Pete Hest North American Indian collection, 1930-2002.
Collection Number: 6507

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Pete Hest North American Indian collection, 1930-2002.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6507
Abstract:
Promotional and educational published material, pamphlets, brochures, photographs, posters, scrapbooks and other material collected by Pete Hest, relating to the history and culture of Native Americans in the United States and Canada.
Creator:
Hest, Pete, 1922-2002
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Promotional and educational published material, pamphlets, brochures, photographs, posters, scrapbooks and other material collected by Pete Hest, relating to the history and culture of Native Americans in the United States and Canada.
NOTES

Forms part of the Native American Collection. (NAC)


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Pete Hest North American Indian collection, #6507. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Indians of North America.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Photographs
Box 1 Folder 1
Color prints from Gunther Michelson, 1981
Box 1 Folder 2
Hopi Snake Dancer circa 1900, copy print
Box 1 Folder 3
Onodaga - Chief F. Henhawk, Edson-Thomas, Chief George Thomas, Sky-Yah-Deh, Edson Thomas
1949-1951
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 4
Totem Village - Indian Lore
July 18, 1954
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 5
Corndance, Onondaga Reserve
August 21, 1955
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 6
Totem Village, Cooperstown, NY
June 15, 1955
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 7
Ha-Do-Ee - Chief Floyd Henhawk, Chief J. Cornplanter, Cayuga Village, Onondaga, NYS Fair, Craft shop
1948-1950
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 8
Misc. colorprints
1978-1991
Box 1 Folder 9
Misc. b/w copy prints
Box 1 Folder 10
Corndance, Photographer Steve Woiler
August 14, 1977
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 11
Chief HighEagle - Age 98- "Ogala" Sioux taken 1953, Concho, Oklahoma
Scope and Contents
b/w copy print
Box 1 Folder 12
Sky-Yah-Deh, Pete Hest, 1940
1933 - 1948
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 13
Strawberry Ceremony, Onondaga Reserve, NY
June 15, 1951
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 14
Chief Koon-Kah-Za-Chy addressing the council in sign language
Scope and Contents
Photogravure
Box 1 Folder 15
Unidentified Edward Curtis print
Scope and Contents
b/w copy print
Box 1 Folder 16
Unidentified b/w negatives
1950s
Box 1 Folder 17
Unidentified ceremony, Auburn, NY
March 10, 1967
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 18
Miscellaneous
1950s
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 19
Green Corn Dance
1955-1982
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 20
Chief Percy Raymond Smoke, inscribed
August 18, 1956
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 21
Crow and Sioux artifacts
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 22
Unidentified performance, Loew's Theatre, Syracuse
December 22, 1956
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 23
Misc. prints, NYS Fair, Pete Hest, unidentified ceremonies and events
1934 - 1960
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 24
Misc. prints of artifacts from the "Indianer Museum Radebeul", Germany, and other artifacts
1971 - 1984
Scope and Contents
color prints
Box 1 Folder 25
Pete Hest
1930s - 1950s
Scope and Contents
b/w negatives
Box 1 Folder 26
Group and individual portraits of Native Americans
1924-1984
Scope and Contents
b/w and color prints
Box 1 Folder 27
Dr. Erl Bates giving address at the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Chestnut Woods, Grahamnsville, NY 1925
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 28
Portraits
1949 - 1951
Scope and Contents
b/w portraits
Box 1 Folder 29
Six Nation Meeting, Onondaga Reserve, 1953, N.Y.S. Fair 1952, Planting Ceremony 1953, other misc. prints
1949 - 1952
Scope and Contents
b/w and color prints
Box 1 Folder 30
N.Y.S. Fair, Totem Village, Cooperstown, NY
1951-1955
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 31
Misc. portraits - Pete Hest, Native Americans
1939-1987
Scope and Contents
b/w and color prints
Box 1 Folder 32
Misc. portraits - Pete Hest, Native Americans
n.d.
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 33
Misc. portraits - Pete Hest, Native Americans
