Details
Creator Feusier, A.
Contributor Schnabel & Finkeldey, printer.
Title Freiheit Edelmuth & Bruderliebe, Unabhangiger Orden der Rothmaenner [membership certificate] [graphic] / A. Feusier, lith.
Publisher Philadelphia : Schnabel & Finkeldey, lith: 218 Walnut St
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 48.3 x 37.8 (19 x 15 in.)
Description Membership certificate for the Pocahantas Chapter of the Independent Order of Redmen at Philadelphia. Print contains seven small vignettes depicting scenes from the life of Pocahontas, the treaty between William Penn and the American Indians, and other scenes of Native American life. A larger scene showing a Native American chief addressing a group gathered around a fire surmounts the text. Vignettes of Native Americans hunting (left) and a Native American man providing a white man with a drink (right) flank the scene. At the bottom, an American Indian and a white man sit on a globe showing the Western Hemishere, clasping hands and holding a peace pipe. The vignettes are surrounded by intertwined icanthus leaves. Includes a red embossed seal in the lower left corner.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued to Otto Gratz on February 10, 1863. Signed by John Rumig and Heinrich Bissout.
Includes a red embossed seal in the lower left corner.
Philadelphia on Stone
Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection: *60.2396
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Portraits.
Indians of North America.
Nativism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
German Americans -- Organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Membership certificates -- 1860-1870.
Location Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Home and Community Life Collection| SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2396]