New York: Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Ca 1910s-1920. 12mo, folding brochure with eight panels of text and illustration. Fundraising brochure for the Presbyterian Church operated Ganado Mission to the Navajo in Arizona. The brochure is well illustrated with eleven captioned half tone views.....
Crownpoint, New Mexico: Crownpoint Hospital, 1988. Octavo, stapled, illustrated wrappers, [8] pp. An informational booklet about Crownpoint Comprehensive Indian Health Facility, located in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. The booklet was likely published to attract staff members to work at the hospital, as it includes information on life in.....
Mainly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1980 to 1993. Blue leatherette ring bound photo album binding measuring 13 x 12.5", containing 107 color photographs on sticky leaves, together with postcards, newspaper clippings and several ephemeral items, some images captioned on small laid in pieces of paper. A photograph album and scrapbook compiled by.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905. 9.5 x 6.25", stapled booklet, 34 pp. A pamphlet issued by the United States government related to the leasing of allotted Cherokee lands in Indian Territory (today Oklahoma). Allotment, "the federal policy of dividing communally held Indian tribal lands into individually owned private property, was.....
Tucson, Arizona: 1926. Folding brochure measuring 8.25 x 6", with six panels of printed text--title page, a program of events (1.5 pp), and 2.5 pages of descriptive text. A program for an "Indian Day Services" held at the Trinity Prebyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, intended to raise awareness of the.....
Hardin, Montana: Compliments of Dr. W.A. Russell, Circa 1920. Leaflet measuring 6.25 x 3.25", printed on card stock, featuring a title page, followed by two tipped in original photographs measuring approx 4.5 x 2.5" on the interior pages, followed by the imprint on the back page. The images are by.....
Flathead Agency, Jocks PO, Montana: 1903. 8vo, 2pp, autograph letter signed by Chief Charlo, headed Flathead Agency, Jocks P.O. Montana Jan. 7th 1903 and sent to H.J. Gensler. Charlo head chief of the Bitterroot Salish from 1870 to 1910, known for maintaining a policy of peace with the growing population.....
No Place of Publication: Leslie Van Ness Denman, [1955]. Oblong quarto, 11 x 8.5", [15] blue paper leaves bound with metal hooks, containing 15 photos (13 mounted, two laid in loose), typed title to front cover reading "Initiation into the Kiowa Tribe. Copyright Leslie Van Ness Denman." 12 of the.....
Frederick, Md: Amlex, Inc, 1998. Second Edition. Softcover, 284 pp. An excellent copy with front cover bowing outwards.
New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, hardcover with illustrated dust jacket, xviii, 202, [2] pp, with illustrations by the author. First edition, first printing. A cookbook of Native American recipes by the staff ethnobotany teacher at the American Indian Archaeological Institute in Washington, Connecticut. The recipes make use.....
New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co, 1843. Octavo, brown cloth with gilt illustration, 345 pp, illustration plates. New edition, revised and improved. Chipping to cloth along edges and spine, foxing to pages, slight spine lean.
Coolidge, New Mexico: 1932. Typed retained copy of a letter, 8.5 x 11”, together with a typed statement, 8.5 x 11”, both on carbon paper. A copy of a letter sent to Berton I. Staples, a Vermont merchant who moved to Coolidge, New Mexico, to trade in Native American crafts.....