Manuscript contract, dated 1847 Feb 4, in ink, between Thomas L. McKenney and John T. Bowen. Agreement states terms for the revision and republication of McKenney's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a work McKenney first published in 1837...
Description:
Thomas Loraine McKenney, author, Superintendent of Indian Trade (1816-1822), first Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1824-1830). John T. Bowen, British artist and engraver born in 1801, active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860., Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?, Hall, James, 1793-1868., McKenney, Thomas L. 1785-1859. (Thomas Loraine),, Paine, John, fl. 1847., and Strattan, Robert M.