M179 E. Reeseman Fryer papers
Collection Summary
Title | E. Reeseman Fryer papers |
Dates (Inclusive) | 1925-1991 |
Dates (Bulk) | 1945-1966 |
Creator | E. Reeseman Fryer |
Abstract | This collection includes the personal and professional papers of E. Reeseman Fryer. |
Unique ID | M179 |
Quantity | 12.5 linear shelf feet (in 27 document cases) |
Biographical Note
E. Reeseman "Si" Fryer (born in 1900; his first name was Era) served as Director of Soil Conservation Service Land Management Operations among the
Pueblos, 1935; Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Superintendent of the Navajo Reservation during the New Deal under John Collier, 1936-1942; BIA
Superintendent for Nevada, 1948-; and BIA Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1961-. Mr. Fryer's daughter, Sue, has observed that it seems he
was chosen for the BIA responsibilities in Window Rock due to his work in soil conservation, which was related to the issues of overgrazing and
stock reduction in the late 1930s.
Biographical Chronology
1930 – Fryer and his wife owned a guest ranch in the Sierra Ancha Mountains in Arizona. The stock market crash decreased the number of visitors, which put the couple in debt.
Winter 1931 and 1932 – Fryer got a job with the Forest Service at Parker Creek as an assistant to Dr. Charles Whitfield. He studied plants and soil erosion there.
Summer 1933 – Whitfield was promoted to Director of the Mexican Springs Experimental Station within the Department of the Interior. He offered Fryer a job as Foreman of Laborers. They gathered 50+ Navajo crew members to design and build erosion control structures.
October 1933 – Fryer was promoted to Project Manager to establish the Ganado Demonstration Area, a livestock reduction assignment. He worked primarily on his own with the Navajos with the help of two interpreters, David Hubbard, a leader from a distinguished family, and Hubbard’s son.
November - December 1933 – The Navajos were made to sell many of their ewes for slaughter to decrease the over-grazing of their lands.
March 1934 – The Navajos were made to sell more of their livestock by the Wheeler-Howard Act, proposed by John Collier. All livestock owners had to sell equal amounts, even if they only owned a few sheep or goats. Small owners were on the edge of survival, but the tribal council, the big owners, agreed with the plan. Each time, the government allowed Navajos to kill and store as many sold sheep as they could, which was a strange concept to them. They were used to killing sheep when they needed the food.
1935 – Fryer joined Eastburn Smith’s staff on the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque. He was put in charge of the supervision of Indian personnel working in association with lands and economic affairs in Pueblos from Taos to Zuni under Dr. Sophie Aberle, General Superintendent of the United Pueblos. Fryer faced many issues within the Pueblos: Generations of fractionation of land by succession and inheritance left many tiny valuable pieces of land too small to be useful; Too many range horses caused overgrazing, so many were sold at auctions.
March 30, 1936 – Fryer was appointed General Superintendent of the Navajo Reservation in Window Rock.
1936 – 1942 – Fryer’s Navajo Service brought about many changes on the Reservation. It unified six administrative jurisdictions into one Navajo nation. It constructed the Many Farms Irrigation Project and Hogback Extension, two projects which created subsistence opportunities for the landless youths without livestock permits. It established a flour mill at Wheatfields and a sawmill at Fort Defiance, and it organized the Navajo Tribal Arts and Crafts Guild. The following is an account of the many other changes that it brought about.
June 30, 1938 – The Fort Defiance base hospital was dedicated as the largest southwest medical unit. Dr. W. W. Peter encouraged cooperation with medicine men within the hospital, helping the Navajos to see the hospital as a place of healing. Dr. Peter encountered trachoma among the Navajos and did many tests before finding sulfa pills (oral) to be the cure.
1938 – John Collier wanted to create day schools within the community for Navajo kids. Scattered people made transportation and attendance difficult. Jake Morgan, a Navajo critic of the program, wanted children to get away from home to study the white man’s ways.
1938 – Fryer organized groups of Navajo District Supervisors to keep track of livestock and horse reduction.
June 36, 1938 – The McGinnies Report, a reduction plan released by John Collier, ruined the Navajos’ trust for Fryer. Howard Gorman, a Navajo who was opposed to Collier, was hired as an interpreter to help Fryer communicate some of the bad news to the Navajos about stock reduction. “Denehotso Hattie,” a Navajo woman, strongly expressed her very negative opinions about range management, making Fryer’s mission very difficult.
1939-1940 – The Livestock Disposition Project began in an effort to stop overgrazing of livestock. During the Depression of 1933 and 1934, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) canned beef. Fryer needed a cannery for the Navajos, and he found a FERA-owned one, free of charge, at Fort Worth. Fryer moved it to Many Farms. During its duration, it purchased 53,694 sheep units from Navajos, mostly culled sheep and goats. Mutton stew was shipped to Navajo schools and hospitals. The canneries employed 30 men and women, all Navajos, and no training was needed.
Fryer had to address some cultural considerations dealing with livestock: Navajos held prestige by allowing large numbers of horses to graze on their land, so they were naturally unhappy about the horse reduction plans. Fryer wouldn’t force the Navajos to dispose of healthy productive livestock, just the weak extras.
A Navajo revolt erupted at the Tec-Nos-Pas meeting. Witchcraft was used to threaten those cooperating with the horse reduction plans. Tall Man was one Navajo who used this technique. The Navajos had planned to attack Fryer after he finished speaking at the meeting, but his speech was different than they had expected. As a defense, men with guns had been hired by Fryer for protection. An assistant to Fryer, Ben Wetherill, wanted to transfer when he was threatened with witchcraft by Gani Choii. His two mounted policemen ran into trouble, Councilman Tom Claw lost two grandchildren, and Wetherill’s truck flipped, all seemingly due to the witchcraft. A couple of medicine men, Fryer, and Wetherill met with Gani Choii, and he admitted to witchcraft. He repented and supposedly repealed the spells, but Wetherill was still troubled. He later shot off his foot, was left by his wife, and died alone.
