Lithograph reproduces Von Schmidt's painting that depicts the battle at Little Bighorn; in foreground center U.S. soldier holds up regimental flag surrounded by dismounted troopers under attack by mounted Native Americans; villages and natural landsca...
Description:
In facsimile of artist's hand below image:On left, artist's proof; on right: for the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library / Eric Von Schmidt '89.
Manuscript ship's log, illustrated, mounted on pages from a bound printed copy of John Rowlett's Tables of Discount, or Interest, on Every Dollar[...]. The majority of the volume (pages 1A/1B-31) details a whaling voyage that began in New Bedford, Mas...
Alternative Title:
Log of the whaling ship Acushnet : Captain William B. Rogers out New Bedford two years voyage 1845 and Rowlett interest tables
Description:
The Acushnet is the same whaling ship Herman Melville joined in 1840; his experiences helped shape Moby-Dick.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii and Lima (Peru)
Subject (Name):
Acushnet (Whaler)
Subject (Topic):
Whaling, Whaling ships, and Description and travel
Autograph manuscript, signed, by "H. A. L." containing lines from Lucy Smith's Moroni's Lamentation (a Mormon hymn given to Smith in 1833 and sung in the Nephite tongue), undated but possibly created during the 19th century. The manuscript does not fo...
Full length portrait of Colonel Al. G. Courtney, a Remington Arms Company gun salesman from Syracuse, New York; standing on wooden boards at shooting range; to left, facing right, wearing a hat, holding and sighting a shotgun. An unnamed shooter in b...
Full length portrait of George Mosher; standing on wooden boards at a shooting range; to left, facing right, wearing a hat, holding and sighting a shotgun
Description:
BEIN Broadsides Box 2024 18: On sheet trimmed to 9.3 x 7.5 cm, mounted on cardboard 11.0 x 9.2 cm.