Indian ledger drawings by Koba and Etahdleuh Doanmoe
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
33
Description:
Only pages with text or illustrations digitized; large portion of ledger blank.
Subject (Topic):
Comanche art, Indian art --Collectors and collecting --United States, Indian art --Great Plains --Pictorial works, Indian art --North America --Collectors and collecting, Indian art --North America --Pictorial works, Indian art --United States, Indian arts --North America, Indians of North America --1870-1880, Indians of North America --1870-1890, and Kiowa art
Each piece signed with a small woodcut, the signature (likewise cut in wood) "Fonseca epus archieps", and a wax seal covered with paper., Imperfect: wormed, with damage to woodcuts and seals., and The recipient’s name "Luis Gimenes [?]" is written in the blank space provided for it.
Publisher:
Ano del nascimiento del Senor de mill y qnientos y qnze anos
Mexican citizen and Texas gazette (San Felipe, Tex.)
Description:
Continued by: Texas gazette and Brazoria commercial advertiser., Imperfect: many issues mutilated with loss of text., Sometimes published as: Mexican citizen with its own volume and number, Mar. 17-May 26, 1831., and Vol. 1, no. 7, 1829 is photocopy.
Compiled by Johannes Baptista F----- probably a Genoese connected with the Franciscan Order., Front pastedown: [This page and the recto of the facing front flyleaf are covered with small ink drawings of alchemical apparatus, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, similar equipment, as well as a ""Bain-Marie"" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled. Verso of the front flyleaf is blank.], and Paper codex in Latin, Italian, and Spanish
Description:
In case with original, badly wormed, binding and endpapers. and Written throughout by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-sixteenth-century italic.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Drawing--16th century, Italian poetry--16th century, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century