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 		    COLLECTIONS & WILLIAM HENRY SMITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY   
 
Prints and Postcards
Prior to photography artists created visual records of historical events. Eventually, pictures taken by photographers were printed on postcards to promote towns, businesses, and historical events.
Karl Bodmer Prints Postcards of Indiana, The Jay Small Collection
Native American Portraits from the Aboriginal Port Folio    

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Karl Bodmer Prints (FF29-a - FF29-e)

Prince Maxmilian of Wied hired artist, Karl Bodmer, to accompany him and paint some of the sights of his expedition of the American West from 1832-1834. Bodmer painted the American landscape, indigenous animals, and native Americans. The images showcased in this digital collection are selections from Bodmer’s labors.
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 Postcards of Indiana, The Jay Small Collection
(P 0391)

Indianapolis resident Jay Small collected real photo and printed postcards. The images depict locations across Indiana, individuals, interurban and railway stations, bandstands, celebrations, and examples of advertising. Featured here are views and street scenes in towns and cities. The images date from circa 1907 to the 1920s.

 
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 Native American Portraits from the Aboriginal Port Folio (E89.L67 1836)

James Otto Lewis accompanied government treaty negotiators in the 1820s to make portraits of the Native Americans attending. In 1835-1836, Lewis published The Aboriginal Port Folio, with the first eight plates appearing in May 1835. These portraits done from life were the first such images ever to be published. Subsequent parts appeared monthly, but the project bankrupted Lewis during the production of the ninth part in 1836. Consequently, it and the tenth were issued in much smaller press runs than the preceding eight.

The Indiana Historical Society’s set contains all eighty plates, assembled from different sources, as well as the lithographed title leaf, a one-leaf “Advertisement,” and one leaf of reviews.
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