Details
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.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1860-1869.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1869.
Subject Woods, Mrs. -- Portraits.
Women.
Indians of North America.
Frontier and pioneer life.