Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002
Appendix C: Encoded Examples
The following finding aids were originally encoded in EAD Version 1.0 and modified to conform to EAD 2002. One displays a minimal level of markup, while the other makes extensive use of attributes. Neither should be considered normative, as the archival community continues to experiment with the "optimal" level of markup.
Example 1: Guide to the Mildred Davenport Dance Programs and Dance School Materials
Example 1 describes a collection of personal papers at the collection and file levels, using the "combined" <dsc> approach to emphasize the hierarchical nature of this archival description. It utilizes the LEVEL attribute throughout in order to record unambiguously how, in several cases, multiple nested components are used to describe a single "file, " and to clearly mark for server-side processing the boundaries between "file" and "item" levels of description. Further, it encodes physical housing information using a single <container> element within each <c0x> component.
Choices for the minimum set of EAD elements and usage of label attributes and <head> elements were made using the Online Archive of California Best Practice Guidelines Version 1.0: Encoding New Finding Aids Using Encoded Archival Description (available online at <http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac/ >). These Guidelines will be updated by a subcommittee of the Online Archive of California Working Group shortly after EAD 2002 documentation is released, and are based, where appropriate, on ISAD(G), APPM, AACR2, and other national and international standards for data content and values.
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Collections and Archives//TEXT (eadheader: name and address)//EN" "hdrcuisp.sgm">
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California seal)//EN" NDATA GIF>
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<ead>
<eadheader audience="internal" countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601"
langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511">
<eadid countrycode="us" mainagencycode="cu-i" publicid="-//us::cu-i//TEXT us::cu-i::
p29.sgm//EN">Mildred Davenport Dance Programs and Dance School Materials, MS-P29
</eadid>
<filedesc>
<titlestmt>
<titleproper>Guide to the Mildred Davenport Dance Programs and Dance School
Materials</titleproper>
<author>Processed by Adrian Turner; machine-readable finding aid created by Adrian
Turner</author>
</titlestmt>
<publicationstmt>&hdr-cu-i-spcoll;
<date>© 2001</date>
<p>The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.</p>
</publicationstmt>
<notestmt>
<note>
<p>
<subject source="cdl">Arts and Humanities--Dance--Dance Performance
</subject>
<subject source="cdl">Arts and Humanities--Dance--Dance History and
Criticism</subject>
<subject source="cdl">Area, Interdisciplinary, and Ethnic Studies--African
American Studies</subject>
</p>
</note>
</notestmt>
</filedesc>
<profiledesc>
<creation>Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source:
<date>2001.</date></creation>
<langusage>Description is in <language>English.</language>
</langusage>
</profiledesc>
</eadheader>
<frontmatter>
<titlepage>
<titleproper>Guide to the Mildred Davenport Dance Programs and Dance School
Materials</titleproper>
<num>Collection number: MS-P29</num>
<publisher>Special Collections and Archives
<lb>The UCI Libraries
<lb><extptr actuate="onload" show="embed" entityref="ucseal">
<lb>University of California
<lb>Irvine, California</publisher>
&tp-cu-i-spcoll;
<list type="deflist">
<defitem>
<label>Processed by: </label>
<item>Adrian Turner</item>
</defitem>
<defitem>
<label>Date Completed: </label>
<item>2001</item>
</defitem>
<defitem>
<label>Encoded by: </label>
<item>Adrian Turner</item>
</defitem>
</list>
<p>© 2001 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
</p>
</titlepage>
</frontmatter>
<archdesc level="collection">
<did>
<head>Descriptive Summary</head>
<unittitle label="Title">Mildred Davenport dance programs and dance school
materials</unittitle>
<unitdate type="inclusive" normal="1934/1942">1934-1942</unitdate>
<unitid countrycode="us" repositorycode="cu-i" label="Collection number">MS-
P29</unitid>
<origination label="Creator"><persname rules="aacr2">Davenport, Mildred,
1900-1990</persname></origination>
<physdesc label="Extent">
<extent>0.3 linear feet (1 box and 1 oversize folder)</extent>
</physdesc>
<repository label="Repository">
<corpname>University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and
Archives.</corpname>
<address>
<addressline>Irvine, California 92623-9557</addressline>
</address>
</repository>
<abstract label="Abstract">This collection comprises dance programs, dance school
materials, photographs, and ephemera documenting the early career of the Boston-based
African-American dancer, dance instructor, and civic official Mildred Davenport. The bulk of
this collection consists of dance programs and dance school materials. The collection also
contains 29 photographs of Davenport, her students in various performances, and friends or
