E. Reeseman Fryer papers inventory |
Years this material was created:
1925-1991 (bulk 1945-1966)
Quantity: 12.5 linear shelf feet (in 27 document cases)
(This inventory prints out as approximately 25 pages.)
C2003 by Fort
Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account
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Introduction/ Scope and contents
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M 179: E. Reeseman Fryer papers Collection years: 1925-1991 (bulk 1945-1966) 12.5 linear shelf feet (in 27 document cases) (approximately 10,820 items, in nearly 600 folders) |
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| 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. Click here to view more Fryer photos. |
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 its donation of these materials (24 linear shelf feet of unprocessed material forming accession 1998:07007, followed by a 4 linear shelf feet accretion that is 1998:09001), the family expressed its desire that the collection be preserved intact as a documentation of the 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.
Administrative information
Acquisition information: Members of the Fryer family donated these photographs (along with a large quantity of papers and printed materials and negatives) to the Center of Southwest Studies beginning in July of 1998. At the time of its donation of these materials (24 linear shelf feet of unprocessed material forming accession 1998:07007, followed by a 4 linear shelf feet accretion that is 1998:09001), the family expressed its desire that the collection be preserved intact as a documentation of the 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.
Provenance: The family explained that Mrs. E. Reeseman Fryer (the widow) 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.
About the organization of this collection: 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.
Processing information: 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. Todd Ellison supervised the process and did additional arrangement and description work, assisted at one point by Elizabeth "Liz" Miller, student archival assistant at the Center of Southwest Studies, 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. This online inventory was prepared by J. Todd Ellison, C.A., beginning in January of 2003 (last updated, July 16, 2007).
Restrictions: Access to this collection is governed by the Center's General Restriction Policy Statement. Access to confidential items is restricted.
Related materials at the Center of Southwest Studies: For photographs by and about Mr. Fryer, see collection P 048: E. Reeseman Fryer photographs. Writings of John Collier in a compilation of articles originally published serially in the historic Taos weekly newspaper El Crepusculo (Taos, N.M.), from August 27, 1959 through circa early 1960. For descriptions of many additional historical materials pertaining to Navajo topics, see the Center's Pathfinder #5: Resources at the Center of Southwest Studies for research on Navajo Indians. Correspondence of the United Pueblos Agency circa 1952-1960 were separated out from the Fryer papers into their own collection.
Related materials elsewhere: Several Fryer items are described in the Online Archive of New Mexico. To locate the descriptions of these and other New Mexico historical records on the Web, go to the Online Archive of New Mexico search page at http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/search.html and do a search for the word Fryer. The Fryer items include an oral history interview with E. R. Fryer by Donald Parman in the American Indian oral history collection (1967-1972) at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico General Library in Albuquerque. This is audiotape #890 (once you've selected that finding aid, click on the term "Contents List" from the box on the left, and when that opens, do a Ctrl + F search for Fryer). Interview topics include his family history, personal history, and his years as General Superintendent of the Navajo Reservation from 1936 to 1942. Several printed materials by Fryer are in the in the Robert W. Young Papers which is also at that Center (again, once you've selected that finding aid, select the term "Contents List" from the box on the left, and when that opens, do a Ctrl + F search for Fryer). These printed materials include a 1939 article on "Dineh and Government in Kaibeto District" co-authored by Fryer (Box 4, Folders 22 and 23), a folder of correspondence from Howard Gorman of the Navajo Service to Superintendent E. R. Fryer, 1939-1940 (Box 5, Folder 9) and a folder of Ramah Navajo correspondence, reports, articles and personal notes by John Collier, E. R. Fryer, S. D. Aberle, and Clyde Kluckhohn regarding administrative jurisdiction, 1941-1956 (Box 5, Folder 15).
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 so related to the issues of overgrazing and stock reduction in the late
1930s. To the right is a 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
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 constructed 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.
Series descriptions
Note: Record groups (RGs), shown in boldface, are numbered consecutively. The lower levels of organization, following the RG number, are and series.
Listing of Record Groups and Series--
Record Group 1: Bureau of Indian Affairs career papers
Series 1.1: Personal and biographical materials, 1935-1960, 8 folders. In box 1.
Series 1.2: Speeches and writings, 1931-1965, 77 folders. In boxes 1 and 2.
Series 1.3: Correspondence, 1925-1967, 40 folders. In boxes 3 and 4.
Series 1.4: Administrative and subject files, 1935-1968, 45 folders. In boxes 5 and 6.
Record Group 2: Other government and private career papers
Series 2.1: Personal and biographical materials, 1943-1958, 19 folders. In box 7.
Series 2.2: Speeches and writings, 1946-1961, 40 folders. In box 8.
