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Title: Stories and discussion of the use of tobacco and cedar poles to protect homes from storms
Identifier(s): audio:3232; APSdigrec_3360; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 05
Source: Kavanaugh, Rebecca P. Fieldwork in the Menominee Language, 1999-2000. (Mss.Rec.254);
Subject: Menominee language; Menominee Indians--Religion; Prayers; Tobacco
Date: 1999-08-02

Title: Report of Committee on Vauquelin's Papers, 1810 March 16
Identifier(s): text:352187
Description: Document signed: S. Godon. 1p. and end. General physical description: 11x8. See Vauquelin, A.: "Analysis of the Nicotina Latifolia" 1809 Jan 12, and "Analysis of Snuff" 1809 Sept. 15 Natural History
Subject: Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas, 1763-1829; Tobacco
Date: 1810-03-16

Title: Text 53: Fire-ashes and white-man-ashes (gunpowder); Cheyenne Spool #6
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_3698; local: 03; local: 08
Description: In Cheyenne only. A transcript of this program with English glosses is available in the ACLS Collection (Call no.: Mss.497.3.B63c.) See Related Resource.; Transcript available in the ACLS Collection (Call no.: Mss.497.3.B63c.) See Related Resource. Original wire recording spools were sent to the Library of Congress in 1970 in exchange for reel-to-reel copies.
Subject: Cheyenne language; Cheyenne Indians--Folklore; Tobacco; Gunpowder
Date: 1948-07

Title: Story about advice from elders to use tobacco in making prayers
Identifier(s): audio:3219; APSdigrec_2715; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 03
Description: Two personal accounts given, one in English, one in Menominee, then English.
Source: Kavanaugh, Rebecca P. Fieldwork in the Menominee Language, 1999-2000. (Mss.Rec.254);
Subject: Menominee language; Menominee Indians--Religion; Prayers; Tobacco
Date: 1999-08-02

Title: The Boy who raised Tobacco (Tiwa & English)
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_1268; local: 02; local: 13
Description: Interrupted text in Southern Tiwa, Isleta dialect, with English translation.
Subject: Isleta dialect; Tiwa Indians--Folklore; Tobacco--Folklore
Date: 1965

Title: Tobacco All Gone (with drum)
Identifier(s): audio:7890; APSdigrec_1342; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 04
Description: "Composed by Tenos Charley, a nAltcina man (not the present man of that name living in Copper Center), in 1901-02."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tobacco
Date: 1958-08-30

Title: Story of Indians in the West using tobacco to protect their home from a storm
Identifier(s): audio:3218; APSdigrec_2716; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 04
Description: In Menominee only.
Source: Kavanaugh, Rebecca P. Fieldwork in the Menominee Language, 1999-2000. (Mss.Rec.254);
Subject: Menominee language; Menominee Indians--Religion; Prayers; Tobacco; Indians of North America--West (U.S.)
Date: 1999-08-02

Title: Nicotiana tabacum (Havana Tobacco)
Identifier(s): graphics:866; APSimg6223
Description: Used in Elements.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Botanical illustrations; Tobacco
Date: n.d.

Title: Discussion of the use of tobacco and other smoke in peyote meetings
Identifier(s): audio:6538; APSdigrec_3214; Recording Number: 12B; Program Number: 02
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Shawnee language; Tobacco; Peyotism; Smoke; Red-tailed hawk; Shawnee Indians--Religion
Date: 1994

Title: Maury, Rev. James to Moses Fontaine, 1756 June 10; No. 920 Rev. James Maury to Moses Fontaine
Identifier(s): text:353679
Description: Discusses various maps of Virginia and North America, including [Joshua] Fry and [Peter] Jefferson's and Lewis Evans's, and remarks that the latter map gives a clear idea of the "immensly valuable" land contested between Britain and France; describes the method by which canoes are lashed together in order to carry heavy hogsheads of tobacco from upland streams; discusses explorations of the Mississippi River and expands upon the "vast Importance of that prodigious River"; mentions "the present troubles" [the Seven Years' War] and complains that the Virginia frontier has been left "naked and exposed" by legislators who knew nothing about the backcountry; comments that "the Possibility of the Children doing well without the Parent" is a subject that must be treated with "Reserve & delicacy"; discusses family matters.; Erratum on microfilm: last page not filmed; includes a transcription of an extract from the letter, 11 pp.
Creator: Maury, James, 1718-1769et al
Subject: Maps; United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763; Great Britain--Relations--France; Canoes and canoeing; Tobacco; Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757
Date: 1756-06-10; 2023

Title: Mazzei, Philip to Thomas Jefferson, 1780 March 2; No. 929 Philip Mazzei to Thomas Jefferson
Identifier(s): text:353667
Description: Mentions that Mazzei met with Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin and others, recommends the marquis de Lafayette, who delivers the letter, and relates several anecdotes about the latter on the eve of his departure for America; transmits intelligence about the movements of [Adm. George Brydges] Rodney's fleet and about the departure of French troops for America; discusses financial matters, requests financial assistance, and suggests that Jefferson send a cargo of tobacco to Italy.; "2nd Copy"
Creator: Mazzei, Filippo, 1730-1816et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Military intelligence; Admiralty--Great Britain; Tobacco; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834; Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792
Date: 1780-03-02; 2023