Wearing a traditional Franciscan habit, the friar Antonio Margil (who was venerated in 1836) holds a crucifix in his left hand, to which he points with his right, as he preaches to a group of exotically dressed Native Americans in an outdoor setting
Alternative Title:
Vera effigies venerabilis servi dei patris Antonii Margil
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Margil de Jesús, Antonio, 1657-1726
Subject (Topic):
Missionaries, Indians of North America, and Missions
The work documents the travels of Maximilian Prinz zu Wied and Karl Bodmer, primarily in the Missouri River Valley, 1832-1834, with descriptions and depictions of the Indigenous people of the region, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, Dakota,...
Alternative Title:
Title of volume 3, on printed wrappers
Description:
BEIN ZZc20 839wi copy 1: Plates are colored.
Publisher:
Bei J. Hoelscher and Gedruckt bei Dubois und Werle
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Missouri River Valey, Great Plains., Missouri River Valley., and United States.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Mandan Indians, Hidatsa Indians, Assiniboine Indians, Dakota Indians, Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Languages, and Natural history
11 manuscript letters, most signed, documenting the work of early missionaries in Oregon. Most of the letters from Harvey Clark are addressed to fellow unaffiliated missionary Alvin T. Smith. Clark describes his overland journey to Oregon Territory,...
Description:
Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary and pioneer in Oregon. Born in Vermont, Clark trained as a stone mason before studying theology at Oberlin College. Clark and his wife Emmeline Caldwell Clark went to Oregon as unaffiliated missionaries in 18...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon. and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Clark, Emmeline Caldwell., Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858., Littlejohn, P. B., Munger, Asahel., Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., and Tualatin Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Education, Missions Oregon, Missionaries, Missions, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers, and Discovery and exploration
Print shows a Blackfoot (Siksika) Native American man on horseback, carrying a long gun, and looking back toward another rider. He is wearing moccasins, leggings, animal hide clothing, and has feathers in his hair
Alternative Title:
Indien Pieds Noir a cheval Blackfoot Indian on horse-back
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Ackerman & Co., J. Hölscher, Arthus Bertrand, and Imp. de Bougeard
Subject (Topic):
Siksika Indians, Indians of North America, and Horses
The collection consists of bills, deeds, contracts, receipts, statements of account, correspondence, copies of court actions, Indian War claims, and licenses reflecting the activities of Oregon pioneers. The printed Indian War claims are: John Swindin...
Description:
John T. Apperson was a lieutenant in the Army at Ft. Walla Walla and Ft. Dalles, Oregon in 1863-1864. Augustine Magloire Alexander Blanchet was Bishop of Nesqually, Multnomah County. Amory Holbrook was U. S. Attorney for the Oregon Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Nesqually (Or.), Oregon, and Yamhill County (Or.)
Subject (Name):
Apperson, John T., 1834-1873., Blanchet, Augustine Magloire Alexander, 1797-1887., Chadwick, Stephen Fowler, 1825-1895., Crosby, Nathaniel, Jr., Hammer, Seth R., Holbrook, Amory, 1820-1866., Lownsdale, Daniel H., Redfield, John W., Selwood, J. R. W., Stanton, Hardy C., Swindin, John., and Winter, William, 1836-1917.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Claims, Wars, Rogue River Indian War, 1855-1856, Tututni Indians, and Politics and government
Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. English Illustrations to Maximilian Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America
Description:
BEIN ZZc20 839wig copy 1: Atlas disbound.
Publisher:
Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand and Cook and Co., printers, 76, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Missouri River Valey, Great Plains., Missouri River Valley., and United States.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Mandan Indians, Hidatsa Indians, Assiniboine Indians, Dakota Indians, Cree Indians, Indians of North America, Languages, and Natural history
Studio portrait of the Reverend Peter Jones, also known as Waving Plume or Kahkewaquonaby, taken in England by the photographers David Hill and Robert Adamson. Jones is believed to be the first Native American to have been photographed
Print shows Native Americans on horseback hunting bison with bow and arrow; central figure on a white horse; following bison running to left; other riders and bison in background of rolling, grassy hills under a large, open sky with clouds on horizon
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
G.R. Graham
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Three mounted American Indian men use arrows and spears to hunt a herd of buffalo near the base of a rounded hill, with the animals fleeing in two opposite directions
Alternative Title:
Buffalo hunt, chase. No. 6
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published at James Ackerman's lithographic rooms 304 Broadway, N.Y.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
The second volume of a personal journal of a young lady from Independence, Missouri, who follows her husband, a Santa Fé trader, to the Southwest in the early stages of the Mexican war. She describes people, events regarding the acquisition of the N...
