Frank B. Mayer collection of sketchbooks, drawings, and oil paintings of Sioux Indians during the 1851 treaty negotiations at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, Minn. [graphic], 1851-1886.

Little Crow III, ca. 1810-1863

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Little Crow III (Dakota: Thaóyate Dúta; c. 1810 – July 3, 1863) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862....

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Art Collection (Newberry Library)

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Williamson, Thomas S. (Thomas Smith), 1800-1879

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Wyman, Walter Channing, 1850-1927,

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Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899

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Painter, specialized in North American Indian subjects and colonial themes; Baltimore, Md. From the description of Frank B. Mayer letter, 1864 Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79193849 Baltimore artist who traveled independently in 1851 to Minnesota to observe and sketch the Sioux Indians present at treaty negotiations at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota. In May of 1851 Mayer left Maryland and journeyed via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Mis...

Huggan, Nancy McClure, 1836-1927.

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