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BX1 Correspondence
FF1 Mayes to Maude: July Fourth festivities, school, consumption, saw mill, robberies, the Kickapoo Opening, the Indian Agency, typhoid, flooding, and the Chandler Bank Robbery. 1893-1898
FF2 Bee to Maude: Sac & Fox Indian girls, masquerade party, education, and Miss Reel, the superintendent of all the Indian schools. 1898-1899
FF3 Maude to Bee: Mission, smallpox, because of which the agency was under quarantine enforced by men and guns, squaw dance, and an abortion. 1898-1900
FF4 Bee to Maude: Sac & Fox Indians, quarrel between normal and commercial school factories. 1891-1900
FF5 Mayes to Maude: Whooping cough, Haskell under quarantine, pension papers, President McKinley, and Dennis Flynn, the Territory of Oklahoma's delegate to Congress. 1900
FF6 Bee to Maude: "Magic Lantern and Moving Picture Show," and the Lake Superior Indian Commission. 1900
BX2 Correspondence
FF1 Maude to Bee: Medicine dance, Indian Service. 1900
FF2 Mayes to Maude: Smallpox, causing the school to close, and Grand Army of the Republic Week. 1901
FF3 Mayes to Maude: The flood of 1902, the current flood, scarlet fever, and the railroad. 1902
FF4 Bee to Maude: Scarlet fever, clothes, grass fight, Buckskin Bill's Wild West Show, a trip to Minnesota, and Bee when a freshman at Kansas University. 1902
FF5 Maude to Bee: Death of Uncle Isaac. 1902
BX3 Correspondence
FF1 Maude to Bee: Kaw River damage. 1903
FF2 Maude to Bee: Wild West Show in Stroud, Grandpa Keokuk's pneumonia, the brown book contest, and Guy Whistler in military school. 1903
FF3 Mayes to Maude: Weather and crops, the railroad, July Fourth festivities at Sparks, oil well drilling, and Christmas. 1903
FF4 Bee to Maude: Frank Keokuk, Woodbury's Hair Tonic, Lawrence, Kansas flood, civil service exams, and visiting clergy determine degree of Indian blood of people. 1903
FF5 Mother Mayes to Maude, Grandma Mayes to Don, Mayes to Maude: Railroad to Okmulgee surveyed, measles causing death, and Lincoln County Producer's Association. 1895-1903
BX4 Correspondence
FF1 Bee to Maude: Indian costumes, the Frisco Railroad, retrieving runaways. 1904
FF2 Bee to Maude: Going to Chicago to study harp, first ride in an automobile, the World's Fair, concert by John Philip Sousa's band, ride on a camel, and the Prince Pu Lun. 1904
FF3 Bee to Maude: Work in St. Louis, Hagenbeck's Animal Show, Chilocco Indian School, and Miss Tonner, the daughter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 1904
FF4 Maude to Bee: Christmas, the World's Fair, Indian dance on the North Fork River, and a bill in Congress. 1904
FF5 Mayes to Maude: Lice and the measles, the World's Fair, and bridges and crops washed away in flooding. 1904
BX5 Correspondence
FF1 Mayes to Maude: Mrs. Riley and Fred Neal. 1905
FF2 Bee to Maude: Chilocco Indian School, and Little Max.1905-1906
FF3 Bee to Maude: Chicago, animal show. 1906
FF4 Bee to Maude: Twenty week's engagement in New England, harp lessons, Winnipeg, Canada, Chicago, and vaudeville. 1908-1909
FF5 Bee to Maude: Boston, Washington, D.C., New York and the Metropolitan Opera House. 1908-1909
FF6 Maude to Bee: Scholarship at Boston Conservatory, Much-e-tah, Sho-ne-ah, Kesh'ke-kosh. 1909
BX6 Correspondence
FF1 Mayes to Maude: Kansas, and the restaurant business.1912-1913
FF2 Bee to Maude: Boston, Europe, Tom St. George at Yale University, the trial of Margaret Kenneth. 1910
FF3 Bee to Maude: Vaudeville. 1911
FF4 Bee to Maude: Boston. 1912
FF5 Bee to Maude: General news. 1913
FF6 Bee to Maude: New York, Belgian relief work, gas and oil. 1914
FF7 Mayes to Maude: Typhoid fever, and opera and movie house. 1915
FF8 Mayes to Maude: Gladstone Hall and theater, and oil deed. 1915
BX7 Correspondence
FF1-4 Don Whistler and Leo Whistler to Maud Whistler - Letters from Sacred Heart College. 1909-1912
