Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Description:
Teaching resource: Professor John Mack Faragher, History 141: The American West.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works and Kansa Indians
Annual index in final issue of each year., Began in 1890 and ceased in 1920. Cf. Catalogue collectif des périodiques., Continues in part: Petit journal : supplément littéraire. Continued by: Petit journal illustré Dec. 25, 1920-Oct. 11, 1931., Description based on: 3e année (1892)., and Issued as a supplement to Le Petit journal.
Publisher:
Le Petit journal,
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)--Newspapers and West (U.S.)--Pictorial works--Periodicals
Subject (Name):
Richard, Rosa--Autograph and Vottorj, Conte Roberti--Bookplate
Annual index in final issue of each year., Began in 1890 and ceased in 1920. Cf. Catalogue collectif des périodiques., Continues in part: Petit journal : supplément littéraire. Continued by: Petit journal illustré Dec. 25, 1920-Oct. 11, 1931., Description based on: 3e année (1892)., and Issued as a supplement to Le Petit journal.
Publisher:
Le Petit journal,
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)--Newspapers and West (U.S.)--Pictorial works--Periodicals
Subject (Name):
Richard, Rosa--Autograph and Vottorj, Conte Roberti--Bookplate
Photographs of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Photographs created by Owen Luck of individuals and events surrounding the armed occupation by Oglala Dakota Indians, American Indian Movement, and their allies of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota, 1973. Images document ceremonies and gatherings, men holding rifles and manning roadblocks, the arrival of negotiators from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and the federal government, and government military forces. Other images shows a group in the doorway of the courthouse during the arraignment of prisoners and Tom Bad Cobb in the street outside the jail, both in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Description:
Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001. and Signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indian occupation, 1973
Subject (Name):
American Indian Movement
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works and Oglala Indians--Government relations
