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.
Subject: Map of the United States to the Mississippi River, and including parts of Upper and Lower Canada. Includes cartouche with a view of Niagara Falls and two Native Americans.
Description:
"Entered according to act of Congress October 1st, 1816 in the Dist. of Connecticut."
Publisher:
Shelton & Kensett,
Subject (Geographic):
Canada--Maps, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Pictorial works, North America--Niagara Falls, and United States--Maps
Subject (Name):
Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, Kensett, Thomas, 1786-1829, and Shelton & Kensett
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale. English and New discovery of a large country in America by Father Lewis Hennepin
Description:
BEIN Vanderbilt 75: Imperfect: Map for part II wanting. Unidentified armorial bookplate. Autograph: Lib. [Giwn]? Lloyd. Booklabel: W.S. Hiltz.
Publisher:
Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River Valley, Great Lakes (North America), Canada, and Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Subject (Name):
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Discovery and exploration, History, and Description and travel
A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in L...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
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 Americ...
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...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, History, Scalping, Soldiers, and British
Photograph albums documenting the voyage and return trip of the Harriman Expedition to Alaska. There are views of passengers and crew aboard ship and ashore, glaciers and tundra, sealing in the Probilof Islands, and whaling fleets at Port Clarence. P...
Description:
Edward Henry Harriman made his fortune in the stock market, and became active in the consolidation of rail lines in the late nineteenth century. In 1899 he organized and funded a scientific expedition up the Alaska coast that included George Bird Grin...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Sitka (Alaska), Juneau (Alaska), and Pribilof Islands (Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Harriman Alaska Expedition
Subject (Topic):
Pictorial works, Indians of North America, Aleuts, Eskimos, Whaling, Sealing, and Description and travel
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 ...
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc70 789vi: On sheet 18.3 x 23,0 cm.
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
Correspondence and drawings from students, business records and official correspondence accumulated by A.W. Smith while teaching in La Push, Neah Bay, and Mora, Washington (Territory and State). Significant correspondents include Myron Eells, Samuel G...
Description:
A.W. Smith was a teacher in the United States Indian School Service, and established a school in La Push, Washington Territory in 1882.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), La Push (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), and Mora (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Smith, A.W. (Allison W.)
Subject (Topic):
Quileute Indians, Social life and customs, Makah Indians, Indians of North America, Children's art, Education, and Indian agents
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 ...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts. and Massachusetts
Subject (Name):
Sturges, Joseph. and Zachary, Jacob.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Master and servant, Whaling, and History
American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908 Foster, Charles, 1828-1904
Published / Created:
1880-1896
Call Number:
WA MSS S-903 (folio)
Image Count:
56
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letters written for American Horse regarding early customs of the Sioux, their cultural advancement, and the tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek. Accompanied by a letter about Charles Foster's position on Indian affairs and a letter from Mrs. James Landy to...
Subject (Name):
American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908--Portraits, Foster, Charles, 1828-1904, Landy, Edwin F, and Landy, James
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Pictorial works, Dakota Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America, and Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
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
Photographs by C. C. Pierce, G. Wharton James, and Frank H. Nowell of Navajo, Hopi, Pima, Havasupai, Flathead and Seminole Indians. Included are views of cliff dwellings, villages, and kivas and photographs of weaving, pottery making and other activi...
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards, and are accompanied by typescript captions. Six photographs are accompanied by maps of Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Flathead and Seminole Indian Reserves. A single print has extensive hand coloring.
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Grand Canyon (Ariz.), Acoma (N.M.), Laguna (N.M.), Walpi (Ariz.), and Oraibi (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Hotte, Arthur.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Salish Indians, Pima Indians, Seminole Indians, Hopi Indians, Pueblo Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Kivas, Pueblos, Snake dance, Indian baskets, and Cliff-dwellings
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 and 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
BEIN E159 +B79 1-5: Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 1. Latin] Francoforti, 1590. Imperfect: colophon to the plates (p. [5]-[6] of 3rd group) wanting; last blank leaf wanting.
