indians of north america, history

The new country dance, as dance at C****. July the 30th, 1766

Satire on George III's court (the king plays the fiddler). Wilkes is carried off by a witch as he relieves himself on Lord Bute. Pitt talks with a half-naked Indian representing America and the devil dances wit... More

[Four Native American Indians of New France (Canada): two men at top i...

Illus. in: Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'année 1615 ... / Samuel de Champlain. Paris : C. Collet, 1619, leaf 23 recto.

The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles: ...

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Population of Albany County & Indians 1689 - 1698.

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D'Engelze volkplanting in Virginie - Public domain map

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The history of the wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians, or, A...

Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivi...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. This incomplete map without title covers only the east portion showing in the map entitled "Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisian... More

[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town ...

Print shows bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with view of Native hunting and a palm tree in the foreground. Illus. in: The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Boston : Printed and sold by Roge... More

Cunne Shote, the Indian chief, a great warrior of the Cherokee Nation.

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Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali ..

Cartouche showing European traders and Natives in tropical setting around a large skin with title text. Illus. in: Atlas geographicvs maior ... / per Iohannem Baptistam Homannvm. Norimbergae : Curantibus Homa... More

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perc...

Illus. in: Atlas geographicvs maior ... / per Iohannem Baptistam Homannvm. Norimbergae : Curantibus Homannianis Heredibus, 1753-59 [i.e., 1781 ; v. 1, 1759], no. 139. Published in: The American Revolution in ... More

A sachem of the Abenakee Nation rescuing an English officer from the I...

Print shows a Native chief holds back two Natives who were about to kill an Englishman. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, .... Boston : 1768, p. E2. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings an... More

[America, 1771 - title page ornamentation showing Native wearing skirt...

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[America, 1772 - title page ornamentation showing Native wearing skirt...

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Joseph Johnson diary - Public domain document scan of drawing

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Tobias Conrad Lotter - [Cartouche showing allegory on America] / G.F. ...

Illus. in: Atlas novus sive tabulae geographicae ... / Tobias Conrad Lotter. Augustae Vindelicorum : [1772?], no. 6. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graph... More

The parricide. A sketch of modern patriotism

An Indian maiden, America, directed by Wilkes, stabs a half-clothed Britannia, who is also being attacked by Camden's lion. Cresswell comments that this lacks the humor found in most English cartoons at the tim... More

[A Tory and a patriot wrestle for a pine tree banner while an Native w...

Print shows a cartouche on a map with Loyalist attempting to replace a banner displaying a pine tree and topped with a liberty cap signifying America with a banner bearing the British lion; the patriot raises a... More

A map of the inhabited part of Canada ... with the frontiers of New Yo...

Cartouche showing Englishmen trading with Natives in a wilderness setting. Illus. in: The North American atlas, selected from the most authentic maps, charts, plans, &c. hitherto published / by Wm. Faden. Lond... More

Tobias Conrad Lotter - Mappa totius mundi / Mattheaus Albrecht Lotter ...

Print shows title ornamentation with four female figures representating the four continents, America as a Native wearing a skirt made of feathers and a feather headdress. Illus. in: Atlas géographique de cent ... More

The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry...

Similar to 1756 cartoon on Minorca. Lord North carries a large sack entitled BUDGET as he drags the British lion on a chain behind him. The lion has lost one of its paws (labeled America) to an American Indian'... More

The allies - par nobile fratrum!

Print shows George III sharing a bone with a Native chief. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

[Allegorical cartouche showing a Native man with harpoon and a Europea...

Illus. in: De nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel ... / Claes Janszoon Vooght. Amsterdam : G.H. van Keulen, 1782, no. 37. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 g... More

The reconciliation between Britania and her daughter America

An American Indian rushes into the arms of Britannia while a Spaniard and Frenchman try to keep her away. A Dutchman looks on to see who will win the struggle. Catherine the Great had offered to mediate and thi... More

[Allegorical cartouche showing West Indians harvesting cane, a Native ...

