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Two hand-bound volumes of photographs and copies of letters written by E. Jane Gay and her friend Alice Fletcher about their trip to the Nez Percé Indian territory. Fletcher who as special agent for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, apportioned tribal lands among the Winnebagos of Nebraska and the Nez Percés of Idaho. Gay was the official photographer for the expedition (1889-1893).