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manuscripts were mailed out. In addition, 89 mail inquiries con- 

 cerning manuscripts were received and more than 200 manuscripts 

 were consulted by the archivist in preparing replies. 



While examining these manuscripts, 93 of them were analyzed and 

 more fully described in anticipation of publishing a manuscript 

 catalog. Several descriptive lists of manuscripts relating to specific 

 subjects or tribes were prepared for distribution. 



Additions to the collections included a manuscript translation of 

 the Book of Genesis into Choctaw by Kev. Cyrus Byington, dated 

 1862. This translation was received from Miss Marcia Walton of 

 New York City. Accompanying the gift were a number of photo- 

 graphs and news clippings relating to the Reverend Byington's work ; 

 some of these are for permanent deposit, while others have been lent 

 for copying only. 



Just at the year's end, Dr. Philip Drucker's field notebooks and 

 unpublished manuscripts for the period 1937-55 were accessioned and 

 sorted. They cover ethnological and archeological work in Alaska, 

 the Northwest coast, California, Meso-America, and Micronesia. They 

 occupy about 20 manuscript boxes. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS 



A sustained interest in pictorial data relating to the American 

 Indian has been shown by authors, publishers, students, and others 

 who have continued to draw heavily on the Bureau's photographic 

 collections. There were 294 inquiries and purchase orders for photo- 

 graphs, and 978 prints were distributed. In response to public inquiry, 

 the archivist prepared numerous lists that described photographs 

 available for specific subjects or tribes. 



Public interest has also been demonstrated by the contribution of 

 additional Indian photographs to the Bureau's collections. 



Frank B. Shuler of Hamilton, Ohio, lent a group of 29 photographs 

 of Kiowa, Comanche, Caddo, Wichita, and Sioux Indians. These 

 photographs were made about 1900. Copy negatives of 17 of these 

 were made for Bureau files. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh N. Davis, Jr., of 

 Miami, Fla., the Bureau received 295 photographic prints of Seminole, 

 Cheyenne, and Alaskan Indians photographed during the years 1905- 

 52 by Deaconess Harriet M. Bedell, a missionary now residing in 

 Everglades City, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Davis contributed their services 

 in making enlarged 8-x-lO" prints from snapshot negatives lent 

 to them by Deaconess Bedell ; the cost of the materials used was borne 

 by the Bureau. 



Later in the year a collection of 450 snapshot negatives of Seminole 

 Indians, made principally by Stanley Hanson in the period 1927-31, 

 was lent to the Bureau by Robert Mitchell of Orlando, Fla., through 



