Collections : [Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

105 manuscript maps and technical drawings documenting surveying for and construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The maps illustrate railroad development in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, as well as construction in several Indian reservations.

The N. Scott Momaday papers contain extensive correspondence, writings, family papers, artwork, photographs, printed materials, awards, sound recordings, and other papers related to the life and work N. Scott Momaday.

The O. B. Gilman and Sarah Dow Gilman Papers contain correspondence, including incoming letters and outgoing carbons relating to O. B. Gilman's businesses, 1915-1920s, and to Idhahurst Kennels, the Cocker Spaniel Breeders' Club of New England, and other dog breeding organizations, 1930s-1947, including correspondence with Leon F. Whitney, veterinarian, executive secretary of the American Eugenics Society, and donor of taxidermy mounts of show dogs to Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History; accounts and other papers relating to O. B. Gilman Specialty Biscuit Manufacturer, 1915-1919, the United Soda Fountain Company, 1920-1931, and the V. A. Nielsen Company, 1919-1927; breeding records, pedigrees, awards, and other records of Idahurst Kennels, 1890s-1940s; accounts, records of meetings, membership pins, award ribbons, and other papers relating to the Cocker Spaniel Breeders' Club of New England, 1920s-1940s, including printed catalogs and other records of shows, 1925-1944; show catalogs and newsletters of the American Spaniel Club and other dog breeding organizations, circa 1920s-1960s; photographs of the Gilmans and of dog shows, circa 1930s, and circa 150 photographs and drawings of cocker spaniels bred by the Gilmans and others, many annotated, circa 1880s-1940s; clippings, most relating to the Gilmans, Idahurst Kennels, and the Cocker Spaniel Breeders' Club of New England, 1920s-1940s; and other papers including glass negative photographic reproductions from Edward Topsell, Historie of foure-footed beasts (London: Iaggard, 1607).

The papers include correspondence, photographs, and other papers documenting activities of United States Indian Agent Benjamin O'Fallon and his extended family. Most correspondence consists of letters to Benjamin O'Fallon, concerning Indian affairs in Missouri Territory and throughout what is now the western United States, as well as Missouri politics during the transition from territory to statehood; correspondents include Henry Atkinson, Thomas Hart Benton, William Clark, John C. Calhoun, Henry Leavenworth, John O'Fallon, and Zachary Taylor. The papers also include material relating to O'Fallon's daughter Ellen O'Fallon Smith and her husband Francis J. Smith; Smith's parents, Reuben Smith and Susan Horine Smith; and Susan Horine Smith's father Jacob Horine and grandfather Thomas Madden. The Smith and Horine family papers consist of correspondence and documents including land grants signed by President James Monroe, deeds and other land transactions in Missouri, marriage contracts, estate records, and three bills of sale for slaves purchased by Jacob Horine in 1810 and 1820. The collection includes approximately seventy photographs, including two daguerreotypes but largely dating from the later nineteenth century; these are mostly unidentified portraits of members of the O'Fallon, Smith, Cooper, and Vaughan families of Missouri and California. The papers also include an oil painting by Benjamin O'Fallon's grandson A.D.M. Cooper showing the O'Fallon Mill in Jefferson County, Missouri; and a pistol and powder horn.