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Anna Laurens Dawes (1851-1938)
Early Jewett friend and correspondent
Anna Dawes, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts
and Washington, D.C., was the author of: How We are Governed
(1885), The Modern Jew: His Present and his Future (1886), A
United States Prison (1886), An Unknown Nation (1888), Charles
Sumner (1892), The Indian as Citizen (1917), and other works.
According to Who's Who in New England, Dawes worked as a journalist.
She was a trustee of Smith College and a vice-president of the Massachusetts
State Suffrage Society. She also served on boards of managers for
the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1892-4 and the St. Louis Exposition
of 1902-4.
She was the daughter of Henry Laurens
Dawes (October 30, 1816 - February 5, 1903), who was a Republican United
States Senator and United States Representative from Massachusetts, notable
for the Dawes Act of 1888, "which authorized the President of the United
States to survey Indian tribal land and divide the area into allotments
for the individual Indian" (Wikipedia).
The photo is from the National Archives
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/basic_search.jsp
(type dawes anna into basic search)
Creator: Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936
( Most Recent)
Type of Archival Materials:
Photographs and other Graphic Materials
Level of Description:
Item from Collection WME: Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, 1856 - 1936
Location: NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage) (NRIA),
654 West Third Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501-2145 PHONE: 907-261-7800, FAX:
907-261-7813, EMAIL: alaska.archives@nara.gov
Part of: Series: Photographs of the Inhabitants of Metlakatla,
British Columbia and Metlakatla, Alaska, ca. 1856 - 1936
Scope & Content Note:
Daughter of U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes, and member of the committee
who assisted and advised William Duncan in the removal of his mission colony
from British Columbia to Alaska in 1887.
Access Restrictions:
Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Variant Control Number(s):
NAIL Control Number: NRIA-WME-PHOTOS-(V4)124
Other Identifier: Volume 4
Copy 1
Copy Status: Preservation-Reproduction-Reference
Storage Facility: NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage,
AK)
Media
Media Type: Photographic Print
ARC Identifier: 298036
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