individual students. Dance programs from 1925 to 1942 feature her solo performances and
group performances with her students. The collection includes a complete run of programs for
Bronze Rhapsody, an annual performance series choreographed, staged, and directed by
Davenport. Her personal copy of a typescript of stage directions for a 1934 performance is
included with these programs. Her dance schools, Davenport School of the Dance and Silver
Box Studio, are documented in course brochures and applications. Biographical and academic
materials include a 1939 newspaper article on Davenport.</abstract>
</did>
<descgrp>
<head>Important Information for Users of the Collection</head>
<accessrestrict>
<head>Access</head>
<p>Collection is open for research.</p>
</accessrestrict>
<userestrict>
<head>Publication Rights</head>
<p>Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are
retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or
to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.</p>
</userestrict>
<prefercite>
<head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Mildred Davenport Dance Programs and Dance School Materials. MS-P29. Special
Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.</p>
</prefercite>
<acqinfo>
<head>Acquisition Information</head>
<p>Acquired, 1998.</p>
</acqinfo>
<processinfo>
<head>Processing History</head>
<p>Processed by Adrian Turner, 2001.</p>
</processinfo>
</descgrp>
<bioghist>
<bioghist>
<head>Biography</head>
<p>Mildred Ellen Davenport was a noted civic official and military officer with an
extensive career as a dancer and dance instructor in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. She
was born in Boston on November 12, 1900. She began her dance studies at C.C. Perkins
Grade School and Prince School as a teenager, and graduated from Boston Girls' High
School in 1918. In the 1920s she studied at the Sargent School for Physical Culture and
at Harvard, and opened her first dance school, the Davenport School of Dance. Over the
next ten years she studied under Ted Shawn and taught dance in Boston. She was also
progressively more involved in road show performances such as Hot Chocolates. From 1930
to 1935 she performed in a number of African-American musical productions on Broadway,
including Fast and Furious, Flying Colors, and Black Birds. In 1932 she established her
second dance school, the Silver Box Studio, in the South End of Boston. She became the
first African American woman to perform with the Arthur Fiedler Pops unit of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra at this time.</p>
<p>During World War II, Davenport enlisted in the Army as a captain. She produced
musical shows for military bases and later served as a special service officer, library
officer, and advisor in the Office of Racial Affairs. In 1950, she served as an
executive board member for the N.A.A.C.P. office in Boston. From 1947 to 1968 she worked
for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, founded in 1944 to enforce fair
employment practices. Davenport died in Boston in 1990.</p>
</bioghist>
<bioghist>
<head>Chronology</head>
<chronlist>
<chronitem>
<date>1900</date>
<event>Born in Boston.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>Ca. 1914</date>
<event>Student at C.C. Perkins Grade School and Prince School.
</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1918</date>
<event>Graduates from Boston Girls' High School.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>Ca. 1920s</date>
<event>Establishes Davenport School of Dance in Boston.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1921</date>
<event>Student at Sargent School for Physical Culture.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1921-1922</date>
<event>Physical training instructor at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1923</date>
<event>Student at Harvard Summer School.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1925-ca. 1930</date>
<event>Staff member with the Department of Public Welfare, Boston.
</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>Ca. 1930-1935</date>
<event>Performs on Broadway.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1932</date>
<event>Establishes Silver Box Studio in Boston.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1946-1947</date>
<event>U.S. Army, civilian defense instructor.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1947</date>
<event>U.S. Army Office of Racial Affairs, assistant special service
officer, library officer, and advisor.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1950</date>
<event>Executive board member of N.A.A.C.P., Boston. Member of
Women's Service Club and League of Women for Community Service, Boston.
</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1947-1968</date>
<event>Staff member with the Massachusetts Commission Against
Discrimination.</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1973</date>
<event>Receives Sojourner Truth Award of the National Association of
Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Boston and Vicinity Club.
