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The Draper manuscript collection [microform]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Microfilm Room MFILM F 586.D7 1980
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891.
- Draper, Lyman Copeland.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Sources.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Northwest, Old--Sources.
- Indians of North America--Government relations--Sources.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Northwest, Old--Sources.
- United States--History--Sources.
- United States.
- West (U.S.)--History--Sources.
- West (U.S.).
- United States--Territorial expansion--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 491 v. (on 123 reels of microfilm and 84 microfiches)
- Arrangement:
- A new microform edition of an extensive collection of original documents and printed materials amassed by Lyman C. Draper. The Collection is bound in 491 volumes which are part of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
- Place of Publication:
- 1740-1891.
- Summary:
- Includes letters, miscellaneous legal documents, transcripts of interviews, family and personal records, land deeds, muster rolls, military discharges and business records collected by Draper. The collection reflects Draper's interest in the "trans-Allegheny West", from the period of frontier conflicts in the 1740s and 1750s to the American Revolution and The War of 1812. These include the western Carolinas and Virginia, portion of Georgia and Alabama, Ohio River Valley, and upper Mississippi Valley.
- (CON'T) Calendars of eight series are on microfiches as are printed volumes on the Ohio River valley: Pioneer's mission, the story of Lyman Copeland Draper / W. B. Hesseltine -- Frontier advance on the upper Ohio, 1778-1779 / L. P. Kellogg -- Frontier retreat on the upper Ohio, 1779-1781 / L. P. Kellogg -- Documentary history of Dunmore's War, 1774 / R. G. Thwaites -- Frontier defense on the upper Ohio, 1777-1778 / R. G. Thwaites -- Revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775-1777 / R. G. Thwaites.
- Notes:
- On title frame: Photographed for State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Division of Archives and Manuscripts. On next frame: Distributed by Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd. Microfiches produced by MCA (Microfilming Corporation of America)
- Microfilm. Chicago : University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library Photoduplication Dept., [1980] 123 microfilm reels : positive ; 35 mm. + 84 microfiches.
- Local Notes:
- HSP has: Ser. C; ser. F; ser. N; ser. W; ser. AA; ser. BB; ser. NN; ser. pp.
- Finding Aid/Index:
- Accompanied by: Guide to The Draper Manuscripts, by Josephine L. Harper. Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983.
- OCLC:
- 20004305
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