The Navajo Tribal Fair was established. These annual fairs helped inspire achievement in quality arts and crafts, health, education, life stock improvement, and land use among the Navajos.
Fort Lewis College archival student worker Nicholaus Sandner compiled the preceding chronological timeline from information provided in the book Erosion, Poverty, and Dependency: Memoir of my Time in Navajo Service, 1933 – 1942, by E. Reeseman Fryer (December, 1986), during the 2003-04 school year.
Arrangement
The materials within most of the record groups in this collection are organized from highest hierarchical level to lowest, or from most general to
most specific. Items within each series (e.g., reports, and correspondence) and within each box and folder are arranged chronologically, unless
noted otherwise. The boxes are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1; folder numbers start with 1 in the first box, and begin
again with folder 1 in box 2. Plus, two document cases of newspaper clippings are housed at the end of the collection.
Scope & Contents
This collection includes personal and professional papers; trial transcripts pertaining to cases relating to Native Americans; newspaper and periodical
articles regarding E. Reeseman Fryer and related topics; several caricature drawings of Mr. Fryer; his autobiographical writings (he never did complete
an autobiography); approximately 140 photoprints including about 40 framed prints, mostly b/w; printed materials, including a limited issue publication
with artwork by Kabotie; and awards and certificates. The collection as yet contains few papers of his wife, Ione Pierce Fryer (a distant relative of
U.S. President Pierce).
Most of the collection pertains to Mr. Fryer's career in public service, notably in the Southwest in the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Navajo, but
also including records and correspondence from U.S. government service in North Africa, Bolivia, and the Middle East. At the time of donation of
these materials,
the family expressed its desire that the collection be preserved intact as a documentation of his life, with the understanding that non-Southwest materials
of historical interest will be processed with the other materials but may not be given the level of cataloging access as the Southwest records.
Restrictions
Access. There are no access restrictions on the use of these materials for research purposes. This collection is open to the public for use in the Delaney
Southwest Research Library at the Center of Southwest Studies.
Use and Copyright. These materials are for use only in the Delaney Southwest Research Library; they are non-circulating. Limited duplication of print materials
is allowed for research purposes. The user assumes full responsibility for observing all applicable laws regarding copyright, property rights, and libel.
Preferred Citation
E. Reeseman Fryer papers, Fort Lewis College. Center of Southwest Studies.
Processing Info
The bulk of the physical arrangement of this collection was accomplished in the 1999-2000 school year by Anne Foster, National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funded Archival Fellow at the Center of Southwest Studies. The archivist supervised the process
and did additional arrangement and description work with assistance by Elizabeth Miller, student archival assistant, who produced the folder list for this inventory in October of 2002. Student archival assistant Nicholaus Sandner
produced the biographical chronology in the 2003-04 school year. The finding aid was prepared by the archivist in
January of 2003 and updated and reformatted by archival student worker Daryl Begaye in the Fall of 2011.
Acquisition Info
Members of the Fryer family donated the photographs (along with a large quantity of papers and printed materials and negatives) to the Center of
Southwest Studies in July of 1998. The first donation consisted of 24 linear shelf feet of unprocessed material (accession 1998:07007) and was followed by 4 more linear shelf feet (accession 1998:09001).
The family explained that Mrs. E. Reeseman Fryer had selected the most valuable materials each time the family had to move, which was
often and usually intercontinental. The extended family (daughters, grandchildren and relatives) sorted some of the material further before
shipping it from the couple's (Si and Nonie's) final family home on Jekyll Island in Georgia to the Fryer ~ Van Fossen ~ Ward residence in Pagosa
Springs, Colorado. The family gathered in Pagosa Springs in July of 1998 to decide the final disposition of the materials and to pull from it any
personal financial and medical records, and met with the archivist at the family home on July 21, 1998, when the collection was donated to the
Center of Southwest Studies. The family had considered other colleges and universities as a possible home for this material but chose Fort Lewis
because of its location central to the heart of the Southwest focus of this collection.
Separated Materials
None.
Related Materials
P 048 | E. Reeseman Fryer photographs, a collection of photographs taken by E. Reeseman Fryer. |
Pathfinder #5 | Navajo-related collections at CSWS (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region), a list of collections related to the Navajo of the Four Corners region. |
M 221 | Ward Shepard / John Collier papers, "Our Mingling Worlds", an unbound booklet from the M 221 collection. |
M 236 | United Pueblos Agency records, primarily administrative correspondence records of the United Pueblos Agency. |
MSS 804 BC | Inventory of the Donald Lee Parman Papers, a collection of documents of Donald Lee Parman available at the University of New Mexico. |
MSS 314 BC | American Indian Oral History Collection, a collection of audio recordings available at the University of New Mexico. |
MSS 674 BC | Robert W. Young Papers, a collection of documents of Robert W. Young available at the University of New Mexico. |
MSS 123 BC | Pioneers Foundation (New Mexico) Oral History Collection, a collection of microfilm available at the University of New Mexico. |
Access Terms
Navajo Indian Reservation.
Navajo Indians--Economic conditions.
Range management--Navajo Indian Reservation.
Soil erosion.
