A mounted American Indian male aims his arrow at a buffalo, while a second rider holding a spear pivots to engage a buffalo that has knocked down a third hunter and his horse
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
John G. Wellstood?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, and American bison
Two men stand and converse as they attempt to load their shotguns, the stocks of both their guns resting on the ground. The man on the right looks over at the other man and lets powder drop from his open hand; his shot pouch is seen on the ground in f...
Poster for the Indian Court exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, showing two mounted Native Americans hunting one buffalo, in blue, red, black, and ocher on a pale cream background
Alternative Title:
From an Indian painting on elkskin, Great Plains
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc12 939in 7: From the library of Alfred Heller.
Publisher:
Federal Art Project, WPA
Subject (Geographic):
Great Plains, California, and San Francisco
Subject (Name):
Golden Gate International Exposition
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hunting, Commemoration, Subsistence activities, Arts & crafts, and Bison hunting
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance anot...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, and Parrots
Design consists of twenty-one individually-captioned panels arranged in three horizonal rows illustrating Johnny's arrival in Jamaica, his contracting Yellow Fever, his illness and temporary recovery, his brief participation in Jamaican society, his r...
Alternative Title:
Johnny Newcome in the island of Jamaica
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubbished [sic] by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Black people, Pulse, Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Diseases, Relapse, Medicines, Bedrooms, Cemeteries, Clergy, Servants, Lawyers, Coffins, Couples, Death, Interiors, Physicians, Vomiting, Yellow fever, and Hunting
Manuscript, in a single hand with numerous corrections, of a collection of 15 letters describing life in England, translated into French, possibly from German. The letters discuss English lotteries; the proliferation of newspapers; the constitution a...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Great Britain., England, France, and Versailles (France)
Subject (Name):
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., and Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804.
Subject (Topic):
Cockfighting, Elections, Hunting, Lotteries, Slave trade, Newspapers, Nobility, Travelers' writings, French, Description and travel, History, Women, Intellectual life, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Oppian. 2) Summary of the poem in art. 1. 3) Scholia on Oppian, Halieutica, attributed to Tzetzes. 4) Paraphrasis of Oppian, Cynegetica, attributed to Tzetzes
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Oppian, active 2nd century.
Subject (Topic):
Greek poetry, Hellenistic, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
