Guide to the Hartley Burr Alexander Papers
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Hartley Burr Alexander Papers,
Dates: 1834-2000
Date (bulk): 1908-1938
Collection number: D.Mss.0010
Creator:
Alexander, Hartley Burr,
1873-1939
Physical Description:
Extent: 23.5 linear feet
Repository:
Scripps College. Ella Strong Denison Library. Claremont, CA
91711
Abstract: Correspondence, typescripts, journal and newspaper
articles and clippings, photographs, notes, scrapbooks, original artwork, and other
materials, the bulk dating from 1908-1938, relating to the life and career of
educator, author, poet, and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander (1873-1939). The bulk
of the collection relates to Alexander’s research on the philosophy, culture,
traditions, art, and music of Native North Americans, and includes original works by
Pueblo and Plains artists, and large-scale photographic reproductions of images from
the ledger of artist Amos Bad Heart Bull, which is no longer extant. The collection
includes correspondence, photographs, architectural drawings and blueprints,
newspaper clippings, and other materials documenting Alexander's non-academic career
as "thematic designer" of sculpture, inscriptions, and other ornamentation for large
public buildings, including the Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Los
Angeles Public Library; and Rockefeller Center, New York City. The collection also
contains typescripts and offprints of journal articles by Alexander on philosophy,
music, and the interpretation of symbols in art and architecture, as well as many of
Alexander's own literary works, including poetry, plays, pageants, and operas, many
based on Native North American themes. Other materials include extensive
correspondence files; papers documenting Alexander's teaching careers at the
University of Nebraska and at Scripps College; personal papers of the Alexander
family and Nathan Kirk Griggs; and photographs, including many of the Turlington W.
Harvey family and estate in Syracuse, Nebraska.
Physical Location: Ella Strong Denison Library
Language of Material: The materials in the collection are in English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research with permission from Ella Strong Denison
Library staff.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Denison
Library.
Preferred Citation
[description of item], Box #, Folder #, Hartley Burr Alexander Papers
(D.Mss.0010). Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont,
California.
Aquisition Information
Gift of Hubert Griggs Alexander, son of Hartley Burr Alexander, 1943.
Accruals
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
Processing Information
Preliminary arrangement by library staff. Processed by History Associates
Incorporated (Series 5: Native American art, by Honnold-Mudd Special Collections
staff), 2005. Re-arranged and re-processed by Michael Palmer, Ella Strong
Denison Library, July-September 2015.
Biography
Hartley Burr Alexander, educator, author, poet, and philosopher, was born on
April 9, 1873, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of George Sherman Alexander, a
self-educated Methodist Minister and, later, newspaper editor, from
Massachusetts, and Abbey Gifford Smith. His mother died when he was three, and
he was raised in Syracuse, Nebraska, by his father and his artist-stepmother,
Susan Godding Alexander. Alexander attended Syracuse High School and the
University of Nebraska, graduating AB from the latter in 1897. He began his
graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, with William Newbold, then
transferred to Columbia University, where he received his PhD in philosophy in
1901 with a dissertation titled,
The Problem of
Metaphysics and the Meaning of metaphysical Explanation: An Essay on
Definition
. Unable to secure a teaching position, Alexander moved to
Boston, to assist his aunt, Charlotte Morton Alexander (1843-1916) and her
colleague, J. Alden, whose photographic business was in financial difficulties.
In January 1903, he moved to New York to join the staff of
The New National Encyclopedia, published by Dodd,
Mead and Co. In September of that year, he was engaged by the Merriam publishing
company, Springfield, Massachusetts, on the revision of
Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, responsible for the definitions from
“bicycle” to “marriage” and rising to become second to the chief-of-staff. In
1908, Alexander was appointed Professor of Philosophy at his alma mater, the
University of Nebraska; he served as head of the department from 1918 to 1922..
In 1909, he married Nelly Griggs (1875-1943), daughter of Nebraska lawyer,
legislator, and onetime US Consul in Chemnitz Saxony, Kirk Nathan Griggs
(1844-1910). Alexander In 1927, increasingly dissatisfied with the situation at
the University of Nebraska and concerned for his wife’s health, Alexander went
on leave, spending the winter semester teaching at the University of Wisconsin,
and the 1927/28 academic year as first Professor of Philosophy at the newly
founded Scripps College, in Claremont, California; he formally severed his
connection with the University of Nebraska in the spring of 1928, and remained
at Scripps until his death. He died at his home in Claremont on 27 July 1939, at
the age of 66. His posthumous honors included the creation of the Hartley Burr
Alexander Professorship in the Humanities at Scripps College, and induction into
the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1989-1990.