Series/Container List
Record Groups
RG 1: Bureau of Indian Affairs career papers RG 2: Other government and private career papers RG 3: Retirement and personal papers RG 4: Lee's Ferry Ranch papers |
Record Group 1: Bureau of Indian Affairs career papers, 1925-1968. Series 1.1-1.4, 170 folders containing personal and
biographical materials, speeches and writings, correspondences, and administrative and subject files. back to RG list
Series 1.1 Personal and biographical materials
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Diary | 1935 | 1/1 |
Diary | 1939 | 1/2 |
resume | 1940 | 1/3 |
Property records | 1940 | 1/4 |
Pilot flight record and log book | 1941 | 1/5 |
Washington, D.C. to Billings, Montana, diary | 1948 | 1/6 |
Washington to Portland, Seattle and Alaska, diary | 1948 | 1/7 |
Resume and biographical sketch | 1960 | 1/8 |
Series 1.2 Speeches and writings
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Assistant Commissioner for Resources in Bureau of Indian Affairs | 1935 | 1/9 |
Address book A - I | 1965 | 1/10 |
"The Battle for Grass", in the Saturday Evening Post | 1933 | 1/11 |
Address book K - Z | 1965 | 1/12 |
Land Rehabilitation Plan speech | 1935 | 1/13 |
Navajo industrial and agricultural possibilities speech | 1935 | 1/14 |
"Navajo Problem" Civic Leaders of Albuquerque speech | 1935 | 1/15 |
Navajo Service history and plans notes | 1935 | 1/16 |
Six B.P. memorial service speech | 1935 | 1/17 |
Suggested topics speech | 1935 | 1/18 |
Navajo Community Center paper | 1936 | 1/19 |
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry speech | 1936 | 1/20 |
Navajo tribal Council speech | 1936 | 1/21 |
Soil Conservation and Indian Services speech | 1936 | 1/22 |
Senate Hearing, Window Rock Ariz., speech | 1936 | 1/23 |
Senate Committee speech | 1937 | 1/24 |
New Mexico state Bankers Convention speech | 1938 | 1/25 |
Dedication of General Hospital speech | 1938 | 1/26 |
Tribal Council speech | 1938 | 1/27 |
Fort Wingate speech | 1938 | 1/28 |
Navajo Conservation Problem | 1938 | 1/29 |
Field Educational personnel meeting (Window Rock, Ariz.), speech | 1939 | 1/30 |
Fort Wingate commencement speech | 1939 | 1/31 |
Radio Remarks, KTGM speech | 1940 | 1/32 |
Personnel conference speech at Phoenix, Arizona | 1941 | 1/33 |
Tuba City commencement speech | 1941 | 1/34 |
Stock Reduction, radio talk show speech | 1941 | 1/35 |
War effort (Window Rock, Ariz.) speech | 1942 | 1/36 |
Navajo Social Organization and Land Use Adjustment speech | 1942 | 1/37 |
Western Regional Conference of the National fellowship of Indian Workers speech | 1942 | 1/38 |
Inter-tribal Conference (Stewart, Nev.) speech | 1950 | 2/1 |
Luncheon speech | 1949 | 2/2 |
Traveling Men's Club (Reno, Nev.) speech | 1950 | 2/3 |
Women's Civic Club (Reno, Nev.) speech | 1949 | 2/4 |
Minden Rotary Club speech | 1950 | 2/5 |
Stewart speech | 1950 | 2/6 |
Indian agricultural problems, Division of Indian Resources | 1950 | 2/7 |
Education aims speech | 1935 | 2/8 |
Maps of Eastern Navajo checkerboard | 1931 | 2/9 |
Minutes of the Navajo Tribal Council (Fort Defiance, Ariz.), photocopy | 1934 | 2/10 |
News articles | 1937 | 2/11 |
Association on American Indian Affairs | 1950 | 2/12 |
Alabaster as a building material, article | 1950 | 2/13 |
Indian Affairs and the Indian Reorganization Act | 1954 | 2/14 |
Indians in Non - Indian Communities, report | 1953 | 2/15 |
Nevada Educational Bulletin | 1948 | 2/16 |
Department of the Interior and BIA personnel speeches | 1947 | 2/17 |
New Directions in Indian Policy speech | 1961 | 2/18 |
The Battle for Grass, Society for Range Management speech | 1961 | 2/19 |
Economic Development and the BIA (Reno, Nev.), speech | 1962 | 2/20 |
Indian Advisory Conference of the United Presbyterian Church speech | 1962 | 2/21 |
Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest (Missoula, Mont.), speech | 1962 | 2/22 |
Conditions on Indian communities speech | 1962 | 2/23 |
Economic development | 1962 | 2/24 |
Foreign Leader's Conference (Wardmen Park Hotel), speech | 1962 | 2/25 |
California League of American Indians (San Francisco Calif.), speech | 1963 | 2/26 |
Economic development of Native Alaskans (Fairbanks, Alaska), speech | 1963 | 2/27 |
Economic development is for people (Albuquerque. N.M.), speech | 1963 | 2/28 |
Problems of American Indians (Greenwich, Conn.), speech | 1963 | 2/29 |
Economic development of Indian reservations of the Missouri River Basin, speech | 1963 | 2/30 |
Economic development in the reservation context, speech | 1963 | 2/31 |
Agricultural resource development, speech | 1963 | 2/32 |
Indian income and employment, speech | 1963 | 2/33 |
Introduction to omnibus, speech | 1963 | 2/34 |
Land sale and termination of restrictions on individual Indian land, speech | 1963 | 2/35 |
Land utilization, speech | 1963 | 2/36 |
Opportunities for development of the Indian people, speech | 1936 | 2/37 |
Problems of federal - Indian relations, speech | 1963 | 2/38 |
Problems of Nevada Indians, speech | 1936 | 2/39 |
Trailer park proposal | 1963 | 2/40 |
Who are we?, speech | 1963 | 2/41 |
Economic development (Santa Fe, N.M.) | 1964 | 2/42 |
Economic development (Warm Springs Reservation) | 1964 | 2/43 |