Illus. in: De nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel ... / Claes Janszoon Vooght. Amsterdam : G.H. van Keulen, 1782, no. 1. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 gr... More

[Allegorical cartouche showing a Native man with European men]

Illus. in: De nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel ... / Claes Janszoon Vooght. Amsterdam : G.H. van Keulen, 1782, no. 42. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 g... More

Sauvage du NO. de la Louisiane - Public domain book scan / drawing

Print shows a Native warrior, full-length portrait, left profile, holding a scalp in left hand and a snake in right hand. Illus. in: Atlas universel dressé sur les meilleurs cartes modernes / P. Santini. Venis... More

[A Native warrior on the cartouche for "Map for the Interior Travels t...

Print shows a Native warrior sitting on the ground with a rifle resting on his right shoulder. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of letters / Thomas Anburey. London : Print... More

A view of Winchester in North America - dedicated to Mr. President Mad...

Print shows "an American officer, General Winchester, stands stripped to the waist, his face and body covered with bold patterns in paint: stars, circles, an anchor, &c ..." (Source: George). James Winchester s... More

The Shawanese prophet and Tecumseh / Huyot.

Print shows Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, and Tecumseh, with other Natives and tipis in the background. Printed below image: (See page 669). Erroneously inscribed on mount: From The romance and tragedy of ... More

Rough sketches of the Creek Country : [Alabama].

Shows unspecified Creek Indian territory in Alabama. Title from verso. Pen-and-ink. On verso in pencil at upper left: Catalogued W. Imperfect: Fold-lined, mounted on paper, mounted on cloth, edged with cloth ta... More

Map by which the Creek Indians gave their statement at Fort Strother o...

Shows Alabama and Georgia from the Tombigbee River in the west to the southern Great Smoky Mountains and the Savannah River in the east and indicating U.S. Army forts in that region. Relief shown by hachures. T... More

A new map of the United States with the additional territories : on an...

At lower right: "Atlantic Souvenir for 1829." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Bernard J. Shapero Books (London) Acquisitions control no. 2007-228

Letter from William P. Weeks, Canaan, [New Hampshire], to Amos Augustu...

William P. Weeks writes Amos A. Phelps upset by a previous letter Phelps had written him discussing politics. He writes about their political disagreements with regards to Weeks new position as Postmaster in Ho... More

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 3, Additional Correspondence, 1811-185...

The pipe dance and the tomahawk dance / F. Barinsou ; painted at the t...

Native men performing the pipe dance and the tomahawk dance. Illus. in: The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians / by J.O. Lewis. Philade... More

chief of the Wolf clan from "[Biography and History of the Indians of ...

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Rebecca Rolfe from "[Biography and History of the Indians of North Ame...

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Letter from Sarah Moore Grimkè, Brookline, [Massachusetts], to Henry C...

Angelina Emily Grimkè and Sarah Moore Grimkè write to Henry Clark Wright regarding their disappointment in not seeing their articles in the New England Spectactor. Sarah writes, "I wrote to him yesterday to req... More

Letter from Joseph Parrish, Burlington, [New Jersey], to William Lloyd...

Joseph Parrish, Jr. writes to William Lloyd Garrison discussing the "mob in Philad[elphi]a on the 17th" of May that destroyed Pennsylvania Hall. Parrish asks Garrison to write him telling him "how he got along ... More

The Tippecanoe quick step / J.B.N. ; John Bufford's Lith. Boston.

Print shows a music sheet cover with an illustration for the Tippecanoe quick step showing William H. Harrison on horseback, leading troops against Native Americans at the Battle of Tipecanoe, Indiana, in 1811.

[War of 1812 battle scene with soldiers and Indians]

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Baltimore Convention, Old Tippecanoe, a patriotic song

An illustrated sheet music cover for a "Patriotic Song. Written, to be sung at Baltimore during the Young Men's Whig Convention" of May 1840. The composer is identified as "a Pennsylvanian." The illustration, l... More

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 3, Additional Correspondence, 1811-185...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 3, Additional Correspondence, 1811-185...

Diagram of the surveying district, south of Tennessee : Mississippi

"October 12th 1843." Shows most of Mississippi. Also shows boundaries of the Chectaw and Chickasaw cessions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 923

portrait from "[Biography and History of the Indians of North America ...

