Ne-O-Mon-Ne, an Ioway chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment. – 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: Ne-O-Mon-Ne, an Ioway chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Ne-O-Mon-Ne, an Ioway chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment.
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The title names the sitter as Ne-O-Mon-Ne, a chief of the Ioway people, and the print was drawn, printed, and colored at I.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment in Philadelphia and published by F.W. Greenough around 1838. Hand-colored portraits like this one circulated widely in the 1830s, when American audiences were eager to see Native leaders in person or in pictures, and the Ioway were living in the lands of the upper Mississippi and Missouri river region as the United States pressed for treaties that reshaped their territory. The catalog emphasizes clothing and dress, so the print is worth studying for its record of regalia and for the way it presents a named individual within a period of intense political change.
| Created / published | Philad. : published by F.W. Greenough, c1838. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1830-1840.Lithographs Color 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Copyright by F.W. Greenough. |
| Subjects | Ne-O-Mon-Ne. Iowa Indians--Clothing & dress--1830-1840. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1830-1840. Tribal chiefs--United States--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,168 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218612 |
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