A collection of weapons and costume accessories owned by Nathan Salsbury and associated with colleagues of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, including John Burwell "Texas Jack" Omohundro and Sitting Bull. Included are a shotgun, a bolas, a pair of moccasins, and a quiver containing a bow and arrows, as well as a revolver owned by Salsbury. and Nathan Salsbury (1846-1902), Civil War veteran, actor, and theatrical entrepreneur; after 1884 co-owner, producer and manager of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show."
Description:
One twisted rawhide bolas with three rawhide-covered weights, and measuring 121 cm in length. Used to capture running game during a hunt, the bolas is unmarked and its original owner is unidentified.
Subject (Name):
Buffalo Bill,--1846-1917., Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company., Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show., Salsbury, Nathan,--1846-1902., and Sitting Bull,--1831-1890.
Subject (Topic):
Theatrical managers--United States. and Wild west shows.
Artist: Dakung Lee, Collection includes twelve 24-ounce paper cups and twelve 36-ounce paper cups; includes nine 35 x 18 x 12 cm bags, eight 42 x 21 x 14 cm bags, and two 31 x 25 x 18 cm bags with handles., The Cultivating thought author series, issued by Chipotle Mexican Grill, is the brainchild of author Jonathan Safran Foer, who also serves as its curator. It presents the thoughts of authors and comedians on Chipotle cups and bags, each cup illustrated by a different artist., and Twelve authors appear on the cups, nine on the bags.
Subject (Name):
Hader, Bill, 1978- Recipe for the perfect fountain drink
Partial drafts, holograph, corrected, circa 1889 to 1891.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Christie's sale, New York, 2010 December 3, lot 559) on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 2010. and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author.
A tan linen sampler with cross, satin, straight, split, outline, back, and stem stitches worked in colored silk thread by Josephine Evans, a student at a Quaker school in Burlington County, New Jersey. The sampler includes a six-line religious verse, below which appears two baskets of fruit on either side of a stylized Quaker schoolhouse with five windows, which is set in a pastoral landscape featuring two trees, a lawn with sheep, and a woman, four children, a dog, and a deer. The woman, a teacher, is ringing a bell to call the four children into the school; one child is African American and carries a basket on his head. The sampler is signed and dated at the lower third, "Josephine Evans aged [threads missing] years. April 11th 1839," and is bordered by a band of daisies and tulips connected by a green vine.
Description:
Embroidered verse in English. and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2001.
Subject (Geographic):
Burlington County (N.J.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Evans, Josephine,--active 1839
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--New Jersey--Burlington County and Quaker girls--New Jersey--Burlington County
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