</event>
</chronitem>
<chronitem>
<date>1990</date>
<event>Dies in Boston.</event>
</chronitem>
</chronlist>
</bioghist>
</bioghist>
<scopecontent>
<head>Collection Scope and Content Summary</head>
<p>This collection comprises dance programs, dance school materials, photographs,
and ephemera documenting the early career of the Boston-based African-American dancer,
dance instructor, and civic official Mildred Davenport. The bulk of this collection
consists of dance programs and dance school materials. The collection also contains 29
photographs of Davenport, her students in various performances, and friends or
individual students. Dance programs from 1925 to 1942 feature her solo performances and
group performances with her students. The collection includes a complete run of programs
for Bronze Rhapsody, an annual performance series choreographed, staged, and directed by
Davenport. Her personal copy of a typescript of stage directions for a 1934 performance
is included with these programs. Her dance schools, Davenport School of the Dance and
Silver Box Studio, are documented in course brochures and applications. Biographical and
academic materials include a 1939 newspaper article on Davenport.</p>
<p>The collection is arranged topically. Materials are arranged chronologically
within each topical grouping whenever possible.</p>
</scopecontent>
<controlaccess>
<head>Indexing Terms</head>
<p>The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
in the library's online public access catalog.</p>
<controlaccess>
<head>Subjects</head>
<persname encodinganalog="600" rules="aacr2" role="subject">Davenport, Mildred,
1900-1990--Archives.</persname>
<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Dance schools--Massachusetts--Boston--
Archival resources.</subject>
<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Dance--Archival resources.
</subject>
<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Modern dance--United States--Archival
resources.</subject>
<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Dance, Black--Archival resources.
</subject>
<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">African American dancers--Archival
resources.</subject>
</controlaccess>
<controlaccess>
<head>Genres and Forms of Materials</head>
<genreform encodinganalog="655" source="local">Dance programs.</genreform>
<genreform encodinganalog="655" source="gmgpc">Photographic prints.
</genreform>
<genreform encodinganalog="655" source="gmgpc">Posters.</genreform>
</controlaccess>
<controlaccess>
<head>Occupations</head>
<occupation encodinganalog="656" source="aat">Dancers.</occupation>
<occupation encodinganalog="656" source="lcsh">Dance teachers.</occupation>
</controlaccess>
</controlaccess>
<dsc type="combined">
<head>Collection Contents</head>
<c01 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 1</container>
<unittitle>Biographical and academic materials</unittitle>
</did>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">FB-21 : 1</container>
<unittitle>Boston Girls' High School, commencement program
</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1918">1918</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 1</container>
<unittitle>George Peabody College for Teachers, School of the Dance,
schedule of courses offered by Ted Shawn</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1938">1938</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 1</container>
<unittitle>"Boston teacher called evangelist of the dance," newspaper
clipping</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1939">1939</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
</c01>
<c01 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 2-4</container>
<unittitle>Dance programs</unittitle>
</did>
<c02 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 4</container>
<unittitle>The Feast of Apollo, Brattle Hall, Massachusetts
</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1925">1925</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 4</container>
<unittitle>Mildred Davenport and her pupils, Brattle Hall,
Massachusetts</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1928">1928</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 4</container>
<unittitle>Recital of dance poems and songs, Allied Art Studio, Boston
</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1928">1928</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 4</container>
<unittitle>Mildred Davenport and Sepia Beauties in revue, Challengers
Club, Boston</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1933">1933</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 2-3</container>
<unittitle>Bronze rhapsody</unittitle>
</did>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 2</container>
<unittitle><unitdate normal="1934">1934</unitdate>
</unittitle>
</did>
<c04 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 2</container>
<unittitle>Typescript of stage directions, with holograph note
"Miss Davenport (personal)" on first leaf</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1934">1934</unitdate>
</did>
</c04>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 3</container>
<unittitle><unitdate type="inclusive" normal="1935/1941">1935-
1941</unitdate></unittitle>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 3</container>
<unittitle><unitdate normal="1942">1942</unitdate>
</unittitle>
</did>
<c04 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">FB-21 : 1
</container>
<unittitle>Hand-colored poster (partial) </unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1942">1942</unitdate>
</did>
</c04>
</c03>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 4</container>
<unittitle>Classic, John Hancock Hall, Boston</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1938">1938</unitdate>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 4</container>
<unittitle>Shadowland Ball Room performances, Boston, undated.
</unittitle>
<physdesc><extent>2 items.</extent></physdesc>
</did>
</c02>
</c01>
<c01 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 5</container>
<unittitle>Dance school materials</unittitle>
</did>
<c02 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 5</container>
<unittitle>Davenport School of the Dance application, undated
</unittitle>
</did>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 5</container>
<unittitle>Silver Box Studio</unittitle>
</did>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 5</container>
<unittitle>Course brochures and applications, undated.