Division of Economic Development speech, with Senator Metcalf | 1965 | 2/44 |
American Indians: a statistical profile | 1966 | 2/45 |
Economic development: Why progress is slow, speech | 1966 | 2/46 |
Nation needs to be met by federal Indian programs, speech | 1966 | 2/47 |
Series 1.3 Correspondence
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Personal correspondence | 1925-1937 | 3/1 |
Correspondence | 1932-1949 | 3/2 |
Confidential files | 1935-1936 | 3/3 |
Confidential files | 1937 | 3/4 |
Confidential files | 1938 | 3/5 |
Confidential files | 1939 | 3/6 |
Confidential files | 1940 | 3/7 |
Confidential files | 1941 | 3/8 |
Confidential files | 1942 | 3/9 |
Correspondence | 1946-1953 | 3/10 |
Personal correspondence | 1947-1948 | 3/11 |
Mr. Fryer, confidential file | 1948 | 3/12 |
Personal correspondence | 1948 | 3/13 |
Personal letters | 1948-1949 | 3/14 |
Personal correspondence | 1949 | 3/15 |
Personal correspondence | 1949-1950 | 3/16 |
Typescript (1 page) copy of a letter to Mr. Fryer from Tom Lewis, ca. | 1930 | 3/17 |
Personal correspondence | 1950 | 4/1 |
Personal correspondence | 1960-1966 | 4/2 |
Personal correspondence | 1966-1967 | 4/3 |
A, correspondence | 1963-1966 | 4/4 |
B, correspondence | 1962-1966 | 4/5 |
C, correspondence | 1961-1966 | 4/6 |
D, correspondence | 1962-1965 | 4/7 |
E, correspondence | 1960-1966 | 4/8 |
F, correspondence | 1961-1962 | 4/9 |
G, correspondence | 1961-1964 | 4/10 |
H, correspondence | 1966 | 4/11 |
I, correspondence | 1961 | 4/12 |
J, correspondence | 1963 | 4/13 |
K, correspondence | 1966 | 4/14 |
L, correspondence | 1965 | 4/15 |
Mc, correspondence | 1966 | 4/16 |
M, correspondence | 1964 | 4/17 |
N, correspondence | 1963 | 4/18 |
O, correspondence | 1964 | 4/19 |
P, correspondence | 1965 | 4/20 |
S, correspondence | 1966 | 4/21 |
W, correspondence | 1965 | 4/22 |
Y, correspondence | 1964 | 4/23 |
Z, correspondence (also, greeting card from the Shah of Iran, circa 1969, with a color photo on the royal family on the front of it) | 1964 | 4/24 |
Series 1.4 Administrative and subject files
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Address by Assistant Secretary, printed materials | 1949 | 5/1 |
Budget, Forestry Program, report | 1966 | 5/2 |
Final Submission, Issue Papers | 1964 | 5/3 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs Publications, printed materials | 1963 | 5/4 |
Classifying Reservations | 1966 | 5/5 |
Conferences | 1964-1965 | 5/6 |
Curry's letters | 1951-1953 | 5/7 |
Curry's letters | 1951 | 5/8 |
Curry, miscellaneous correspondence | 1949-1950 | 5/9 |
Development of Northern Naschiti, project report | 1939 | 5/10 |
Economic development, report | 1963-1964 | 5/11 |
Navajo Tribal Council election ballots | 1954 | 5/12 |
Fenans Hosteen Nez's Reservoir meeting transcript | 1935 | 5/13 |
Financial report | 1950 | 5/14 |
The government and the Navajo, report | 1936-1941 | 5/15 |
Indian incorporation bill | 1963 | 5/16 |
Indian lands in Nevada correspondence | 1946-1948 | 5/17 |
Intertribe, Inc. | 1968 | 5/18 |
Navajo range planning procedure, photocopy | 1940 | 5/19 |
Navajo Planning Policy Conference, photocopy | 1940 | 5/20 |
Navajo Timber Management Plan, report | 1940 | 5/21 |
Navajo Tribe legal records | 1964-1966 | 5/22 |
Navajo Voting Rights | 1932 | 5/23 |
Notes re: Convention | 1950 | 5/24 |
On leaving Stewart, Nevada, correspondence | 1944-1950 | 5/25 |
On leaving Stewart, Nevada, printed materials | 1950-1953 | 5/26 |
On leaving Stewart, Nevada, printed materials | 1950-1963 | 6/1 |
Operation Search | 1966 | 6/2 |
Poverty, printed materials | 1963-1966 | 6/3 |
Fryer's appointment, printed materials | 1948 | 6/4 |
Carson Agency, press release | 1950 | 6/5 |
The Problem of Cooperation with the Navajo, report | 1936 | 6/6 |
Proceedings of the First Annual Navajo Service, report | 1937 | 6/7 |
Pyramid Lake Indian material correspondence | 1949-1951 | 6/8 |
Pyramid Lake reports | 1964 | 6/9 |
Rehabilitation of Navajo and Hopi Indians, transcript | 1948 | 6/10 |
Secretary of the Interior by the Taskforce, report | 1961 | 6/11 |
Philles Nash and other government officials, printed materials | 1956-1962 | 6/12 |
Human Dependency Survey of the Navajo Reservation | 1940 | 6/13 |
Stock trespass on the Navajo reservation | 1935 | 6/14 |
District Court summons | 1950 | 6/15 |
Reno - Sparks Indian Colony report | 1948 | 6/16 |
Program for the Termination of Indian Bureau Act, report | 1948 | 6/17 |
Ten-Year Programs report | 1964 | 6/18 |
Tucker Carson River Basin/Washoe District printed materials | 1964-1966 | 6/19 |
Southwest Superintendents' Council, U.S. Indian Service, certificate of appreciation and newspaper clipping | 1940 | 6/20 |
Record Group 2: Other government and private career papers, 1925-1968. Series 2.1-2.4 with 170 folders containing personal and
biographical materials, speeches and writings, correspondences, and administrative and subject files. back to RG list
Series 2.1 Administrative and subject files
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Journal | 1943 | 7/1 |
Diary | 1944 | 7/2 |
Bolivia property records | 1945-1948 | 7/3 |
Employment agreement | 1946 | 7/4 |
