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The story of the Indian

Description: Image of an advertisement for the Story of the Indian by George Bird Grinnell; Native American Indian man on horseback on a rocky bluff looks out over a cluster of tips in a valley at sunrise.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003113
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Snow bird and the water tiger and other American Indian tales

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Image of an advertisement for Snow Bird and the Water Tiger and Other American Indian Tales by Margaret Compton; two panels depict outsized Native American Indians interacting with a wild landscape; a large hand holds a fish above a forest with a deer and a bear near a stream at left; a large face with windswept hair peers over a rocky cliff face with a warrior at the mouth of a cave with skeleton apparitions inside at right.

priJLC_ART_003095

Thunder-storm. (Big Sewell Mountain.) (Reconnoissance.)

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Image of Union soldiers on horseback at the top of a rocky outcropping on Big Sewell Mountain in West Virginia during the American Civil War.

priJLC_MIL_002402

First division New York State artillery

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Image of the 1st Division New York State Artillery Regiment assembled on horseback near the harbor in New York City; ships visible past buildings in background; American bald eagle with Union shield, olive branch, and bunch of arrows over a cluster of flags, sword, and bugle at bottom center.

priJLC_MIL_001291

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Indian Princess Brand

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Image of a Native American female holding a bow and arrow in a desert landscape; orange cluster in foreground and geometric and figural designs in border.

ephJLC_CIT_000327

Harrington Opera House. : Miss Leo Hudson with her trained mare, 'Black Bess,"

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Image of equestrienne actor Leo Hudson (Julia V. Hodson) wearing a short toga-like dress and tied to the back of a rearing horse “Black Bess” while at the top of a rocky cliff with dead trees and a bird in the background; the poster advertises performances by Hudson beginning on November 11, 1872, at the Harrington Opera House in Providence, Rhode Island.

priJLC_ENT_000453

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Image of a landscape view of the Spanish Peaks mountains in Colorado; Native American Indian on horseback in foreground at bottom right.

priJLC_VIEW_004240

The story of the Indian

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