FF5 Letters received by Bee Mayes (Pe-ahm-e-squeet).1910, 1913
FF6 Letters to and from Bee Mayes. 1898-1911
BX8 Correspondence
FF1 Letters from Bee Mayes to Mrs. Carol Rogers re. trip to Europe. 1910
FF2 Letters and postcards from Bee Mayes re. trip to Europe. 1910
FF3 Letters to Pearl Mayes. 1900-1902
FF4 Letters to Maude Whistler from Dr. Carroll Rogers. 1908
FF5 Letters to Maude Whistler from Don Whistler, Jr.1908-1912, 1926, 1943-1944
FF6 Letters to Maude Whistler. 1906, 1935, 1939, 1944
FF7 Letters to Don Whistler. 1912, 1939
FF8 Letters to and from Leo Whistler. 1906-1918
FF9 Letters to and from Rex Rogers. 1911-1912, 1915
FF10 Letters to and from Ramona Rogers.1888, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1928, 1941-1942
BX9 Miscellaneous Documents
FF1 Advertisements and receipts. 1896-1914, 1931
FF2 Announcements. 1899-1923
FF3 Compositions by Don Whistler. 1912
FF4 Greeting cards and locks of hair. 1896, 1901, 1941
FF5 Important documents (marriage license, divorce decree, etc.). 1894-1915, 1941
FF6 Invitations. 1891-1915, 1945
FF7 Newspaper clippings. 1913, 1931
FF8 Orchard planting. n.d.
FF9 Poems, songs, drawings, diary and autograph book.1889-1898, 1912
FF10 Recipes. n.d.
FF11 Religious tracts. n.d.
FF12 Report cards and samples of children's writing.1905, 1909-1910
BX10 Correspondence
FF1 Don Whistler correspondence: re. the Sac & Fox school and agency lands and buildings; and McKeown's Bill providing for "unconditional" title in the Sac & Fox tribe. Also includes letter from Ralph Cameron, U.S. Senate. 1926-1943
FF2 Correspondence to Leo Whistler from family members and friends: re. "the old timers." 1930-1936
FF3 Correspondence between Pearl B. Mayes, Thomas Henneberry, Margaret Kenneth and other family members: re. illnesses, daily affairs, and a legal matter. 1910-1916
FF4 Correspondence between Thomas Henneberry and Pearl Mayes: poem of love from Tom to Bee, and letter from Bee to Tom asking for details of his divorce. 1916
FF5 Correspondence to E.C. Mayes from his daughter, Dot Mayes from various locations throughout Europe: re. farm and mortgage, and various activities such as going to the opera. 1910
FF6 Correspondence to G.W. Choate from family members: re. farming, daily affairs, preaching, learning the "telegraphy trade," the murder of a white man by some full blood Indians near Boggy Depot, shipment of cattle, housing for Indian orphan children, etc.. Also includes letter from the Secretary of the Interior. 1882-1916
FF7 Government related documents and correspondence: re. title to certain lands in Oklahoma to the Sac & Fox Nation of Indians (House of Representatives Report No. 895); memo to all employees in the Indian Service from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning whisky and the American Indian; and speech of Hon. James A. Frear of Wisconsin concerning the confiscation of Navajo Indian funds. 1914-1915, 1926
FF8 Real estate material: release of real estate mortgage, and extension agreement and coupons. 1910, 1952
FF9 Pearl B. Mayes, Thomas Henneberry marriage certificate. 1913
F10 Printed material and newspaper clippings. Includes "Indian Legends, Music and Dances: Stories of Indian Life with Melodies on the Harp" by PE-AHM-E-SQUEET (Floating Cloud), with programs, press notices, etc.; announcement of dedication exercises of the Canadian High School, Canadian, Oklahoma; and pictures (printed). 1904, 1911, 1966-1967
F11 Printed material: Lindell Hotel commutation ticket, picture postcards sent to Mrs. Don Whistler, and xerox copies from a book titled Checagou. 1910, 1972
OUTSIZE BX1 Printed Materials
History of Braman (town), photocopies, 3 pages
Newspaper clippings (Whistler Ranch) 1915
"Die Musik Des Barocks" von Dr. Robert Haas 1928
"Die Musik Des Rokokos Und Der Klassik" von Dr. Ernst Bucken 1928
Postage stamps