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EVB7068751: JOHN JACOB ASTOR, 1825, by John Wesley Jarvis, painting, oil on canvas. He made a fortune in the fur trade. As a teenager, he emigrated from Germany to England, and then to the US after the Revolution. His American Fur Company successfully competed with the British Hudson Bay Company and Canadian North West Company. He was the founder of the fortune that launched the socially prominent Astor family of New York City (oil on canvas), Jarvis, John Wesley (1780-1840) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068756: THE PRAIRIE HUNTER: ONE RUBBED OUT, ca. 1852, Nathaniel Currier lithograph after painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait. A Euro-American frontiersman gallops away from a fight involving four mounted Native Americans Indians. The differently costumed Indian in the left distance appears to be wounded (lithograph), Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam (1819-1905) (after) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068760: James Felix Bridger, ca. 1860, photograph by Carter of Salt Lake City, Utah. Jim Bridger was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored the Western US. He discovered new routes across the frontier and married three different Indian wives. In his later years, he worked as a wilderness guide and US Army scout / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068762: John Charles Fremont was trained as a US Army Engineer topographer. His mastery astronomy, geology, surveying, and mapping informed his reports describing fauna, flora, soil, and water resources. In 1842 he led his first expedition to the Wind River of the Rocky Mountains and the Oregon Trail. In 1843-44 he brought Kit Carson into the expedition to map the Oregon Trail. His reports were written with his talented wife, Jessie Benton Fremont, and stimulated the interest of settlers for the new western lands (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068773: THE EMIGRATION OF DANIEL BOONE AND HIS FAMILY, ca. 1852, lithograph after a painting by George Caleb Bingham. Boone established Boonesborough, Kentucky, as a fortified community in 1775. During the Revolutionary War in Kentucky, Boone led in the militia's fight against the British allied Shawnee Indians. As well as being in the militia, Boone was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Fayette County (lithograph), Bingham, George Caleb (1811-79) (after) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068775: THE EMIGRANTS, by Frederick Remington, 1904. A band of Plains Indians harasses a wagon train as it fords a river. The ox-drawn wagons travel in an arid and mountainous region of the western frontier (lithograph), Remington, Frederic (1861-1909) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068777: THE WAGON BOSS, by Charles Marion Russell, 1909. An ox-drawn wagon train climbs the trail over a mountain as the 'wagon master' observes and supervises. Twenty oxen teams pull freight wagons up the steep hill from a river valley (lithograph), Russell, Charles Marion (1865-1926) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068781: SIOUX CHIEFS, 1905, photograph by Edward Curtis. The photo depicts three Native Americans, on horseback, wearing feather headdresses, Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068788: IN LINE AT THE LAND OFFICE PERRY SEPT. 28, 1893, 9 O'OCLOCK AM, WAITING TO FILE. Hopeful homesteaders at waiting to file land claims after the September 16, 1893, Cherokee Land Run, Oklahoma Territory / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068791: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood up to leave, after President Trump called her a third-rate politician, in an Oct. 19, 2019 meeting in the White House Cabinet Room. Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House majority leader, who was deeply offended by the Presidents treatment of the speaker said it was time to go (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068793: President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Mrs. Emine Erdogan Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in the Oval Office of the White House (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068796: President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda meet in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, June 12, 2019. Duda was elected as the candidate of the right-wing Law and Justice party, (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068797: An Aleutian man sits in front of a tent and several harnessed dogs, 1815-18. He wears a 'labret', an ornamental lip plug. This watercolor painting is by Louis Chorus, the artist with the Imperial Russian expedition under the command of Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue (watercolour), Choris, Ludwig (Louis) (1795-1828) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068799: Fort Clark Trading Post (far left center) was built on the Missouri River by James Kipp, an employee of American Fur Company, 1830-31. Kipp sited it just south of a Mandan Indian winter village (dimed buildings right of Fort Clark), hoping to engage the Native Americans in the fur trade. Hand-colored aquatint etching of 1840 by Swiss-French artist Karl Bodmer, who accompanied German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition, 1833-1834 (aquatint with hand coloring), Bodmer, Karl (1809-93) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068809: Moqui Village, Arizona (watercolour), Bartlett, John Russell (1805-86) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068814: INDIANS AROUND A CAMPFIRE, 1852, by Harrison Eastman, watercolor painting on beige paper. Eastman was a pioneer artist based in San Francisco, painted this Indian camp of four women and a baby. They had primitive shelters and minimal clothing. They gathered roots for food, a practice that led to their pejorative characterization as 'digger Indians' by the newly arrived Euro-Americans (watercolour), Eastman, Harrison (1822-91) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068815: General of the US Army, Winfield Scott, 1855 by Robert Walter Weir. 