</unittitle>
<physdesc><extent>3 items.</extent></physdesc>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 5</container>
<unittitle>Event invitation and greeting card</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1939">1939 and undated.</unitdate>
<physdesc><extent>2 items.</extent></physdesc>
</did>
</c03>
</c02>
</c01>
<c01 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 6-11</container>
<unittitle>Photographs</unittitle></did>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 6-7</container>
<unittitle>Personal</unittitle>
</did>
<c03 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">FB-21 : 1</container>
<unittitle>Prince School class, photographic print</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1914">1914</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 6</container>
<unittitle>Teenage performances, undated.</unittitle>
<physdesc><extent>5 items.</extent></physdesc>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 7</container>
<unittitle>Portraits, undated.</unittitle>
<physdesc><extent>3 items.</extent></physdesc>
</did>
</c03>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 8-10</container>
<unittitle>Performances by students</unittitle>
</did>
<c03 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 8</container>
<unittitle>Piggilly wiggily</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1942">ca. 1942</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="item">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 8</container>
<unittitle>Top hat</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1942">ca. 1942</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 8-10</container>
<unittitle>Unidentified, undated.</unittitle>
<physdesc><extent>15 items.</extent></physdesc>
</did>
</c03>
</c02>
<c02 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 11</container>
<unittitle>Other individuals</unittitle>
</did>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 11</container>
<unittitle>Hall, Tom</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1930">1930</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 11</container>
<unittitle>Purcell, Barbara</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1942">ca. 1942</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 11</container>
<unittitle>Stokes, Bernice</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1942">ca. 1942</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
<c03 level="file">
<did>
<container type="box-folder" label="Box ">1 : 11</container>
<unittitle>Roberts, Francine</unittitle>
<unitdate normal="1942">ca. 1942</unitdate>
</did>
</c03>
</c02>
</c01>
</dsc>
</archdesc>
</ead>
Example 2: Minnesota Territorial Archives - Records of Territorial Governor Willis A. Gorman
Example 2 describes a series of government records that has been minimally encoded. It uses the "combined" <dsc> model to emphasize the hierarchical nature of the archival description.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE EAD PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Version 2002)//EN">
<ead>
<eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" repositoryencoding="iso15511" langencoding="iso639-2b"
relatedencoding="marc">
<eadid countrycode="us" repositorycode="mnhi">terr06</eadid>
<filedesc>
<titlestmt>
<titleproper>MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES. Territorial Governor:
</titleproper>
<subtitle> An Inventory of Territorial Governor Willis A. Gorman</subtitle>
<author>Finding aid prepared by Lydia Lucas.</author>
</titlestmt>
</filedesc>
<profiledesc>
<creation>Finding aid encoded by Lyda Morehouse,
<date>July 17, 2002.</date></creation>
</profiledesc>
</eadheader>
<archdesc level="series">
<did id="a1">
<head>OVERVIEW OF THE RECORDS</head>
<repository label="Repository:">Minnesota Historical Society</repository>
<origination label="Creator:">Agency:Minnesota. Governor (1853-1857 : Gorman).
</origination>
<unittitle label="Title:">Series Records of territorial governor Willis A. Gorman,
</unittitle>
<unitdate label="Date:">1852-1857.</unitdate>
<abstract label="Abstract:">Subject files, correspondence, appointments, pardon
records, reports from territorial officers, requests for return of fugitives, and
miscellany.</abstract>
<physdesc label="Quantity:">0.75 cu. ft. (23 folders in 2 partial boxes).
</physdesc>
<physloc label="Location:">See Detailed Description section for box locations.
</physloc>
</did>
<bioghist>
<head id="a2">BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GOVERNOR WILLIS A. GORMAN</head>
<p>Willis Arnold Gorman was born in Kentucky on January 12, 1816. His early career was
as a lawyer and state legislator (Democrat) in Indiana. During the Mexican War he raised and
commanded an Indiana rifle battalion and an infantry regiment, and subsequently was elected
to two terms in the U.S. Congress. President Franklin Pierce appointed him Governor of
Minnesota in May 13, 1853, and he served in that office until 1857. He was subsequently a
delegate to the state constitutional convention (1857) and was elected to the first state
legislature (1858).</p>
<p>At the outset of the Civil War he commanded the First Minnesota Infantry Volunteers
(April-October, 1861) until his promotion to brigadier general. Following his discharge from
military service in 1864, he practiced law in St. Paul in partnership with Cushman K. Davis.
