David Ives Bushnell, Jr. Papers

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College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
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Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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David Ives Bushnell, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
21.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Bushnell, David Ives, Jr., 1875-1941, Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, Bushnell, Belle Johnston, b. 1859, Chouteau, Rene Auguste, 1749-1829, Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841, Kurz, Rudolph Friedrich, 1818-1871, Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864, and Say, Thomas, 1787-1834
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

David Ives Bushnell, Jr. Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Kurz Journal

Re: purchase of "Indian trading guns".

Re: Indian uprisings.

Orders commanding expedition to explore the Mississippi, Missouri, etc.

Say, 1787-1834, entomologist, orthinologist, was with Maj. Long - see Folder 4. Maclure, 1763-1840, was geologist, and Pres. Academy of Natural Science.

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.

Regarding death of Tecumseh.

Re: encounters with Indians.

Bears a note "Written during winter 1848-49". Mentions Sarah (Evans?).

Includes comments on slavery, the Civil War, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Scope and Contents Mentions Bryant's "Thanatopsis".

Title Page, to 1847 (pg. 6) and through 1847 (pg. 41).

1848 (pg. 42-70); 1849 (pg. 70-83); 1850 (pg. 83-92).

1851, January 1 through August 9, inc. (pg. 93-149).

1851 August 10-September 14, inc. (pg. 150-209).

1851 September 15-September 30 (pg. 210-292).

1851 October 1-October 14 (pg. 293-368).

1851 October 15-November 19 (pg. 369-446).

1851 November 20-December 31 (pg. 447-494).

1852 January 1-January 31 (pg. 495-552).

1852 February 1-April 6 (pg. 553-615).

1852 April 7-September 22 (pg. 616-661-the end).

Includes letters from Henry Giglioli of Florence.

Some Smithsonian Institution correspondence.

Includes Ella Combs letter re: her grandfather.

Includes Smithsonian Inst. correspondence.

Smithsonian; Ontario Museum; Minnesota Hist. Soc. etc.

Scope and Contents "Sovana" article, Art & Archaeology, etc.

Includes letters on Armstrong pictures.

Nat. Geographic Soc., Pa. Academy of Fine Arts, etc.

State of Alabama, Dept Archives & History etc.

Mo. Hist. Soc., Pa. Academy of Fine Arts, etc.

Includes letters from Fairfax Harrison, Mo. Historical Soc.

Smithsonian, ØBK.

Re: Catlins' North American Indians, the Louvre, Yale Univ. Press, Sec. of War Dwight Davis, etc.

Museum of American Indians, Smithsonian.

Smithsonian, Virginia State Conserv. & Dev., letter from Swem re: Bodleian print.

Smithsonian, Dora Hood's Book Room.

Dora Hood's, Chicago Fair.

Royal Ontario Museum.

Memo re: Peter Rindesbacher, Royal Ontario Museum.

J. P. Thompson, Royal Ontario Museum, Public Archives of Canada.

Art & Archaeology Mag., Fairfax Harrison, Royal Ontario Mus., Dora Hood's Book Room.

J. B. Thompson, Paul Kane pictures.

Paul Kane pictures, Fairfax Harrison, Dr. Goodwin appeal for funds.

University of Tennessee, College of William and Mary.

W. P. A., College of William and Mary, Royal Ontario Museum.

Nederlandsh Historisch…

Royal Ontario Mus., Dora Hood of Canada.

Royal Ontario Mus., College of William and Mary.

Indiana Historical Soc., William and Mary.

Oregon City Officials, Royal Ontario Mus. - General Correspondence.

Oregon City Officials, J. Neilson Barry. General Correspondence.

Univ. of California, Royal Ontario Mus.

Minnesota Hist. Soc., Royal Ontario Mus., Mexican swindler's letter.

Missouri Hist. Soc., Minnesota Hist., Soc., Newberry Lib.

W.P.A., U. of Calif.

U. of Cal., Hist. Soc. Montana.

Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Tennessee.

Paper on W. H. Jackson.

Includes a few from R. W. Pommer in same period, re: the father.

Scope and Contents Also poem "The Miller's Task" and booklet "My Dream Life" by Mrs. Bushnell.

216 numbered and ruled pages of 7-1/2 x 10 of which pp. 5-15 only have notes - Ojibway [items?]

Diary of European tour.

Diary of European tour.

Diary of European tour.

Diary of European tour.

Diary of New England trip.

Diary with scattered entries.

Diary.

Almost blank: sketch in front, few numbers in back.

Sketches of implements.

Small address book.

Top-hinged book labelled "Albemarle County, Virginia," with sketches and notes.

Address book.

Showing Indian towns along James, York - Rappahanick rivers.

Identified and signed by Bushnell.

Not identified. 2 specimen photos of implements from Mons site.

Photographs, negatives and prints, miscellaneous. Article on Sovana, with photographs.

Notebook ms. Also bound copy of book.

Contains signature of D. Ives Bushnell.

Almost all are unidentified.

"Manuscript of Indian Life in Colonial Days, D. I. B. Jr." Label on envelope by Bushnell.

Some pages missing. Also printed copies, complete.

Papers describing ancient site near Kimmswick, Jefferson Co., Mo.

Two unidentified TCy pages.

Includes parts of papers, ms, and typed copy.

Inscribed by author W. D. Lighthall.

Re. Christopher Gist, c. 1706-1759, explorer and Washington aide.

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.

Includes apparent page from 16th Century account book with dates.

Also contains ms account of Demerara by J. Henry H. Holmes with sketches, etc. 1820-1824.

Photos and prints.

Photo prints.

Wooden box containing rolls of maps of parts of U.S. and Canada. Also a long roll of such maps.

1857 pocket/sectional map of Minnesota and a 1931 Rand McNally pocket map of New Mexico

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift.
Physical description:
4731 items
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard