Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief / printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment. – Vintage Print
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief / printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief / printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment.
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Major Ridge, a Cherokee leader born around 1771, appears in this color lithograph, printed at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment in Philadelphia and published by F.W. Greenough around 1838. Portraits of Native leaders circulated widely in the 1830s, when Eastern audiences followed the debate over Indian removal closely. Ridge was among the Cherokee who signed the 1835 Treaty of New Echota, which ceded the nation's eastern lands, and he was killed in 1839 after the forced move west.
| Created / published | Philada. : published by F.W. Greenough, c1838. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1830-1840.Lithographs Color 1830-1840. |
| Subjects | Ridge, Major,--ca. 1771-1839. Indians of North America--1830-1840. Cherokee Indians--1830-1840. Tribal chiefs--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 937 × 1,324 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217179 |
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