Series 2.3: Correspondence, 1942-1966, 25 folders. In boxes 9 and 10.
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files, 1942-1966, 112 folders. In boxes 10 through 16.
Record Group 3: Retirement and personal papers
Series 3.1: Personal and biographical materials, 1932-1990, 25 folders. In boxes 17-18.
Series 3.2: Speeches and writings, 1933-1989, 88 folders. In boxes 19-21.
Series 3.3: Correspondence, 1977-1991, 6 folders. In box 22.
Series 3.4: Subject files, 1961-1989, 44 folders. In boxes 22-26.
Series 3.5: Movie films, 1938, 2 reels. In the last folder of box 26.
Record Group 4: Lee's Ferry Ranch papers
Series 4.1: Lee's Ferry Ranch papers, 1935-1983 (bulk 1966-1975), 13 folders. In box 27. Includes correspondence, guest books, and printed materials.
Collection P 048: E.
Reeseman Fryer photographs
Container list
Record Group 1: Bureau of Indian Affairs career papers
Series 1.1: Personal and biographical materials
Box Fol. Description
1 1 Diary, 1935
1 2 Diary, 1939
1 3 Resume, 1940
1 4 Property records, 1940
1 5 Pilot flight record and log book, 1941
1 6 Washington, D.C. to Billings, Montana, diary, 1948
1 7 Washington to Portland, Seattle and Alaska, diary, 1948
1
8
Resume and biographical sketch, 1960
Series 1.2: Speeches and writings
1 9 Assistant Commissioner for Resources in Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1961
1 10 Address book A - I, 1965?
1 11 "The Battle for Grass", in the Saturday Evening Post, 1933
1 12 Address book K - Z, 1965?
1 13 Land Rehabilitation Plan speech, 1935
1 14 Navajo industrial and agricultural possibilities speech, 1935
1 15 "Navajo Problem" Civic Leaders of Albuquerque speech, 1935
1 16 Navajo Service history and plans notes, 1935
1 17 Six B.P. memorial service speech, 1935
1 18 Suggested topics speech, 1935
1 19 Navajo Community Center paper, 1936
1 20 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry speech, 1936
1 21 Navajo tribal Council speech, 1936
1 22 Soil Conservation and Indian Services speech, 1936
1 23 Senate Hearing, Window Rock Ariz., speech, 1936
1 23 Senate Hearing, Window Rock Ariz., speech, 1936
1 24 Senate Committee speech, 1937
1 25 New Mexico state Bankers Convention speech, 1938
1 26 Dedication of General Hospital speech, 1938
1 27 Tribal Council speech, 1938
1 28 Fort Wingate speech, 1938
1 29 Navajo Conservation Problem, 1938
1 30 Field Educational personnel meeting (Window Rock, Ariz.), speech, 1939
1 31 Fort Wingate commencement speech, 1939
1 32 Radio Remarks, KTGM speech, 1940
1 33 Personnel conference speech at Phoenix, Arizona, 1941
1 34 Tuba City commencement speech, 1941
1 35 Stock Reduction, radio talk show speech, 1941
1 36 War effort (Window Rock, Ariz.) speech, 1942
1 37 Navajo Social Organization and Land Use Adjustment speech, 1942
1
38
Western Regional Conference of the National fellowship of Indian
Workers speech, 1942
Series 1.2: Speeches and writings (continued)
Box Fol. Description
2 1 Inter-tribal Conference (Stewart, Nev.) speech, 1950
2 2 Luncheon speech, 1949
2 3 Traveling Men's Club (Reno, Nev.) speech, 1950
2 4 Women's Civic Club (Reno, Nev.) speech, 1949
2 5 Minden Rotary Club speech, 1950
2 6 Stewart speech, 1950
2 7 Indian agricultural problems, Division of Indian Resources, 1950?
