American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Obl. Lithograph with title “Bewohner der Sandwich Inseln.” (Residents of the Sandwich Islands) with an adult male and female rather elaborately dressed. The Sandwich Islands was the original name of Hawai’i. This was a hierarchical society at the time of European contact, and Europeans liked to focus on the “upper classes.”

Rinehart’s Indians. 7 x 8-1/2”; printed wraps, saddle-tied. Omaha, Neb.: F.A. Rinehart, 1899. With listings of many of Frank Rinehart’s photographs of native Americans, with prices of various print sizes. (two copies)

1p, 8 x 9”, removed from unknown source. “Indian Progress” - announcing the establishment of a weekly newspaper by that name to be published at Muskogee, Creek Nation, I.T. It also has a resolution to establish a U.S. Court at a convenient point within the territory, since the closest one as of 1875 was at Fort Smith, plus other recommendations.

Two broadsides advertising “Rolling Thunder Vaudeville Company,” featuring Rolling Thunder (Louis B. Newell), Indian Orator “Giving Lectures on the Customs, Habits, Manners and Religion of Tribe.” With Mrs. L.B. Newell, General Business Manager. Text is the same on the two fliers, photo is different – one has just Rolling Thunder, the other has both Rolling Thunder and Mrs. Newell. 9 x 17” on light cardstock. When not giving lectures, the Newell's were selling "native" herbal cures, patent medicines, etc.