Contains vignette showing a scene with the theme of salvation, including a missionary. Ships approach a coastline on which a missionary and cross are encircled by converts attired in robes. Tribesmen watch from a cliff above., Presented to William W. Waln. By S. A. Fell., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.150]
In Anderson, R. Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (Boston, 1825), frontispiece., Full-length recumbent portrait of the Cherokee woman, who was educated at Brainerd Mission near Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is depicted in bed, propped on her elbow, with an open book before her. Nearby, a woman, seated at a writing desk, holds a pen and appears to be taking dictation., "'Then raising herself in the bed & wiping a tear, that was falling from her eye, she with a sweet smile began to relate what God had done for her soul, while upon that sick bed.' Page 142."
