Scope and Contents The collection is comprised mostly of correspondence with newspaper clippings, typescripts of Hale’s writings, and a few photographs. The papers are arranged alphabetically by topic and range in date from 1896 to 1927. The correspondence has several gaps between 1896 and 1926, with the largest between 1905 and 1913. There is not a large amount of correspondence in the papers, but the letters reveal bits of information about several facets of Hale’s life. In the earliest...

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...