2 8 Education aims speech, 1935
2 9 Maps of Eastern Navajo checkerboard, 1931
2 10 Minutes of the Navajo Tribal Council (Fort Defiance, Ariz.), photocopy, 1934
2 11 News articles, 1937
2 12 Association on American Indian Affairs, 1950
2 13 Alabaster as a building material, article, 1950
2 14 Indian Affairs and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1954
2 15 Indians in Non - Indian Communities, report, 1953
2 16 Nevada Educational Bulletin, 1948
2 17 Department of the Interior and BIA personnel speeches, 1947
2 18 New Directions in Indian Policy speech, 1961
2 19 The Battle for Grass, Society for Range Management speech, 1961
2 20 Economic Development and the BIA (Reno, Nev.), speech, 1962
2 21 Indian Advisory Conference of the United Presbyterian Church speech, 1962
2 22 Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest (Missoula, Mont.), speech, 1962
2 23 Conditions on Indian communities speech, 1962
2 24 Economic development, 1962
2 25 Foreign Leader's Conference (Wardmen Park Hotel), speech, 1962
2 26 California League of American Indians (San Francisco Calif.), speech, 1963
2 27 Economic development of Native Alaskans (Fairbanks, Alaska), speech, 1963
2 28 Economic development is for people (Albuquerque. N.M.), speech, 1963
2 29 Problems of American Indians (Greenwich, Conn.), speech, 1963
2 30 Economic development of Indian reservations of the Missouri River Basin, speech, 1963
2 31 Economic development in the reservation context, speech, 1963
2 32 Agricultural resource development, speech, 1963
2 33 Indian income and employment, speech, 1963
2 34 Introduction to omnibus, speech, 1963
2 35 Land sale and termination of restrictions on individual Indian land, speech, 1963
2 36 Land utilization, speech, 1963
2 37 Opportunities for development of the Indian people, speech, 1936
2 38 Problems of federal - Indian relations, speech, 1963
2 39 Problems of Nevada Indians, speech, 1936
2 40 Trailer park proposal, 1963
2 41 Who are we?, speech, 1963
2 42 Economic development (Santa Fe, N.M.), 1964
2 43 Economic development (Warm Springs Reservation), 1964
2 44 Division of Economic Development speech, with Senator Metcalf, 1965
2 45 American Indians: a statistical profile, 1966
2 46 Economic development: Why progress is slow, speech, 1966
2 47 Nation needs to be met by federal Indian programs, speech, 1966
Series 1.3: Correspondence
Box Fol. Description
3 1 Personal correspondence, 1925-1937
3 2 Correspondence, 1932-1949
3 3 Confidential file, 1935-1936
3 4 Confidential file, 1937
3 5 Confidential file, 1938
3 6 Confidential file, 1939
3 7 Confidential file, 1940
3 8 Confidential file, 1941
3 9 Confidential files, 1942
3 10 Correspondence, 1946-1953
3 11 Personal correspondence, 1947-1948
3 12 Mr. Fryer, confidential file, 1948
3 13 Personal correspondence, 1948
3 14 Personal letters, 1948-1949
3 15 Personal correspondence, 1949
3 16 Personal correspondence, 1949-1950
3 17 Typescript (1 page) copy of a letter to Mr. Fryer from Tom Lewis, ca. late 1930s, as told to his daughter Isabella Lewis of Sanders, expressing his concern about the hardships of the stock reduction and a plea for an increase in the allowable number of grazing sheep. (Also in this folder: cover page and forward of "Sheep is life:" an assessment of the livestock reduction in the former Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area, by John J. Wood, et al., Northern Arizona University, 1979.)
Series 1.3: Correspondence (continued)
Box Fol. Description
4 1 Personal correspondence, 1950
4
2
Personal correspondence, 1960-1966
4 3 Personal correspondence, 1966-1967
4 4 A, correspondence, 1963-1966
4 5 B, correspondence, 1962-1966
4 6 C, correspondence, 1961-1966
4 7 D, correspondence, 1962-1965
4 8 F, correspondence, 1960-1966
4 9 E, correspondence, 1961-1962
4 10 G, correspondence, 1961-1964
4 11 H, correspondence, 1966
4 12 I, correspondence, 1961
4 13 J, correspondence, 1963
4 14 K, correspondence, 1966
4 15 L, correspondence, 1965
4 16 Mc, correspondence, 1966
4 17 M, correspondence, 1964
4 18 N, correspondence, 1963
4 19 O, correspondence, 1964
4 20 P, correspondence, 1965
4 21 S, correspondence, 1966
4 22 W, correspondence, 1965
4 23 Y, correspondence, 1964
4
24
Z, correspondence, 1964
Series 1.4: Administrative and subject files
Box Fol. Description
5 1 Address by Assistant Secretary, printed materials, 1949