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the MexicanAmerican War, the early stages of the American Civil War. He also was involved in Indian Wars in the 1830s, 1840s, including command of the removal of Cherokee from the Southeastern United States (oil on canvas), Weir, Robert Walter (1803-89) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068818: Mexican American War. Second Battle of Tabasco took place on May 16, 1847, and was a continuation of the First Battle of Tabasco of May 15, 1847. Over 1,000 US Marines invaded the interior from boats towed up the river by the Mosquito fleet's steamboats, and succeeded in temporarily occupying the city of San Juan Bautista (present-day Villahermosa), the capital of the state of Tabasco. Marines remained as a garrison, under Commander Gershom Van Brunt, but yellow fever and Mexican insurgents required their withdrawal on July 22, 1847 (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068822: General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills, summer 1876. US Army travois carries a sick or wounded man, from Battle of Slim Buttes, Sept. 1876. This campaign earned the name 'Horsemeat March of 1876,' because rations ran short, requiring the eating of the army's horses / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068829: President Donald Trump watches as US Special Operations Forces close in on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadis, who was killed in the encounter. Also present, L to R: National Security Advisor Robert OBrien; Vice President Mike Pence; the President; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper; and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, US Army General Mark A. Milley. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in the Situation Room of the White House (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068832: An unidentified Buffalo Soldier posing with a buffalo hide studio prop, c. 1860-1879 / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068834: President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a press conference on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in the East Room of the White House. Erdogan's visit took place a month after Trump's Oct. 13, 2019 decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria, where they supported Kurdish allies containing the ISIS threat in the region. The US House of Representatives condemned Trump's acquiescence to a following Turkish assault against the US-allied Kurds (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068843: VIEW OF THE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, c. 1815-18, lithograph after watercolor painting by Louis Chorus. The Spanish established the fortified position in 1776, when New Spain extended her colonization into Alta California and the San Francisco Bay region. By 1815, Spanish Franciscan missionaries established 21 coastal missions and endeavored to Christianize indigenous Californians. At the bottom a group of Indians are marched to work by an overseer (print), Choris, Ludwig (Louis) (1795-1828) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068848: Lt. Colonel Custer's snuggery at Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory, April, 6th 1874. Libbie Custer followed her husband to his postings. The couple's final home together was at Fort Abraham Lincoln near what is now Bismarck, North Dakota. From there Libbie's husband led the Seventh Cavalry on the Campaign that ended with his death at the Battle of Little Bighorn / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068851: Indian Spearing a Buffalo, c.1850-74 (oil on canvas), Miller, Alfred Jacob (1810-74) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068857: LONG JAKES, by Charles Deas, 1844-47, painting, oil on canvas. Jakes was a fur trapper and was an early frontier folk hero. Trappers worked throughout the western territories to gather beaver hides for men's hats. Trappers lived outside society and often made advantageous marriages with Native American women (oil on canvas), Deas, Charles (1818-67) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068865: Native American hunters approach buffalos disguised as foxes, 19th century (lithograph), Catlin, George (1796-1872) (after) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068869: THE TRAPPER'S BRIDE, 1858-1860, by Alfred Jacob Miller, painting, watercolor on paper. A trapper is taking a wife, or possibly purchasing one. He extends his hand to his promised wife, with her father who is accompanied by a chief. The calumet, ceremonial tobacco pipe, anticipates an important ceremony (watercolour), Miller, Alfred Jacob (1810-74) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068875: GREEN RIVER, OREGON, 1858-1860, by Alfred Jacob Miller, painting, watercolor on paper. The Green River of Wyoming winds through mountains and Indian camps as it flows south to the Colorado River (watercolour), Miller, Alfred Jacob (1810-74) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068876: GAMBLING BY THE INHABITANTS OF CALIFORNIA AT THE MISSION OF SAN FRANCISCO, c. 1815-18, lithograph after watercolor painting by Louis Chorus. Close contact at the missions promoted disease which decimated and dispirited the population. The Indians would also be coerced into agricultural labor for subsistence (print), Choris, Ludwig (Louis) (1795-1828) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068880: INDIANS ON A BOAT ON THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, lithograph after watercolor painting by Louis Chorus. The two naked Californians who row with a passenger, might be fugitives from the Spanish Franciscan missions (print), Choris, Ludwig (Louis) (1795-1828) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068884: ZUNI, WATCHING, c. 1879-81, by John K. Hillers. A Zuni woman leans out of an adobe window, with her shoulders encircled by loose textile garments. Her shoulder-length hair is simply styled with bangs / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068892: Pumpkins grow in front of a single-family Zuni adobe, 1879, photo by John K. Hillers. Ceramic bowls are among the utilitarian objects stored next to the building, where a woman and child pose in the doorway of the home, Hillers, John K. (1843-1925) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068896: HISTORIANS OF THE TRIBE, ca. 1890, by Frederic Remington. Five young men paint a 'winter count', in an Indian interior. A tribal elder in the center background, observes as pictographic symbols record the passing year's history on a tanned animal skin (oil on canvas), Remington, Frederic (1861-1909) / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068901: A Pueblo Indian woman polishes a pottery bowl in a doorway. 1879 photograph by John K. Hillers. Once the bowl has its finish shape, it is polished with stones or sandpaper to achieve a surface smooth. It is then ready to be carved, or painted with clay slip or special vegetal dyes, then polished again, before it is fired / Bridgeman Images
EVB7068910: THE INDIAN BALL GAME, undated 19th-century color lithograph by George Catlin. Lacrosse originated in northeastern North America. Versions of the game were played by Indians throughout the eastern part of the continent. (lithograph), Catlin, George (1796-1872) / Bridgeman Images
