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Summary Information
Walter Taylor Papers
1854-1968
Mss 334; Micro 563; PH Mss 334
9.0 c.f. (22 archives boxes), 24 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 5 photographs
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Walter Taylor, a social worker, community consultant, and representative of the American Friends Service Committee to various Indian groups. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence and subject files, the most extensive of which relates to Taylor's involvement in the movement to prevent construction of the Kinzua Dam which flooded portions of the Seneca Reservation. Types of material included are agenda and minutes, broadsides, clippings, legal records, newsletters, notes, press releases, reports, speeches, and writings. Other subject files relate to the Seneca and other Indian tribes, a proposed open air museum, the American Indian Capital Conference on Poverty, the Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee, the National Congress of American Indians, the Wisconsin Indian Summer Projects, and the research Taylor did for Arthur E. Morgan's Dams and Other Disasters: A Century of Army Corps of Engineers in Civil Works. Photographs include images of the Wounded Knee Creek area on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, circa 1956.
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