John Ross, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring 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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Step back in time with John Ross, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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John Ross, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment.
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Few Cherokee leaders of the 1830s and 1840s were as widely known as John Ross, who served as principal chief for nearly four decades. This hand-colored lithograph, drawn and printed at a Philadelphia establishment and published around 1843, appeared while the Cherokee were still recovering from forced removal west along the Trail of Tears in 1838 and 1839, an event Ross opposed in Washington and then guided his people through. Portraits like this one circulated in eastern cities, shaping how a broad public saw Native leaders during intense national debate over Indian removal.
| Created / published | Philada. : published by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, c1843. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Subjects | Ross, John,--1790-1866. Indians of North America--1840-1850. Cherokee Indians--1840-1850. Tribal chiefs--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 912 × 1,101 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217177 |
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