Alexander was a polymath, and he wrote and lectured prolifically on philosophy,
religion, mythology, anthropology, poetry, and the interpretation of symbols. In
addition to his dissertation, published in 1902, his major philosophical works
include
Poetry and the Individual: An Analysis of the
Imaginative Life in Relation to the Creative Spirit in Man and
Nature
(New York 1906);
Liberty and Democracy
and Other Essays in War
-time (Boston 1918);
Letters to Teachers, and Other Papers of the Hour (Chicago 1919);
Nature and Human Nature: Essays Metaphysical and
Historical
(Chicago 1923);
Truth and Faith:
An Interpretation of Christianity
(New York 1929); and
God and Man’s Destiny: Inquiries into the Metaphysical
Foundations of Faith
(1936).
Alexander was particularly interested in Native North American art, lore,
mythology, and philosophy, and was the first non-Native North American to
seriously study and publish on Native North American art, mythology, and
philosophy. His earliest published book on Native North American themes was
The Religious Spirit of the American Indian, as Shown
in the Development of His Religious Rites and Customs
(Chicago,
1910), followed by
Mythology of All Races, Vol. 10: North
American
(Boston, 1916), which was awarded the Butler Medal by
Columbia University in 1917; and a companion volume,
Mythology of All Races, Vol. 11: Latin American (Boston, 1920). The
reception of these latter two volumes led to an invitation to deliver a series
of lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1925; Alexander was made a Chevalier of
the Legion d’honneur, and the lectures were published as
L’Art et la philosophie des Indiens de l’Amerique du Nord (Paris,
1926). Later publications on Native North American themes include
Pueblo Indian Painting (2 vols.; Nice, France,
1932);
Sioux Indian Painting (2 vols.; Nice,
France, 1938); and
Mysteries of the North American
Indians
, unpublished at the time of his death, and published
posthumously as
The World’s Rim: Great Mysteries of the
North American Indians
(Lincoln, Nebraska, 1953). Alexander also
collected Native North American artwork, in particular of the Sioux and Pueblo,
and was responsible for preserving the record of the art of Amos Bad Heart
Bull.
Alexander also wrote literary works, in particular poetry and performances
pieces. His published poetry includes
The Mid Earth
Life
(Springfield, Massachusetts, 1907);
Odes
on the Generations of Man
(New York, 1910); and
Odes and Lyrics (Boston, 1922). Much of his literary
work is based on Native North American themes, including
Manito Masks: Dramatizations, with Music, of American Indian Spirit
Legends
(New York, 1925); and
God’s Drum and
Other Cycles from Indian Lore: Poems by Hartley Alexander
(New York,
1927). He also wrote libretti for several musical performance pieces, including
La Menuette (1924), a light opera, with music
by Henry Kirkpatrick;
Priscilla (1920, revised
1930 and 1932), a light opera, with music by Henry Purmort Eames; and
Minnewakan (1928-1932), an opera, with music by
Victor Hugo Kasper.
Alexander’s interests in philosophy, anthropology, and art were synthesized in
his study of symbols and their interpretation, which resulted in substantial
extra-academic careers, first as the principal creator of a series of patriotic
pageants staged in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, between 1915 and 1922, intended
to stimulate state and national pride; and, from 1922, as a designer of
architectural inscriptions and ornamentation, in particular in cooperation with
the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, the sculptor Lee Lawrie, and the
muralist Hildreth Meiere. The principal projects on which Alexander worked
included the Nebraska State Capitol, the Los Angeles Public Library, Rockefeller
Center, New York City, and several buildings at the 1933 Century of Progress
Exhibition in Chicago.
Arrangement note
The collection is organized in ten series:
- Series 1. Personal and biographical material
- Series 2. Correspondence
- Series 3. Academic administration and teaching
- Series 4. Native American research
- Series 5. Native American art
- Series 6. Inscription, mural, and sculpture Project Files
- Series 7. Writings
- Series 8. Writings by others
- Series 9. Photographs
- Series 10. Realia
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Hartley Burr Alexander Papers consist of correspondence, typescripts, journal and
newspaper articles and clippings, photographs, notes, scrapbooks, original artwork,
and other materials relating to the life and career of educator, author, poet, and
philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander. The bulk of the collection relates to
Alexander’s research on the philosophy, culture, traditions, art, and music of
Native North Americans. These materials include extensive correspondence with other
researchers and with staff at the Smithsonian Institution; unique photographs of
Native North American rituals; original works by Pueblo and Plains artists, in
particular the Oglala Sioux, Kills Two; and large-scale color reproductions from the
ledger of Oglala Sioux artist Amos Bad Heart Bull, which is no longer extant. The
materials also include 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 second most significant part of the collection consists of correspondence,
photographs, architectural drawings and blueprints, newspaper clippings, and other
materials documenting Alexander's non-academic career as "thematic designer" of
sculpture, inscriptions, and other ornamentation for large public buildings, the
most important of which were the Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Los
Angeles Public Library; Rockefeller Center, New York City; and several buildings at
the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. The collection includes
particularly extensive correspondence with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, the
sculptor Lee Lawrie, and the muralist Hildreth Meiere.
