Myrick (Herbert) Collection, 1860-1926

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Summary

Title:
Herbert Myrick collection
Dates:
1860-1926
Creators:
Myrick, Herbert, 1860-1927
Abstract:
Collection of Western Americana material collected by American editor and publisher Herbert Myrick.
Extent:
2.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Herbert Myrick collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, one cloth map, and a few artifacts collected by Herbert Myrick related to western history, mainly the Battle at Little Bighorn. Subjects include Dakota Native Americans, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort Yates, and Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The collection contains 125 photographs, from approximately 1860 to approximately 1910, of Northern Plains Native Americans, U.S. 7th Cavalry members, and the Little Bighorn battlefield. It includes photographs of the following individuals: Frederick William Benteen, Bullhead, Crow Foot, George Armstrong Custer, Myles Walter Keogh, James McLaughlin, Rain in the Face, Sitting Bull, Standing Holy, Tiburcio Vasquez, George Daniel Wallace, and Young Man Afraid of His Horse. There are also 41 photographs of cowboys and ranch life. Additional persons represented in the collection include David F. Barry, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, and Herbert Myrick. Artifacts in the collection include a lock of Custer's hair, a cartridge from Custer's pistol, and a cloth map of the Custer battlefield drawn by T.B. Whitmore (who claimed to have witnessed the battle).

Biographical / historical:

Herbert Myrick (1860-1927) was president and editor of Phelps Publishing Company and publisher of Good Housekeeping magazine, and the Orange Judd Company, publisher of books and articles on agricultural subjects. Myrick was educated at Massachusetts Agricultural College, spent several years in Colorado, and returned to Massachusetts in 1877. Myrick had a special interest in western American history and General George Custer and collected historical material, some of which he incorporated into a novel, Cache la poudre : the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Christine Myrick, April 1950.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library staff. In 2022, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series: 1. Manuscripts, correspondence, cloth map; 2. Photographs, clippings, ephemera.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Brooke M. Black
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-01-28 12:47:32 -0800 .

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Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Herbert Myrick collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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