Tuscarora Reservation Collection, circa 1937

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Summary

Title:
Tuscarora Reservation Collection
Dates:
circa 1937
Creators:
Cain, Sophia R. J.
Abstract:
This is a collection of papers and newspaper clippings regarding the residents of the Tuscarora Reservation from 1816-1937. This collection includes an excerpt from a letter from a clergyman in Ontario, New York, written 1816 August 1 and an article sent from Sophia R. J. Cain to her sister Ann E. Jackson Lloyd regarding the New Years festivities occuring at the Tuscarora Reservation in 1937.
Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Tuscarora Reservation Collection, circa 1937, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.753.

Background

Scope and content:

This is a collection of papers and newspaper clippings regarding the residents of the Tuscarora Reservation from 1816-1937. Newspaper clippings feature images of residents of the Tuscarora Reservation, and one resident's house. This collection includes a handwritten and a typed copy of an extract from a letter from a clergyman in Ontario, New York, originally written 1816 August 1. The copy itself is undated.

Another item in the collection is an article sent from Sophia R. J. Cain to her sister Ann E. Jackson Lloyd regarding the New Years festivities occuring at the Tuscarora Reservation in 1937. The handwritten manuscript by Cain includes taped-in photographs and illustrations, and it has a note of a 600-word count at the bottom of the last page.

Biographical / historical:

The Tuscarora Reservation is in Niagara County, New York. The Tuscarora are a federally recognized tribe and the Sixth Nation of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy active before the American Revolutionary War. In 1803, the US government granted the Tuscarora a reservation in Niagara County.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_Reservation

Acquisition information:
Donation from Ann E. Jackson Lloyd, 1950 October.
Processing information:

Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 November 26, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Holly Rose Larson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-07-25 19:35:00 +0000 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

Tuscarora Reservation Collection, circa 1937, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.753.

Location of this collection:
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027, US
Contact:
(747) 201-8448
rroom@theautry.org
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