5 2 Budget, Forestry Program, report, 1966
5 3 Final Submission, Issue Papers 1964
5 4 Bureau of Indian Affairs Publications, printed materials, 1963
5 5 Classifying Reservations, 1966
5 6 Conferences, 1964-1965
5 7 Curry's letters, 1951-1953
5 8 Curry's letters, 1951
5 9 Curry, miscellaneous correspondence, 1949-1950
5 10 Development of Northern Naschiti, project report, 1939
5 11 Economic development, report, 1963-1964
5 12 Navajo Tribal Council election ballots, 1954
5 13 Fenans Hosteen Nez's Reservoir meeting transcript, 1935
5 14 Financial report, 1950
5 15 The government and the Navajo, report, 1936-1941
5 16 Indian incorporation bill, 1963
5 17 Indian lands in Nevada correspondence, 1946-1948
5 18 Intertribe, Inc., 1968
5 19 Navajo range planning procedure, photocopy 1940
5 20 Navajo Planning Policy Conference, photocopy 1940
5 21 Navajo Timber Management Plan, report, 1940
5 22 Navajo Tribe legal records, 1964-1966
5 23 Navajo Voting Rights, 1932
5 24 Notes re: Convention, 1950
5 25 On leaving Stewart, Nevada, correspondence, 1944-1950
5 26 On leaving Stewart, Nevada, printed materials, 1950-1953
Series 1.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
6 1 On leaving Stewart, Nevada, printed materials, 1950-1963
6 2 Operation Search, 1966
6 3 Poverty, printed materials, 1963-1966
6 4 Fryer's appointment, printed materials, 1948
6 5 Carson Agency, press release, 1950
6 6 The Problem of Cooperation with the Navajo, report, 1936
6 7 Proceedings of the First Annual Navajo Service, report, 1937
6 8 Pyramid Lake Indian material correspondence, 1949-1951
6 9 Pyramid Lake reports, 1964
6 10 Rehabilitation of Navajo and Hopi Indians, transcript, 1948
6 11 Secretary of the Interior by the Taskforce, report, 1961
6 12 Philles Nash and other government officials, printed materials, 1956-1962
6 13 Human Dependency Survey of the Navajo Reservation, 1940
6 14 Stock trespass on the Navajo reservation, 1935
6 15 District Court summons, 1950
6 16 Reno - Sparks Indian Colony report, 1948
6 17 Program for the Termination of Indian Bureau Act, report, 1948
6 18 Ten-Year Programs report, 1964
6 19 Tucker Carson River Basin/Washoe District printed materials, 1964-1966
6
20
Southwest Superintendents' Council, U.S. Indian Service, certificate of
appreciation and newspaper clipping, 1940
Record Group 2: Other government and private career papers
Series 2.1: Personal and biographical materials
Box Fol. Description
7 1 Journal, 1943
7 2 Diary, 1944
7 3 Bolivia property records, 1945-1948
7 4 Employment agreement, 1946
7
5
Identity papers, 1943-1947. Includes two passports, a rations
book, World War II ration cards, two civilian patches that was w
7 6 Diary, 1951
7 7 Diary of trip to Teheran, Iran, 1951
7 8 Conversation with Governor of Mazandarin at Babol, notes, 1951
7 9 Near-East diary, 1951
7 10 Invitations, 1951-1955
7 11 Journal of trip to Israel, 1952
7
12
Promotion press releases, 1952
7 13 Diary, 1952
7 14 Diary of trip from Tabry to Moghen, 1952
7 15 Address book, 1955
7 16 Clubs and societies records, 1958
7 17 Diary, 1955
7 18 Diary, 1956
7 19 Diary, 1958
7 20 Tunis certificate for E. R. Fryer, 1943
7
21 World
War II air mail, 1944. Includes a propaganda leaflet, an air mail letter, an
air priority certificate and several "v-mail" envelopes.
Series 2.2: Speeches and writings
Box Fol. Description
8 1 Four Years Ago in La Paz Bolivia, speech, 1946
8 2 Bolivia, Rotary Club speech, 1948
8 3 The Presidents Four Year Program, speech, 1951
8 4 Methodist Students Seminar speech, 1951
8 5 National Advisory Committee speech, 1951
8 6 Washington Chapter American Social Workers speech, 1951
8 7 UNESCO at Hunters College NYC speech, 1952
8 8 Unitarian Church Washington DC speech, 1952
8 9 Programs in the Near East and Africa speech, 1952
8 10 University of Colorado speech, 1952
8 11 Programs in the Middle East speech, 1952
8 12 Photography as a tool, 1952
8 13 AAS Conference (St. Louis, Mo.), speech, 1952
8 14 In the Near East, speech, 1952
8 15 Point Four and the Middle East, 1952
8 16 Status of American Leadership in the Near East, 1953
8 17 Notes on Land Tax for Iraq, 1953
8 18 "Zahedis, Father and Son," in The Reporter, 1953
8 19 A message of hope, speech, 1953
8 20 Opportunities in the Near East, speech, 1953
8 21 Problems and opportunities, speech, 1954
