Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Print shows individual portraits of the forty-two legislators in the first Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas; arrayed in five concentric circles with George Washington Deitzler, speaker, of Lawrence, in the center; each portrait within an oval and labeled with the name and town of each representative; based on daguerreotypes by John T. Needles
Alternative Title:
House, first Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, elected Oct. 4th 1857
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Caption at foot of sheet, center: House. First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas. Elected Oct. 4th 1857., and Text in lower left: Dac by Needels of Leavenworth. Text in lower center: On stone by Fabronius. Text in lower right: Lith. & Published by [unreadable].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Kansas Territory
Subject (Name):
Kansas Territory. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen), 1862-1928, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1880 and 188h9?]
Call Number:
BrSide4o Zc16 P9 880da
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Print shows the Pueblo Bonito ruin in Chaco Canyon viewed from the south
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc16 P9 880da: On sheet 20.8 x 24.8 cm. Manuscript notes on verso. On verso, red ink stamp: Art Department The Century Co. Union Square New York City. and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Pueblo Bonito Site (N.M.), Chaco Canyon (N.M.), New Mexico, and Chaco Canyon
Subject (Topic):
Chaco architecture, Ancestral Pueblo culture, Pueblo Indians, Architecture, and Indians of North America
Print shows Mr. Benvenuti, winner of the 1895 Monte Carlo Grand Prix in live pigeon shooting, in a bust portrait, body slightly to left, head centered, gazing past the viewer. Printed on newspaper stock
Print shows a view of Fort Yuma from across the Colorado River; the Sourthern Pacific railway trestle (built 1877) crosses the river to the right, in the middle ground; the Fort is on the hill top, in center; mule-drawn wagons in foreground; steamboat, ferry, and warehouse in center; cloudy sky in upper half of image; double-line border frames image
Description:
BEIN Broadsides Zc72 877so: On sheet 21.8 x 31.7 cm, mounted on sheet 23.1 x 32.5 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Yuma (Calif.) and Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Lithograph reproduces Von Schmidt's painting of the Alamo; the view is of the interior of the palisade from the front of the raised gun platform during the assault on the Alamo. Below the image are the lyrics to a song by Von Schmidt: The Alamo, a song to honor the sesquicentenial of the battle, March 6, 1836-1986
Image of a hunter in buckskin clothing sitting atop his horse, who stands in a shallow pond. The hunter holds his rifle and turns to look behind him. At far left in the distance, a Native American is seen on his horse riding through the tall grasses
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 850ra: Imperfect: Faded and heavily foxed. Print is mounted on verso of an advertising placard for "Life likeness of Charley McCarthy to be given away free," cataloged separately. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trappers, Hunters, Horses, and Indians of North America
Etching and drypoint print shows a wagon train; a covered wagon pulled by team of oxen in foreground, with driver waving whip walking beside, and other wagons stretch into distance, winding along trail across image. Two scouts on horseback in middle distance, right
Alternative Title:
Emigrant train
Description:
Title from Borein, Etchings of the west, 1950. Alternate title "Emigrant Train" from Galvin's catalog of Borein's etchings, no. 148. and Signed below image on lower right: Edward Borein. Small image of man on horseback below image on lower left.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Wagon trains, Covered wagons, and Ox teams
