Indians of North America--Missions; Jesuits--North America; Wyandot Indians--Religion; Wyandot Indians--Missions; Jesuits--Missions--North America--History
There are perhaps but few passages in history that are more striking than those which tell of heroic efforts of the early French Jesuits to convert the Indians of North America. Many of these efforts are full of dramatic and philosophic interest,...
"Durham's symbolic recoding of the imagery of modern America in the terms of its native Indians is interesting in relation to Joseph Beuys's use of Indian iconography for purposes of symbolic retribution. As a modernist, Beuys assumed his work...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Furnaces; Huts
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in a yard inside a stockade fence, a man holds a shovel to an opening in a large oven under a roof. Two men, one in a sombrero, stand by two long troughs; one trough is resting on the other. The men are...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Men; Indians of Mexico; Indigenous peoples; Sombreros; Huts
At the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, two men wearing sombreros sit on benches at a table inside a small hut made of sticks, probably in the Anthropology Villages. Such "living displays" were intended to expose visitors to the fair...
Otto Williams or Otto George Williams (1877-1937). Black-and-white portrait of Otto Williams with the Indianapolis Indians (Indiana) on a round card. Verso: Stars of the Diamond. The Gum That's Round. One in every 5 ¢ package of Colgan's Violet...
Mike (Michael Richard) Balenti (1886-1955). Black-and-white portrait of Mike Balenti with the Savannah Indians (Georgia). Verso: Series No. 1. Old Mill Cigarettes. Base Ball Subjects - Large Assortment. Factory No. 25, 2d Dist. VA.
Map, on a scale of 1/3000,000, of Jackson Purchase region of northwestern Kentucky (bounded bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east). The region was ceded by the Chickasaw Indians...
City & town life; Railroads; Street railroads; Pedestrians
View of Broadway avenue in Saint Louis, Missouri. Street with back of streetcar, horses and wagons, carriages, and pedestrians with a row of buildings on the left and wires and poles near the right. Title: (28) Street scene in the largest city of...
A man stands in a tobacco field in Kentucky with only his chest, shoulders, and head visible. He is wearing a dark hat and shirt and a lighter colored jacket. The tobacco field is quite large and farm buildings are in the distance. Title: (20092)...