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Hunting Indians in Florida with blood hounds

A tableau dramatizing the brutal tactics employed by Zachary Taylor as commander of U.S. forces against the Seminole Indians during the Second Seminole War (1835-42). Taylor, on horseback at right, presides ov... More

An Indian warrior entering his wigwam with a scalp / Barlow, sc.

Print shows a Native warrior holding a scalp in right hand and a tomahawk in left hand. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of letters / Thomas Anburey. London : Printed for ... More

portrait from "[Biography and History of the Indians of North America ...

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Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and Indian War, in Virginia ...

Illustration shows Indians armed with rifles in a forest; in background British soldiers. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 9 ( 1855 July 7), p. 16. Wood engraving after a work by Billings (possibly Hammett Billings).

Battle of the Thames - death of Tecumseh / painted by A. Chappel ; eng...

Print shows the death of Tecumseh from a bullet fired by Colonel Richard Johnson at the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada, on October 5th, 1813.

Battle of Tippecanoe / from an original painting by Chappel in the pos...

Print shows American soldiers arriving on the left to repulse Natives during the battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana, in 1811. Entered according to act of Congress AD. 1859, by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the clerk's off... More

Tecumseh saving prisoners - A black and white drawing of a man on a ho...

Print shows Tecumseh shielding prisoners from another Native American on horseback wielding a tomahawk during the War of 1812; another Native is about to scalp a dead soldier. Entered according to act of Congr... More

Unidentified Native American soldier in Union uniform

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: 20/20 Hindsight, Doug Gomez, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 2017. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congres... More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next...

Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) Purchased from: Cal Packard, Lexington, Ohio, 2013. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congr... More

War 1862 -

A Civil War cartoon showing New York Herald publisher and editor, James Gordon Bennett, as an American Indian whose pants, torso, and face are embellished with the Stars and Stripes. He awaits the arrival of a... More

Philip Henry Sheridan Papers: Military Papers, 1853-1887; Reports; 186...

Philip Henry Sheridan Papers: Military Papers, 1853-1887; Reports; 186...

Letter from Alfred Harry Love, Philad[elphi]a, [Pa.], to William Lloyd...

Alfred H. Love writes William Lloyd Garrison informing him that the Universal Peace Society will offer to Garrison "any documents that may in thy judgement seem useful", and states that he will mail to Garrison... More

Montcalm trying to stop the massacre / A. Bobbett ; Darley.

Montcalm trying to stop Native Americans from attacking British soldiers and civilians as they leave Fort William McHenry.

American Tablet, Jerome Park Pearl, engraving, Library of Congress

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[Capt. John Moss and Ernest Ingersoll in the Canyon of the Mancos, Col...

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Sutler's Store, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, 1877.

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Map of the Nez Perce Indian campaign Brig. Gen. O. O. Howard commandin...

America Transformed: This military map records the Nez Perce War in 1877, one of the final campaigns of the U.S. Army against the tribal nations of the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, a Union Civil ... More

The new Indian war Now, no sarcastic innuendoes, but let us have a squ...

Native man, "This is the Noble Red Man", standing on a chest of drawers between Carl Schurz, of the "Interior Department", and General Philip Sheridan, of the "War Department"; a peace pipe extends from his poc... More

Dakota Territory / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sioux boys as they arrived at the Indian Training School at Carlisle B...

Photograph shows a large group of boys posed on in front of a school building. No. 1.

Massacre of Conococheague. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows Indians attacking a wagon train and killing a man. Illus. in: The romance and tragedy of pioneer life / Augustus Lynch Mason. Cincinnati ; Chicago [etc.] : Jones Brothers and Company, 1884, ... More

Chief Joseph, Nez Perces, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) ...

