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HIST 300: Historical Research (Special Collections)

Items Viewed During Class

During your first visit, you encountered a variety of materials from two of the main sections of Special Collections: the book collectiond and the manuscript collections. All of the materials viewed during class are listed below.  Please refer to this list if you need to request an item to view in the reading room, or if you need identification information for citation purposes.

To guide your analysis for future materials, utilize questions like those found in your primary source analysis worksheet. 

Book Collections

  • Brown, Samuel R. The Western Gazetteer; or Emigrant’s Directory. Mississippi Valley F353 .B87 1817
  • Peck, John Mason. A Guide for Emigrants. Mississippi Valley F353 .P36 1831
  • Hauberg, Marx D. Memoirs of Marx D. Hauberg : Being a Personal Narrative of the Immigration of His Parents and Their Children from Schleswig-Holstein. Mississippi Valley F549.R6 H39 1923
  • Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), and J. Calvin (John Calvin) Smith. The Western Tourist and Emigrant’s Guide. Mississippi Valley F597 .C721 1840
  • Goble, Benjamin. Narrative of Incidents in the Life of an Illinois Pioneer ... Rare Books F545 .G64 1881
  • Busby, Allie B. Two summers among the Musquakies. Mississippi Valley E99.F7 B9 1886
  • United States. Congress. House. Committee of the Judiciary. Northern line of the reservation of the Sac and Fox Tribes. Mississippi Valley, E99.S23 U55
  • Bishop, Harriet E. Dakota war-whoop, or, Indian massacres and war in Minnesota, Mississippi Valley
  • Heard, Isaac V. D., and Henry Benjamin Whipple. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863. Mississippi Valley E83.86 .H43 1865
  • Temple, Seth J. Camp McClellan during the Civil War, Mississippi Valley U294.5.M33 T4
  • Burlend, Rebecca, and Edward Burlend. A True Picture of Emigration : Or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America. Mississippi Valley F545 .B96 1848
  • Northern Iowa: Containing Hints and Information of Value to Emigrants. Mississippi Valley F621 N86 1858
  • Green, Charles R. (Charles Ransley). Sac and Fox Indians in Kansas. Mokohoko’s Stubbornness. Some History of the Band of Indians Who Staid behind Their Tribe 16 Yrs. as given by Pioneers. Mississippi Valley E78.K3 S23 1914
  • Green, Charles R. (Charles Ransley). Early Days in Kansas : In Keokuk’s Time on the Kansas Reservation... Mississippi Valley E99.S22 G7 1913

Manuscript Collections

  • “Some Reminiscences of Pioneer Rock Island Women” Box 10,  MSS 19a Netta Bartholomew Anderson papers
  • Interview with the Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Luken, Item #3, Folder 3, Box 47, MSS 27 John Henry Hauberg papers
  • Interview with Mrs. Eliza A. Laflin, Item 38, Folder 5, Box 47, MSS 27 John Henry Hauberg papers
  • Interview with John A. Liphardt, Item #83, Box 48, MSS 27 John Henry Hauberg papers
  • Interview with Robert Pearsall, Item #16, Box 48, MSS 27 John Henry Hauberg papers
  • Typescript reproductions of letters, Item #350, Folders 5, Box 41, MSS 27 John Henry Hauberg papers
  • Harmony, Indiana, immigration advertisement, Box 2, MSS 340 Letters, Fragments, and signatures
  • Notebook no. 14 Sioux prison in Box 44,  MSS 27 John Hauberg papers
  • Meskwaki Tribe photographs, MSS 27 John Hauberg papers

Manuscript Collections

  • Dakota Indians. Box 1, MSS 122 Williamson Family papers. 
  • Indians: Sauk and Fox Nations, Box 40, MSS 27 John Henry Hauberg papers. 
  • Scrapbooks. Box 1 and 2, MSS 220  Asian Student Organization records.
  • Black Power Symposium: Correspondence, Box 99, MSS 6 Clarence Woodrow Sorensen papers.
  • Correspondence regarding Nigerian student Mashood Olasbisi Ajala. Box 5, MSS 166 Harry S.B. Johnson papers.
  • Upper Mississippi valley map reproductions (1829 and 1840). MSS 400 Discrete oversize items. 
  • Early Rock Island map reproductions. MSS 385 Augustana College Local History collection. 
  • Thomas Forsyth papers, 1831-1932. Box 1, MSS 100 Collection of early merchants' papers related to Indigenous affairs.

 

Vertical Files

  • Augustana College - Asian Student Organization
  • Augustana College - Black Student Union - Events - 1960s