Harry Robert Stevens, born in 1914. received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1946. During his career he was an assistant, associate and full professor of United States history at the University of Cincinnati, Michigan State University, and Duke University, respectively. In 1976, he became an emeritus professor at Ohio University. His specialty is nineteenth century political, intellectual and frontier America. Many of his published scholarly articles appear in the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio and the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. Other published works include A Study of Notable Ohioans (1937), Six twenty: Margaretta Hunt and the Baker-Hunt foundation (1942), Early Jackson Party in Ohio (1957).

This collection consists almost entirely of photocopies of secondary and primary materials relating to Shawnee history and culture, and the history of the Ohio River region. Nearly all of the materials are copies of published sources, from the 18th to 20th century, with Stevens' notes on them. The collection is organized according to the topics by which Stevens kept his copies and notes, covering a very broad range of subject matter.

Native American Images note : 642 black and white photocopies, with a few black and white silver gelatin photographs, negatives, and newspaper clippings of images of Shawnee chiefs and settlements copied from 1980-1982. Collected by Stevens for historical research, the images are from various archival source materials and published works. Of interest, photocopies of photographs by Jim Lynch of a 1936 Shawnee settlement in Sperry, Oklahoma. Many portraits of Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Black Hoof, and Cornstalk.

Physical description

40 linear feet.

Provenance

Gift through Herman H. Goldstine.

Processing information

This collection was processed into series and subseries sections by Brian Carpenter in 2016.

• Stevens, Harry R. (Harry Robert)
• Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1763-1813
• Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet

• Photocopies
• Shawnee Indians
• Shawnee Indians -- History