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M179 E. Reeseman Fryer papers

Collection Summary    back to top

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    back to top
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.

Above: photo of Mr. Fryer riding his favorite horse, Witch, to meet with Navajo tribal members at Window Rock, Arizona (where he was then based) in early 1942 to tell them that World War II had begun and to let them know that they would be liable for the draft. Above: typescript copy of a letter from that era to Mr. Fryer from Tom Lewis, as told to his daughter Isabella Lewis of Sanders, Arizona, expressing his concern about the hardships of the stock reduction and a plea for an increase in the allowable number of grazing sheep.

Biographical Chronology    back to top
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    back to top
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    back to top
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    back to top
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    back to top
E. Reeseman Fryer papers, Fort Lewis College. Center of Southwest Studies.

Processing Info    back to top
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    back to top
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    back to top
None.

Related Materials    back to top

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    back to top
Navajo Indian Reservation.
Navajo Indians--Economic conditions.
Range management--Navajo Indian Reservation.
Soil erosion.

Series/Container List    back to top

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