Identity papers, includes two passports, a rations book, World War II ration cards, two civilian patches that was worn on the upper arm as well as other related items. | 1943-1947 | 7/5 |
Diary | 1951 | 7/6 |
Diary of trip to Teheran, Iran | 1951 | 7/7 |
Conversation with Governor of Mazandarin at Babol, notes | 1951 | 7/8 |
Near-East diary | 1951 | 7/9 |
Invitations | 1951-1955 | 7/10 |
Journal of trip to Israel | 1952 | 7/11 |
Promotion press releases | 1952,1961 | 7/12 |
Diary | 1952 | 7/13 |
Diary of trip from Tabry to Moghen | 1952 | 7/14 |
Address book | 1955 | 7/15 |
Clubs and societies records | 1958 | 7/16 |
Diary | 1955 | 7/17 |
Diary | 1956 | 7/18 |
Diary | 1958 | 7/19 |
Tunis certificate for E. R. Fryer | 1943 | 7/20 |
World War II air mail, includes a propaganda leaflet, an air mail letter, an air priority certificate and several "v-mail" envelopes. | 1944 | 7/21 |
Series 2.2 Speeches and writings
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Four Years Ago in La Paz Bolivia, speech | 1946 | 8/1 |
Bolivia, Rotary Club speech | 1948 | 8/2 |
The Presidents Four Year Program, speech | 1951 | 8/3 |
Methodist Students Seminar speech | 1951 | 8/4 |
National Advisory Committee speech | 1951 | 8/5 |
Washington Chapter American Social Workers speech | 1951 | 8/6 |
UNESCO at Hunters College NYC speech | 1952 | 8/7 |
Unitarian Church Washington DC speech | 1952 | 8/8 |
Programs in the Near East and Africa speech | 1952 | 8/9 |
University of Colorado speech | 1952 | 8/10 |
Programs in the Middle East speech | 1952 | 8/11 |
Photography as a tool | 1952 | 8/12 |
AAS Conference (St. Louis, Mo.), speech | 1952 | 8/13 |
In the Near East, speech | 1952 | 8/14 |
Point Four and the Middle East | 1952 | 8/15 |
Status of American Leadership in the Near East | 1953 | 8/16 |
Notes on Land Tax for Iraq | 1953 | 8/17 |
"Zahedis, Father and Son," in The Reporter | 1953 | 8/18 |
A message of hope, speech | 1953 | 8/19 |
Opportunities in the Near East, speech | 1953 | 8/20 |
Problems and opportunities, speech | 1954 | 8/21 |
Middle East resources, speech | 1954 | 8/22 |
Toward a twentieth century social economy, speech | 1954 | 8/23 |
Introduction to film, speech | 1954 | 8/24 |
National Science Teachers Association speech | 1954 | 8/25 |
Point Four was conceived in magnificence, speech | 1954 | 8/26 |
The Act for International Development, speech | 1955 | 8/27 |
Earlhem's Institute of Foreign Affairs, speech | 1955 | 8/28 |
Foreign policy announcement, speech | 1955 | 8/29 |
Saudi Arabia, notes | 1955 | 8/30 |
Speech tonight, Delia Kuhn correspondence | 1955 | 8/31 |
Wizard of the Desert, notes | 1955 | 8/32 |
Political and economic evaluation, speech | 1956 | 8/33 |
U.S. political interest in the Middle East, speech | 1956 | 8/34 |
Contemporary attitudes of the Middle East, speech | 1957 | 8/35 |
Economic Club of Detroit correspondence | 1957 | 8/36 |
American University of Beirut speech | 1957 | 8/37 |
Social change at mid-century, speech | 1959 | 8/38 |
Ambassador Zahedi, speech | 1960 | 8/39 |
International Cooperative Development | 1961 | 8/40 |
Series 2.3 Correspondence
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Fryer correspondence | 1942-1945 | 9/1 |
Fryer correspondence | 1943 | 9/2 |
Bolivian letters from Si Fryer, correspondence | 1945 | 9/3 |
Fryer correspondence | 1945-1946 | 9/4 |
Fryer correspondence | 1945-1950 | 9/5 |
Fryer correspondence | 1947 | 9/6 |
Fryer correspondence | 1948 | 9/7 |
Fryer correspondence | 1950-1957 | 9/8 |
Fryer correspondence | 1951 | 9/9 |
Ed Fryer correspondence | 1952-1954 | 9/10 |
Fryer correspondence | 1953-1954 | 9/11 |
A-B-C-D-E, correspondence | 1957 | 9/12 |
F-G-H-I-J, correspondence | 1957 | 9/13 |
K-L-M-N-O, correspondence | 1957 | 9/14 |
P-Q-R-S-T, correspondence | 1957 | 9/15 |
U-V-W-X-Y-Z, correspondence | 1957 | 9/16 |
A-B-C-D personal correspondence | 1959 | 9/17 |
E-F-G-H personal correspondence | 9/18 | |
I-J-K-L personal correspondence | 1959 | 9/19 |
M-N-O-P personal correspondence | 1959 | 9/20 |
Q-R-S-T-U personal correspondence | 1959 | 9/21 |
Personal correspondence | 1959 | 10/1 |
Mr. Fryer personal correspondence | 1959-1960 | 10/2 |
Fryer personal correspondence | 1960 | 10/3 |
Personal correspondence | 1960-1961 | 10/4 |
Series 2.4 Administrative and subject files
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Al - Hal, Helem, personal correspondence | 10/5 | |
Album De Planos blueprints | 1945 | 10/6 |
Annual report to State of Delaware, report | 1963-1966 | 10/7 |
Aramco printed materials | 1955 | 10/8 |
Baliacan Affair correspondence | 1948 | 10/9 |
BEI Agreements correspondence | 1959-1960 | 10/10 |
Bolivian Forest resources report | 1945 | 10/11 |
Brown and Blauvett correspondence | 1955 | 10/12 |
Brown and Blauvett correspondence | 1956 | 10/13 |
Brown and Blauvett correspondence | 1957 | 10/14 |
Brown Engineers, correspondence | 1959-1960 | 10/15 |
Robert L. Brown, correspondence | 1948-1954 | 10/16 |
Budget details report | 1947 | 11/1 |
Ethiopia budget presentation | 1953 | 11/2 |
Iran budget presentation | 1953 | 11/3 |
Iran budget presentation | 1953 | 11/4 |
Israel budget presentation | 1953 | 11/5 |
Jordan budget presentation | 1953 | 11/6 |