8 22 Middle East resources, speech, 1954
8 23 Toward a twentieth century social economy, speech, 1954
8 24 Introduction to film, speech, 1954
8 25 National Science Teachers Association speech, 1954
8 26 Point Four was conceived in magnificence, speech, 1954
8 27 The Act for International Development, speech, 1955
8 28 Earlhem's Institute of Foreign Affairs, speech, 1955
8 29 Foreign policy announcement, speech, 1955
8 30 Saudi Arabia, notes, 1955
8 31 Speech tonight, Delia Kuhn correspondence, 1955
8 32 Wizard of the Desert, notes, 1955
8 33 Political and economic evaluation, speech, 1956
8 34 U.S. political interest in the Middle East, speech, 1956
8 35 Contemporary attitudes of the Middle East, speech, 1957
8 36 Economic Club of Detroit correspondence, 1957
8 37 American University of Beirut speech, 1957
8 38 Social change at mid-century, speech, 1959
8 39 Ambassador Zahedi, speech, 1960
8
40
International Cooperative Development, 1961
Series 2.3: Correspondence
Box Fol. Description
9 1 Fryer correspondence, 1942-1945
9 2 Fryer correspondence, 1943
9 3 Bolivian letters from Si Fryer, correspondence, 1945
9 4 Fryer correspondence, 1945-1946
9 5 Fryer correspondence, 1945-4950
9 6 Fryer correspondence, 1947
9 7 Fryer correspondence, 1948
9 8 Fryer correspondence, 1950-1957
9 9 Fryer correspondence, 1951
9 10 Ed Fryer correspondence, 1952-1954
9 11 Fryer correspondence, 1953-1954
9 12 A-B-C-D-E, correspondence, 1957
9 13 F-G-H-I-J, correspondence, 1957
9 14 K-L-M-N-O, correspondence, 1957
9 15 P-Q-R-S-T, correspondence, 1957
9 16 U-V-W-X-Y-Z, correspondence, 1957
9 17 A-B-C-D personal correspondence, 1959
9 18 E-F-G-H personal correspondence,
9 19 I-J-K-L personal correspondence, 1959
9 20 M-N-O-P personal correspondence, 1959
9
21
Q-R-S-T-U personal correspondence, 1959
Series 2.3: Correspondence (continued)
Box Fol. Description
10 1 Personal correspondence, 1959
10 2 Mr. Fryer personal correspondence, 1959-1960
10 3 Fryer personal correspondence, 1960
10
4
Personal correspondence, 1960-1961
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files
10 5 Al - Hal, Helem, personal correspondence
10 6 Album De Planos blueprints, 1945
10 7 Annual report to State of Delaware, report, 1963-1966
10 8 Aramco printed materials, 1955
10 9 Baliacan Affair correspondence, 1948
10 10 BEI Agreements correspondence, 1959-1960
10 11 Bolivian Forest resources report, 1945
10 12 Brown and Blauvett correspondence, 1955
10 13 Brown and Blauvett correspondence, 1956
10 14 Brown and Blauvett correspondence, 1957
10 15 Brown Engineers, correspondence, 1959-1960
10
16
Robert L. Brown, correspondence, 1948-1954
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
11 1 Budget details report, 1947
11 2 Ethiopia budget presentation, 1953
11 3 Iran budget presentation, 1953
11 4 Iraq budget presentation, 1953
11 5 Israel budget presentation, 1953
11 6 Jordan budget presentation, 1953
11 7 Lebanon budget presentation, 1953
11 8 Liberia budget presentation, 1953
11 9 Budget presentation, 1953
11 10 Saudi Arabia budget presentation, 1953
11 11 Summary budget presentation, 1953
11 12 Burns and Roe correspondence, 1954-1955
11 13 Burns and Roe correspondence, 1956-1957
11 14 Burler Matter correspondence, 1958-1962
11 15 Certificate of stock, 1958
11 16 Charts, 1942
11 17 Clippings, 1949
11 18 Clippings, 1951
11 19 Conferences and seminars, records, 1952
11 20 Confidential correspondence, 1955-1956
11 21 Consultation agreement correspondence, 1955
11 22 Daily expense account, sample, 1960
11 23 Dan, H. P., correspondence, 1960
11 24 Developments International Corporation correspondence, 1957
11 25 Development of the Tigris, Euphrates Valley, printed materials 1955
11 26 DIC Code records, 1955-1959
11 27 DIC International Administration correspondence, 1958-1959
11 28 DIC miscellaneous correspondence, 1959
11 29 DIC miscellaneous correspondence, 1958
11
30
DIC miscellaneous correspondence, 1959
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
12 1 Egypt U.A.R., report, 1956-1959
12 2 Feasibility Study of Caspian Forrest, report, 1959
12 3 Finance correspondence, 1959
12 4 FLB and Me correspondence, 1959-1963
12 5 Hedjaz, 1959
12 6 ILAC lumber project photograph, 1958
12 7 ILAC lumber project correspondence, 1959
12 8 ILAC lumber project correspondence, 1960-1962
12 9 ILAC lumber project correspondence, 1963-1964