Description:
There are 32 loose pages laid in front of the journal.
Subject (Geographic):
Bent's Fort (Colo.), Chihuahua (Mexico : State), El Paso (Tex.), Fort Macy (N.M.), Little Arkansas River (Kan.), Pecos (N.M.), Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), Santa Fe (N.M.), Southwest, New, and Taos (N.M.)
Subject (Name):
Ampudia, Pedro de, 1805-1868., Archuleta, Diego, 1814-1884., Armijo, Manuel, 1792?-1853., Belknap, William Goldsmith, d. 1851., Bent, Charles, 1799-1847., Bent, George, 1814-1847., Bliss, William Wallace Smith, 1815-1853., Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876., Chavez y Castillo, Mariano., Clark, Meriwether Lewis, 1809-1881., Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895., Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879., Davy, Cornelius., Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885., Doniphan, Alexander William., Gilpin, William, 1815-1894., Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850., Howard, John Eager, d. 1862., Hunter, David, 1802-1886., Kearny, Stephen Watts, 1794-1848., Kendall, Geo. Wilkins 1809-1867. (George Wilkins),, McDowell, Sarah Shelby, 1785-1847., Magoffin, James Wiley, 1799-1868., Magoffin, Samuel, 1801-1888., Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 1827-1855., Ortiz, Ramon., Ortiz, Tomas., Owens, Samuel D., d. 1847., Peck, William 1820-1892. (William Guy),, Pino, Manuel., Prentice, George D. 1802-1870. (Geroge Denison),, Prentiss, James H., 1809-1848., Price, Sterling, 1809-1867., Robidou, Antoine, 1794-1860., Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876., Shelby, James, 1784-1848., Shelby, Thomas Hart, 1789-1869., Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872., Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866., Swords, Thomas, 1806-1886., Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850., Trias, Angel., Urrea, José, 1797-1849., Warner, William Horace., Washington, John Macrae, 1797-1853., Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869., Worth, William Jenkins, 1794-1849., Wright, George, 1803-1865., and Mexico. President (1846 : Paredes y Arrillaga)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Apache Indians, Comanche Indians, Navajo Indians, History, Description and travel, and Mexican War, 1846-1848
Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; F...
Description:
Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Texas., Washington (State), Texas, Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.), Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.), Fort Naches (Or.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Hood, Mount (Or.), Oregon, Port Isabel (Tex.), and Washington
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, and United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, Missions, Spanish, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, Military life, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
Collection of approximately 76 drawings and sketches made by Brown in watercolor, oil, pastel, wash, pencil and ink. Thirty-one drawings depict army forts and western scenery, including Ringgold Barracks, Los Morus, Port Isabel, and San Jose, Texas; F...
Description:
Brown, an army surgeon and self-taught artist, served at several military posts in Texas and the Pacific Northwest in the 1850s. During the Civil War he served with the Army of the Potomac and in the Assistant Surgeon General's office in Louisville.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Texas., Washington (State), Texas, Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.), Fort Dalles (Dalles, Or.), Fort Naches (Or.), Fort Ringgold (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Hood, Mount (Or.), Oregon, Port Isabel (Tex.), and Washington
Subject (Name):
Brown, Joseph B., 1822-1891., Lee, Robert E. 1807-1870. (Robert Edward),, and United States. Army
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, Missions, Spanish, Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865, Military life, Voyages to the Pacific coast, and Description and travel
Hand colored print reproduces a view of the San Felipe Pueblo, Katishtya in the Eastern Keres language, made during the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, which was led by W.H. Emory; mesas to left and right; pueblo structures center; to right...
Alternative Title:
San Felipe, New Mexico
Description:
BEIN WA Prints 287: In pencil, on mat, lower left: Emory's explorations, 1848.
Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +204: On sheet 29 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Kelloggs and Comstock and Ensign and Thayer
Subject (Geographic):
California and Sacramento River (Calif.)
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Gold panning, Indians of North America, African Americans, and Gold discoveries
Print shows miners, Caucasians, Native American men, one African-American man, and one woman; panning and digging for gold along the Sacramento River in California. Some figures at left are seen holding gold nuggets in their hands; others at right are...
