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An 18-page inventory has been prepared, and the papers, which 

 occupy 28 boxes, are available for study and microfilming. 



The manuscript collection continued to be utilized by anthropolo- 

 gists and other students. About 300 manuscripts were consulted by 

 searchers who visited the archives in person or purchased microfilm 

 and other reproductions totaling 7,146 pages. An equal number of 

 manuscripts was consulted by the archivist in obtaining information 

 for over 90 mail inquiries. In the course of this examination, new and 

 more detailed descriptions of manuscripts were also prepared for the 

 permanent catalog and for future distribution in response to specific 

 inquiries. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS 



The Bureau's collection of North American Indian photographs, 

 which is one of the most extensive and most active of its kind, con- 

 tinued to grow through the generosity of interested individuals who 

 either lent pictures for copying, or presented them as gifts. 



Sixty original photographs of Mesquakie Indians, mainly taken 

 by J. L. Hudson of Tama, Iowa, and apparently dating in part from 

 the 1860's, were lent for copying by Norman Feder of New York City. 

 Mr. Feder also lent a series of about 40 copy prints of Prairie Pot- 

 tawotomie of the latter part of the 19tli century. 



Over 150 photographic slides of American Indian subjects were 

 received on loan from Mrs. Doris Collester of East Riverdale, Md. 

 Of especial interest are several dozen slides of Apache, Pima, and 

 Maricopa Indians dated 1871 or in years of the following decade. 

 Many of the slides bear the name of Moore, Bond & Co., Chicago or 

 Moore, Hubbell, & Co., Chicago, as distributor, although the original 

 source of most of the photographs is still unknown. 



Forty-six photographs relating to Cree and Chipewyan Indians 

 in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Mackenzie, Canada, taken by Dr. 

 Francis Harper on an expedition of the Geological Survey of Canada 

 to the Great Slave Lake in 1914 were obtained from the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, through the courtesy of Dr. Francis Harper and 

 Dr. J. M. Harrison, Director of the Survey. 



A scrapbook of James Earl Taylor, artist-correspondent for Frank 

 Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper from 1863 to 1883, was re- 

 ceived as a gift from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Com- 

 mission, through John Witthoft. The scrapbook contains several 

 hundred original photographic prints of western Indians, several 

 photographs of Army officers, linecuts of western military posts, and 

 other material assembled for the artist's reference, as weU as reproduc- 

 tions of a nmnber of Taylor's own illustrations. 



Seventeen photographs of important men of the Osage, Caddo, 

 Arapaho, Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes were 



