Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1876.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 54
Image Count:
112
Abstract:
Album of photographs of Indians of North America assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The images in the photographs were originally created ca. 1868-1876, and cons...
Description:
Additional identification information for the majority of images in the album is available through the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland.
Subject (Geographic):
East (U.S.), Great Lakes Region (North America), Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, Northwest, Pacific, Southern States, Southwest, New, and Fort Hall (Idaho : Fort)
Subject (Name):
Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893. (Charles Milton),, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Easterly, Thomas M. 1809-1882. (Thomas Martin),, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gurney, Benjamin., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., McClees, James Earle, 1821-1887., Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Shindler, A. Zeno 1823-1899. (Antonio Zeno),, Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910., Ulke, Julius., Ulke, Lee., Vannerson, Julian, b. 1827., Westmann, Orloff R., Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Northern Arapaho Tribe, and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Indian Agency
A sketchbook with ninety-six leaves of wove paper containing thirty drawings documenting some of the places visited by Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville during their 1831-1832 tour of the United States and Canada. The views are dated but n...
Description:
Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), French author and prison reformer, made a nine-month-long tour of the United States with his colleague Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) between May 9, 1831, and February 20, 1832. The pair traveled by steamboat, horse...
Subject (Geographic):
France., United States, Choctaw Nation, Fort Howard (Wis.), Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.), Mobile Bay (Ala.), Montmorency River (Québec), New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.), Newport (R.I.), Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Ohio River, Oneida Lake (N.Y.), Québec (Québec), Saint Lawrence River, Sault Sainte Marie (Mich.), Sing Sing (N.Y.), Stockbridge (Mass.), Superior, Lake, and Wheeling (W. Va.)
Subject (Name):
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866., Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859., Auburn Prison, and Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Choctaw Indians, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, Prisons, and Description and travel
Topographical notes and observations on the Alabama River / by Howell Tatum
Image Count:
109
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Howell Tatum, appointed topographical engineer of the 7th military district by General Andrew Jackson, records his survey of the Alabama River, its navigability by keelboats, and the fertility of the soil which makes the area suitable for growing cott...
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama River (Ala.)--Surveys, Fort Bowyer (Ala.), Fort Jackson (La.), Fort Mims (Ala.), Fort Montgomery (Ala.), Fort Stoddard (Ala.), Mobile (Ala.), and Pensacola (Fla.)
