Visual Materials

American Indian print collection

Description: Prints in this collection show images of notable Native Americans, including Pocahontas, Red Jacket, Philip (Metacom) of the Wampanogas, Samson Occom, Powhatan, Theyanoguin, and Tecumseh. Prominent Europeans and Americans appear as well, including Captain John Smith, William Augustus Bowles, William Penn, Zachary Taylor, and William Henry Harrison. The majority of the tribal nations depicted in the prints are located on the East Coast and in the Midwest. A significant portion of the prints are of buffalo hunting and Indian ceremonies by George Catlin and various Indian daily life scenes by Seth Eastman. Other notable holdings consist of battles between Indians and American settlers and soldiers, Indians playing ball games, dance ceremonies, caring for crops, and Christian missionaries among the Indians.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1700s-approximately 1800s.
Call number: pri520
Provenance: This collection is of uncertain provenance and previously formed part of the Huntington Library Prints and Ephemera Collection.
Associated people: Agate, Alfred T., (1812-1846.); Andrews, Joseph, (1806-1873.); Armytage, James Charles, (1802-1897.); Bodmer, Karl, (1809-1893.); Brown, George Loring, (1814-1889.); Buttre, John Chester, (1821-1893.); Catlin, George, (1796-1872.); Chamberlin, Mason, (-1787.); Chapin, John Reuben, (1823-1894.); Chapman, J. G. (1808-1889.); Chappel, Alonzo, (1828-1887.); Corbould, Edward Henry, (1815-1905.); Corbould, H. (1787-1844.); Currier, Nathaniel, (1813-1888.); Danforth, Moseley Isaac, (1800-1862.); Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, (1822-1888.); Doney, Thomas, (active 1844-1852.); Drayton, Joseph. (1804 or 1805-1886.); Duval, Peter S., (1808-1875.); Eastman, Seth, (1695?-1756.); Ellis, George B. (approximately 1824-); Faber, John, (1817-1874.); Fay, Augustus, (approximately 1805-1867.); Frenzeny, Paul. (1824-1914.); Gavit, John E., (1812-1879.); Hatch, George W., (1799-1879.); Hicks, George Elgar, (1823-1863.); Hinshelwood, Robert, (1785-1862.); Jocelyn, Simeon Smith, (1682-1740.); Jordan, Henry. (1813-1884.); Kern, Edward Meyer, (1810-1874.); King, Charles Bird, (1823-1909.); Lens, Bernard, (1793-); Leroux, Eugène. (active 1863-1894.); Matteson, Tompkins Harrison, (approximately 1808-approximately 1888.); McNevin, John. (1799-1862.); McRae, John C. (1808-1897.); Miller, Alfred Jacob, (1661-1711.); Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon, (1749-1824.); Rawdon, Ralph, (1675-approximately 1755.); Ridgway, W. (1833-1909.); Rogers, John, (1814-1872.); Rolph, John A., (1844-1889.); Rosenthal, L. N. (-approximately 1870.); Sartain, John, (1648-); Schenk, Peter, (1808-1850.); Sharp, William, (1819-1904.); Simon, John, (1794-1879.); Smillie, James David, (1751-1793.); Stanley, John Mix, (1803-1889.); Storm, G. F. (1819-1900.); Tavernier, Jules, (1738-1820.); Thompson, D. George,; Verelst, John,; Wagstaff, Charles Edward,; Warren, Asa Coolidge,; Warren, Henry,; Webber, John,; Weir, Robert Walter,; Wellstood, William,; West, Benjamin,
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American Indian print collection
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