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w negatives
Box 1 Folder 34
Misc. portraits - Pete Hest, Native Americans
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w negatives
Box 1 Folder 35
Misc. portraits - Pete Hest, Native Americans
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w negatives
Box 1 Folder 36
Pete Hest, family and friends, Lake George?
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w negatives
Box 1 Folder 37
Philip Green, Albert Cusick, Melinda Johnson, 1890
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 38
Taos, NM, John Kilhan and unidentified Native Americans
1900-1920s
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 39
Misc. notes on language
n.d.
Box 1 Folder 40
Misc Prints - some identified
1930s-1955
Scope and Contents
b/w and color prints
Box 1 Folder 41
Unidentified group portrait, 1953
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 42
Prints misc.
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 43
Prints misc.
1935-1965
Scope and Contents
b/w prints
Box 1 Folder 44
N.Y.S. Fair, 1956, photographer George MacKown
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 45
Onondaga Reserve, 1936
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 46
Green Corn Dance, Onondaga Reservation
August 21, 1983
Scope and Contents
color print
Box 1 Folder 47
Hal Roach, Frank MacDonald's Picture
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 48
Thunder Bird's troupe of Wild Indians
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 49
Chief Thunder Bird amd his Wild Indians, Long Beach CA
n.d
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 50
Tim McCoy captured by the Indians in Metro-Goldwyn Mayers "Sioux Blood".
n.d.
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 51
Chief William Red Fox - inscribed
October 5, 1956
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 52
Mrs. Margaret Thomas, Irving Powless Sr., Ross Webster, George Thomas Jr. Pete Hest
October 4, 1959
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 53
Edson Lee Thomas, 1950
Box 1 Folder 54
William Eagle Shirt, So. Dak. 1917
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 55
Buffalo Bill Show, 1910
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 56
Chief Howard Sky, Grand River, Canada, 1952
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 57
Ernest Pierce, Davis Green, George Thomas, Andrew Pierce, Jordan, NY 1934
Box 1 Folder 58
E.H. Allen, Wm. Eagle Shirt, T.H. Inch, W.G. Brooks
1915
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 59
Arron Pudrey, Seneca, Tonawanda
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 60
Pete Hest, autographed 1938
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 61
Pete Hest
June 15, 1988
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 62
Chief John Big Tree 1922
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 63
William Eagle Shirt, 1917
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 64
Dubaque, Iowa - Palace Studio ca. 1900s
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Box 1 Folder 65
Frank Bald Eagle, Manderson, So. Dak.
September 6, 1922
Scope and Contents
b/w print
Printed Material
Box 2 Folder 1
Native American Indian postcards
1907-1987
Box 2 Folder 2
Native American Indian postcards
1907-1987
Box 2 Folder 3
Native American Greeting Cards
1967-1977
Box 2 Folder 4
Native American Calendars
1955-1965
Box 2 Folder 5
Native American Fold Out Postcards
1907-1965
Research Material
Box 3 Folder 1
Articles
1966-1974
Box 3 Folder 2
Clippings
1925-1998
Box 3 Folder 3
Clippings
1954-1994
Box 3 Folder 4
Clippings
1955-2001
Box 3 Folder 5
Clippings
1997-2000
Box 3 Folder 6
Correspondence
1949-1957
Box 3 Folder 7
Greeting Cards
1957-1967
Box 3 Folder 8
Indians General
1950s
Box 3 Folder 9
Paper items - photocopies
1821-1826
Box 3 Folder 10
Paper Items
1950s-1960s
Box 3 Folder 11
Paper Items
1964-1969
Box 3 Folder 12
Museums and Historic Sites
1954-1985
Box 3 Folder 13
Arts and Crafts
1903-1989
Box 3 Folder 14
Arts and Crafts
1935-1985
Box 3 Folder 15
Arts and Crafts
1959-1979
Box 3 Folder 16
Calendars
1955-1999
Box 3 Folder 17
Newsletters and Articles
1947-1978
Box 3 Folder 18
Folder Postcards
1907-1965
Box 3 Folder 19
Postcards
1907-1987
Box 3 Folder 20
Postcards
1907-1987
Box 3 Folder 21
Printed Images
1950s-1980s
Box 3 Folder 22
Promotional Travel Items
1923-1966
Publications
Box 4
Misc. publications
Scrapbooks
Box 5
Scrapbooks
1949-1950
Box 6
Scrapbooks and oversized prints, posters and advertising