12 10 Iran Lumber Project Lawsuit correspondence, 1964-1965
12
11
Iran Lumber Project Lawsuit correspondence, 1965-1966
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
13 1 Iran lumber lawsuit court papers, 1964-1966
13 2 Iran lumber lawsuit, 1964
13 3 Iran lumber lawsuit, 1964
13 4 Iran lumber lawsuit photos, 1964
13 5 Iran lumber lawsuit photocopies, 1964
13 6 Iran lumber lawsuit photocopies, 1964
13 7 Iran lumber lawsuit photocopies, 1964
13 8 Faurhurst deposition, 1964
13 9 Faurhurst deposition, 1964
13 10 Edward Fitzsimmons deposition notes, 1964
13 11 E. Reeseman Fryer deposition, 1964
13
12
E. Reeseman Fryer deposition, 1964
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
14 1 Jack C. Whiteman deposition, 1964
14 2 Jack C. Whiteman deposition, 1964
14 3 Jack C. Whiteman deposition, deposition, 1964
14 4 Bolivian Department of Agriculture information, 1945
14 5 INTRAFI correspondence, 1958-1959
14 6 INTRAFI correspondence, 1959
14 7 W. E. Knox correspondence, 1955-1956
14
8
Maps, 1943, 1945
14 9 Memoranda, 1945
14 10 Memoranda, 1943-1944
14 11 Memoranda, 1951-1954
14 12 Middle East speeches by others, 1952
14 13 Minutes of Incorporators, 1957-1958
14
14
Monografia de la Quinaen Bolivia, pamphlet, 1943
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
15 1 Near-Eastern Kiliums, printed materials, 1965
15 2 Notes on program review for Egypt, report, 1953
15 3 Robert W. Hudgens correspondence, 1959
15 4 Robert W. Hudgens correspondence, 1960
15 5 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, printed materials, 1954
15 6 NEADS Regional Conference (Rome, Italy), 1952
15 7 A progress report, 1950
15 8 Speeches by others, 1951-1952
15 9 Potential projects in Egypt, correspondence, 1954
15 10 Potential projects in Iran, correspondence, 1955
15 11 Potential projects in Iraq, reports, 1953
15 12 Potential projects, miscellaneous notes, 1953-1955
15 13 Potential projects with refugees, correspondence, 1954
15 14 Potential projects in Saudi Arabia, correspondence, 1954
15 15 Press conference transcript, 1953
15 16 Presupuesto General, 1946
15 17 Refugees speech, 1944
15 18 Reports, 1943-1944
15 19 Reports received, 1945-1946
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Reports written, 1945
Series 2.4: Administrative and subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
16 1 SAGASCO Saudi Arabia correspondence, 1953-1957
16 2 Society for International Development correspondence, 1960
16 3 Saudi gas project report, 1955
16 4 Saudi gas project report, 1956
16 5 Saudi gas project correspondence, 1962
16 6 Charles H. Shuff correspondence, 1955-1957
16 7 Smith, Barney correspondence, 1955
16 8 Smith, Barney correspondence, 1956-1957
16 9 A study with certain agricultural development, report, 1947
16 10 Timken memos, 1956
16 11 Wartime Exile, report, 1945
16 12 Jack Whiteman correspondence, 1958-1963
16 13 Ardeshir Zahedi correspondence, 1960-1977
Record Group 3: Retirement and personal papers
Series 3.1: Personal and biographical materials
Box Fol. Description
17 1 About discussion leaders, 1980
17 2 Biographical sketch, 1970
17 3 Biographical materials, 1977-1987
17 4 Biographical sketch, 1986
17 5 United States Department of the Interior program award, 1966
17 6 Family An. correspondence, 1969-1987
17 7 Family Sue correspondence, 1980-1990
17
8
Insurance policies for Ione Pierce Fryer, 1932-1986
17 9 Ione Fryer records, 1958-1960
17 10 Ione Fryer correspondence, 1956-1970
17 11 Ione Fyer, records, 1956
17 12 Jekyll Island (Ga.) property inventory and photograph, 1977-1989
17 13 Old Masters correspondence, 1984-1985
17 14 Oral history by Dr. Parman, 1970
17 15 Interview with E. Reeseman Fryer, transcript, 1978
17 16 Elmer R. Rusco interview transcript, 1983
17 17 Jekyll Island (Ga.) deeds, 1969-1988
17 18 Resumes, 1967
17 19 Retread newsletter clippings 1985-1989
17 20 Si and Ione family correspondence, 1982-1990
17 21 Si's art career correspondence, 1975-1987
17 22 Biographical history summary notes, 1985
17 23 Florence Ione Pierce and Era Reeseman Fryer, vital records, 1930-1987
17 24 Si Fryer memorial service speech transcript, 1991 June 21 (oral history tape #565 at the Center of Southwest Studies; transcription by Brookes Boswell)
Series 3.1: Personal and biographical materials (continued)
Box Fol. Description
18 1 University of Washington yearbook, 1926
