Print by John Cameron depicts, in the left foreground, two trappers with horses and pack animals waiting and watching on guard; in the middle ground, a trapper and a Native American ride toward each other to talk; in the background, more Native Americans on horseback in the distance; mountains and sky in the top half of the image
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Below image: Entered by act of Congress A.D. 1868 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
A scene on the frontier of the United States: a Native American (left) is shown scalping a dead British soldier. Another British soldier who has already been scalped is shown on the left edge of the design. In the center a second Native American, from whose rifle hangs a sign "Reward for 16 ... scalps" and in whose knife initials "G.R." have been etched, is shown handing a scalp to an obese British soldier (right). The speech balloon above the soldier 's head reads: "Bring me the scalps and the King our master will reward you"; from his pocket a strip of paper "Secret service money". In the background, Native Americans and British soldiers dance around a fire
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed with the initials "L.G." in lower right corner., A copy in reverse of a print by William Charles. For original version, see Library of Congress call no.: PGA -- Charles (W.) -Scene on the frontiers ... (A size) [P&P]., and Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Arise Columbia's sons and forward press, your country's wrongs call loudly for redress ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, History, Scalping, Soldiers, and British
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Their towns equal in extent and population [to] the largest cities of Europe; some extending many miles in length, with considerable regularity in their streets, and their houses of a uniform style of architecture."
Description:
P. 51, associated with p. 65.
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
Print shows a view of a settlement at Goulding's Harbor, a side channel of Portlock's Harbor between Sitka and Juneau in Alaska, visited by the ships King George and Queen Charlotte and Captains Portlock and Dixon. Two men holding rope, pulling small boat to shore; two other figures, Native persons, on opposite bank, with two small buildings; woods and rocky hillsides
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc70 789vi: On sheet 18.3 x 23,0 cm. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Stockdale & G. Goulding
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America and Alaska
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Voyages around the world, and Discovery and exploration
Manuscript current account, signed, detailing financial transactions between the Massachusetts whaler Joseph Sturges and his Native American employee, Jacob Zakry (or Zachary) over a three-year period ending on March 4, 1719. Items charged to Zachary include payments to a relative and for clothing; 45 shillings a year for "3 whale seasons dyet;" and another charge for "3 years expense at Cape Cod." Items in Zachary's favor include "your share of the oyle of 3/4s of a whale" and "your share of a shark." Account signed by Joseph Sturges
Description:
In English., Date given in original as: "March 4th 1718/9.", and Accompanied by partial transcript and bookseller description.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
Subject (Name):
Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
Description:
Bookplate of Joseph Y. Jeanes., Engravings by Young & Delleker, Cephas Grien Childs, Alexander Lawson, Francis Kearney, and William Hay; after Stephen H. Long, Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale., Some maps on double leaves., Spine title, on publisher's printed labels: Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains., and Text and atlas in slipcase.
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri River--Discovery and exploration, Ohio River--Discovery and exploration, United States--Discovery and exploration, and West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration
Subject (Name):
Childs, Cephas Grier, 1793-1871, Hay, William, Jeanes, Joseph Y, Kearny, Francis, 1785-1837, Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864, Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885, Say, Thomas, 1787-1834, Seymour, Samuel, active 1797-1822, United States. War Department, and Young & Delleker
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, Geology--West (U.S.), Glossaries, vocabularies, etc., Indians of North America, and Indians of North America--Languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
