description: 8 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and the thematic synopsis for Rockefeller Center. The correspondence primarily discusses the architectural decorations and symbolism used in the design of Rockefeller City, or Radio City. The correspondence includes several drafts of the thematic synopsis. A copy, possibly the final draft, is housed separately. A series of articles published in Architectural Forum, and one published in Harpers Monthly Magazine, discuss the architectural design of Rockefeller City.

Box 20, Folder 11

Scrapbook cover, 1933.

Box 20, Folder 12

Correspondence, 1930-1931.

Box 8, Folder 4

Metropolitan Square groundplan, 1931.

Box 20, Folder 13

Photographs, 1931-1933.

Publications 1932.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 20, Folder 14

Allen, Frederick Lewis, "Radio City: Cultural Center?" Harpers Monthly Magazine , 1932.

Box 20, Folder 15

Clute, Eugene, "The Story of Rockefeller Center: X. The Allied Arts", Architectural Forum , vol. 57, no. 4, 1932 October.

Box 20, Folder 16

Harrison, Wallace K., "Drafting Room Practice", Architectural Forum, vol 56, no. 1, 1932 January.

Box 20, Folder 17

Hood, Raymond, "The Design of Rockefeller City", Architectural Forum, vol. 56, no. 1, 1932 January.

Box 20, Folder 18

Reinhard, L. Andrew, "Organization for Cooperation", Architectural Forum, vol. 56, no. 1, 1932 January.

Box 20, Folder 19

Publicity, 1931-1933.

Box 20, Folder 20

Thematic Synopsis for Rockefeller City, 1931-1933.

Sub-Series 6.14: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium, 1935-1936.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, blueprints, and photographs relating to Alexander's work as "inscriptionist" for the Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Map-case HBA, Folder 11

Blueprints of inscriptions, 1935-1936.

Box 3, Folder 41

Correspondence, 1935-1936.

General note

Formerly HBA Papers, 3:41.

Box 3, Folder 42

Photographs, 1935-1936.

Box 3, Folder 40

Why Minnesota? circa 1936.

Series 7: Writings, 1924-1989.

Physical Description: 5 linear feet

Arrangement note

This series is organized into four sub-series:

Sub-series 7.1: General papers
Sub-series 7.2: Manuscripts and typescripts
Sub-series 7.3: Pageants
Sub-series 7.4: Published writings

Scope and Contents note

This series contains typescripts, offprints, scrapbooks, costume designs, photographs, and clippings relating to books, articles, poems, pageants, plays, and operas written by Hartley Burr Alexander. The bulk of the works concern the philosophy, culture, traditions, art, and music of Native North Americans, and include galley proofs for Mythology of All Races, Vol. 11: Latin American (1920); an unpublished Indian Primer, or Stories About Indians For Youthful Readers ; articles on Native North American philosophy; and Alexander's draft texts for, and extensive correspondence relating to, Pueblo Indian Painting (1932) and Sioux Indian Painting (1938). The series includes an extensive number of offprints and typescripts of journal articles on philosophy, music, and the interpretation of symbols in art and architecture. It also contains many of Alexander's own literary works, including poetry, plays, pageants, and operas. Many of these--such as Taiwa, the opera Minnewakan (libretto by Alexander, music by Victor Hugo Kasper), the light opera Priscilla (music by Henry Purmort Eames), and the pageants designed, authored, and produced by Alexander in Nebraska between 1915 and 1929--are based on, or make extensive use of, Native North American themes.

Sub-Series 7.1: General papers, 1903-1989.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains bibliographies, notices, and reviews of Hartley Burr Alexander's writings, programs for performances of his dramatic and musical works, and materials relating to his speaking engagements.

Bibliography, circa 1934-1989.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 4, Folder 6

Bibliographical Record: Hartley Burr Alexander, [1934].

Box 4, Folder 5

Circa 1940-1989. 1940-1989

Box 7, Folder 6

Notices and reviews of books by Hartley Burr Alexander, 1903-1934.

General Physical Description note: Scrapbook.

Box 5, Folder 7

Programs for performances of Hartley Burr Alexander's works, 1927-1932.

Scope and Contents note

Three American Indian Plays by Hartley Alexander ["Carved Woman", "The Weeper", "His-Voice-is-a-Whisper"]. Publicity for performance directed by Marion Craig Wentworth. 1927. 2 copies.
Three American Indian Plays by Hartley Alexander ["Carved Woman", "The Weeper", "His-Voice-is-a-Whisper"]. Performance at Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College, Saturday, October 6, 1928. 2 copies.
The Man Who Married the Thunder's Daughter; a Manito Mask, by Hartley Alexander. Perfornance at Scripps College, February 28, 1930.
Priscilla and John Alden; a light opera in three acts, libretto by Hartley Burr Alexander, music by Henry Purmort Eames. Performance by the Claremont Community Players, Little Theater in Padua Hills, November 1932.

Public speaking, 1919-1937.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 3, Folder 8

Public speaking engagements and conferences, 1919-1936, undated.

Box 3, Folder 6

Talk given in connection with "Music and American Youth" program, Red Network [radio] (coast-to-coast, origination: Hollywood) 1937 November 21.

Sub-Series 7.2: Manuscripts and typescripts, 1892-1937.

