Se-loc-ta, a Creek chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment, No. 94 Walnut St. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Se-loc-ta, a Creek chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment, No. 94 Walnut St., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Se-loc-ta, a Creek chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment, No. 94 Walnut St.
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Se-loc-ta, a Creek chief, is shown here in dress and ornament that the book's text was meant to illustrate for its readers. I.T. Bowen drew, printed and hand-colored the plate at his Walnut Street lithographic shop in Philadelphia. It comes from *The Indian Tribes of North America*, a work that reached readers in the late 1830s, when the Creek Nation was under heavy pressure to give up its homelands under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Because each print was colored by hand, copies vary in tone and detail, so the clothing and jewelry are worth a close look.
| Created / published | c1836. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1830-1840.Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Plate from: The Indian Tribes of North America / by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1830-1840. Creek Indians--Clothing & dress--1830-1840. Tribal chiefs--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,732 × 4,662 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221725 |
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