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Title: Fac simile of a part of a MSS. of 100 pages found at the King's Indian Trading Posts on the Labrador Coast of America
Identifier(s): text:387; APSimg6550; Goodman Number: 274; 973 C683 No. 402
Description: Includes Biblical quotations in an unnamed Indian language and in French. Presented to the American Philosophical Society by Peter S. Du Ponceau, January 15, 1841.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Indians of North America--Language; Biblical events; Linguistics
Date: n.d.

Title: Department of War, May 15, 1826. To -----[,] Sir: It is the intention of the government to collect and preserve such information as may be obtained concerning the Indian languages.... You will report to the Department, at as early a period as you can, the information required.
Identifier(s): text:1771; APSimg6496; Goodman Number: 281; 973 C683 No. 112
Description: Letter enclosed originally with the three following documents: 1) "uniform comparative vocabulary"; 2) "verbal forms and sentences" for translation; and 3) "an attempt," by Albert Gallatin, "to arrange the Indian tribes of the United States east of the Stony Mountains, according to languages and dialects" (for Gallatin's chart, see Goodman #275). Signed in type by James Barbour.
Creator: United States. War Dept.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Indians of North America--Language; Linguistics
Date: 1826

Title: A table of Indian tribes of the United States, east of the Stony Mountains, arranged according to languages and dialects
Identifier(s): text:1183; local: APSimg1710; local: 986; local: 275
Description: Table of 102 Indian tribes grouped by languages and place of residence. Gallatin, secretary of the treasury of the United States (1801-14) and diplomat, was originally stimulated toward linguistic research by Alexander von Humboldt. Gallatin's linguistic interest culminated in his Synopsis of the Indian tribes (1836), a work which sought to classify Indian tribes by comparing their languages. In 1842 Gallatin founded the American Ethnological Society, and afterward made both financial and literary contributions toward its Transactions.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1183, no. 16. Originally enclosed with Goodman #281 (Broadsides Collection: 973 C683 no. 112).
Creator: Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Indians of North America--Language; Linguistics
Date: 1826