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Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album
URL: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/taylor/

Description:
Collection of hundreds of items from a "scrapbook kept by an American illustrator, James E. Taylor (1839-1901). A professional artist, Taylor's newspaper illustrations served to popularize stereotypes of the Western frontier during the post-Civil War years." Browse individual images of drawings, photos, news clippings, and letters, or view album pages on gold mining, Mexican life, and other topics. From the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution.

Publisher:
National Anthropological Archives

Extra Keywords
Battle of the Washita

LII Database Information:
Record 27907 created by Jennifer English on 02/05/2009
Last modification on 05/04/2009
Published: 07/29/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27907