| Title |
Woods, Mrs. |
| Alternate title |
Mrs. Woods and the Indian. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia? : s.n.] |
| Date |
[1860?] |
| Physical description |
1 print : tinted lithograph ; 9.1 x 15.7 cm. |
| Description |
Full-length portrait of Mrs. Woods in the foreground, seemingly unaware of an Indian man entering the house behind her. |
| Notes |
In Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), plate following p. 120. |
|
“Early one morning, sometime in the year 1784, Mr. Woods being absent from home, and Mrs. Woods being a short distance from
the cabin, she discovered several Indians advancing towards it. She ran towards the cabin, and reached the door before all
the Indians but one, who pursued so closely, that before she could secure the door, he entered. A lame negro in the cabin
instantly seized the savage, and, after a short scuffle, they both fell – the negro underneath. The resolute black fellow
held his antagonist so tightly that he could not use his knife. Mrs. Woods then seized an axe from under the bed, and, at
the request of the negro, struck the savage upon the head.”--P. 120.
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| Genre |
Portrait prints -- 1860-1869. |
|
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1869. |
| Subject |
Woods, Mrs. -- Portraits. |
|
Women. |
|
Indians of North America. |
|
Frontier and pioneer life. |
