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1. A check : keep your distance!
- Creator:
- Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1853]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +134
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- Published by N. Currier
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and Wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A check : keep your distance!
2. A parley : prepared for an emergency
- Creator:
- Cameron, John, approximately 1828- artist
- Published / Created:
- [1868]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc10 856ca
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- Published by Currier & Ives
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.) and Great Plains
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Warfare, and Trappers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A parley : prepared for an emergency
3. Buffalo chase
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +70
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-quarters of the image are of sky
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 9.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott, Grambo & Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting and Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buffalo chase
4. Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1415
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 79
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Acapulco, and the voyage to San Francisco. There is a detailed description of San Francisco and more information on California towns, agriculture, mining, flora and fauna. The diary also chronicles a train trip from Rocklin, California to Reno, Nevada, where the author found work on an alfalfa farm. The author continued overland by train through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska to Chicago and then Detroit. The author traveled to New York by way of Niagara Falls and The volume includes illustrations of California, Nevada, and Niagara Falls as well as maps of the railroad routes. There is a list of the illustrations and a list of plants identified. The author also created an abstract of the diary in the back of the volume
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
- Subject (Name):
- Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
- Subject (Topic):
- Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875
5. Fight to the finish
- Creator:
- Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1912?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +216
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "Fight to the finish." Depicts a scene of Native Americans on horseback. Two in close combat foregrounded. Others in background
- Description:
- BEIN WA Prints +216: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1912 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., and In lower right corner of print, signed: Chas Schreyvogel copyright 1912.
- Publisher:
- Moffat, Yard and Company?
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Name):
- United States. Army
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and War
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fight to the finish
6. Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +83
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at the foot of an escarpment. One-third of the image is of sky
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 29.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott, Grambo & Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- Fort Defiance (Ariz.) and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52
7. Going for reinforcements
- Creator:
- Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1906?]
- Call Number:
- WA prints +214
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "Going for reinforcements." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops in the west in which two soldiers are galloping on horses away from Native Americans who are in pursuit
- Description:
- BEIN WA Print +214: In lower left corner of print, blind stamped: Copyright 1901 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., and Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York.
- Publisher:
- Moffat, Yard and Company?
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Name):
- United States. Army.
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and War
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Going for reinforcements
8. Herd on the move
- Creator:
- Hays, William Jacob, 1830-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1862]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc10 866ha
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print depicts a herd of bison on the Great Plains; several bison face the viewer in the foreground; grassland swells into low hills in middle-and back-ground; filled with bison; the top half of the image is sky
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ha: State before title and imprint letters., Title and imprint from caption on another state of this print., Within image in lower left, signed: W.J. Hays, 1861., and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862, by W.J. Hays in the clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York
- Publisher:
- Goupil & Co. and Printed by Endicott & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Plains and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herd on the move
9. How kola
- Creator:
- Schreyvogel, Charles, 1861-1912, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1906?]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +212
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "How kola." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Troupers riding directly at viewer with a fallen Native American and horse about to be trampled by trouper on horseback in the foreground
- Description:
- Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and In hand at bottom left corner of print: Copyright 1901 by Chas Schreyvogel.
- Publisher:
- Moffat, Yard and Company?
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Name):
- United States. Army
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and War
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > How kola
