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David Ives Bushnell, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
David Ives Bushnell was born April 28, 1875 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated in St. Louis schools and in Europe. He
worked as an assistant archaeologist at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University from 1901-1904. Bushnell contributed to the
Handbook of American Indians and wrote numerous books on Native American Indians, including Native villages and village sites
east of the Mississippi, (1919), Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan tribes west of the Mississippi (1922), The
Manahoac tribes in Virginia, 1608 (1932), and Virginia before Jamestown (1940). He did much research in Virginia and in the
Midwestern United States. He died on 4 June 1941. Further information about this individual or organization may be available
in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
Papers, chiefly 1917-1941, of anthropologist David Ives Bushnell, Jr., including correspondence concerning his research on
Indians in North America; diaries, address lists, specimen lists, photographs, magazines, pamphlets, and maps pertaining to
his work. Also includes correspondence of his mother, Belle Johnston Bushnell.
The collection also contains a typescript of the journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz; letters written by William Cullen Bryant
(concerning Thanatopsis), William Henry Harrison (one concerning the death of Tecumseh), Horace Greeley (concerning Uncle
Tom's Cabin), and Thomas Say; and includes two letters, 1798-1799, written to Rene Auguste Chouteau.
Papers, chiefly 1917-1941, of anthropologist David Ives Bushnell, Jr., including correspondence concerning his research on
Indians in North America; diaries, address lists, specimen lists, photographs, magazines, pamphlets, and maps pertaining to
his work. Also includes correspondence of his mother, Belle Johnston Bushnell. The collection also contains a typescript of
the journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz; letters written by William Cullen Bryant (concerning Thanatopsis), William Henry Harrison
(one concerning the death of Tecumseh), Horace Greeley (concerning Uncle Tom's Cabin), and Thomas Say; and includes two letters,
1798-1799, written to Rene Auguste Chouteau.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 id136749
Letters, Journals, and other papers
1797-1877
Scope and Contents
Kurz Journal
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id140142
Letter dated London from Aston King and Co. (In English) to Cavalier and Petit, New Orleans
1797 May 3
Scope and Contents
Re: purchase of "Indian trading guns".
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id136752
Letter (in French) from Cavelier and Petit, New Orleans, to Augustine Chouteau, St. Loius
1798 July 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id136753
Letter (in French) from Cavelier and Petit, New Orleans, to Augustine Chouteau, St. Louis
1799 May 9
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1A id136754
Land grant signed by James Madison as President to Jesse Swisher
1813 June 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id136755
Letter (copy by D.I. Bushnell Jr.) dated Pensacola from John Innerarity to his brother James, merchant at Mobile
1813 July 27
Scope and Contents
Re: Indian uprisings.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id136756
Land grant signed by James Monroe as President to Ichabod Camp
1817 September 25
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id136758
Orders, Pittsburgh, by Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), Major, U.S. Army Engineers,
1819 March 13
Scope and Contents
Orders commanding expedition to explore the Mississippi, Missouri, etc.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id136759
Letter from Thomas Say to William Maclure, dated Philidelphia
1821 April 29
Scope and Contents
Say, 1787-1834, entomologist, orthinologist, was with Maj. Long - see Folder 4. Maclure, 1763-1840, was geologist, and Pres.
Academy of Natural Science.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id136760
Letter, Adjutant General's office, New Orleans to Lousiana Gov. W. C. C. Claiborne, by H. Chotard, Ass' t Adj. General.
1814 December 16
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Bottom part of letter signed "Max. Baron von Braunsberg", dated St. Louis March 30, 1833. Bears note signed
"L.W.S." - probably wife of Thomas Say from context, identifying him as Maximilian, Prinzen von Wied.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id136762
Letter from William Henry Harrison dated North Bend to Col. John OFallon, St. Louis
1834 April 9
Scope and Contents
Regarding death of Tecumseh.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id140143
Letter by W.T. Macgruder, Lt. 1st Dragoons from Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, to General John G. Chapman
1853 May 6
Scope and Contents
Re: encounters with Indians.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id136765
Letter by S. Eastman from Washington, D.C. to Brantz Mayer in Baltimore
1856 October 23
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id136767
Letter by W. H. Holmes from camp on Rio San Diego, N. M. -- to "My dear Gill"
1887 August 3
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id140144
Letter from "Cora" to "sister Libby"
circa 1848-1849
Scope and Contents
Bears a note "Written during winter 1848-49". Mentions Sarah (Evans?).
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id136770
Letter from John Evans, Portland, Oregon Territory to his wife, Sarah
1853 October 19
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id136771
Letter bearing note "Dr. John Evans to Sarah Zane Evans" dated Oregon City
1858 October 3
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id136773
Letter to Bushnell re: address of Mrs. Mills Evans
1920
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id136774
Letter from Horace Greeley, office of the Tribune, New York, to Mary E. Lee, St. Louis, Mo.
1863 March 6
Scope and Contents
Includes comments on slavery, the Civil War, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id136775
Letter from William Cullen Bryant, Cummington, Mass. to Mrs. Mary Lee Berry
1877 September 26
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Mentions Bryant's "Thanatopsis".
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id136781
Journal of Friedrich Kurz
1847
Scope and Contents
Title Page, to 1847 (pg. 6) and through 1847 (pg. 41).
Re. Christopher Gist, c. 1706-1759, explorer and Washington aide.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id140123
Notes
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents "Virginia and the Cherokee". "Medicines of the Negroes of Albemarle Co.". "Survivals of the Stone Age in
America". "Tuckahoe" - notes re. the plant.
Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 3 id140124
Miscellaneous papers
1581, 1582
Scope and Contents
Includes apparent page from 16th Century account book with dates.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 id140125
Stamps, Paper Money (Confederate & Colonial), Artwork, Demerara Ms, etc.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id140128
Assortment of postage and other stamps
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id140129
Confederate and Colonial paper money
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id140130
Watercolors
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id140131
Pencil sketches, ink tracings, watercolors
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id140132
Broadsides, songs and ballads, Civil War era
Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6 id140133
Guiana Chronicla and Demerara Gazette
1823 October 17
Scope and Contents
Also contains ms account of Demerara by J. Henry H. Holmes with sketches, etc. 1820-1824.
Mixed Materials Box: 19 id140134
"Germanna Ford Crossroads of History"
Mixed Materials Box: 19 id140135
"Explorations and Field Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1940"
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