"A hut with a door at the front, with logs next to the door and in a pile in front of the hut to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Engrav'd for the Ladys Magazine"--Above image., and Plate from: The lady's magazine, or, Entertaining companion for the fair sex, v. 16 (February 1785).
Publisher:
Published March 1st, 1785, by G. Robinson
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska and Alaska.
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, and Huts
A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New
Image Count:
1
Description:
Preceding page 1 of Part 1, A new discovery of a country greater than Europe; situated in America, betwixt New Mexico and the frozen sea. and Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Geographic):
United States --Discovery and exploration and United States --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America
Collection Created:
London : Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698
Subject: Map of the United States to the Mississippi River, and including parts of Upper and Lower Canada. Includes cartouche with a view of Niagara Falls and two Native Americans.
Description:
"Entered according to act of Congress October 1st, 1816 in the Dist. of Connecticut.", "Projected by Thomas Kensett.", "This view of the falls of Niagara is engraved from Tardieus map published at Paris. A. Doolittle sc.", and Dedicated to the president, senator
Publisher:
Shelton & Kensett,
Subject (Geographic):
Canada--Maps, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Pictorial works, North America--Niagara Falls, and United States--Maps
Subject (Name):
Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832, Kensett, Thomas, 1786-1829, and Shelton & Kensett
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Indians of North America--Pictorial works
The discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky: and an essay towards the topography and
Image Count:
1
Description:
Engrav'd for S. Campbell's Edition of Imlay's Description of Kentucky., Preceding title page., and Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Geographic):
Kentucky --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Ohio River Valley
A broadside with seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes -- "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire written on the occasion of the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression these envoys produced on the English
Description:
Caption title., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Bowditch's annotations on mounting sheet., Annotated in an unknown hand below verse., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm; some damage to edges and lower corners.
Publisher:
Sold by the author, opposite the Union Coffee-House, in the Strand, near Temple-Bar, and by all the print and pamphlet seller[s]
A scene on the frontier of the United States: a Native American (left) is shown scalping a dead British soldier. Another British soldier who has already been scalped is shown on the left edge of the design. In the center a second Native American, from whose rifle hangs a sign "Reward for 16 ... scalps" and in whose knife initials "G.R." have been etched, is shown handing a scalp to an obese British soldier (right). The speech balloon above the soldier 's head reads: "Bring me the scalps and the King our master will reward you"; from his pocket a strip of paper "Secret service money". In the background, Native Americans and British soldiers dance around a fire
Description:
Title etched above image., Signed with the initials "L.G." in lower right corner., A copy in reverse of a print by William Charles. For original version, see Library of Congress call no.: PGA -- Charles (W.) -Scene on the frontiers ... (A size) [P&P]., and Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Arise Columbia's sons and forward press, your country's wrongs call loudly for redress ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, History, Scalping, Soldiers, and British
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Their towns equal in extent and population [to] the largest cities of Europe; some extending many miles in length, with considerable regularity in their streets, and their houses of a uniform style of architecture."
Description:
P. 51, associated with p. 65.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America