Lebanon budget presentation | 1953 | 11/7 |
Liberia budget presentation | 1953 | 11/8 |
Budget presentation | 1953 | 11/9 |
Saudi Arabia budget presentation | 1953 | 11/10 |
Summary budget presentation | 1953 | 11/11 |
Burns and Roe correspondence | 1954-1955 | 11/12 |
Burns and Roe correspondence | 1956-1957 | 11/13 |
Burler Matter correspondence | 1958-1962 | 11/14 |
Certificate of stock | 1958 | 11/15 |
Charts | 1942 | 11/16 |
Clippings | 1949 | 11/17 |
Clippings | 1951 | 11/18 |
Conferences and seminars, records | 1952 | 11/19 |
Confidential correspondence | 1955-1956 | 11/20 |
Consultation agreement correspondence | 1955 | 11/21 |
Daily expense account, sample | 1960 | 11/22 |
Dan, H. P., correspondence | 1960 | 11/23 |
Developments International Corporation correspondence | 1957 | 11/24 |
Development of the Tigris, Euphrates Valley, printed materials | 1955 | 11/25 |
DIC Code records | 1955-1959 | 11/26 |
DIC International Administration correspondence | 1958-1959 | 11/27 |
DIC miscellaneous correspondence | 1959 | 11/28 |
DIC miscellaneous correspondence | 1958 | 11/29 |
DIC miscellaneous correspondence | 1959 | 11/30 |
Egypt U.A.R., report | 1956-1959 | 12/1 |
Feasibility Study of Caspian Forrest, report | 1959 | 12/2 |
Finance correspondence | 1959 | 12/3 |
FLB and Me correspondence | 1959-1963 | 12/4 |
Hedjaz | 1959 | 12/5 |
ILAC lumber project photograph | 1958 | 12/6 |
ILAC lumber project correspondence | 1959 | 12/7 |
ILAC lumber project correspondence | 1960-1962 | 12/8 |
ILAC lumber project correspondence | 1963-1964 | 12/9 |
Iran Lumber Project Lawsuit correspondence | 1964-1965 | 12/10 |
Iran Lumber Project Lawsuit correspondence | 1965-1966 | 12/11 |
Iran lumber lawsuit court papers | 1964-1966 | 13/1 |
Iran lumber lawsuit | 1964 | 13/2 |
Iran lumber lawsuit | 1964 | 13/3 |
Iran lumber lawsuit photos | 1964 | 13/4 |
Iran lumber lawsuit photocopies | 1964 | 13/5 |
Iran lumber lawsuit photocopies | 1964 | 13/6 |
Iran lumber lawsuit photocopies | 1964 | 13/7 |
Faurhurst deposition | 1964 | 13/8 |
Faurhurst deposition | 1964 | 13/9 |
Edward Fitzsimmons deposition notes | 1964 | 13/10 |
E. Reeseman Fryer deposition | 1964 | 13/11 |
E. Reeseman Fryer deposition | 1964 | 13/12 |
Jack C. Whiteman deposition | 1964 | 14/1 |
Jack C. Whiteman deposition | 1964 | 14/2 |
Jack C. Whiteman deposition | 1964 | 14/3 |
Bolivian Department of Agriculture information | 1945 | 14/4 |
INTRAFI correspondence | 1958-1959 | 14/5 |
INTRAFI correspondence | 1959 | 14/6 |
W. E. Knox correspondence | 1955-1956 | 14/7 |
Maps (includes a 2/1943 National Geographic map of colonial Africa). | 1943,1945 | 14/8 |
Memoranda | 1945 | 14/9 |
Memoranda | 1943-1944 | 14/10 |
Memoranda | 1951-1954 | 14/11 |
Middle East speeches by others | 1952 | 14/12 |
Minutes of Incorporators | 1957-1958 | 14/13 |
Monografia de la Quinaen Bolivia, pamphlet | 1943 | 14/14 |
Near-Eastern Kiliums, printed materials | 1965 | 15/1 |
Notes on program review for Egypt, report | 1953 | 15/2 |
Robert W. Hudgens correspondence | 1959 | 15/3 |
Robert W. Hudgens correspondence | 1960 | 15/4 |
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, printed materials | 1954 | 15/5 |
NEADS Regional Conference (Rome, Italy) | 1952 | 15/6 |
A progress report | 1950 | 15/7 |
Speeches by others | 1951-1952 | 15/8 |
Potential projects in Egypt, correspondence | 1954 | 15/9 |
Potential projects in Iran, correspondence | 1955 | 15/10 |
Potential projects in Iraq, reports | 1953 | 15/11 |
Potential projects, miscellaneous notes | 1953-1955 | 15/12 |
Potential projects with refugees, correspondence | 1954 | 15/13 |
Potential projects in Saudi Arabia, correspondence | 1954 | 15/14 |
Press conference transcript | 1953 | 15/15 |
Presupuesto General | 1946 | 15/16 |
Refugees speech | 1944 | 15/17 |
Reports | 1943-1944 | 15/18 |
Reports received | 1945-1946 | 15/19 |
Reports written | 1945 | 15/20 |
SAGASCO Saudi Arabia correspondence953-1957 | 1953-1957 | 16/1 |
Society for International Development correspondence | 1960 | 16/2 |
Saudi gas project report | 1955 | 16/3 |
Saudi gas project report | 1956 | 16/4 |
Saudi gas project correspondence | 1962 | 16/5 |
Charles H. Shuff correspondence | 1955-1957 | 16/6 |
Smith, Barney correspondence | 1955 | 16/7 |
Smith, Barney correspondence | 1956-1957 | 16/8 |
A study with certain agricultural development, report | 1947 | 16/9 |
Timken memos | 1956 | 16/10 |
Wartime Exile, report | 1945 | 16/11 |
Jack Whiteman correspondence | 1958-1963 | 16/12 |
Ardeshir Zahedi correspondence | 1960-1977 | 16/13 |
Record Group 3: Retirement and personal papers, 1925-1968. 170 folders containing personal and
biographical materials, speeches and writings, correspondences, and administrative and subject files. back to RG list
Series 3.1 Personal and biographical materials
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
About discussion leaders | 1980 | 17/1 |
Biographical sketch | 1970 | 17/2 |
Biographical materials | 1977-1987 | 17/3 |
Biographical sketch | 1986 | 17/4 |
United States Department of the Interior program award | 1966 | 17/5 |
Family An. correspondence | 1969-1987 | 17/6 |
Family Sue correspondence | 1980-1990 | 17/7 |
