The official letters to Parrott and his letters to his family cover his naval career, 1831-1874, expecially during the Mexican and Civil Wars. There are some earlier family papers, silhouettes of his mother and father, and a daguerrrotype of Parrott. Correspondence for years 1845-1849 is bound with transcript in a volume entitled: Conquest of California. 602 p.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject (Name):
Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe,--1780-1828. and Parrott, Susan Parker,--1780-1852.
One pair of deerskin moccasins and a two-pouch deerskin quiver reputedly part of Sitting Bull's stage costume during the four months in 1885 that he appeared in "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show." The mocassins and quiver are decorated with designs worked in colored beads and quillwork; all carry decorative fringe. The moccasins each measure 27 cm in length.
Subject (Name):
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
A full-length standing figure of a boxer carved in wood by Leslie Garland Bolling. He incised the title "The Boxer" in the front edge of the surface on which the figure stands, and "Sept. 13th 33" and "LGBolling" on the back edge. A metal plate attached to the front of the base gives the title as "Wild Cat," the ring name of an unidentified boxer in Richmond, Virginia, who posed for Bolling.
Alternative Title:
Wild Cat.
Description:
Gift of Carl Van Vechten., Leslie Garland Bolling (1898-1955), African American sculptor living and working in Richmond, Virginia., and Title from sculpture and plate on base of sculpture.
Subject (Name):
Bolling, Leslie Garland, 1898- artist
Subject (Topic):
African American boxers--Portraits, African American sculptors--Virginia, African Americans in art, and Sculptors--Virginia