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Drawing the R.A.F. : a book of portraits

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    One drawing book of original drawings, untitled, artist unnamed, ca. 1890? The book is 8 unnumbered leaves in length, and contains 8 original pencil drawings, primarily of landscapes. None of the drawings are signed. The book is without covers. Tissue paper guard sheets are bound in between the leaves. Title supplied by cataloger.

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    Sioux Indians portraits and drawing

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    Four portraits of Sioux Indian leaders and one drawing related to the August 1862 Sioux Massacre in Minnesota. The portraits are: Sioux Chief Standing Buffalo by photographer Joel Emmons Whitney (photPF 20261); and Shakopee (photPF 20262), and Wind Rattler Walking (photPF 20263), and Great Eagle's Tail (photPF 20264) by photographer Joseph Hill of St. Paul, Minnesota. The drawing (photPF 20265) is a pen-and-ink rendering after a photograph of a group portrait of white men, women, and children on the prairie titled "People Escaping from the Indian Massacre" that was published in "History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863" by Isaac V.D. Heard. (RB 246053). There are notes in ink on the backs of the items, part of which say that they were purchased in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1862 from D. Wilson Howe, and that the names and translations were made by Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, missionary. The note on the drawing verso identifies the original portrait photographer as Adrian Ebell.

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    One drawing book of original and copied drawings entitled Drawing Book, created by L.A. Cunningham, 1854-1872. The book is comprised of 22 leaves of pencil drawings, some of which are dated between 1854 and 1872. The front and back covers are illustrated with engravings; the illustration on the front cover is of Egyptian stone ruins, and is within an elaborately decorated frame. The image on the back cover is of a floral arrangement, also within an elaborate frame. Many of the original drawings within the book are labeled in ms. by their creator, and include landscape views, views of houses, and floral arrangements or individual plants. "L.A. Cunningham, 1854" is written in ms. on the inside of the front cover. Accompanying this drawing book is a ms. note from DK that is a partial listing of the drawings in this book. According to DK's note, some of the drawings are copied from various Bartholomew drawing books.

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