Physical Description: 1.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains typescript drafts of works, several unpublished, by Hartley Burr Alexander. These works include an unpublished Indian Primer, or Stories About Indians For Youthful Readers; articles on philosophy; notes on art; and poems and performance pieces, primarily on Native North American themes. The latter include three drafts of Taiwa; the drafts of the libretto, and the full orchestral score, of the opera Minnewakan (libretto by Alexander, music by Victor Hugo Kasper); four typescript drafts/performance scripts, with handwritten annotations, of Alexander's libretto for the light opera Priscilla (music by Henry Purmort Eames); and the musical score of The Pasque. The sub-series also includes several papers written by Alexander while still a student, and three songs by Alexander, with music by his wife, Nelly (Kirk) Alexander.

Academe: A Masque of the College of Arts , 1922-1937.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Two versions.

Box 4, Folder 1

University of Nebraska, 1922.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 2

Scripps College, 1937.

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed typescript + musical score to song "Pallas Athena".

Box 4, Folder 4

“Arikara,” 1933-1934.

General Physical Description note: Typescript. Marked "IV.20-IV.23".

Scope and Contents note

Description of Arikara Corn Dance.

Box 4, Folder 12

[Chinese Art], S.S. President Coolidge, Dollar Steamship Lines, October 12, 1936.

General Physical Description note: Typescript; carbon copy.

Scope and Contents note

Includes printed brochure on the Hsiung sisters: Pih-song, Yao-song, and Pei-song.

Box 5, Folder 1

The Corn Maidens, undated.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 8

“Critique of Deuxieme Arabesque , by Claude Debussy", undated.

Box 4, Folder 11

“Eriks Saga Rauda” (Icelandic Reader, p. 136, 137), undated.

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.

Box 4, Folder 13

Evangelium Christi, undated.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 49, Box 4, Folder 50

"God and Philosophical Thinking"--Typescript, 1933.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Note

Published in Lectures on The Meaning of God in Modern Life , Scripps College Papers, no. 5 (1933), 51-71.

Indian Primer / Stories About Indians For Youthful Readers , circa 1930-1935.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 44

Chapters 1-14, circa 1930-1935.

Scope and Contents note

1. A Book about Indians, [1-2].
2. Who are the Indians?, 1-10.
3. Arrowheads, 11-23.
4. Stories about the first Indians [original title: Indian stories of the first people], 24-31.
5. The Red-paint tally, 35-43.
6. When Indians and white men met, 44-52.
7. How the Norsemen fought in Vinland, 53-59.
8. Columbus comes to San Salvador, 60-65.
9 [originally 8]. The "Nonpareil of Virginia", 66-72.
10. How the Pilgrims discovered Indian corn, 73-78.
11. The [People] Indians of canoe and wigwam, 79-87.
12. Hiawatha's sailing, 88-94.
13. The Real Hiawatha, 95-102.
14. Manabozho: the great rabbit, 103-112.

Box 4, Folder 45

Chapters 15-32, circa 1930-1935.

Scope and Contents note

15. The Man who would live forever, 113-114.
16. [missing]
17. The Woman who fell from the skies, 120-127.
18. The Boy who became twins, 128-131.
19. Peace-pipe and tomahawk, 132-143.
20. The Great Spirit, 144-150.
21. Poor Lo, 151-152.
22. A Warrior's death, 153-160.
23 [formerly 25]. Indian orators, 161-165.
24. Heroic Indians, 166-177.
25. [missing]
26. Tecumseh, 178-181.
27. The Five civilized tribes, 182-189
28. Sequoyah, 190-193.
29 [formerly 28]. Animal stories, 194-199.
30. The Ball game of the birds and animals, 200-208.
31. The Song of the game of silence, 209-210.
32. The People of the tipi and pony, 212-217.

Box 4, Folder 46

Chapters 33-46, circa 1930-1935.

Scope and Contents note

33. The Origin of the Sun Dance, 218-224.
34. [missing]
35. Buffalo and maize, 237-249.
36. The Buffalo Dance, 250-258.
37. [missing]
38. [missing]
39. The Four Hills of Life, by Alice Cunningham Fletcher, 264-268.
40. The New Boy, by Francis La Flesche, 269-285.
41. The Youth's vision, 286-294.
42. The Battle on the river, by James Fenimore Cooper, 295-305.
43. How the Flatheads defeatedthe Crows, by Father Pierre Jean De Smet, 306-320.
44. War songs, 321-323.
45. A Warrior's exploits, 324-328.
46. The New great thing, by Keene Abbott, [page numbers eaten away].

Box 4, Folder 47

Chapters 48-61, circa 1930-1935.

Scope and Contents note

48. The Ghost Dance, 336-343.
49. [missing]
50. Nature wisdom, sayings of the Dakotah as recorded by their friend A. McG. Beede, 346-351.
51. What feathers mean, 352-362.
52. The Legend of Standing Rock, by Melvin R. Gilmore, 363-365.
53. The Holy Hill Pahuk, by Melvin R. Gilmore, 366-376.
54. Star Boy, by Walter McClintock, 377-391.
55. [missing]
56. The People of the terraced towns, [page numbers eaten away]-397.
57. The Cliff-dwellers, 398-407.
58. The Corn maidens, 408-413.
59. [missing]
60. Indian corn, 414-424.
61. The Great Corn Dance, 425-438.

Box 4, Folder 48

Chapters 62-65, circa 1930-1935.

Scope and Contents note

62. The Creation of the sun, 439-446.
63. [missing]
64. The People of npotlatch and totem-pole, 449-455.
65. The Meaning of life [original title: How death came to be], 456-476.

Box 4, Folder 16

La Menuette: A Lyrical Ballet in Two Acts , 1924.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Note

Book by Hartley B. Alexander, music by Howard I. Kirkpatrick.

