Watercolor paintings and pencil sketches of Alaska
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Overview of Sitka, Alaska, which includes views of Baranov Castle, warehouses of the Russian-American Company, St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, and Sitka Harbor with the USS Newbern on the water.
Subject (Geographic):
Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡--Pictorial works and St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works
Scrapbook and papers of Albert Tracy document his activities as a poet and artist, 1843-1892. The scrapbook includes clippings of his poems published in newspapers, a letter from Wendell Phillips related to the publication of a poem, and Tracy's published accounts of the Mexican War and his critiques of the post-Civil War United States Army. The papers include several manuscript poems and additional newspaper clippings, as well as pencil drawings that depict a panorama of Fort Bridger in the Utah Territory and a view of the fort interior, June 3-4, 1858.
Description:
Albert Tracy (1818-1893) joined the United States Army as a lieutenant in the 9th Infantry during the Mexican War, and served as Adjutant General of Maine, 1852-1855. He returned to the Army to serve in the 10th Infantry, in which he participated in an expedition against the Sioux from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in the Utah Expedition, and in the American Civil War, when he attained the rank of colonel and served as aide-de-camp to John C. Frémont.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Bridger (Wyo.)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Tracy, Albert,--1818-1893 and Utah Expedition--(1857-1858)
Cheyenne warrior and son of Cheyenne chief Eagle Head. He was imprisoned from 1875 to 1878 at Fort Marion, Saint Augustine, Florida, with other "hostile" Plains Indians. Their jailer, Captain Richard H. Pratt, encouraged the artistic talent of the Indians
Alternative Title:
Howling Wolf, Sketchbook
Description:
The note, "Drawn by Howling Wolf (Cheyenne) Oct 1876 Fort Marion" is written in pencil inside the front cover in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting., Bison, Cheyenne art., Cheyenne Indians., Horses., Indian art., and Rites and ceremonies.