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M179 - E. Reeseman Fryer papers (Southwestern U.S. and elsewhere in the world, including the Middle East)

Collection Overview

  • Creator: Fryer, E. Reeseman
  • Dates: 1925-1991, inclusive; 1945-1966, bulk
  • Extent: 12.5 linear shelf feet (in 27 document cases)
  • Abstract:

    This collection includes the personal and professional papers of E. Reeseman Fryer.

  • Language: English
  • Collection Identifier: M179
  • Physical Location: This collection is located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College (1000 Rim Dr. Durango, CO).

 

Using these Materials

Please contact the Center of Southwest Studies Archives Manager at archives@fortlewis.edu for more information about reproductions and accessing the collection.

 

Access Restrictions: There are no access restrictions on the use of this collection. The collection is non-circulating but open to the public for use in the Delaney Southwest Research Library at the Center of Southwest Studies.

 

Reproduction and Copyright: Materials held by the Center may be protected under U.S. and international copyright laws. Reproduction does not constitute a transfer of copyright or publication rights. Researchers are solely responsible for complying with copyright law and for obtaining any necessary permissions for reproduction or publication. The Center assumes no liability for unauthorized use of materials.

 

Related Materials:

P 048

E. Reeseman Fryer photographs, a collection of photographs taken by E. Reeseman Fryer.

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.

 

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], [Collection Title], [Collection Number], Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.

 

 

Collection Description

Historical/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.

 

Timeline:

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.

 

Note: 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Acquisitions Information: 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.

 

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. 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.

 

Subjects:

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

 

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series Description

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

 

Container Description

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 logbook

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.  

 
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.
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
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

 

 

 

CreatorFryer, E. Reeseman
Dates1925-1991, inclusive; 1945-1966, bulk
Extent12.5 linear shelf feet (in 27 document cases)

This collection includes the personal and professional papers of E. Reeseman Fryer.

LanguageEnglish
Collection IdentifierM179
Physical LocationThis collection is located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College (1000 Rim Dr. Durango, CO).
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