Box 4, Folder 18

The Lucky Prince, undated.

General Physical Description note: Typescript. Marked: "I.1-I.5".

Minnewakan, an opera in three acts based upon an old Siouan legend, 1928-1932.

Note

Libretto by Hartley Burr Alexander, music by Victor Hugo Kasper.

Libretto, 1928-1932.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 5, Folder 2

Draft A ("Minnetonka"), circa 1928.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 20

Draft B ("Minnewakan"), circa 1928.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Manuscript musical score, 1928-1932.

Physical Description: 3 volumes

Book: Denison Archives XS14.A43 M56 score v.1

Act 1, 1928-1932.

Book: Denison Archives XS14.A43 M56 score v.2

Act 2, 1928-1932.

Book: Denison Archives XS14.A43 M56 score v.3

Act 3, 1928-1932.

Mysteries of the North American Indians, circa 1935.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Note

Published as The World's Rim; Great Mysteries of the North American Indians (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1953).

Box 4, Folder 29

“The Pipe of Peace,” circa 1935.

Note

Published as chapter 1 of The World's Rim; Great Mysteries of the North American Indians (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1953).

Box 4, Folder 54

“The Tree of Life”, circa 1935.

Note

Published as chapter 2 of The World's Rim; Great Mysteries of the North American Indians (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1953).

Box 6, Folder 45

Notes on proposed illustrations for, circa 1935.

Box 8, Folder 7

The Pasque, undated.

General Physical Description note: Musical score.

Box 4, Folder 56

"A Philosophy for the Liberal Arts College in the Modern World", Proceedings of the Association of Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Southwest , 1936.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 30

Poems, undated.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Scope and Contents note

Published and unpublished poems.

Priscilla; a light opera in three acts , 1920-1932.

Physical Description: 5 folders.

Box 5, Folder 3 (draft A), Box 5, Folder 4 (draft B), Box 5, Folder 5 (draft C), Box 5, Folder 6 (draft D)

Drafts A-D, 1920-1932.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Scope and Contents note

Four typescript drafts, with handwritten annotations. Hartley Burr Alexander notes in his Bibliographical Record: "Composed with music by Henry Purmort Eames, to be given as a ter-centenary celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims. The performance, which was to have been given by the University of Nebraska, was abandoned, and it was not until 1932 that the full opera was given, by the Claremont Players, although a partial version had been presented in 1930, by the same organization. The libretto was written some years previous to 1920, although not entirely completed."

Box 4, Folder 27

Claremont Players production, 1930 May.

Box 4, Folder 31

The Repeaters: A Drama of the Post-Diluvians , undated.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 37

“The Singing Girl of Peten”, 1933 circa.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Note

Published as "The Singing Girl of Copan: a ballet in the Maya mode", Theatre Arts Magazine, August 1933.

Songs, undated.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 8, Folder 6

“Ivy Song,” by Hartley and Nelly Alexander no date.

Box 4, Folder 22

“Old French Song”

Box 4, Folder 23

Untitled

Box 4, Folder 39

Student papers, 1892, undated.

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.

Box 5, Folder 9 (draft A), Box 5, Folder 10 (draft B), Box 5, Folder 11 (draft C)

Taiwa, 1934.

Scope and Contents note

Three typescript drafts.

Box 5, Folder 8

The Tear, 1933.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 4, Folder 42

“Van Gogh: Art and the Man”, 1935.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 5, Folder 12

When Johnny Comes Marching Home , undated.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Sub-Series 7.3: Pageants, 1915-1935.

Physical Description: 5 scrapbooks

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains correspondence; texts; production notes; scrapbooks of costume designs, photographs, and newspaper clippings; and other materials relating to pageants designed, authored, and produced by Hartley Burr Alexander in the state of Nebraska between 1915 and 1929:

Pageant of Lincoln, 1915
Pageant of Lincoln: Gate City, 1916
Ivy Day, 1918
Nebraska, 1919
Nebraska, 1921
Coronado in Quivera, 1922
Making of Nebraska, 1929

The sub-series also contains programs, reviews, and photographs of other performance works by Alexander: The Scalp (1922), The Singing Girl of Copan (1934), and Taiwa (1935).

Box 1, Folder 30

Correspondence from "Chan", circa 1922.

Box 22, Folder 1

Nebraska pageants 1915 and after, 1915-1929.

General Physical Description note: Scrapbook.

Scope and Contents note

Pageant of Lincoln, 1915
Pageant of Lincoln: Gate City, 1916
Ivy Day, 1918
Nebraska, 1919
Nebraska, 1921
Coronado in Quivera, 1922
Making of Nebraska, 1929

Box 22, Folder 2

Pageant of Lincoln, 1915.

General Physical Description note: Scrapbook.

Box 22, Folder 3

Pageants and plays, photographs and reviews, 1922-1935.

General Physical Description note: Scrapbook.

Scope and Contents note

Coronado in Quivera Pageant, 1922
The Scalp, 1922
The Singing Girl of Copan, 1934
Taiwa, 1935

Coronado in Quivera pageant,

Box 5, Folder 18

Ak-Sar-Ben Pageant “Coronado in Quivera" , 1922.

Note

Words by Hartley Burr Alexander, music by Henry Purmont Eames. Omaha: Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben.

Box 22, Folder 4

Scrapbook, 1922.

Making of Nebraska Diamond Jubilee pageant, 1929.

Box 22, Folder 5

Scrapbook, 1929.

General Physical Description note: Scrapbook.