Insurance policies for Ione Pierce Fryer | 1932-1986 | 17/8 |
Ione Fryer records | 1958-1960 | 17/9 |
Ione Fryer correspondence | 1956-1970 | 17/10 |
Ione Fyer, records | 1956 | 17/11 |
Jekyll Island (Ga.) property inventory and photograph | 1977-1989 | 17/12 |
Old Masters correspondence | 1984-1985 | 17/13 |
Oral history by Dr. Parman | 1970 | 17/14 |
Interview with E. Reeseman Fryer, transcript | 1978 | 17/15 |
Elmer R. Rusco interview transcript | 1983 | 17/16 |
Jekyll Island (Ga.) deeds | 1969-1988 | 17/17 |
Resumes | 1967 | 17/18 |
Retread newsletter clippings | 1985-1989 | 17/19 |
Si and Ione family correspondence | 1982-1990 | 17/20 |
Si's art career correspondence | 1975-1987 | 17/21 |
Biographical history summary notes | 1985 | 17/22 |
Florence Ione Pierce and Era Reeseman Fryer, vital records | 1930-1987 | 17/23 |
Si Fryer memorial service speech transcript | 1991 | 17/24 |
University of Washington yearbook | 1926 | 18/1 |
Series 3.2 Speeches and writings
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Israel and the Palestine Arabs (Brunswick) speech | 1970 | 19/1 |
Discussions of Critical Problems of Middle East, speech | 1970 | 19/2 |
The Middle East, speech | 1970 | 19/3 |
For a talk to the BWC, speech | 1971 | 19/4 |
Prevent irreparable damage to the tidal marshes, article | 1971 | 19/5 |
Jekyll Island Garden Club speech | 1972 | 19/6 |
Methodist Church (Brunswick) | 1972 | 19/7 |
Retired Officers dinner speech | 1972 | 19/8 |
Reserve Officers Association speech | 1972 | 19/9 |
Indians Rotary Club of St. Simons Island speech | 1972 | 19/10 |
St. Johns College (Santa Fe, N.M.) speech | 1972 | 19/11 |
How we lost the Middle East to the Russians, paper | 1972 | 19/12 |
Attuman tragedy speech | 1973 | 19/13 |
Jekyll Island Club speech | 1974 | 19/14 |
Meeting of JIAAI speech | 1974 | 19/15 |
Indian biology and history students speech | 1974 | 19/16 |
Annual meeting speech | 1974 | 19/17 |
Witchcraft, article | 1974 | 19/18 |
Navajo witchcraft speech | 1974 | 19/19 |
Indians meeting with DAR, speech | 1975 | 19/20 |
Kiwanis Club speech notes | 1975 | 19/21 |
Indians of the Southwest, speech | 1975 | 19/22 |
Land-use: planning of environments, speech | 1975 | 19/23 |
Marshes speech | 1975 | 19/24 |
Earth Day speech | 1975 | 19/25 |
The Arabs and Zionism, speech | 1976 | 19/26 |
Heroism of the Spartinas, article | 1977 | 19/27 |
Our fragile soils, article | 1977 | 19/28 |
Quality of life, speech | 1978 | 19/29 |
Middle East conflicts, speech | 1978 | 19/30 |
Introduction to motion pictures, speech | 1980 | 19/31 |
Discussion on the Middle East, speech notes | 1980 | 19/32 |
Jekyll Island Arts Association speech | 1980 | 19/33 |
Outline for an autobiography | 1901-1956 | 19/34 |
Autobiography | 1980 | 19/35 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/36 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/37 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/38 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/39 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/40 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/41 |
Autobiography | 1981 | 19/42 |
Zionism speech | 1981 | 20/1 |
Institute of the American West, Sun Valley Record | 1983 | 20/2 |
Navajo Crises of the New Deal, response | 1983 | 20/3 |
Navajo Crises of the New Deal | 1983 | 20/4 |
Robber Barons in the Congress | 1983 | 20/5 |
Navajo New Deal and John Collier speech | 1983 | 20/6 |
Outline of discussions, notes | 1983 | 20/7 |
Art of the Indians of the American Southwest, speech | 1984 | 20/8 |
Southwest Indian art, lecture notes | 1985 | 20/9 |
Southwest Indian art, lecture notes | 1982 | 20/10 |
Navajo impressions, notes | 1982-1985 | 20/11 |
Bike Trails Through Time, poem | 1985 | 20/12 |
A cogent recollection, notes | 1985 | 20/13 |
Collier and livestock reduction, speech | 1985 | 20/14 |
Discarded autobiographic manuscript | 1985 | 20/15 |
Discarded autobiographic manuscript | 1985 | 20/16 |
Discarded autobiographic manuscript | 1985 | 20/17 |
The North African experience, notes | 1985 | 20/18 |
Paper of John Collier, Jr., response | 1983 | 20/19 |
Edward J. MacNamara, article | 1985 | 20/20 |
Notes | 193585 | 20/21 |
Outlines and origins of the Soil Conservation Service, notes | 1985 | 20/22 |
The wartime rescue of the diamond cutters, notes | 1985 | 20/23 |
The wartime rescue of the diamond cutters, notes | 1986 | 20/24 |
Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes | 1986 | 21/1 |
Erosion, poverty and dependency, notes | 1933-1942 | 21/2 |
Erosion, poverty and dependency, notes | 1986 | 21/3 |
Erosion, poverty and dependency, notes | 1933-1942 | 21/4 |
Autobiography of the Villain in Navajo Service | 1933-1942 | 21/5 |
Autobiography of the Villain in Navajo Service | 1933-1942 | 21/6 |
Autobiography of the Villain in Navajo Service | 1933-1942 | 21/7 |
Autobiography of the Villain in Navajo Service | 1933-1942 | 21/8 |
Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes | 1986 | 21/9 |
Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes | 1986 | 21/10 |
Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes | 1986 | 21/11 |
Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes | 1933-1942 | 21/12 |
