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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. Cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, & Indian life in the South West
- Creator:
- Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1899-1903.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 204
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 (album)
- Image Count:
- 20
- Abstract:
- Photograph album created by Sumner Matteson from a selection of his photographs of the Southwest, Montana, and Colorado. The photographs, which are captioned in a typed list that accompanies the album, date from 1899 to 1902, and depict a variety of places and events. The majority of the photographs are of the Hopi Indians, their Snake, Antelope, and Flute ceremonies, kiva interiors, as well as weaving, grinding corn, courting, working in fields, making pottery, and marketing at the Moenkopi, Mishongnovi, Shipolovi and Shongopovi Pueblos. There are also photographs of cliff-dwellings at Mesa Verde and Mancos Canyon, Colorado; Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; Pueblo Indians at Isleta and Acoma, New Mexico; Navajo and Ute Indians in New Mexico and Colorado; Penitentes in Abiquiu, New Mexico; and views of wagon trains, Indian encampments, mines, and sheepherding in Montana
- Description:
- Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman in Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903, photographing the Mesa Verde and Pueblo Bonito cliff-dwellings, Navajo Indians, Penitentes in New Mexico, Hopi Snake and Flute ceremonies in Arizona, the Pueblo villages of Acoma and Isleta, Montana wagon trains, and cattle and sheep roundups. He sold his own photographs, wrote articles and provided illustrations for popular magazines, and provided photographs for several books on Southwestern Indians written by others., Accompanied by a contemporary typescript containing captions and often explanatory background for almost all of the photographs in the album. Typescript titled "Index to the Frank Klepetko Album. Photos and Data by Sumner W. Matteson" and signed "Sumner W. Matteson, D.A.C. [Denver Athletic Club] Denver, Colo. Jan. 1903.", Individual photographs are 12 x 17 cm. and smaller., 157 of the photographs are platinum prints., Album and copy prints in 2 boxes., and Copy prints available for every page except the first.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Southwest, New, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, Abiquiu (N.M.), Acoma (N.M.), Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.), Colorado, Isleta (N.M.), Mancos Site (Colo.), Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.), Moenkopi Pueblo (Ariz.), and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Name):
- Klepetko, Frank., Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920., and Hermanos Penitentes
- Subject (Topic):
- Hopi Indians, Rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Cliff-dwellings, Kivas, Navajo Indians, Pueblo Indians, Snake dance, Mines and mineral resources, Sheep ranches, Wool industry, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, & Indian life in the South West
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. Geo. W. Williams & Co.'s Carolina fertilizer, with twenty photographic views from the line of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Creator:
- George W. Williams & Company
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1869]
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 106
- Image Count:
- 58
- Abstract:
- Viewbook of mounted photographic prints compiled by the George W. Williams & Company, fertilizer merchants, ca. 1869. A photographic print appears on the recto of each mount that depicts an advertisement for Carolina Fertilizer with a letterpress testimonial below it. The verso of each mount carries a photographic print of an image created by Andrew J. Russell. The exception is the last mount, which carries a photographic advertisement for BD Sea Fowl Guano on the recto of the mount and no photographic print on the verso. The images by Russell document landscape views and buildings along the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah, ca. 1867-1869. Many images of landscapes include men and women posited in the terrain to provide scale, An image shows a view of Echo, Utah, as well as rock outcroppings in its vicinity, including Hanging Rock, Monument Rock, and Sphinx Rock, Images of locations in the Weber River Valley, Utah, include views of Coalville city, Devil's Gate, Tunnel No. 4, Bridge No. 32, and of the Mormon Turnpike Bridge at the mouth of the canyon, Images of Wyoming include views of a large windmill at Laramie; Granite Canyon from a water tank; High Bluffs in the Black Buttes area; and an overview of the Laramie River Valley, as well as railroad cuts consisting of the Burning Rock Cut and Hall's Cut (identified in a caption as the Great Mountain Pass)., An image of Omaha, Nebraska, shows a street leading to the Missouri River, An image shows a group of people during the laying of the last rail connecting the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad on May 10, 1869, near Promontory, Utah, and Sixteen plates without mounted photographic prints in the volume contain graphical advertisements for the products of the George W. Williams Company including BD Sea Fowl Guano, Bradley's Super Phosphate of Lime, C. C. Coe's Ammoniated Super Phosphate of Lime, Carolina Fertilizer, and Palmetto Soluble Acid Phosphate, as well as powdered raw bones and dissolved unburnt bones
- Description:
- Title from cover., Autograph on front board of Frank E. Taylor., Twenty photographs of the west are reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's, The Great West illustrated . . . New York, 1869., and Photographic prints measure 13 x 7 cm.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States., West (U.S.), Coalville (Utah), Echo (Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Missouri River, Nebraska, Omaha (Neb.), Salt Lake City (Utah), Utah, Weber River Valley (Utah), and Wyoming
- Subject (Name):
- Russell, Andrew J., Williams, George Walton, 1820-1903., Young, Brigham, 1801-1877, Beehive House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Central Pacific Railroad Company, Lion House (Salt Lake City, Utah), Tabernacle (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Union Pacific Railroad Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Advertising, Agriculture, Fertilizer industry, and Railroads
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Geo. W. Williams & Co.'s Carolina fertilizer, with twenty photographic views from the line of the Union Pacific Railroad
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