In 1869 he was appointed St. Paul city attorney, and held that office until his death on May
20, 1876.</p>
<p>Sources: <emph render="italic">Minnesota Biographies</emph>, pp. 267-
268; <emph render="italic">Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars</emph>, Vol.
I, p. 14; William Watts Folwell, <emph render="italic">A History of Minnesota
</emph> (St. Paul, rev. 1956), Vol. I, pp. 377-383; Theodore C. Blegen, <emph
render=
"italic">Minnesota, A History of the State</emph> (1963), pp. 171, 240-242,
293.</p>
</bioghist>
<scopecontent>
<head id="a3">SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE RECORDS</head>
<p>Subject files and correspondence of territorial governor Gorman. A large proportion
relate to territorial officers' appointments and commissions. Letters received and sent
address the following topics: concerns of federal civilian agencies, military and Indian
affairs in general, the 1855 treaty with the Winnebago Indians, land sales, the Minnesota
and Northwestern Railroad Company, and other territorial affairs. Also present are a
legislative diary (Jan. 27-March 6, 1857), pardon records, petitions regarding local
government organization, reports from territorial officers, and requests from other states
for return of fugitives.</p>
<p>Gorman's governorship spanned a period of both tangible and speculative growth in
the state's infrastructure and economy, with numerous railroads, educational institutions,
and corporations being chartered, new counties established, new towns incorporated, and
several Indian treaties ratified. The surviving records contain only sketchy information on
these developments, and do not appear to contain any significant documentation on an
abortive 1857 scheme to remove the state capital from St. Paul to St. Peter.</p>
</scopecontent>
<arrangement>
<head id="a4">ARRANGEMENT OF THE RECORDS</head>
<p>Arranged alphabetically by topic; thereunder chronologically within each
folder.</p>
</arrangement>
<controlaccess>
<head id="a7">INDEX TERMS</head>
<p> <emph render="italic">This collection is indexed under the following
headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials
about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
</emph></p>
<controlaccess>
<head>Topics:</head>
<subject>Civil-military relations--Minnesota.</subject>
<subject>Extraditions--Minnesota.</subject>
<subject>Federal government--Minnesota.</subject>
<subject>Indians of North America—Government relations--1789-1869.</subject>
<subject>Land titles--Minnesota--Registration and transfer.</subject>
<subject>Pardons--Minnesota.</subject>
<subject>Winnebago Indians--Treaties.</subject>
</controlaccess>
<controlaccess>
<head>Places:</head>
<geogname>Minnesota--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment.
</geogname>
<geogname>Minnesota--Politics and government--1849-1858.</geogname>
</controlaccess>
<controlaccess>
<head>Persons:</head>
<persname>Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876.</persname>
</controlaccess>
<controlaccess>
<head>Organizations:</head>
<corpname>Minnesota Territory.</corpname>
</controlaccess>
<controlaccess>
<head>Types of Documents:</head>
<genreform>Diaries--Minnesota.</genreform>
<genreform>Petitions--Minnesota.</genreform>
<genreform>Proclamations--Minnesota.</genreform>
<genreform>Territorial records--Minnesota.</genreform>
</controlaccess>
</controlaccess>
<prefercite>
<head>Preferred Citation:</head>
<p><emph render="italic">[Indicate the cited volume and page or item and folder
title here].</emph> Minnesota Territorial Archives. Records of territorial governor Willis
Gorman. Minnesota Historical Society. State Archives.</p>
<p><emph render="italic">See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.</emph></p>
</prefercite>
<acqinfo>
<head>Accession Information:</head>
<p>Accession number(s): none; 2001-46</p>
</acqinfo>
<processinfo>
<head>Processing Information:</head>
<p>PALS ID No.: 0800011304</p>
<p>RLIN ID No.: MNHV90-A1172</p>
</processinfo>
<dsc type="combined" id="fruin" audience="external">
<head id="a9">DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS</head>
<p id="MHSLoc"> <emph render="italic">Note to Researchers: To request materials,
please note both the location and box numbers shown below.</emph></p>
<c01>
<did>
<physloc>115.I.19.8F</physloc> <container>[1]</container>
<unittitle>Appointments: Commission of Deeds, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>For each individual, may include any of the following: application, petition,
recommendations, letter of resignation.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Appointments: Counties, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>For each individual, may include any of the following: application, petition,
recommendations, letter of resignation. Arranged alphabetically by county.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Appointments: Notary Public, </unittitle>
<unitdate>undated and 1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>4 folders. </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>For each individual, may include any of the following: application, petition,
recommendations, letter of resignation.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Appointments: Territorial Offices, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>May include any of the following: application, petition, recommendations, letter of
resignation, for commissioner of emigration, librarian, superintendent of common schools,
auditor, treasurer, building commissioner, supreme court reporter, militia, and land
office.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Commissions, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1855-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>5 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>For notary public, justice of the peace, and building commissioner.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Document Transmittals, Receipts, and Requests, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder. </physdesc>
</did>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Legislative Diary, 1</unittitle>
<unitdate>1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 volume </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Fragmentary entries, January 27 - March 6, showing numbers and titles of bills.
