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Gallery Package - The Granger Collection, New York


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FUR TRAPPER, 1889.<br>An Indian fur trapper of the American west. Painting, 1889, by Frederic Remington.

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GOLD RUSH SALOON, c1850. <br><br>Europeans, Mexicans, and Chinese mingling in a saloon in Sonora, California, c1850. Lithograph, English, 1855, after a drawing by Frank Marryat.

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EDDIE GRANT (1883-1918). <br><br>American baseball player, playing third base for the Philadelphia Phillies c1910.

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ALIEN PHOTOGRAPH. <br><br>Faked photograph of an alien, mid-20th century.

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POLE VAULT: CHARLES HOFF. <br><br>Norwegian athlete Charles Hoff clears the bar with a pole vault of 4.21 meters, c1923.

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AFRICA: LION HUNTING, 1932. <br><br>Lion killed in Central Africa during the production of a motion picture, 1932.

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LIFE ON NAVAL SHIP, c1885. <br><br>Officers relaxing with their feet up on the deck of the steam sloop of war USS Mohican, serving in the Pacific Ocean, c1885-1888.

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NUREMBERG TRIALS, 1947. <br><br>Nazi Party files at the Berlin Document Center in Berlin, Germany, being screened for possible use in the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, 1947.

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HORSE. <br><br>Motion picture film still.

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INDIA: COTTON TRADE, 1862. <br>Weighing cotton for the English market at Bombay, India. Wood engraving, English, 1862.

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SOREN KIERKEGAARD <br>(1813-1855). Danish philosopher. Drawing, c1845, by Peter Klaestrup

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865). <br>16th President of the United States. Lincoln in his boyhood reading by firelight. Chromolithograph, c1868, after a painting by Eastman Johnson.

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CRATE LABEL, 20th CENTURY. <br>Diving Girl brand apples from California.

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STATUE OF LIBERTY: TORCH. <br>Wood engraving, American, late 19th century.

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PILGRIMS: THANKSGIVING, 1621. <br>The First Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims, 1621. After a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON <br>(1732-1799). First President of the United States. Washington as a young surveyor making his way down the Ohio River: etching, American, 19th century.

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BODMER: HIDATSA MAN. <br>Pehriska-Ruhpa, Hidatsa Man, a Minatarri brave in costume of the Dog Dance. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1834, by Karl Bodmer.

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PILGRIMS' TREATY. <br>The Pilgrims' treaty with Chief Massasoit in William Bradford's house at Plymouth Colony, March 1621. Wood engraving, American, late 19th century.

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GERONIMO (1829-1909). <br>American Apache chief. Geronimo and Natchez at Fort Bowie, Arizona, 1886, before being sent to Florida. Wood engraving from a contemporary newspaper.

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LINCOLN ASSASSINATION. <br>Broadside issued by the War Department on 20 April 1865 offering rewards for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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TEXTILE COTTAGE INDUSTRY. <br>The cottage industry of carding, spinning, and weaving of wool or flax into cloth in colonial America. Wood engraving, early 19th century.

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'TITANIC' POSTER, 1912. <br>English poster advertisement, 1912, for the new White Star liner &quotTitanic."

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BATTLE OF QUEBEC, 1759. <br>Major General James Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm at the Battle of Quebec, 13 September 1759. Colored gravure reproduction,<br>1894, of a painting by Augustus Tholey.

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PETER STUYVESANT, 1664. <br>Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendering New Amsterdam to the British, 8 September 1664: wood engraving, American, late 19th century.

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BOSTON MASSACRE, 1770. <br>Crispus Attucks shown prominently in the center foreground. Lithograph, 1856.

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VIRGINIA SHARECROPPERS. <br>A family outside their house in Virginia: oil over a photograph, c1899, by Frances Benjamin Johnston.

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HAMPTON INSTITUTE, 1899. <br>Students at work on the stairway in the residence of the treasurer of the Hampton Institute, Virginia: oil over a photograph, 1899, by Frances Benjamin Johnston.

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JAMES LAWRENCE (1781-1813). <br>The death of James Lawrence during the engagement of his ship, the U.S.S. Chesapeake, and H.M.S. Shannon off Boston Light, 1 June 1813: steel engraving, 1856.

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HULA DANCERS, c1905. <br>In the crater of Punch Bowl Mountain, Oahu, Hawaii. Panel of stereograph.

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WASHINGTON MONUMENT, 1884. <br>The completion of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., 6 December 1884: line engraving from a<br>contemporary American newspaper.

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BOCKLIN: THE PLAGUE, 1898. <br>The Plague. Tempera on varnished pine, 1898, by Arnold Böcklin.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790). <br>American printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, statesman and diplomat. Oil on canvas, 1789, by Charles Willson Peale.

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CHILD LABOR, USA, 1900.<br>Children working in a cigar factory: oil over a photograph.

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LOGS FROM THE FOREST <br>delivered at the stream, Aroostook County, Maine. Stereograph, c1900.

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DEATH OF LINCOLN, 1865. <br>The deathbed of President Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., 15 April 1865. Lithograph, American, 1865.

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LANDING OF PILGRIMS, 1620. <br>Colored engraving, 19th century.

