Box 1

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Three folders: 29 originals, 34 transcriptions.

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4 letters.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence primarily between members of the Platt Family regarding daily activities, Native Americans, westward expansion, and family matters. For example, letters of Elizabeth Charlotte Ricketts Whaley Lehman include accounts of life on the Pawnee Indian Reservation in what is now the state of Nebraska (1863), hardships faced during winter months on the Plains, and family matters. (See the Nebraska State Historical Society finding guide for their collection of Platt Family Papers. A...

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15 letters.

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Copies of transcriptions.

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Photographs of the members of the Platt Family and their friends. Some of the photographs are identified, and many are not dated.

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Photographs of the members of the Platt Family and their friends. Some of the photographs are identified, and many are not dated.

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Contains a reprint of “A Battle with the Sioux,” by L.B. Platt (The Cosmopolitan, January 1888, vol. IV, No. 5) in which Platt gives a firsthand account of a fight between the Pawnee and Sioux Indians. Also included is an unpublished manuscript by Elvira Platt titled “A Story About A Dog” (5 June 1905). This manuscript, original and transcription, is a story about the relationship between Elvira and the family’s dog, Luffra.

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Handwritten and transcript.

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Consists of an article and pamphlet concerning Tabor and Tabor Congregational Church, Iowa. Also included are photocopies of biographical materials for the Platt Family (i.e., articles, copies of photographs, copies of transcripts of letters, 1853-54, 1899, 1914, 1930s, 1986, undated), and a Oberlin Alumni register page containing “Platt.”