Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
""Of the number thus cruelly murdered by the backwoodsmen of the upper Ohio, between fifty and sixty were women and children- some of them innocent babes.""
Description:
P. 107.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Title from item., Date from copyright statement., From a book of reproductions of paintings from The Indian Gallery Department of War, Washington, D.C: Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, Indian Tribes of North American, Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1936., Meta-Koosega translates to Pure Tobacco in English. He is depicted wearing an Indian Peace Medal., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Medicine, American Indian; Medicine men; Necromancy; Tobacco.
Publisher:
Published by F.W. Greenough, Philada, Drawn Printed & Coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No.94 Walnut St., and Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1836 by F.W.Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna
Subject (Topic):
Ojibwa Indians, Chippewa Tribe, Indians of North America, and Warriors
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "My bunkie." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Three soldiers on horseback in foreground with one soldier being pulled up from the ground by another
Description:
Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Text in lower left: copyrighted 99.
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Subject (Topic):
Cradleboards, Indians of North America, and Nez Percé Indians--Pictorial works
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "On the skirmish line." Depicts a scene of battle between about a dozen Native Americans on horseback and a dozen U.S. Army troops on foot
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +211:, Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Written in lower right corner of image: Copyright c. 1900. Hand printed in lower right corner of image: From painting owned by C. M. Butte Hoboken.
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Photograph albums of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service in Alaska and Siberia
Image Count:
142
Abstract:
Photograph albums of images created by Alfred L. Broadbent of landscapes, wildlife, ships, and individuals primarily in Alaska and Siberia, ca. 1885-1892, and probably printed by the photograph gallery of Isaiah West Taber, San Francisco, California.
Description:
Manuscript captions on individual photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, British Columbia, Chernofsky Harbor (Alaska), Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Seattle (Wash.), Siberia (Russia), Sitka (Alaska), and Washintgon (State)
Subject (Topic):
Aleuts, Arctic peoples, Children, Dwellings, Eskimos, Glaciers, Indians of North America, Landscape photography, Salmon canning industry, Sealing, Ships, Totem poles, and Whaling