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The powwow : the Fort Dearborn massacre
Title
The powwow : the Fort Dearborn massacre / F.R. Glass.
Publication
[Chicago] : [Black Partridge Pagents, Inc.], [1933]
Copyright Notice Date
©1933
Physical Description
1 print : color ; 17.4 x 23.0 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 28.4 cm
Medium
paper
ink
lithography
Notes
Title from caption below image. Signature of Glass and copyright date within the image.
The original image was a scene from his fifty-foot-long panoramic scene hung at the Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934) in Chicago, Ill.
Detached from: Pictorial history of the Fort Dearborn massacre, 1812 (Chicago: Black Partridge Pageants, Inc.,1933).
Summary
Print shows the meeting between Captain Nathan Heald and the Potawatomi the day before the massacre at Fort Dearborn; Heald, in uniform, standing beside interpreter (perhaps William Wells) in buckskin, talking with a Potawatomi leader (perhaps Black Partridge), also standing, while others, mostly men, sitting, listen; tipis to the sides of the image; prairie and sky in background.
Variant and related titles
Fort Dearborn massacre
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 31, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Lithographs.
Portraits.
Also listed under
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.), contributor.
United States Illinois Chicago.
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