[Native American][Western Americana] Native American photo archive centering Indigenous regalia and spectacle in the Upper Midwest or Plains region during the early twentieth century, a period marked by aggressive United States assimilation policies directed at Native communities. The images depict ceremonial dress, group gatherings, and parades, visual documentation of cultural.....
[Western Americana] Cowboy photograph archive documenting armed riders, ranch labor, rodeo culture, and frontier mobility across the American West between the 1880s and 1920s. Images capture working cowboys on horseback, cattle branding scenes, and interactions with Native American families during the late frontier period when cattle ranching and horse culture.....
19th century photographs of frontier life document settlement, labor, travel, and Indigenous presence in the developing American West during the later decades of westward expansion. Twelve albumen photographs depict wagons traveling across open terrain, ranch buildings and campsites, cattle branding, hunters with game, Native riders on horseback, and families living.....
Bell, William. New Tracks in North America. 1869 stands as a primary narrative of post–Civil War railroad expansion and scientific exploration in the American West, written by a British physician who joined General William J. Palmer’s Kansas Pacific Railway survey expedition of 1868–1869. Traveling from St. Louis across Colorado, New.....
Native American school postcard archive documenting the federal program of Indian education at Cantonment, Oklahoma, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1910s, showcasing how the United States imposed systemic colonialist ideals onto Native children within boarding school environments through regimented housing, group instruction, uniform dress, and institutional instruction. The group bears on.....
[Native American][Mining] Native American land Coal Mining Archive, documenting the federal intervention and supervision of coal extraction in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations during the rapid expansion of industrial mining in the 1890s. The reports were issued under the authority of the Act of March 3, 1891, “for the protection.....
Eye Gate House, Inc. Native American glass lantern slide archive documents Indigenous communities through early 20th-century educational media, produced during a period when ethnographic imagery circulated widely in schools and public lectures across the United States. Created circa 1900s, these slides present staged and documentary views of Native American life.....
Indian Rights Association and unidentified photographers, archive of eighteen items dating from the early 1950s, documents community life, federal oversight, and economic activity in Window Rock, capital of the Navajo Nation. The materials engage issues of Indigenous rights, public health, education, and economic development during a period when federal Indian.....
U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs. Group of eight bulletins issued 1927–1928, documenting federal Indian education and cultural policy systems in the United States during the interwar period. The material documents the system of government-directed Native American assimilation and education through officially distributed bulletins, revealing how federal.....
Ralph Waldo Emerson, et al. Letter to President Martin Van Buren on the Cherokee Indians, published in the Mechanic and Farmer. Thursday May 24, 1838. Published in Bangor, ME, 1838. Large format newspaper, 4 pages. 21" by 15 ½" inches. A single issue of this newspaper, featuring a letter from.....
[Native American] Thatcher, B.B. New York: J & J Harper, 1834. Indian Biography, Or An Historical Account Of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished Among The North American Natives As Orators, Warriors, Statesmen And Other Remarkable Characters. Thatcher was a Boston abolitionist who also wrote a biography of Phyllis Wheatley.....
Americana Historic newspaper. The Press, July 7, 1876 issue, Philadelphia, PA. The first front-page story reports on the Battle of the Plains and General Custer's consequent demise. In part: "Despatches to Generals Sherman and Sheridan which show that the first reports were only too true - an intimation that Custer.....
Two wood engravings by Cesare Vecellio. Giovanni Bernardo Sessa: Venice, 1598. Each measure 4.75 x 7 inches. One engraving shows a woman from Scandinavia, an early Italian representation of Viking women, with what seems like a weapon in one hand and fire coming out of her mouth. Scandinavian women did.....
[Mexican American] Downing, Todd. The Mexican Earth. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. First edition, first printing. With Illustrations by Howard Willard. 8vo., viii,(2),337pp. Beige colored buckram, spine printed in dark red. Map endpapers. No dust jacket. Black and white illustrations in text. George Todd Downing was a......
[Slavery & Abolition] Gidding, Joshua R. The Exiles of Florida or, The Crimes Committed by our Government Against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other Slave States, Seeking Protection Under Spanish Laws. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster and Co. First Edition, 1858. Original brown cloth binding with gilt text.....
[Native American] Archive of four real photo postcards of Natives from the Rapid City Indian Council saddle bronco riding. South Dakota s. Doubleday-Rise. Date unknown, circa 1910s. 5.5" x 3.5" inche One photo shows a cowboy taking a tumble from a white bronco named "Star Gazer." There are two shots.....
[Native American] [Western Americana] Archive of 6 Real Photo Postcards featuring Native Americans from the Garden of the Gods Trading Company. Colorado Springs, CO 1920s. Real photo postcards feature Chiefs and members of the Pueblo Indian Tribe. Ancestral Pueblo people in the western part of the Southwest were primarily dry.....
[Law] Howard, Benjamin C. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in The Supreme Court of the United States December Term, 1852. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1853. First Edition Hardcover rebound. 650 pages. Measures 5.75" x 8.75". Includes various Supreme Court decisions from the year 1852 during the December session.....
[Native American] [Americana]. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for The Year 1884. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. In paper wrappers. 9” x 6” inches. 55 pages. This report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs captures the population management methods used by.....
[Western Americana] F.O.C Darley Engraving. "An Indian Foray in the West." Harper's Weekly: 1858. Measures 15.5 x 11 inches. Image shows three native American men on horses that gallop away from a small cabin that appears enflamed, one native man carrying a small white girl with her arms outstretched in.....
[Native American] [Americana] Osage Indian Treaty. [Wahsington, D.C.]: Ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives, 40th Congress, 2nd Session, June 18 1868. Rare: only four copies in any library or institution nationwide, per OCLC Worldcat, as of April 2022. Measures 5.5” x 9.5” inches. 23 pages. Looseleaf, with.....
[Harmon Percy Marble] [Native American Photography] Photograph of Navajo family. American Southwest, circa 1920. Measures 5" x 7." Image depicts a Native American mother and her two daughters sitting on the ground, a horse standing in the background. Photographer Harmon Marble is most known for his extensive photography of Navajo.....
[Western Americana] Original hand colored lithographs of "Wa - Pel - La Chief of the Musquakees". Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838 From McKenney and Hall's monumental Indian Tribes of North America. a series of hand colored lithographs on prominent Native Americans. Printer I. T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment Publishers ca. 1838. Print.....
Historic Newspaper. Free Press, August 27, 1874, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 4 pages, recto and verso. An article on the second page describes Custer's expedition and findings in Black Hills, in the expired Sioux reservation, Wyoming Territory. In part:"...The expedition thus far has met with no resistance from the Indians...Gold and.....
Montana 1900s Keystone View Company Stereoview of The Village Of Blackfoot Indians Near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier Nat. Park Montana. 7x3.5", sepia toned, on gray mount. Mountain range in background with teepees in foreground. Brief history of the Siksika (Blackfeet) natives on back. Mount and albumen are in excellent condition.....
