Battle between Assiniboine warriors and Blackfeet in front of Fort McKenzie on the Upper Missouri River, 1833.
Tag: American Scenery
Apache medicine shirts. The medicine-men of the Apache.
Apache medicine shirts. The medicine-men of the Apache by John Gregory Bourke. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
General Custer, Grand Duke Alexis and Buffalo Bill.
Time of the famous buffalo hunt in honor of the Grand Duke Alexis.
Boxing Scenes by George Wesley Bellows.
George Wesley Bellows 1882 -1925 was known especially for his paintings of urban life in New York.
New York working girls in an Opium Den, 1883.
Scene In An Opium Den, In Pell Street, New York. Frequented By Working Girls. 1883.
Iroquois, Assiniboine, Pawnee, Dakota. American Natives 1886.
Iroquois. Assineboin. Crow. Pawnee Woman. Assineboin in gala dress. Dakotah or Sioux warrior. Dakotah or Sioux woman.
LAP-PA-WIN-SOE. A DELAWARE CHIEF
THE preceding engraving are taken from the original portraits, in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
A Chippeway widow with the best of her late husband’s clothes.
A Chippeway widow, on the death of her husband, selects from his scanty wardrobe, a complete suit of his best clothes.
ESHTAHUMLEAH, A Sioux chief
He is one of the hereditary chiefs of the Teton tribe, of the Dacotah nation.
Powasheek a Fox Chief
He was a daring warrior, and held a respectable standing in council, as a man of prudence and capacity.
Auguste Racinet. The Costume History by Françoise Tétart-Vittu.
Racinet's Costume History is an invaluable reference for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and historians; and a rich source of inspiration for anyone with an interest in clothing and style. Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted.
Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through to the end of the 19th century, the six volume work remains completely unique in its scope and detail. “Some books just scream out to be bought; this is one of them.” ― Vogue.com