Box 4, Folder 19

The Making of Nebraska: A Pageant of the Plains --Director's book, 1929.

Box 4, Folder 10

Diamond Jubilee Pageant --Director's schedules, 1929.

Sub-Series 7.4: Published writings, 1910-1952.

Physical Description: 1.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents note

This sub-series contains offprints, proofs, and typescripts of published works by Hartley Burr Alexander, as well as reviews and correspondence relating to them. The materials include the galley proofs for Mythology of All Races, Vol. 11: Latin American (1920); offprints and copies of journal and newspaper articles on philosophy, music, the interpretation of symbols in art and architecture, and, in particular, Native North American philosophy, culture, traditions, and art; Alexander's draft texts for, and extensive correspondence relating to, Pueblo Indian Painting (1932) and Sioux Indian Painting (1938); and Alexander's own poetic and dramatic works.

Box 5, Folder 13

Alexander in Babylon: A Tragedy in Five Acts , Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 1923.

General Physical Description note: Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co. Reprinted from The Open Court .

Box 5, Folder 14

“Alogistic Intelligence and Philosophical Wisdom", University of California Chronicle , 1928 April.

General Physical Description note: Pages 231-241. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 15

“At the Heels of Progress", Nebraska Alumnus , vol. 31, no. 9, 1935 November.

General Physical Description note: Pages 10-11, 16.

Box 5, Folder 16

“Aztec Gods", Art and Archaeology , vol. 16, nos. 1-2, 1923 July-August.

General Physical Description note: Pages 59-65. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 17

"The Bad Heart Buffalo Manuscript", Theatre Arts Monthly, 1932 January.

General Physical Description note: 3 pages (unnumbered, but 29-31). Pasted into Cook-Daniels Lectures, Denver Art Museum, box 5, folder 17.

Box 5, Folder 17

Cooke-Daniels Lectures: First Series, Denver Art Museum, 1927.

Scope and Contents note

"The Ritual Dances of the Pueblo Indians", 1-18
"The Pictorial and Pictographic Art of the Indians of North America", 19-30.
"Monumental Architecture" [missing].

Pasted in: "The Bad Heart Buffalo Manuscript", Theatre Arts Monthly, January 1932, [3 p. (29-31_].

Box 5, Folder 19

“Drama As A Cosmic Category", Philosophical Review, vol. 39, no. 2, 1930 March.

General Physical Description note: Pages 105-126. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 53

“Dramatic Arts of the American Indian", Theatre Arts Monthly, 1933 August.

Scope and Contents note

Alexander, Hartley Burr, “The Singing Girl of Copan: A Ballet in the Maya Mode", 595-606.
Eames, Henry Purmont, "The Gamut of Expression in American Indian Music", 608-615.
Alexander, Hartley Burr, "Lucky-in-the-House", 616-626.
Blish, Helen, "The Drama of the Sioux Sun Dance", 627-634.
Rush, Olive, "The Young Indian's Work in Old Forms", [635-638].
Kluckhohn, Clyde, "The Great Chants of the Navajo", 639-645.
Ernst, Alice Henson, "Masks of the Northwest Coast", 646-656.
Fergusson, Erna, "Laughing Priests", 657-662.
"A Year's Calendar of Indian Dances".

Box 5, Folder 20

"Education in the Open", School and Society , 1932 January 9.

General Physical Description note: 4 pages (unnumbered, but 60-62). Offprint.

Box 5, Folder 21

“Field Notes: 1928", University of California Chronicle , 1929 April.

General Physical Description note: Pages 157-166. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 21 A

[Folk songs], 1915-1916.

Scope and Contents note

Notes by Hartley Burr Alexander on folk song, in the printed programs for the University of Nebraska Musical Convocations, first and second folk song programs, October 1915, and January 13, 1916 (2 copies).

Box 5, Folder 22

“Francis La Flesche", American Anthropologist , vol. 35, no. 2, 1933 April-June

General Physical Description note: Pages 328-331. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 23

“Giver of Life", New Mexico Quarterly , vol. 20, no.3, 1950 Autumn.

General Physical Description note: Pages 315-321.

Scope and Contents note

Excerpt from unpublished manuscript, The Great Mysteries of the North American Indian , completed in 1935 and published in 1953 as The World's Rim .

Box 5, Folder 24

“The Great Spirit", New Mexico Quarterly , 1931.

General Physical Description note: Pages 3-15.

“Hildreth Meiere’s Work for Nebraska", Architecture, vol. 63, no. 6, 1931.

Box 5, Folder 25

Print copy, 1931 June.

General Physical Description note: Pages 321-328.

Box 4, Folder 15

Typescript, 1931.

Box 5, Folder 26

“The Indian’s Philosophy of Life", Indians at Work; A News Sheet for Indians and the Indian Service , Office of Indian Affairs, 1935 May 15.

General Physical Description note: Pages 7-10.

Box 5, Folder 27

“Intelligence and the Intelligentsia", Scripps College Papers, no. 1, Lectures in Philosophy, 1929.

General Physical Description note: Pages 43-60. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 31

The Last Architecture; an address delivered on April 6, 1930, in the Westminster Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, under the auspices of the Lincoln A Capella Choir, 1930.

General Physical Description note: Title page cut out.

Box 5, Folder 32

Latin-American Mythology, Mythology of all Races, vol. 11--Galley proofs, [1920].

Note

Published Boston: Marshall Jones Co.

Box 4, Folder 17

“Lucky-in-the-house", 1933.