Trade cards from the "American Indian Chiefs" series (N2), issued in 1888 in a series of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter Brand Cigarettes. Issued by Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia)

Arbuckle Bros. - A picture of a group of people on a hill

: tradecards,4386 ( tradecards,4386 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; Historical events; History; Explorers; Indians of North America; Indigenous peoples; Campaigns & battles;

Arbuckle Bros. - An old postcard with a picture of a monument

: tradecards,4049 ( tradecards,4049 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; Historical events; History; Indians of North America; Monuments; Explorers;

Arbuckle Bros. - A picture of a group of people riding horses

: tradecards,4353 ( tradecards,4353 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; Indians of North America; Indigenous peoples; Log cabins; Log buildings; History; Historical events;

Thomson & Taylor Spice Co. - A painting of a man and a woman on a boat

: tradecards,3827 ( tradecards,3827 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Explorers; Indians of North America; Historical events; History;

Arbuckle Bros. - A painting of a man holding a sword in front of a gro...

: tradecards,4250 ( tradecards,4250 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Indians of North America; Indigenous peoples; Explorers; Mountains; History; Historical events; Statehood;

Arbuckle Bros. - A picture of a painting of a man with a sword

: tradecards,4055 ( tradecards,4055 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; Indians of North America; Soldiers; History; Historical events;

Arbuckle Bros. - A picture of a woman sitting in a chair

: tradecards,4335 ( tradecards,4335 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; History; Historical events; Sewing; Settlements; Pioneers; Indians of North America; Pilgrims;

Arbuckle Bros. - A painting of a group of people riding horses

: tradecards,4115 ( tradecards,4115 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; History; Historical events; Indians of North America; Explorers; Soldiers; Military officers;

Pueblo de Taos, New Mexico, Denver and Rio Grande Railway

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Fire Lightning - A black and white photo of a native man

Full lgth., seated, facing front; holding peace pipe. Photo copyrighted by C.M. Bell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Ind. of N.A. Peace pipes; BI... More

[American Indian and African American students at Hampton Institute, H...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Agricultural Science.

Battle of Tippecanoe - where Jo Daviess fell / Huyot ; Andriotti(?).

Print shows small group of dragoons under the command of Major Joseph H. Daviess meeting the attack of a band of Natives during the battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana, in 1811.

Portrait photo of Lee Moorhouse - Young Grizzly Bear

Photograph shows Young Grizzly Bear, an American Indian man, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, wearing feather headdress. 10407 U.S. Copyright Office. On back: "Photo by Lee Moorhouse." Copyr... More

[Chief Joseph, ca. 1840-1904 half-length portrait, seated, facing fron...

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[Indian man, woman, and child with a trader showing a blanket]

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Double Runner - Piegan - An old photo of a man with long hair

Title: Double Runner - Piegan.Artist: Edward Sheriff Curtis.Artist Bio: American, 1868 - 1952.Creation Date: 1900.Process: photogravure.Credit Line: Gift of Jo and Howard Weiner.Accession Number: 2007.001.013

William Jennings Bryan with Sioux chiefs at Pan-American Exposition, B...

Photograph showing William Jennings Bryan, another man, and four Native Americans in traditional Sioux attire, posed before a tipi. Caption: Indians are (left to right): High Hawk, Jack Red Cloud, Blue Horse, a... More

[Chief Joseph, ca. 1840-1904] - An old black and white photo of a man

Half lgth., facing front. H18700 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint by Rudolph B. Scott, Spokane, Wash, 1899 Oct. 17. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Sioux Indian rider making good medicine before the race

Several indians looking up at sky - one with hand raised, and holding a horse.

INDIANS: JOHN TWOMOON - An old black and white photo of a native ameri...

An old black and white photo of a native american man, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active ... More

Devils Tower landscape, Devils Tower National Monument, 2016.

Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The formation itself rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River and stands an impres... More

Indian mound, National Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss

Photograph shows burial mound surrounded by graves of Civil War soldiers. No. 019403. Corresponding negative processed as LC-D4-19403. Forms part of: Detroit Publishing Company collection (Library of Congress)... More

The parade - A black and white photo of a group of people on horses

Apsaroke Indians on horseback in front of two teepees.

Flandreau Indian School, South Dakota, choir

Male and female choir members posed in front of building. National Photo Company Collection.

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 7, Miscellany, 1814-1910; Corrected ga...

Indian scout - Mexican war - An old photo of a man on a horse

Photograph shows a man on horseback in desert terrain, wearing a serape and large hat, identified as an Indian scout during the Mexican Revolution. J153144 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 120.