Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
1831.
Call Number:
831.02.00.11+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mustached Polish soldier dressed in a green military uniform drops his unsheathed saber and struggles under the weight of a massive grizzly bear (Russia) that straddles his back. Fallen on the floor are the soldier's hat and a staff of liberty inscribed 'Poland & Liberty'. A satirical treatment of the Polish-Russian War, 1830-1831 or the 'November Uprising'.
Description:
Title from caption below image. The word "bear" in unbearable is underscored., Imprint mostly burnished from plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. by S. Gans, Southampton St., Strand, Fed
Subject (Geographic):
Poland, Poland., Russia., and Russia
Subject (Topic):
History, Grizzly bears, Soldiers, Foreign relations, and Daggers & swords
Photograph album probably compiled by Samuel Tepakeyah or his wife, Angeline Petty Tepakeyah, circa 1890-1915, which contains 59 photographs, including 29 cabinet photographs, 15 tintypes, and 8 photographic postcards. The photographs include studio portraits of American Indians, predominantly Ottawa as well as students at the United States Indian School, and others made by photographers in northern Michigan and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Ottawa men photographed in Petoskey, Michigan, include James Green, William Mitchell, and an infant, Joseph Jackson. The album also includes a studio portrait of Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of the United States Indian School, circa 1895, Photographers in northern Michigan include T. F. Nix in Boyne City; Edward E. Bowman and G. W. Priest in Charlevoix; H. Krueger in Grand Rapids; E. H. Koing in Mancelona; L. S. Morey in Mount Pleasant; Hoyt Steven Spencer in Northport; and The Park Gallery, P.A. Fisher, and H. M. Wilcox in Petoskey, Identified photographers in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, include J. N. Choate and Edgar Kurtz Gaugler, and The album includes a handbill for the Hines-Kimball Troupe of acrobats with a group portrait of its members for shows in 1904-1906
Description:
Samuel E. Tepakeyah (also known as Enore Ta-pe-ke-yah) (1875-1938) was an Ottawa, probably a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. He may have attended the United States Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Tepakeyah lived in Hayes, Charlevoix County, Michigan, and worked as a laborer in a limekiln and chopping wood. In September 1912, he married Angeline Petty (1879-1943) and they had five children., Inscriptions in English and album cover in Polish., Title devised by cataloger., Cover of the photograph album includes the coat of arms for Poland, January Uprising (1863), with the motto, Boże Zbaw Polskę, as well as a depiction of Saint Mary, Blessed Virgin., Photograph album measures 28.5 x 23.5 cm., and Ownership inscriptions by Tepakeyah on the versos of many prints.
Subject (Geographic):
Poland
Subject (Name):
Bowman, Edward E., 1868-, Choate, J. N. 1848-1902. (John N.),, Fisher, P. A. 1858-1932. (Perry A.),, Gaugler, Edgar Kurtz, 1861-1947., Krueger, H. 1856-1918. (Herman Carl August),, Lackey, Sanford Fillmore, 1858-1904., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Morey, L. S. 1858-1945. (Loren Searle),, Nix, T. F. 1848-1920. (Theodore F.),, Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924, Priest, G. W. 1863- (George W.),, Spencer, Hoyt Steven, 1819-1914., Tepakeyah, Angeline Petty, 1878-1943., Tepakeyah, Samuel E., 1875-1938., Wilcox, H. M. 1846-1926. (Horace M.),, Hines-Kimball Troupe, Park Gallery (Petoskey, Mich.), and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Ottawa Indians, and History