Note

Published in Theatre Arts Monthly, 17 (August 1933), 616-628.

Box 5, Folder 33

“Man", Dune Forum, 1934.

General Physical Description note: Pages 238-240.

Box 5, Folder 34 (complete issues), Box 5, Folder 34 A (offprints)

“The Mystic Way", The Personalist , vol. 14, nos. 3 and 4 ( July and October 1933).

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: vol. 14, no. 3 (July 1933), 167-176; no. 4 (October 1933), 250-258. Complete issues and offprints.

Box 4, Folder 25

Odes and Lyrics--Typographic plates, 1922.

Box 5, Folder 35

Odes on the Generation of Man --Correspondence, 1910-1913.

Box 5, Folder 37

“Old Foundations for a New Opera", University of California Chronicle, vol. 34, no. 3, 1932 July.

General Physical Description note: Pages 252-259. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 38

On Making Friends with Art, Enjoy Your Museum, VII-C, 1936.

Box 5, Folder 39

Ours is the Future; Address delivered on the occasion of the twenfth annual convocation for the awarding of high degrees, Claremont Colleges, 1939 June 10.

Box 5, Folder 40

“The Perception of Motion", Journal of Philosophy Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 11, no. 11, 1914 May 21.

General Physical Description note: Pages 281-290.

Box 5, Folder 41

“Philosophic Imagination in Indian America", New Mexico Quarterly, 1931.

General Physical Description note: Pages 239-246.

Box 4, Folder 28

“The Philosopher" [poem], undated.

Box 5, Folder 42

Poetry and the Individual; An analysis of the imaginative life in relation to the creative spirit in man and nature--Correspondence, 1906-1911.

Pueblo Indian Painting, 1929-1935

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Correspondence concerning Pueblo Indian Painting , and as C. Szwedzicki's United States agent for Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Kiowa Indian Art, and K. M. Chapman, Pueblo Indian Pottery, 1929-1937.

Physical Description: 4 folders.

Box 5, Folder 43

Evans, Ann, 1929.

Box 5, Folder 46

General, 1932-1937.

Box 5, Folder 45

Szwedzicki, C.--Incoming, 1929-1935.

Box 5, Folder 47

Szwedzicki, C.--Outgoing, 1929-1935.

Box 4, Folder 53

Introduction, 1932.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 5, Folder 48

Publication Announcement, 1932.

“The Rocks are Ringing", University of California Chronicle , 1928 July.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: Pages 263-270.

Box 5, Folder 49

Print, 1928.

General Physical Description note: Reprint.

Box 4, Folder 33

Typescript, 1928.

Box 4, Folder 34

Scrapbook of published articles on Native Americans, 1919-1933.

Scope and Contents note

Unless otherwise noted, the articles are by Hartley Burr Alexander.

"Americanization; on the Indian gift to America", ["Americanization", Nation, September 13, 1919].
"Why remember? On the history of the Indians of the Missouri Valley" ["The Indians of the Great Plains", Omaha World-Herald, October 27, 1929, Magazine Section].
"Poet and pragmatist; the Indian's view of the meaning of life", ["The American Indian: poet and pragmatist", Nation, June 6, 1928].
"First philosophy; Indian ritual as an embodiment of philosophy: the Osage", ["The American Indian as philosopher", Nation, April 14, 1926].
"The Indian as Poet; the spirit of Indian lyric poetry: their humor", [Louis Untermeyer, "The Indian as poet", Dial, March 8, 1919].
"The Indian in literature; influence of Indian lore upon European and American literature" [first sentence: "When literature is seen, as ordinarily it is, from within the confines of its own body ..."].
"Indian songs in English verse", ["Indian songs and English verse", American Speech , vol. 1 (1926)].
"For an American Indian theatre; the possibilities of the development of drama in Indian modes", ["For an American Indian theatre", Theatre Arts Monthly , March 1926].
"The singing girl of Copan; a ballet in the Maya mode", ["The singing girl of Copan", Theatre Arts Magazine . August 1933].
"Kills-with-her-man", Theatre Arts Monthly , June 1928.
"The Art of the American Indian", Nation, May 6, 1931.

Box 5, Folder 50

“The Sculpture of Lee Lawrie", Architectural Forum, 1931 May.

General Physical Description note: Pages 587-600. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 51

“The Sense of Antiquity in Indian Mythology", Masterkey (Southwest Museum), vol. 7, no. 5, 1933 September.

General Physical Description note: Pages 132-140.

Scope and Contents note

Excerpt from unpublished manuscript, The Great Mysteries of the North American Indian , completed in 1935 and published in 1953 as The World's Rim .

Box 5, Folder 52

“The Serpent Symbol and Maize Culture", New Mexico Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, 1952 Autumn.

Box 4, Folder 36

“The Singing Girl of Copan: A Ballet in the Maya Mode”, New York Times, 1934 March 3.

General Physical Description note: Rotogravure Picture Section, page RP8.

Sioux Indian Painting, 1930-1937.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Correspondence, 1931, 1935-1938.

Physical Description: 3 folders.

Box 5, Folder 66

Customs correspondence, 1938.

Szwedzicki, C., 1931, 1935-1938.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

Box 5, Folder 55

Incoming, 1931, 1935-1938.

Box 5, Folder 56

Outgoing, 1936-1937.

Box 5, Folder 58

Introduction and notes, 1936-1937.

Box 5, Folder 59

Publication Announcement, 1937.

Box 5, Folder 60

Shipping Invoice for photographs and original paintings, 1938.

Box 4, Folder 38

Songs of the Seasons [poems] undated.

