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=== Record Description === | === Record Description === | ||
A 491-volume collection of partially indexed manuscripts, letters, genealogical and historical notes, land records, newspaper clippings, and interview notes pertaining to the history and settlement of the old Northwest and Southwest Territories of the | A 491-volume collection of partially indexed manuscripts, letters, genealogical and historical notes, land records, newspaper clippings, and interview notes pertaining to the history and settlement of the old Northwest and Southwest Territories of the United States from the 1740s to 1830. | ||
{{TOC right}} '''Coverage.''' This collection also known as the '''Draper manuscripts''', and as the '''Draper Collection''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper ''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For a more detailed description, see Josephine L. Harper, '''''Guide''''' ''to the Draper Manuscripts'' (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; London : Eurospan, 2004) [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3435851 Digital copy online]; {{WorldCat|56461941|item|disp=At various repositories (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|147518|item|disp=FHL Fiche 6050187; Book 977.583/M1 A3h}}<br><br> | {{TOC right}} '''Coverage.''' This collection also known as the '''Draper manuscripts''', and as the '''Draper Collection''', consists of 491 volumes of manuscripts, papers, and books collected by '''''Lyman Copeland Draper ''''' about the history of the trans-Allegheny West in the United States, a region including the western areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, all the Ohio River Valley, and part of the upper Mississippi Valley from the 1740s to 1830. This includes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For a more detailed description, see Josephine L. Harper, '''''Guide''''' ''to the Draper Manuscripts'' (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press ; London : Eurospan, 2004) [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3435851 Digital copy online]; {{WorldCat|56461941|item|disp=At various repositories (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|147518|item|disp=FHL Fiche 6050187; Book 977.583/M1 A3h}}<br><br> | ||
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=== Record Content === | === Record Content === | ||
<gallery | <gallery perrow="3" heights="120px" widths="160px" caption="Draper Manuscript Collection"> | ||
Image:United States, Draper Manuscript Series (12-0902) Chronological Index of Documents DGS 7192184-11.jpg|Chronological Index of Documents | Image:United States, Draper Manuscript Series (12-0902) Chronological Index of Documents DGS 7192184-11.jpg|Chronological Index of Documents | ||
Image:United States, Draper Manuscript Series (12-0902) Genealogical Notes DGS 7192179_9.jpg|Genealogical Notes | Image:United States, Draper Manuscript Series (12-0902) Genealogical Notes DGS 7192179_9.jpg|Genealogical Notes | ||