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A speaker from the Missouri tribal nation discusses the distribution and scope of Lewis and Clark expedition materials, including journals, maps, and botanical specimens. The speaker explains that approximately 90% of the original documents are housed at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, with significant collections also at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and the Wisconsin State Historical Society in Madison.

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0:03 The Journals of Lewis and Clark notebooks, "blue sheets" of paper in the li- and I'm talking about the whole of the party, not just the two captains. 90% are at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. The next largest trove is at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis.
0:25 And after that, then you get a bit of pieces here and there. Newberry Library, Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois and this uh Wisconsin State Historical Society in Madison. So you have a few pieces around. And if you want to include botanical specimens and maps, it even gets more complicated.
0:50 So the whole corpus of Lewis and Clark materials, maps, journals, botanical specimens and other artifacts are fairly voluminous. And you may have seen that the Missouri Historical Society mounted an exhibition of many of the artifacts and it was a beautiful thing
1:12 and very complicated and involved. So uh it's hard to just say a set number of journals, a set number of maps, a mechanical question because there's always some ambiguity.
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