Series 3.2: Speeches and writings
Box Fol. Description
19 1 Israel and the Palestine Arabs (Brunswick) speech, 1970
19 2 Discussions of Critical Problems of Middle East, speech, 1970
19 3 The Middle East, speech, 1970
19 4 For a talk to the BWC, speech, 1971
19 5 Prevent irreparable damage to the tidal marshes, article, 1971
19 6 Jekyll Island Garden Club speech, 1972
19 7 Methodist Church (Brunswick), 1972
19 8 Retired Officers dinner speech, 1972
19 9 Reserve Officers Association speech, 1972
19 10 Indians Rotary Club of St. Simons Island speech, 1972
19 11 St. Johns College (Santa Fe, N.M.) speech, 1972
19 12 How we lost the Middle East to the Russians, paper, 1972
19 13 Attuman tragedy speech, 1973
19 14 Jekyll Island Club speech, 1974
19 15 Meeting of JIAAI speech, 1974
19 16 Indian biology and history students speech, 1974
19 17 Annual meeting speech, 1974
19 18 Witchcraft, article, 1974
19 19 Navajo witchcraft speech, 1974
19 20 Indians meeting with DAR, speech, 1975
19 21 Kiwanis Club speech notes, 1975
19 22 Indians of the Southwest, speech, 1975
19 23 Land-use: planning of environments, speech, 1975
19 24 Marshes speech, 1975
19 25 Earth Day speech, 1975
19 26 The Arabs and Zionism, speech, 1976
19 27 Heroism of the Spartinas, article, 1977
19 28 Our fragile soils, article, 1977
19 29 Quality of life, speech, 1978
19 30 Middle East conflicts, speech, 1978
19 31 Introduction to motion pictures, speech, 1980
19 32 Discussion on the Middle East, speech notes, 1980
19 33 Jekyll Island Arts Association speech, 1980
19 34 Outline for an autobiography, 1901-1956
19 35 Autobiography, 1980
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
Autobiography, 1981
Box Fol. Description
20 1 Zionism speech, 1981
20 3 Institute of the American West, Sun Valley Record, 1983
20 4 Navajo Crises of the New Deal, response, 1983
20 5 Navajo Crises of the New Deal, 1983
20 6 Robber Barons in the Congress, 1983
20 7 Navajo New Deal and John Collier speech, 1983
20 8 Outline of discussions, notes 1984
20 9 Art of the Indians of the American Southwest, speech, 1985
20 10 Southwest Indian art, lecture notes, 1982
20 11 Southwest Indian art, lecture notes, 1982-1985
20 12 Navajo impressions, notes, 1985
20 13 Bike Trails Through Time, poem, 1985
20 14 A cogent recollection, notes, 1985
20 15 Collier and livestock reduction, speech, 1985
20 16 Discarded autobiographic manuscript, 1985
20 17 Discarded autobiographic manuscript, 1985
20 18 Discarded autobiographic manuscript, 1985
20 19 The North African experience, notes, 1985
20 2 Paper of John Collier, Jr., response, 1983
20 20 Edward J. MacNamara, article, 1985
20 21 Notes, 1985
20 22 Outlines and origins of the Soil Conservation Service, notes, 1985
20 23 The wartime rescue of the diamond cutters, notes, 1985
20 24 Indians, Rotary Club speech, 1986
Box Fol. Description
21 1 Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes, 1986
21 2 Erosion, poverty and dependency, notes, 1933-1942
21 3 Erosion, poverty and dependency, notes, 1986
21 4 Erosion, poverty and dependency, notes, 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 Autobiography of the Villain in Navajo Service, 1933-1942
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, 1986
21 12 Memoir of my time in Navajo Service, draft notes, 1933-1942
21 13 Casual journal of a trek westward, article, 1987
21 14 Zionism and the Arab refugees of Palestine, speech, 1987
21 15 Israeli dilemma, speech, 1988
21 16 Tragedy of the refugees of Palestine, speech, 1988
21 17 Exploration for peace in Middle East, speech, 1988
21 18 Why can't Israelis be more like Jews, speech, 1988
21 19 Presbyterian men of St. Simmons, speech notes, 1988
21 20 History of Jekyll Arts Association, speech, 1989
21 21 Middle East, notes, 1988
21 22 Phelps family genealogical printed materials, 1971-1987
Series 3.3: Correspondence
Box Fol. Description
22 1 Fryer correspondence, 1977-1987
22 2 Fryer correspondence, 1988-1991
22 3 Herbert L. Forgash correspondence, 1967-1968
22 4 Jenny Carter correspondence, 1971-1973
22 5 Dan Parman correspondence, 1970-1990
22
6
Professional conferences correspondence, 1982-1984
Series 3.4: Subject files
22 7 American Society for Ethno-history program, 1983
22 8 Art Association records, 1973-1989
22 9 Hopi correspondence and printed materials
22 10 Department of Justice correspondence, 1984-1987
