HIST 481C - Mapping Orange County Sites

From the LOC: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

While treaties between Indigenous peoples and the United States affect virtually every area in the USA, there is as yet no official list of all the treaties. The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time with key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of our shared lands.

This guide is for archival resources relating to Indigenous communities of present-day California at The Bancroft Library. Before contact (the meeting of Indigenous peoples and Europeans), this land was home to many dozens of groups of Native peoples with different languages and ways of life. Many of these tribal communities are alive and thriving today. Over the last 100+ years, The Bancroft Library has collected and received resources relating to these specific communities in the way of written descriptions of language, belief systems, and customs; first person-narratives from Native individuals; descriptions of the treatment and experience of Indigenous people in the Mission system; records from Intertribal Organizations; photographs of tribal communities, artistic, and cultural items; and much more. This guide will provide a more accessible way to locate items related to specific California language families, tribes, and communities, as well as materials to support cultural and linguistic preservation and revitalization. Please note, that while we have organized thousands of resources in this guide, it is not exhaustive and does not include pictorial materials or all secondary sources related to Indigenous communities held at The Bancroft Library. Pictorial materials and additional selected secondary sources will be added at a later date.

North American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

The one hundred and eighty-eight photographs sent by John C.H. Grabill to the Library of Congress for copyright protection between 1887 and 1892 are thought to be the largest surviving collection of this gifted, early Western photographer's work. Grabill's remarkably well-crafted, sepia-toned images capture the forces of western settlement in South Dakota and Wyoming and document its effects on the area's indigenous communities.

Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907.

Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division.