Casual journal of a trek westward, article | 1987 | 21/13 |
Zionism and the Arab refugees of Palestine, speech | 1987 | 21/14 |
Israeli dilemma, speech | 1988 | 21/15 |
Tragedy of the refugees of Palestine, speech | 1988 | 21/16 |
Exploration for peace in Middle East, speech | 1988 | 21/17 |
Why can't Israelis be more like Jews, speech | 1988 | 21/18 |
Presbyterian men of St. Simmons, speech notes | 1988 | 21/19 |
History of Jekyll Arts Association, speech | 1989 | 21/20 |
Middle East, notes | 1988 | 21/21 |
Phelps family genealogical printed materials | 1971-1987 | 21/22 |
Series 3.3 Correspondence
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Fryer correspondence | 1977-1987 | 22/1 |
Fryer correspondence | 1988-1991 | 22/2 |
Herbert L. Forgash correspondence | 1967-1978 | 22/3 |
Jenny Carter correspondence | 1971-1973 | 22/4 |
Dan Parman correspondence | 1970-1990 | 22/5 |
Professional conferences correspondence | 1982-1984 | 22/6 |
Series 3.4 Subject files
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
American Society for Ethno-history program | 1983 | 22/7 |
Art Association records | 1973-1989 | 22/8 |
Hopi correspondence and printed materials | 22/9 | |
Department of Justice correspondence | 1984-1987 | 22/10 |
Phelps family genealogical printed materials | 1971-1987 | 22/11 |
Fryer family correspondence | 1953-1957 | 22/12 |
Fryer brothers, sisters, and antecedents, printed materials | 1962-1990 | 22/13 |
Fryer family printed materials | 1988-1990 | 22/14 |
Brundage family genealogical correspondence | 1980 | 23/1 |
Fryer family genealogical correspondence | 1978-1985 | 23/2 |
Fryer family genealogical correspondence | 1973-1982 | 23/3 |
Phelps family genealogical correspondence | 1953-1979 | 23/4 |
Interstate 95 correspondence | 1971-1973 | 23/5 |
Image of the American Indian after 200 years, speech | 1975 | 23/6 |
Indian information, correspondence | 1972-1984 | 23/7 |
Indian information, printed materials | 1961-1963 | 24/1 |
Indian information, printed materials | 1964-1979 | 24/2 |
Indian information, printed materials | 1962-1985 | 24/3 |
Jekyll Island (Ga.) printed materials | 1985-1987 | 24/4 |
Jos. Taylor and Associates, correspondence | 24/5 | |
Marghland's Conservation, printed materials | 1971-1973 | 24/6 |
Marsh publicity | 1971-1977 | 24/7 |
Middle East correspondence | 1964-1987 | 24/8 |
Museum Associates of Jekyll Island (Ga.) printed materials | 1988-1989 | 24/9 |
Navajo printed materials | 1967-1986 | 25/1 |
Navajo grazing correspondence | 1984-1986 | 25/2 |
Chapter from book by Robert A Hecht | 1987 | 25/3 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States | 1984 | 25/4 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States | 1985 | 25/5 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States #110 | 1985 | 25/6 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States transcripts | 1981 | 25/7 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States transcripts | 1981 | 25/8 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States deposition transcript | 1983 | 25/9 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States trial transcript | 1984 | 25/10 |
Navajo Tribe vs. United States trial transcript | 1986 | 25/11 |
The Pyramid Lake Paiutes | 1977 | 26/1 |
The Pyramid Lake Paiutes | 1977 | 26/2 |
The Pyramid Lake Paiutes | 1977 | 26/3 |
Palestine refugee papers, printed materials | 1970-1985 | 26/4 |
The Piper, Coastal Georgia Audio Society, printed materials | 1971-1972 | 26/5 |
Professional conferences correspondence | 1982-1985 | 26/6 |
The Roots of dependency, photocopy | 1983 | 26/7 |
Apache, Navajo, and Greek traditional stories, printed materials | 1950 | 26/8 |
Hopi traditional stories, printed materials | 1950 | 26/9 |
Zuni traditional stories, printed materials | 1946-1950 | 26/10 |
Series 3.5 Movie films
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Navajo Tribal Fair film footage | 1938 | 26/11 |
Sue Fryer's birthday party [age 3] | 1938 | 26/11 |
Record Group 4: Lee's Ferry Ranch papers, correspondences, guest books and other printed materials. 1935-1983. 13 folders pertaining to Lee's Ferry Ranch back to RG list
Series 4.1 Lee's Ferry Ranch papers
Description | Date | Box/Folder |
Lee's Ferry Ranch file | 1949-1951 | 27/1 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence | 1964-1965 | 27/2 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence | 1966 | 27/3 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence | 1967 | 27/4 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence | 1968-1969 | 27/5 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence | 1970-1971 | 27/6 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence | 1972-1975 | 27/7 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch, records | 1964-1967 | 27/8 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch, records | 1966-1974 | 27/9 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch guest book | 1935 | 27/10 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch guest book | 1967-1970 | 27/11 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch printed materials | 1966 | 27/12 |
Lee's Ferry Ranch printed materials | 1967-1983 | 27/13 |