Publisher:
Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus vero T. de Bry, venales reperiūtur in officina S. Feirabēdii
Subject (Geographic):
Florida
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, History, and Description and travel
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
Print reproduces a drawing of Native Americans hunting buffalo on plains; in foreground, center-right, a bison chased by a Native American on horseback who is armed with bow and arrow; mid-ground, left, another Native American on horseback; background...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Book Club of California
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, American bison, and Overland journeys to the Pacific
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
Depicts Earls of Mansfield and Bute with Lord North, seated on a cloud with a demon, observing below them the female combatants Britannia and America with spear and tomahawk, flanked by male figures representating France and Spain
Alternative Title:
Blessed effects of family quarrels
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and America.
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Indians of North America, Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, and Colonies
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
Capt. Keith struggles as he is attacked by two Indians one of whom has grabbed his rifle while another Indian stands with his tomahawk raised above the Captain's head. The Captain's wife with her child in her arms reaches up towards her husband as sh...
Alternative Title:
Captain Keith and family betrayed and made prisoners by the American Indians
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. Tegg
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Familes, Fighting, Tomahawks, and Warfare
The journal of Lewis and Clarke, to the mouth of the Columbia River beyond the Rocky Mountains. In
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780, Clark, William, 1770-1838, Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), and Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
Subject (Topic):
Cree language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc and Indians of North America
The journal of Lewis and Clarke, to the mouth of the Columbia River beyond the Rocky Mountains. In
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780, Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809, and Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
Subject (Topic):
Cree language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc and Indians of North America
Cartes-de-visite photographs created by photographers in the United States and Canada of Indians of North America, ca. 1860-1875. Images consist chiefly of portraits depicting men in traditional clothing, with a few examples of women and children. T...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Barker, Anthony, 1930-, Bliss, W. P., Carter, Charles Williams., Choate, John N., Cross, W. R. (William R.), Hamilton, C. L., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848., Mautz, Carl., Savage, C. R. 1832-1909. (Charles Roscoe),, Spotted Tail, 1823-1881., Witherell, A. W., Duffin & Caswell., and Jackson Brothers Photography.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Fox Indians, Indians of North America, Navajo Indians, Paiute Indians, Paloos Indians, Sauk Indians, Shoshoni Indians, Ute Indians, and Yankton Indians
Voyage dans les deux Lousiianes, et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les Etats-Unis, l
Image Count:
1
Description:
Between p. 178 & p. 179.
Subject (Geographic):
Louisiana --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Mississippi River Valley --Description and travel, and Ohio River Valley --Description and travel
Informal carte-de-visite photographs probably created by James L. Cotter documenting Inuit people and dwellings probably in the vicinity of the eastern coast of Hudson Bay or Belcher Islands, Canada, ca. 1867-1870. Images documenting the traditional ...
Description:
James L. Cotter worked in various capacities from clerk to chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company, 1857-1888.
Subject (Geographic):
Hudson Bay, Canada, and Hudson Bay.
Subject (Name):
Cotter, James L., 1839-1889. and Smith, R., photographer.
Subject (Topic):
Inuit, Clothing, Indian architecture, and Indians of North America
Photographs depicting Cherokee leaders: a head-and-shoulders portrait of John Ross, a half-length portrait of a uniformed Lewis Downing, and a full-length portrait of a uniformed "Captain in one of the Cherokee loyal Regiments." There is also a portra...
Description:
John Ross, first chief of the Cherokee Nation. Lewis Downing, second chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Downing, Lewis and Ross, John, 1790-1866
Subject (Topic):
History, Participation, Indian, Cherokee Indians, and Indians of North America
Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of p...
Description:
Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute cer...
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
Subject (Topic):
Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates ...
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several...
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Na...
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Sitka., Sitka (Alaska), Tatoosh Island (Wash.), Washington (State), and Wrangell Island (Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska)
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879, Fuller, John A., 1828-1909., Sitka Lutheran Church (Sitka, Alaska), and St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Fishing lodges, Indians of North America, and Dwellings
Eight drawings mounted in a later album, seven of them rendered in red chalk. Drawings depict Native American hunters smoking pipes, carrying a canoe, carrying pelts, and a woman carrying a papoose; coureurs du bois holding guns; scenes from beaver hu...
"design in two groups, one (left) representing the past, the other (right) the present. A Dutchman personifying the Dutch Republic, threatened by Spain (left) kneels, hat in hand, before a military officer representing England, imploring help. He says...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Foreign relations, Dutch, Caricatures and cartoons, French, Spaniards, Caricatures and cartons, Americans, Indians of North America, and Clothing & dress
