Major Ridge, a Cherokee Chief
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.45113 B
label: Local Note
content: Same subject in Volume 2, 1842 edition of McKenney & Hall (Bureau of American Ethnology Library Catalog Number 575) carries same legend as this, plus: Published by F.W. Greennough. Phila./Printed & Coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No 94 Walnut St./Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838 by F.W. Greennough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna.
label: Local Note
content: USNM Acc. Number 250,768 is oil painting (Catalog Number 404,234) received from a descendent and accessioned 1965-66. "It is either the original on which was based the McKenney & Hall lithograph or less likely a skillful and improved derivative of the lithograph." Statement in accession pages, prepared by W.C. Sturtevant.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: From a portrait probably painted in Washington, D.C., 1834, painter unknown. Ridge was in Washington in 1834 and in 1836. Letter in National Archives, Office of Secretary of War, Letters Received, 1834, is a request to the Secretary of War by the delegation Ridge headed, that Ridge's portrait be painted. The date of the painting is therefore probably 1834, or possibly 1836, when Ridge again visited Washington. It is not 1835, as stated by Hodge in his edition of McKenney & Hall, Volume I, page 402, for Ridge was not in Washington in 1835. -- Information from Dr Thomas Wilkins, Columbia University, who is preparing a study of the life and times of Major Ridge. (Visited Bureau of American Ethnology Archives July, 1962.) MCB
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1834 or 1836
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs