Box 1

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"Official report of the proceedings of the council with the Indians of the West, and South-West held at Fort Smith, Arkansas in September, 1865"

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17 portraits of Indigenous Americans who were present at the "Indian Council" of 1865, and copies given to Haverford by the Smithsonian Institution July 24,1961 (Haverford had loaned the portraits to Archivist Margaret Blaker May 12,1961).

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous items: 1961 report by Anna Rhoades Ladd on photographs of Indigenous Americans in Quaker /Special Collections; minutes for 1870 meeting for sufferings of Indiana Yearly Meeting; newspaper clipping "Indians: Work of the Friends Among Them", 1870; Letter 8/6/1872 W.B. Collins to Edward Earle; report and handwritten notes on "Indian school"; carbons of reports 1876-77 sent to John B. Garrett; printed message of the President communicating second annual report of the Board of...

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minutes, treasurers reports 1869-1871 for "Indian Aid Association"; report of "Female Indian Aid Association" 1870-71; report of Executive Committee to "Indian Aid Association" 1871.

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Letters from Enoch Hoag to John B. Garrett 1/27/1871, 11/24/1871, 12/26/1872; copy of letter H. R. Clum to Enoch Hoag 3/1/1871 regarding closing of Osage River Agency; note re: clothing for Indigenous American children; printed notice to white tresspassers on "Indian Territory" 9/11/1871; newspaper page (The Tribune, Lawrence, Kansas) containing "Report of the condition of Indian Affairs in the Indian Territory" 8/27/1872

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Papers from John B. Garret's time at school--handwritten book containing poems by Haverford students which appeared in "The Collegian", essays, class notes, valentines, notices from the Loganian society; autograph book dated 11th mo. 1877 belonging to John B. Garrett and Hannah Rhoads Garrett.