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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Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief / printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief / printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment.
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Major Ridge, shown here as a Cherokee chief, was a leader whose life was shaped by the pressures of American expansion. He signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, which ceded Cherokee lands in the Southeast, and later moved west to Indian Territory. This hand-colored lithograph was printed at I.T. Bowen's establishment in Philadelphia and published by F.W. Greenough around 1838, the same year the Cherokee were forcibly removed along the route known as the Trail of Tears.
| Created / published | Philada. : published by F.W. Greenough, c1838. |
|---|---|
| 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 | 1,145 × 1,448 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217179 |
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