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +205: On sheet 29 x 37 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sacramento River (Calif.), and Sacramento River.
Subject (Topic):
Gold miners, Gold panning, African Americans, Indians of North America, and Gold discoveries
Tintypes and carte-de-visite photographs primarily depicting Missisauga Indian individuals of the Ojibway Nation in the vicinity of Alderville, Ontario, ca. 1850-1890
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alderville (Ont.)
Subject (Name):
Annego, Peter., Beaver, Joe., Black, Richard, Missisauga Indian., Case, Eliza Barnes., Case, William, 1780-1855., Chubb, Evelyn., Cooper, Frank, photographer., Gramsby, Walter S., James, Anny W., Lawe, Charles., Little, James, photographer., Lukes, Hiawatha., Naugham, Mary Bell., Richmond, John L., Thaisaugouy, John., and Thompson & Son Photographers.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Missisauga Indians, and Ojibwa Indians
A sheet divided by a "frame" of trees into a top image, two lower side images, and a lower blank space for a written message. In the top image, a group of miners in a forest clearing work at two "long tom" sluices spanning a stream, with a few small b...
Description:
Title from caption below top image.
Publisher:
Justh, Quirot & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining, Miners, Gold miners, Gold panning, and Indians of North America
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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trappers, Hunters, Horses, and Indians of North America
Letters documenting Thomas Nelson's voyage to, and life in, Oregon City, Oregon, where he served as an Oregon Territory Supreme Court judge, written to his wife Cornelia and their children in Peekskill, New York, from 1851 Mar 20 to 1853 Jul 16. Nels...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., California, Northwest Coast of North America, Oregon, Oregon Territory, Peekskill (N.Y.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
André, John, 1751-1780., Chenoweth, Francis A., 1819-1899., Currey, John E. B., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Gaines, John Pollard, 1795-1857., Nelson, Cornelia., Nelson, Thomas., Pratt, Orville C., 1819-1891., Seymour, Allen., Seymour, David Lowrey, 1803-1867., California (steamer), Columbia (Steamer), and Oregon. Supreme Court.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Indians of North America, Legal status, laws, etc, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Description and travel, Capital and capitol, Gold discoveries, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Print shows four Native American men on horseback chasing a trapper through tall grass, from left to right; one of the Native American men is falling off his horse; the trapper is looking back at them, and he appears to have just shot the falling Nati...
Alternative Title:
One rubbed out
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
N. Currier
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains and West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and First contact with Europeans
Itinerary of the expedition of Col. Emilio Langberg, military inspector of Chihuahua, along the Rio Bravo border in 1851. His account describes the regions and histories of Chihuahua and Coahuila, the customs of the local Indians, and their relations ...
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New., Chihuahua (Mexico : State), Coahuila (Mexico : State), Mexico, United States., Monclova (Mexico), United States, and Mexico.
Subject (Name):
Barchesky, Enrique. and Langberg, Emilio.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Description and travel, and Boundaries
Three holograph notebooks containing diary entries relating to travel; barometrical recordings; and observations on the languages and customs of the Indians and the flora and fauna of Washington Territory and the Pacific Northwest written while Gibbs...
Description:
George Gibbs, a New York lawyer, joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in 1849, went to Fort Vancouver, Washington, and remained in the Pacific Northwest for the next eleven years. During that time he held a number of positions, including that of an ...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Northwest, Pacific., and Washington (State)
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873. and Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857-1869.
Subject (Topic):
Pacific railroads, Explorations and surveys, Description and travel, Indians of North America, Languages, Social life and customs, Natural history, and Surveyors
Reproduction of 1852 painting by A.F. Tait that depicts two trappers, men of European descent, and four Native American men fighting on horseback on a plain with tall grass; one of the trappers in center foreground wears a buckskin fringed jacket, aim...
Alternative Title:
Keep your distance
Description:
Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by N. Currier, in the Clerk’s Office of the District-Court of the Southern District of N.Y.
A history of Vancouver Barracks (later Fort Vancouver), the Indian wars, the San Juan Islands boundary dispute, and the death of Gen. Canby. The manuscript also contains copies of letters from Dr. William C. McKay, Ranald Macdonald, Gen. C. C. Augur's...