Note

Originally published in The Mid Earth Life (Springfield, Massachusetts: H. R. Huntting, 1907).

Box 5, Folder 61

“Symbolism and Inscriptions", American Architect , 1934 October.

General Physical Description note: Pages 24-28.

Box 5, Folder 62

“The Tear (After A Shoshone Legend)", University of California Chronicle, vol. 33, no. 4, 1931 October.

General Physical Description note: Pages 389-398. Reprint.

Box 5, Folder 63

“Thank God for Deserts!" University of California Chronicle , vol. 32, no. 2, 1930 April.

General Physical Description note: Reprint.

[Editorial remarks prefaced to] “Three Chinese Folk-Dramas", translated by Kwei Chen, Theatre Arts Monthly , 1930 November.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: Pages 967-978.

Box 5, Folder 64

Print, 1930.

Box 4, Folder 40

Typescript, 1930.

“Worlds in Which We Participate", Personalist, vol. 16, no. 2, 1935 April, Spring.

Physical Description: 2 folders.

General Physical Description note: Pages 103-122.

Box 5, Folder 65

Print, 1935.

Box 4, Folder 43

Typescript, 1935.

Box 5, Folder 28

Periodicals covers, 1902-1931.

Series 8: Writings by others, 1897-2000.

Physical Description: 0.75 linear foot

Scope and Contents note

This series contains typescripts, clippings, and offprints, primarily of journal articles, as well as pamphlets, some correspondence, and other writings by authors other than Hartley Burr Alexander. The materials relate almost entirely to Native North American research or to Alexander's architectural design projects, although there are also several files relating to dictionaries and encyclopedias, whose origins can be traced back to Alexander's career as an editor at the Merriam publishing company, and files relating to Janet Piper and Anna O. Shepard.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by author, or, if not determined, by the title of the publication.

Box 6, Folder 20

Allen, F. Sturges, Noah Webster’s Place Among English Lexicographies; address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University , 1909.

Box 6, Folder 21

Architectural Forum, 1932 January.

Note

Eugene Clure, "Techniques in Modern Mosaics", pp. 69-76.

Box 6, Folder 22

Architectural Forum, vo. 56, no. 2, part 1, 1932 February.

Note

Eugene Clute, "Design Possibilities in Metal", pp. 147-150.

Box 6, Folder 23

Architectural Forum, 1932 July.

Box 6, Folder 24

Architecture, 1931 June.

General Physical Description note: pages 339-346 only.

Box 6, Folder 25

Beethoven, Ludwig van, Quartet No. 3 (Payne’s Kleine Partitur-Ausgabe), circa 1911.

Note

Leipzig: Ernst Eulenburg. Stamped "Frederick Alexander".

Box 6, Folder 1, Box 8, Folder 8 (Oversize)

Book advertisements, 1929-1933.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias--Publicity, 1909-1922.

Physical Description: 6 folders.

Box 6, Folder 14

Century Dictionary, undated.

Box 6, Folder 15

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia , 1914.

Box 6, Folder 16

Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, 1910-1911.

Box 6, Folder 19

Encyclopedia Britannica, The Wonderful Decade, 1911-1921, 1922.

Box 6, Folder 17

Standard Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Kelmscott Society), c1911.

Box 6, Folder 18

Webster’s New International Dictionary , 1909.

Box 6, Folder 26

Evans, T. H., “The Epileptic Criminal; With Report of Two Cases,” Medical Record, 1905 February 25.

Note

Offprint.

Box 6, Folder 6

Gilmore, Melvin, “Making Records of Ancient Rituals of the Arikara Tribe in North Dakota”, with correspondence, 1922, 1933-1934.

Note

The paper was delivered in Bismarck, North Dakota, in June 1922; the correspondence consists of two letters, one from 1933, the other from 1934.

Box 6, Folder 29

Grummann, Paul H., Review of Hermann Paul, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Journal of Germanic Philology , vol. 1, no. 4, 1897.

Note

Pages 511-515.

Box 6, Folder 27

Gurney, George, “The Department of Justice Building", Sculpture and the Federal Triangle, chapter 8, 1985.

Note

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institute Press.

Box 6, Folder 28

Hale, Edward Everett, “Memoirs of a Hundred Years", Outlook, vol. 69, no. 9, 1901 November 2.

Note

Pages 344-363.

Box 6, Folder 8

Kipling, Rudyard, “Chartres Windows" [poem], 1925.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 3, Folder 15

Kluckhorn, Clyde, “A Note on the Sources of the Drawings in the Del Rio Volume on Palenque.” In Maya Research , vol. 7, no. 3, July 1935.

Box 6, Folder 9

Lewis, Edwin Herbert, “The Physicians” [poem], 1935.

Box 6, Folder 31

Long, Percy W., “English Dictionaries Before Webster", Papers, Bibliographic Society of America, vol. 4, 1910.

Note

Pages 26-43. Offprint.

Box 6, Folder 32

Los Angeles Public Library, Inscriptions and Sculptures , 1925.

Box 6, Folder 33

McClintock, Walter, Painted Tipis and Picture-Writing of the Blackfoot Indians , Southwest Museum Leaflets, no. 6, 1936.

Box 6, Folder 34

Meire, Hildreth,”The Question of Decoration,” Architectural Forum, vol. 57, No. 1, 1932 July.

Note

Pages 1-8. Offprint.

Box 6, Folder 35

Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York , circa 1960.

General Physical Description note: Brochure.

