Box 1
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Photograph, portrait of "Little Charley Washington" (standing pose), signed A. J. Frost, 1905
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1905
Playing cards (two) - made by indigenous peoples, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Two playing cards are located in this folder.
Dates:
undated
Portrait (print) - possibly Tecumseh, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Caption to portrait reads: "Tecumseh [...] the great Leader of the Connecticut Squaws." Stamped "Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn." on verso.
Dates:
undated