Scope and Contents Scenes in the Indian Country by Alexander Gardner contains 79 photographs, mostly taken between 1866 and 1868, showing studio portraits of Native American leaders; Native Americans and Peace Commissioners at the Fort Laramie Treaty Council; and scenes of the landscape in the western United States. The Lakota Sioux, Dakota Sioux, Sac/Sauk, and Fox tribes are well documented in the collection. The Kaw, Pawnee, Crow, Arapaho, and Cheyenne tribes are also...

Scope and Contents This collection contains papers of the related families of Michel Desravines Tesson and Thomas Forsyth. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, accounts, receipts, and bills relating to Thomas Forsyth's work as an Indian agent in Illinois in the early nineteenth century. The collection also contains papers relating to the genealogy of the Tesson, Forsyth, and related families; correspondence (mostly in French) of the Michel Desravines Tesson family and...