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Magazine or Periodical

USS "Seneca"

Date: 1861
Description: View of the gun boat USS "Seneca".
Print

Henry B. Burger

Date: 1912
Description: Waist-up portrait of Henry Burger.
Book or Pamphlet

Las Isletas-Falls of Presidio de Rio Grande

Date: 1857
Description: An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande.
Book or Pamphlet

Quercus Acutidens

Date: 1857
Description: A drawing of a quercus acutidens plant.
Book or Pamphlet

Pinus Torreyana

Date: 1857
Description: Drawing of the pinus torreyana plant.
Book or Pamphlet

Falls of Kettle River

Date: 
Description: Depiction of the fall of Kettle River including a rock formation in the river and surrounding landscape filled with trees.
Book or Pamphlet

Woman's Path From Servitutde to Freedom

Date: 1896
Description: Illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of a woman climbing a steep, rocky slope to a sign that reads "Come Up Higher / The Free Thou...
Book or Pamphlet

The Uses of the Cross

Date: 1896
Description: An illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of the evolution of uses of the cross, from a heathen phallic symbol to a Christian symbol...
Magazine or Periodical

Telegraphic Systems Map

Date: 08 12 1865
Description: A map of the world showing telegraphic systems for encircling the globe.
Print

Joc-O-Sot (The Walking Bear)

Date: 1844
Description: Full-length portrait of Joc-O-Sot, "A Sauk Chief from the Upper Missouri, U.S.A."
Print

The Scalp Dance

Date: 1844
Description: "The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light ...
Print

Mah-To-Toh-Pa, The Mandan Chief

Date: 1844
Description: Full-length portrait of Mah-To-Toh-Pa. He is holding a decorated spear. "In the former letter I gave some account of Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second...
Print

The War Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Group of men engaged in a war dance. They hold spears, axes, and bows. (Plate 29)
Print

Buffalo Hunting

Date: 1844
Description: North American Indians on horseback during a buffalo hunt. "In [this plate], I have represented a party of Indians in chase of a herd, some of whom are pur...
Print

O-Jib-Be-Ways

Date: 1844
Description: Group portrait of North American Indians. Portraits of the O-Jib-Be-Ways, and individual portraits, one smoking a pipe. Symbols corresponding to individual...
Book or Pamphlet

March of the Slaves

Date: 
Description: Two illustrations depicting the capture by Europeans of Africans who were taken away on ships to be slaves. The caption is in French.
Book or Pamphlet

Sick Ward at Charity Hospital

Date: 1854
Description: An illustration of a nun/nurse carrying a pitcher in the sick ward of Charity Hospital. Patients lay in rows of beds along the walls.
Book or Pamphlet

Tattooed Man of Nukahiwa

Date: 
Description: An illustration of a man with a full body tattoo. He is an inhabitant of the Island of Nukahiwa.
Photograph

Sunbathers at Sound Storm

Date: 05 05 1970
Description: Steve Landaal and two friends sit on a log over a creek at the Sound Storm rock festival. They are enjoying nude sunbathing.
Photograph

Nude Embrace

Date: 05 05 1970
Description: Steve Landall embraces his girlfirend while standing in a creek at the Sound Storm rock festival.

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