Description:
General Thomas Anderson, was colonel of the 14th Infantry and in command at Vancouver Barracks for many years.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Oregon, and San Juan Islands (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898. and Anderson, Thomas McArthur, 1836-1917.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, History, and Boundaries
Reproduction of a drawing by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans, on foot with saddled horses nearby, skinning a buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains and distant hill tops. The upper half of the ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at t...
Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-qu...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & Company
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting and Indians of North America
John Taylor's sketchbooks contain scenes of a voyage into the Pacific Ocean by way of the Straits of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia,the Hawaiian Islands, California, Oregon, and Washington. There are illustrations of Indians of the northwest co...
Description:
Dr. John Y. Taylor was assistant surgeon on the U.S. Sloop Decatur attached to the Pacific Squadron, 1854-57. From 1858-1860, Taylor served on the ships Preble and the Dolphin of the Brazil Squadron.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America., Pacific Coast (North America), Seattle (Wash.), and Port Townsend (Wash.)
John Taylor's sketchbooks contain scenes of a voyage into the Pacific Ocean by way of the Straits of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia,the Hawaiian Islands, California, Oregon, and Washington. There are illustrations of Indians of the northwest co...
Description:
Dr. John Y. Taylor was assistant surgeon on the U.S. Sloop Decatur attached to the Pacific Squadron, 1854-57. From 1858-1860, Taylor served on the ships Preble and the Dolphin of the Brazil Squadron.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America., Pacific Coast (North America), Seattle (Wash.), and Port Townsend (Wash.)
Letters, documents, and receipts relating to Gardner's early surveying career in Oregon, his purchases of land in Black Rock, outside of Buffalo, N.Y., and in the town of Whatcom, Washington Territory. Also, letters and documents relating to the Orego...
Description:
G. Clinton Gardner worked on the US/Mexico boundary survey from 1849-1854, and then for his father, Charles K. Gardner, Surveyor General of Oregon. He served as Assistant Astronomer and Surveyor to the Commission appointed to establish the Northwest B...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon., Washington., Black Rock (Buffalo, N.Y.), Northwest boundary of the United States., Oregon, Sumas (Wash.), and Whatcom (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Flanders, Alvan., Gardner, Charles K. 1787-1869. (Charles Kitchell),, Gardner, Charles T., and Gardner, G. Clinton 1834-1904. (George Clinton),
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Claims, Wars, and Surveying
"Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1853, by J.H. Colton, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."
Publisher:
Published by J.H. Colton & Co., No. 172 William St.,
Subject (Geographic):
Indian Territory--Maps, Oklahoma --Maps, and United States--Maps
BEIN Zc10 +855unc: Another issue. Senate ex. doc. 78.
Publisher:
A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and United States
Subject (Topic):
Pacific railroads, Explorations and surveys, Description and travel, Exploring expeditions, Natural history, Indians of North America, Birds, Geology, and Paleontology
BEIN Zc10 +855unc: Another issue. Senate ex. doc. 78.
Publisher:
A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and United States
Subject (Topic):
Pacific railroads, Explorations and surveys, Description and travel, Exploring expeditions, Natural history, Indians of North America, Birds, Geology, and Paleontology
BEIN Zc10 +855unc: Another issue. Senate ex. doc. 78.
Publisher:
A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and United States
Subject (Topic):
Pacific railroads, Explorations and surveys, Description and travel, Exploring expeditions, Natural history, Indians of North America, Birds, Geology, and Paleontology
BEIN Zc10 +855unc: Another issue. Senate ex. doc. 78.
Publisher:
A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and United States
Subject (Topic):
Pacific railroads, Explorations and surveys, Description and travel, Exploring expeditions, Natural history, Indians of North America, Birds, Geology, and Paleontology
BEIN Zc10 +855unc: Another issue. Senate ex. doc. 78.
Publisher:
A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer [etc.]
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and United States
Subject (Topic):
Pacific railroads, Explorations and surveys, Description and travel, Exploring expeditions, Natural history, Indians of North America, Birds, Geology, and Paleontology
The letters to John Flett, special sub-Indian agent at Wapato Lake, request information about the Indians in his area and their attitude toward the hostile Indians, and give instructions on gathering the Indians in encampments. There is a letter from ...
Description:
General Joel Palmer, first superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, P. D., Flett, John, 1815-1892., Jennings, Berryman., and Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881.
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat a...
Description:
Title from printed caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
