This lithographic portrait of Sequoyah, who was credited with inventing the Cherokee alphabet, was created as part of the McKenney & Hall "History of the Indian Tribes of North America." Sequoyah is shown wearing a blue coat with a red and white headscarf and a peace medal hanging around his neck. He points to a document showing the Cherokee alphabet and is smoking a pipe.
Drawing of the head of a young man with inscription above about missionary work in Africa, dated 1835, Berlin; pencil on wove paper, unsigned, 4 3/4 inches x 3 3/8 inches
Design with stylized floral motif up the left side leading to a festival scene of figures dancing around a maypole in the upper left corner that extends to a generalized landscape across the top. Across the top is a banner reading Paris, le 21 July 1839. Pencil on wove paper, initialed lower left "L G" (Leopold Gast), dated Paris 1839, 8 1/4 inches by 5 1/16 inches
This diary documents Rebecca and Henry Bruce Milroy’s convalescent journey from Washington County, Indiana to Natchez Mississippi, as well as Henry’s return trip after his wife’s death. The 42 page diary includes near daily entries from October 26, 1836 to January 1, 1837. The author describes several towns they pass through, places they stay, steamboats they take passage aboard, people they
Manuscript lease indenture between John Scudder and Benjamin L. Turnbull to lease the Missouri Hotel in St. Louis. The manuscript, dated November 15, 1836, contains witness signatures and an inventory of hotel goods, including feather-beds, lamps, linens, and a Franklin stove. The document indicates the property will be used as a tavern or house of entertainment, and a list of payments is