The collection contains an extensive number of typescripts and offprints of journal
articles by Alexander 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.
The collection also contains extensive 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.
Few papers survive relating to Alexander’s teaching careers at the University of
Nebraska and at Scripps College. Those relating to the University of Nebraska
primarily concern his relations with the administration and his resignation from the
faculty; those relating to Scripps College primarily concern curriculum
development.
The majority of photographs in the collection can be traced to 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 materials relating to the personal lives of Hartley Burr Alexander and members of
his family include his 1935 curriculum vitae and bibliography, a manuscript of his
early memories, and a series of scrapbooks, arranged chronologically, of clippings
and other documents relating to his life and activities from 1882 to approximately
1935. 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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library’s online public access catalog.
Alexander, Hartley Burr, 1873-1939
Alexander, Hartley Burr, 1873-1939--Archives
Architectural inscriptions--United States
Archives
Blueprints
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence
Decoration and ornament, Architectural--United States
Indian art--North America
Indian painting Great Plains
Indian painting--North America
Indians in art
Indians of North America
Indians of North America--Great Plains
Los Angeles Public Library
Manuscripts
Musicals--United States
Nebraska State Capitol (Lincoln, Neb.)
Nebraska--History
Pageants
Photographic postcards
Photographs
Postcards
Programs
Pueblo Indians
Pueblo painting
Rockefeller Center
Scrapbooks
Scripps College
Scripps College (Claremont, Calif.)--Archival resources
Scripps College--Faculty--Archives
Sketches
Universities and colleges--Faculty
University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Watercolor painting
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 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 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)
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 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.
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 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 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 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 1, Folder 32
Christmas cards,
undated.
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 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 1, Folder 44
Fletcher, Alice C[unningham],
1913-1918.
Box 2, Folder 66
Gass, Sherlock Bronson,
circa 1930-1936.
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 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 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 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 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.
Outgoing,
1926-1932.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
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 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 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 24
Werkmeister, W. H. (William Henry),
1918-1937.
Box 2, Folder 25
Westerman, W. L. (William Linn),
1918.
General correspondence,
1909-1938.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Unidentified,
1908-1939, undated
Physical Description:
6 folders.
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 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 50
Jenson, Anton--Incoming,
1928-1930.
Warner, William P. (President of the Board of
Regents),
1927.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Miscellaneous,
1908-1933.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
Box 3, Folder 57
Newspaper clippings,
1933.
Box 3, Folder 58
Petition to keep Alexander at the University of
Nebraska,
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.
Amos Bad Heart Bull Manuscript,
undated.
Physical Description:
2 folders.
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 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 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 3
Attorney General’s and Soliciter General’s
Suites,
1932-1935.
Box 18, Folder 4
Entrance Court,
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 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 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 1
The Kaleidescope (Kantuck and
Company, Inc.),
1932.
Box 19, Folder 7
Newspaper clippings,
1930.
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 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.
Photographs,
1926-1931.
Physical Description:
7 folders.
Box 16, Folder 5
Children’s entrance and court,
1926-1931.
Box 16, Folder 8
Tower sculpture,
1926-1931.
Box 16, Folder 9
West entrance,
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.
Box 20, Folder 5
Correspondence and clippings,
1930-1933.
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.
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.
Correspondence,
1922-1927
Physical Description:
4 folders.
“Goodhue Correspondence” (Bertram Goodhue,
Architect),
1922-1924.
Physical Description:
3 folders.
Box 3, Folder 37
Miscellaneous,
1925, 1927, 1930,
1932.
Map-case HBA, Folder 8
Nebraska World War Memorial--Blueprints,
1934.
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 12
Correspondence,
1930-1931.
Box 8, Folder 4
Metropolitan Square groundplan,
1931.
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 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 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
Book: Denison
Archives XS14.A43 M56 score v.2
Book: Denison
Archives XS14.A43 M56 score v.3
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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.
“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 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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 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.