22 11 Phelps family genealogical printed materials, 1971-1987
22 12 Fryer family correspondence, 1953-1957
22 13 Fryer brothers, sisters, and antecedents, printed materials, 1962-1990
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Fryer family printed materials, 1988-1990
Series 3.4: Subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
23 1 Brundage family genealogical correspondence, 1980
23 2 Fryer family genealogical correspondence, 1978-1985
23 3 Fryer family genealogical printed materials, 1973-1982
23 4 Phelps family genealogical printed materials, 1953-1979
23 5 Interstate 95 correspondence, 1971-1973
23 6 Image of the American Indian after 200 years, speech, 1975
23 7 Indian information, correspondence, 1972-1984
Series 3.4: Subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
24 1 Indian information, printed materials, 1961-1963
24 2 Indian information printed materials, 1964-1979
24 3 Indian information printed materials, 1962-1985
24 4 Jekyll Island (Ga.) printed materials, 1985-1987
24 5 Jos. Taylor and Associates, correspondence
24 6 Marghland's Conservation, printed materials, 1971-1973
24 7 Marsh publicity, 1971-1977
24 8 Middle East correspondence, 1964-1987
24 9 Museum Associates of Jekyll Island (Ga.) printed materials, 1988-1989
Series 3.4: Subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
25 1 Navajo printed materials, 1967-1986
25 2 Navajo grazing correspondence, 1984-1986
25 3 Chapter from book by Robert A Hecht, 1987
25 4 Navajo Tribe vs. United States, 1984
25 5 Navajo Tribe vs. United States, 1985
25 6 Navajo Tribe vs. United States #110, 1985
25 7 Navajo Tribe vs. United States, transcript, 1981
25 8 Navajo Tribe vs. United States, transcript, 1981
25 9 Navajo Tribe vs. United States, deposition transcript, 1983
25 10 Navajo Tribe vs. United States trial transcript, 1984
25
11
Navajo Tribe vs. United States trial transcript, 1986
Series 3.4: Subject files (continued)
Box Fol. Description
26 1 Zuni traditional stories, printed materials, 1946-1950
26 1 The Pyramid Lake Paiutes, 1977
26 2 The Pyramid Lake Paiutes, 1977
26 3 The Pyramid Lake Paiutes, 1977
26 4 Palestine refugee papers, printed materials, 1970-1985
26 5 The Piper, Coastal Georgia Audio Society, printed materials, 1971-1972
26 6 Professional conferences correspondence, 1982-1985
26 7 The Roots of dependency, photocopy, 1983
26 8 Apache, Navajo, and Greek traditional stories, printed materials, 1950
26 9 Hopi traditional stories, printed materials, 1950
26 10 Zuni traditional stories, printed materials, 1946-1950
Series 3.5: Movie films
Box Fol. Description
26 11 Navajo Tribal Fair film footage, September 1938, one reel of b/w 16mm Kodak Safety Film. This is in the box that was mailed to Mr. E. R. Fryer, Supt., Window Rock, Arizona, Navajo Agency, postmarked in Phoenix from CHM:Kellitts with a 15 cent stamp. A note was written on the box, "transferred to video 6/90" but it is not known where that video copy is.
26 11 Sue Fryer's birthday party [age 3], September 1938, one reel of b/w 16mm Kodak Safety Film. This is in the box that was mailed with a [1]6 cent stamp, addressed to E. R. Fryer, Window Rock, Arizona, from Eastnan Kodak Company, Los Angeles, Calif. A note was written on the box, "transferred to video 6/90" but it is not known where that video copy is.
Record Group 4: Lee's Ferry Ranch papers
Series 4.1: Lee's Ferry Ranch papers, 1935-1983
Box Fol. Description
27 1 Lee's Ferry Ranch file, 1949-1951
27 2 Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence, 1964-1965
27 3 Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence, 1966
27 4 Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence, 1967
27 5 Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence, 1968-1969
27 6 Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence, 1970-1971
27 7 Lee's Ferry Ranch correspondence, 1972-1975
27 8 Lee's Ferry Ranch, records, 1964-1967
27 9 Lee's Ferry Ranch, records, 1966-1974
27 10 Lee's Ferry Ranch guest book, 1935
27 11 Lee's Ferry Ranch guest book, 1967-1970
27 12 Lee's Ferry Ranch printed materials, 1966
27
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Lees' Ferry Ranch printed materials, 1967-1983
Plus, two document cases (at the end of the collection) of newspaper clippings.
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