</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Letters Received: Federal Civilian Agencies, 18</unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder. </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Letters and circulars from federal civilian agencies, including the General Land
Office, the Post Office Department, and the Treasury Department.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<physloc>115.I.19.8F</physloc> <container>[1]</container>
<unittitle>Letters Received: Indian and Military Affairs, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder. </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Letters, reports, and orders relating to Indian and military affairs, from the
commanding officers at Fort Snelling and Fort Ridgely; from legislative district
representatives about the Winnebago treaty, with a copy of Governor Gorman's reply (January
1854); and petitions and requests for defense against the Indians.</p>
<p>Includes a letter written by Henry B. Smythe on behalf of the Winnebago Indians (8
Jan. 1856) requesting the transfer of $806 from tribal funds to the superintendent of the
Winnebago School. It may refer to funds available to the tribe under the 1855 U.S. Treaty
with the Winnebago; it is signed by many of the Winnebago signatories to that treaty.
</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Letters Received: Land Sales, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>9 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Letters about land sales and occupancy.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Letters Received: Other Territorial Affairs, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>16 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Letters from Senator Henry M. Rice and others about a variety of territorial
affairs.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<physloc>115.I.19.9B</physloc> <container>[2]</container>
<unittitle>Pardon Records, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1852-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>21 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Requests and petitions for pardons and commutations; governor's pardon; orders for
release and related court records; letters for persons convicted and sentenced for various
offenses, including murder, assault with intent to kill, assault and battery, simple
assault, and resisting an officer; and letters asking for the release of an Indian
hostage.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Petitions, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1855. </unitdate>
<physdesc>10 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Various requests and petitions for the establishment of election precincts in
Portsmouth and the Sioux Agency, for the organization of local governments in Rice County
and Steele County, for a town organization in Bangor, for a vigilance committee to suppress
liquor traffic at Traverse des Sioux, and for a certification of election districts in
Carver County.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Proclamations, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1854-1855. </unitdate>
<physdesc>2 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Designating November 21, 1854, and November 20, 1855 as days of Thanksgiving.
</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Records Relating to the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company,
</unittitle>
<unitdate>1854-1856. </unitdate>
<physdesc>31 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Bills, correspondence, and reports dealing with its incorporation and with the
political maneuverings surrounding its proposed land grant.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<physloc>115.I.19.9B</physloc> <container>[2]</container>
<unittitle>Reports: Board of Inspectors of the Territorial Prison, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1856. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder. </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Reports that include activities of the board and minutes of board meetings.
</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Reports: Commissioner of Emigration, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1854-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>1 folder. </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Reports of activities, and financial reports including lists of expenditures and
various receipts.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Reports: Other Territorial Officers, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1853-1855. </unitdate>
<physdesc>7 items.</physdesc>
</did>
<c02>
<did>
<unittitle>- Agent to select university lands (December 12, 1855).
</unittitle>
</did>
</c02>
<c02>
<did>
<unittitle>- Commissioner for the Crystal Palace Exhibition (1853, 1854).
</unittitle>
</did>
</c02>
<c02>
<did>
<unittitle>- Superintendent of common schools (December 25, 1854).
</unittitle>
</did>
</c02>
<c02>
<did>
<unittitle>- Territorial auditor (December 30, 1854; December 26, 1855).
</unittitle>
</did>
</c02>
</c01>
<c01>
<did>
<unittitle>Requests for Return of Fugitives, </unittitle>
<unitdate>1854-1857. </unitdate>
<physdesc>2 folders. </physdesc>
</did>
<scopecontent>
<p>Both to and from various states.</p>
</scopecontent>
</c01>
</dsc>
</archdesc>
</ead>