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192245370N.P.: Privately printed 1922. 1922. First edition. 10" x 6 1/2" in light green pictorial wrappers showing man wear a buffalo coat and standing beside a hide in the foreground and a herd of buffalo in the background. Rear wrapper offers a photograph of a cowboy in fur coat and chaps a saddled horse with a wolf carcass slung over the saddle. 24 pp. Photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams and with mailing label tipped-in. Scarce advertising catalogue promoting fur coats fur robes rugs fur sets for ladies and even measuring instructions. Sioux City and Dubuque Iowa were the center of the fur tanning trade in the Midwest by the end of the 19th century and the Sioux City Robe and Tanning Co. specialized in converting their customer’s hides into usable products. This catalog advertises their successful fur tailoring process resulting in fur coats Standard and Special Ladies’ Automobile Coats Beaver coats Mink sets Civet sets Beaver & Otter sets etc. along with pricing. Information on their repairing department taxidermy leather and fur chaps coat ordering blank along with information about how to take measurements testimonials etc. Also includes a 11" x 17" tan sheet folded to 4 pages. This is a promotional advertising brochure and illustrated catalog. First page offers a letter to customers on Sioux City and Tanning Company letterhead from its President W.D. Rich introducing the company and services. Interior 2 pages offers pricing illustrations and information about various services to include creating men's and women's coats from horse or cow hides. Last page acts as an envelope with a return address photo and address. Small splittings at folds and with light tanning. Very good. Privately printed, 1922. hardcover
18904367Washington DC: U.S. Govt. Printing Office 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Half morocco with marbled boards page edges & end papers edges worn & corner tips worn through 9 x 6 inches. Former owner's ink stamp on top page edge address label on ffep. Infrequent pencil notes 308 pp. plus two large folding maps. The leather has been successfully sealed with Cellugel to protect against red rot. Caption title: Sioux Reservation. "Sioux Reservation 1889 Edmund Waddill Jr." in gilt on spine. Waddill was a Republican Congressman from Virginia.Maps: 1. Map of Cheyenne River Agency 24 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches short tear near inner fold. 2. Map showing Lower Brule Agency South Dakota 22 1/2 x 17 inches fine. Marken et al. Bibliography of the Sioux no. 119.Report and Council proceedings of the Sioux Commission sent to obtain consent from the Indians for a division and reduction of the Great Sioux Reservation. All of the councils discussions participants translators are recorded here. The Commission consisted of Charles Foster of Ohio William Warner of Missouri and General George Crook of the United States Army. They were sent to present to the Sioux Indians occupying the Great Sioux Reservation a plan for dividing and reducing the Reservation requiring the signatures of 3/4ths of the adult males to validate the new terms. All of the discussions concerns obstacles solutions and the outcome of the "negotiations" are given in full in this very scarce volume. [U.S. Govt. Printing Office] hardcover
1884ZB530476Washington: GPO 1884. xxlv 404 pp. two folding maps; slight extraction roughness at spine light tattering at fore edge of last leaf else very good in self wrappers; mostly testimony before The Select committee of the Senate appointed under resolution of March 2 1883 to examine into the condition of the Sioux Indians upon their reservation the character of the same and the feasibility and propriety of the proposed reduction of such reservation and such other matters. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington: GPO, unknown
192012734Fort Thompson SD 1920. Albumen photograph 7.5 x 9.75 inches on a slightly larger plain mount manuscript title at bottom right "Fort Tompson sic S.D. Indian School." Some staining surface wear and edge wear bottom left corner a bit chipped mount worn at corners. Notations in marker and pen in verso reading "Ft. Tompson sic Indian School D OKonnor Collection" and "Dixie O'Connor Collection." Good condition. A striking group photograph featuring the students and teachers of the Fort Thompson Indian School more commonly known as the Crow Creek Tribal School in the early-20th century. The image shows about 120 students arranged in three rows split almost evenly into two groups with half the students dressed in black on the left and the other half of the students dressed in white at right. Between the students are over a dozen teachers and staff members. All of the students faculty and staff are posed in front of a large three-story brick building. The indigenous school at Fort Thompson was started in the late-1880s by Father Pierre DeSmet. The school remains open today serving the population of Crow Creek Sioux on their reservation on the east bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota. The present photograph remains a stark visual reminder of the U.S. government's assimilationist activities among Native Americans over the past two centuries. unknown
7236Battle Creek Mich.: Review & Herald Steam Printing house 1883. 8vo 8.5" x 5.75" printed wrappers. 46 pp. Folding map 12.75" x 18.25" plus margins. CONDITION: Good dampstaining at covers and the top of the second half of the pamphlet. Light vertical crease at middle throughout. Map good one minor tear at margin. <p>A promotional pamphlet for land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad including former Indian reservation lands with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs.</p> <br /> <p>The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad the railroad having recently extended to Fort Niobrara Nebraska and thereby placing within reach of home-seekers millions of acres of free government lands. This is followed by an exhaustive overview of Northern Nebraska and its attractions geographical outlines physical geography topography and neighboring areas including Indian camps and more. A good portion of the text is devoted to Northern Nebraska's geology covering the Old Forest Bed Epoch the origins of "modern Nebraska" "How Came that Grand Old Forest" and so forth. Also included are testimonials from dozens of farmers who settled in Northern Nebraska including "exceptional cases" and highlighted is a large buffalo flat "8 miles long by 3 miles wide". The prospective settler is advised on how to reach these lands how to make a profitable investment in Nebraska lands and Omaha Reserve lands formerly home to the Omaha tribe and how to acquire them. A letter from the U.S. Land Office in Nebraska to the General Passenger Agent of the Sioux City & Pacific R.R. is printed here as well. Ads are included for the Land Agency of I. N. Taylor of Oakdale and Neligh Nebraska and real estate dealers Richards & Keene of Nebraska. The text concludes with a price list of commodities in Northern Nebraska.</p> <br /> <p>The map entitled "Sioux City & Pacific R.R. and connections to the Free Homes for the Million" by Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago spans from Council Bluffs Omaha in the east to the Black Hills in the west and from Pierre South Dakota in the north to a portion of Colorado in the south. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad and its connections are shown in bold connecting with other railroad routes across the midwest. </p> Battle Creek, Mich.: Review & Herald Steam Printing house, 1883 unknown
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