Box 6, Folder 36

Of Men and Books, Northwestern University on the Air, vol. 1, nos. 14 and 22, 1942 January 3 and February 18.

Note

vol. 1, no. 14, Critic John T. Frederick and Guest Arthur Meeker, Jr., "Historical Novels"
vol. 1, no. 22, Critic John T. Frederick and Guest Samuel Eliot Morison, "Biographies"

Box 6, Folder 10

Piper, Janet--Poetry and correspondence, 1931-1932.

General Physical Description note: Print and typescript.

Box 6, Folder 11

Saliola, Gregory, Art Deco’s Romance with Progress: Chicago’s Century of Progress Exhibition Manifested at Rockefeller Center , Paper delivered at the 53rd annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 6, Folder 40

Sheffield, Alfred Dwight, “The Rational Study of English Grammar", School Review, vol. 18, no. 9, 1910 November.

Scope and Contents note

Pages 618-626. Offprint.

Box 6, Folder 12

Shepard, Anna O.--Papers and correspondence, 1928.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Scope and Contents note

"The Analysis of Pueblo Pottery"
"Indian Basketry of San Diego County, California"

Box 6, Folder 13

Stephens, John, A Definition of Man , Paper delivered to the Mountain-Philosophical Association, Denver, Colorado, November 22, 1947.

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1865-1935.

Physical Description: 2.5 linear feet

Arrangement note

This series includes three sub-series:

Sub-series 9.1: Alexander family photographs
Sub-series 9.2: Native American materials
Sub-series 9.3: Postcards

Scope and Contents note

The photographs in this series can be divided into three basic groups: (1) those relating to the Alexander family and its activities (Subseries 9.1); (2) those relating to Native North Americans, collected by Hartley Burr Alexander in the course of his research (Subseries 9.2); and (3) postcards (Subseries 9.3).

Sub-Series 9.1: Alexander family photographs, circa 1865-1910.

General Physical Description note: 1 box + 3 folders.

Scope and Contents note

The majority of the photographs in this sub-series relate to Hartley Burr Alexander's elder brother, A. D. (Arthur Davis) Alexander, and his career as a photographer in Syracuse, Nebraska, and include a large number of photographs of the Turlington W. Harvey family and estate. The photographs from Illinois and Indiana relate to the family of Arthur's wife, Everlyn (Eva) Winchester. The Boston photographs derive from Alexander's aunt, Charlotte Alexander (1843-1916), and her business partnership with the photographer Augustus Ephraim Alden. The sub-series also includes 2 photographs by the Arcata, California, photographer Augustus W. Ericson.

Alexander, A. D. (Arthur Davis), circa 1880-1910.

General Physical Description note: 1 box + 2 folders.

Box 9

Alexander family and Nebraska, circa 1880-1910.

Scope and Contents note

1-38. Turlington W. Harvey family and estate, Otoe County, Nebraska
39-43. N. A. Duff, Syracuse, Nebraska
44-46. Amos Weller home, Syracuse, Nebraska (includes Nina, Rosa, Mrs. Peter Weller, and Lon), 1891
47-50. Unidentified interiors
51. Members of band posing in front of Bank of Syracuse
52. Ladies McKinley Club, Syracuse, Nebraska (names on reverse), 1896
53. 4-person quadracycle, circa 1890
54. [not used]
55. A. D. [Arthur Davis] Alexander, "The States", July 4th [1896]
56-57. A. D. Alexander, Bedroom[s] at Turlington, Otoe County, Nebraska
58. Stonehaven, Massachusetts--Bicycle club
59. Champaign, Illinois--Mrs. Pinkard
60-61. Chicago, Illinois--Mrs. Mary Holmes; birthplace of C. W. Holmes
62-63. Eau Claire, Wisconsin--2 boys sawing; girl with dolls, 1885
64. Humboldt, Kansas--Mrs. Lucy Heath
65-66. Lincoln, Nebraska--Viola Dowden; Mame Gulick
67-69. London, Ohio--Dick Acton (photograph Springfield, Ohio); B[erthier] J. Custer (photograph Clinton, Missouri), circa 1865; Log cabin, Harrison campaign, 1888
70-76. Monticello, Illinois--Ward Heuston (photograph Chicago); Mattie Jamieson ("for Eva [Winchester] and Aunt Frank"), circa 1893; Mattie Linder (?Tinder; photograph Bloomington, Illinois); Flo J. Miller ("Eva's cousin); Zola Miller; Lin[neas] Tinder; Aunt Delia Tompkins
77-81. Muncie, Indiana--Cal Dungan; Anna Winchester; Ed[ward] L. Winchester (2 photographs); Lucy Winchester
82. Nebraska City, Nebraska--unidentified male ("D. W. Curry" on back, in modern hand)
83. Portage, Wisconsin--Ed. Fawcett
84. Providence, Rhode Island--young boy ("son of one of mother's [Abigail G. Smith] old friends")
85-86. Syracuse, Nebraska (photographs by C. J. Lehmer): Nettie Weller, Miss Lehmer, Katie Harris, Lena Schneider, Alice and Miss Lambertson; Nina Weller (graduation dress)
87-90. Syracuse, Nebraska (photographs by A. D. Alexander)--Nellie Crownover; Dick Elliot; Foresman family (named); Jannie Foresman ("later Mrs. Harvey Jolly")
91. Waverly, Nebraska--Sod house near, circa 1890
92-93. 2 unidentified women (possibly Foresman family) in studio floral setting
94. Peel Castle, Isle of Man
95. State of Liberty, circa 1910

Box 6, Folder 47

Ericson, Augustus W.--Photographs of Humboldt Co., California, circa 1895.

Scope and Contents note

Group of Indians, Near Arcata, Humboldt Co., California.
In the Redwoods, Stump 26 feet in diameter, mad River, Humboldt Co., California.

Box 6, Folder 48

Piloty, Franz von--The Wise and Foolish Virgins--Exhibition, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1888.

Box 6, Folder 46

Boston, circa 1892-1902.

General Physical Description note: 7 photographs, b&w : 8 inches x 10 inches. 2 photographs stamped on back "Alden Photo Co., 169 Tremont St." [Augustus Ephraim Alden, active at this address, 1892-1900 Boston city directories]. 1 photograph marked on back "for Alice [Frances Alexander (1862-1924)]".

General note

Charlotte Alexander (1843-1916), sister of Hartley Burr Alexander's father, George Sherman Alexander, was the Boston landlady, and sometime partner, of the photographer Augustus Ephraim Alden.

Scope and Contents note

Arlintgon St. Church, Boston Public Library (2 photographs), Massachusetts State House (3 photographs), Trinity Church.

Box 3, Folder 23

Alexander, Hartley Burr--Performance of unidentified dramatic work on Native American theme by, undated.

General Physical Description note: 2 photographs, b&w.

Box 3, Folder 25

Japanese theatre and musical instruments, undated.

Box 6, Folder 50

Lusher, N. E. (Hamilton, Bermuda)--Oh, these watermelons, 1890.

Sub-Series 9.2: Native American materials, circa 1900-1935.

Physical Description: 10 folders.

Scope and Contents note

The photographs in this sub-series were collected by Hartley Burr Alexander in the course of his research on Native North Americans. They include a portfolio, published for the popular market, of 5 photographs by Edward S. Curtin of Native Americans of the Seattle area; several early 20th-century photographs of Native American ritual dancers; snapshots of Native North American artifacts; a scrapbook of Alaskan and Northwestern United States Native American artwork; and artifacts, primarily skins, held by various institutions in the United States.

Box 3, Folder 27 A

Curtis, Edward S.--Native Americans of Washington State, circa 1900-1915.

General Physical Description note: 5 prints, mounted.

Box 6, Folder 78

Katsikodi (Shoshone)--Buffalo hunt, circa 1900-1910.

Box 6, Folder 52

Mexico, undated.

Box 6, Folder 53

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (now National Museum of the American Indian), undated.

Box 6, Folder 54

Native American ritual dancers, undated.

Box 3, Folder 26

North America--artifacts, undated.

Box 6, Folder 55

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, undate.

Box 3, Folder 27

Scrapbook of Alaskan and Northwestern United States Native American artwork, undated.

Box 3, Folder 20

Sculpture, murals, and carvings on Native and Western Amercan themes, 1932, undated.

Scope and Contents note

Brenneke, N[uclear]--Carving of woman with baby. Reiss, Hans--2 heads, modeled o Blackfoot Reservation, Montana, Summer 1931. Rush, Olive--Fresco of woman with baby. Unidentified--Frieze of two cowboys roping steer (2 copies).

Box 6, Folder 56

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., undated.

Box 6, Folder 57

State Historical Society of Nebraska, undated.

Sub-Series 9.3: Postcards, circa 1890-1920.

Physical Description: 5 boxes.

Scope and Contents note

The postcards in the collection are organized as follows:

those used in correspondence, arranged by recipient
unused postcards with Native North American or Western American themes
United States, arranged by state
other coutries of the world, arranged alphabetically

A considerable number of postcards depict works of art; these are filed in the country in which the museum or other institution that holds them lies. The majority of postcards used in correspondence, relating to Native North American or Western American themes, or to the western United States, can be traced to Hartley Burr Alexander. However, many others--indeed, the majority--show no evidence of having belonged to Alexander, and may have been accidentally added to the collection in the years since the collection was donated to the library.

Box 10

Correspondence; Native Americans / Western Americana; United States; Canada, circa 1890-1920.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence--Alexander
Correspondence--Bush, W. T.
Correspondence--Foster
Correspondence--Griggs
Correspondence--Kellogg
Correspondence--Mann
Correspondence--Mills
Correspondence--Unidentified
Native American / Western Americana
Arizona
California
Colorado
Illinois
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Washington
Washington, D.C.
Canada

Europe, circa 1890-1930.

Box 11

Austria - Great Britain (Lincoln), circa 1890-1920.

Scope and Contents note

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Great Britain (A-Lincoln)

Box 12

Great Britain (Liverpool) - Hungary, circa 1890-1920.

Scope and Contents note

Great Britain (Liverpool - Unsorted)
Hungary

Box 13

Italy, circa 1890-1920.

Box 14

Latvia-Turkey, Unsorted, circa 1890-1920.

Scope and Contents note

Latvia
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Unsorted

Box 6, Folder 49

[Print] Projectors of the Atlantic Cable / Map Showing the Telegraph and Cable Lines of the World, circa 1900.

Series 10: Realia, circa 1990.

Physical Description: 1 box

Scope and Contents note

This series consists of two t-shirts, with a woodcut image of a Native North American and the line, "I would look upward, with open eyes, singing", from Hartley Burr Alexander's poem, "The Last Song", first published as "Amerindian Air", in The Nation, 16 February 1921.

Box 15

T-Shirt: "I would look upward, with open eyes, singing," The Last Song, Hartley Burr Alexander, circa 1990.

General Physical Description note: 2 pieces.