Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows] – Vintage Wall Art
![Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows], 1867 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fb/fb41915a33d8-L.webp)
(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: Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows]
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The particular detail here is the title's note that Sergeant Wyllyams's body was "stuck with arrows," a grim fact that the engraver had to render by hand. The image reproduces a photograph taken by Major Calhoun and Dr. Bell, which Harper's Weekly printed as a wood engraving in its July 27, 1867, issue. In the 1860s, magazines could not print photographs directly, so skilled engravers carved photographs into blocks, and this process shaped how frontier violence reached readers. The picture reflects the bitter conflicts on the Plains that year, when illustrated weeklies often presented Native American resistance to army expansion as "outrages" against soldiers and settlers.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870.Photographic prints Reproductions 1860-1870. |
| Notes | After a photograph by Major Calhoun and Dr. Bell. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 July 27, p. 468. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--War--1860-1870. Arrows--1860-1870. Dead persons--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,141 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163280 |
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