Photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
Description:
"For the trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury." Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions. Blank versos.
Photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
Description:
"For the trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury." Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions. Blank versos.
Photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
Description:
"For the trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury." Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions. Blank versos.
Photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
Description:
"For the trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury." Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions. Blank versos.
Photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
Description:
"For the trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury." Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions. Blank versos.
Photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Studio portrait photographs of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Jeremiah Gurney & Son in New York City, New York, June 1871, for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
Description:
"For the trustees of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury." Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions. Blank versos.
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"It will be seen that camp-meetings first originated in the West; nor did they commence with the Methodists, but, upon a Sacramental occasion, among the Presbyterians... They were continued until they became general among the Methodists throughout the Uni
Description:
P. 219.
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
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, aims his rifle; the other trapper driving the pack animals away from the scene. The first trapper is shown with a percussion cap and ball rifle, steer powder horn, and an arrow lodged into his camp blanket. Native American men to right in middle ground are armed with bows and arrows. Top half of image is sky
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. and Title from caption below image.
"A hut with a door at the front, with logs next to the door and in a pile in front of the hut to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Engrav'd for the Ladys Magazine"--Above image., and Plate from: The lady's magazine, or, Entertaining companion for the fair sex, v. 16 (February 1785).
Publisher:
Published March 1st, 1785, by G. Robinson
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska and Alaska.
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, and Huts
A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New
Image Count:
1
Description:
Preceding page 1 of Part 1, A new discovery of a country greater than Europe; situated in America, betwixt New Mexico and the frozen sea. and Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Geographic):
United States --Discovery and exploration and United States --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Collection Created:
London : Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698
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.", "Projected by Thomas Kensett.", "This view of the falls of Niagara is engraved from Tardieus map published at Paris. A. Doolittle sc.", and Dedicated to the president, senator
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
The discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky: and an essay towards the topography and
Image Count:
1
Description:
Engrav'd for S. Campbell's Edition of Imlay's Description of Kentucky., Preceding title page., and Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Geographic):
Kentucky --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Ohio River Valley
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 London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
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 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.
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 Daniel E. Soper. There are 76 folio drawings depicting Sioux life and three photographs of American Horse.
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