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JOHN FOSTER DULLES (1888-1959). <br><br>American lawyer and statesman. Photographed at the United Nations in 1957.

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1st BASKETBALL GAME, c1892. <br><br>The First game of basketball: drawing, c1892.

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PVT. JOE LOUIS POSTER. <br><br>'Private Joe Louis says...' American World War II poster, 1942.

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MILTON: PARADISE LOST. <br><br>The rebel angels summoned to the conclave in Satan's fantastic golden palace, Pandaemonium (Book I, lines 757-9 of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'): wood engraving after Gustave Dore.

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LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895). <br><br>French chemist. The last photo taken of Pasteur, two months before his death.

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FIRST STEAM TRACTOR, 1904. <br><br>The first steam-engine tractor fitted with a set of tracks instead of wheels being tested on a California farm on 4 November 1904 with Benjamin Holt, its inventor, shown sitting atop the ladder.

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HARRY HOUDINI (1874-1926). <br><br>American magician. A shackled Houdini about to be padlocked into a packing case and lowered into New York Harbor, 1914.

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IAN FLEMING (1908-1964). <br><br>English novelist. On the set of &quotFrom Russia With Love" (1963) with Sean Connery.

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1072.37<br><br>SAMUEL CLEMENS (1835-1910). <br><br>Aka Mark Twain. American humorist and writer. Photographed in 1907 in his library.

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YALE UNDERGRADUATES, c1875. <br><br>The Wooden Spoon Committee of Yale College.

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RITA HAYWORTH (1918-1987). <br><br>Nee Margarita Cansino. American cinema actress and dancer.

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WILFREDO LAM (1902-1982). <br><br>Cuban painter.

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BICYCLE RACE, 1890. <br><br>A racing meet of the League of American Wheelmen. Stereograph, 1890.

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OLAUDAH EQUIANO (1745?-1797). <br><br>African slave and writer; also known as Gustavus Vassa: line engraving.

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BOXER REBELLION, 1900. <br><br>A 'Boxer' of the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900. Contemporary drawing by H.W. Koekkoek.

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RICHMOND: BLACK NEWSBOYS. <br><br>'Negro news-boys dividing their profits.' Black newsboys in Richmond, Virginia dividing the day's profits from their sales. Wood engraving, 1868.

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HOWARD HUGHES (1905-1976). <br><br>American industrialist.

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THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881). <br><br>Scottish man of letters. Original cabinet photograph.

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WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892). <br><br>American poet. Photograph, 1862, by Mathew Brady.

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MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT. <br>A steamboat landing off the Mississippi River. Oil over a photograph, 1906.

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FSA: HAIRCUTTING, 1939. <br><br>Young men cutting each other's hair in front of Mileston Plantation in Mississippi after getting paid on a Saturday, 1939. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott.

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PLYMOUTH ROCK: LANDING. <br><br>The landing of John Alden, Mary Chilton and other Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620: American engraving, 19th century.

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STEINBECK: GRAPES OF WRATH. <br><br>Front jacket cover of the first edition, 1939, of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's novel of 'Okies' forced to migrate from the Dust Bowl.

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KLONDIKE STAMPEDE, 1897. <br><br>Miners crowding Porcupine Hill along the White Pass trail to the Klondike region of Yukon Territory, Canada. Photograph, c1897.

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FARM SECURITY ADMIN., 1935. <br><br>Picking cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas: photographed 1935, Ben Shahn.

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FSA: MEXICAN CHILDREN <br><br>at home, Texas: photograph c. 1930s.

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CARTOON: DEPRESSION, 1935. <br><br>'It Seems There Wasn't Any Depression at All!': D.R. Fitzpatrick's cartoon comment on ex-President Hoover's speech at St Louis in December 1935 in which he indicated strongly that the 'Depression' was practically a figment of the imagination.

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CLEMENS: HUCK FINN, 1885. <br>Cover from the original edition, 1885, of Mark Twain's &quotAdventures of Huckleberry Finn" with illustrations by E.W. Kemble.

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ED SULLIVAN (1902-1974).<br>Edward Vincent Sullivan. American newspaper columnist and entertainer. Photographed on the set of 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.

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JOE LOUIS (1914-1981). <br>American heavyweight pugilist. In training camp at Pompton Lakes, New York, 4 June 1938, with his trainer Jack Blackburn.

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YOUNG BLACK BOY, c1860. <br>American studio portrait of an unidentified young boy, c1860.

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HARPOONING WHALES, c1590. <br>American Indians pull harpooned whales to shore as Europeans look on: engraving, c1590, by Theodor de Bry.

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JOHN DILLINGER.<br>American bankrobber, d. 1934. Dillinger (wearing open vest) being led from jail to a courtroom at Crown Point, Indiana, on Feb. 9, 1934, for arraignment on the charge of killing a policeman in East Chicago, Indiana.

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DAVY CROCKETT (1786-1836). <br>American soldier and frontiersman. Congressman Davy Crockett regaling his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives with tales of his adventures on the American frontier: American engraving, early 19th century.

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MURDER OF JESSE JAMES, 1882. <br>The murder of outlaw Jesse James in his home at St. Joseph, Missouri, by Robert Ford on 3 April 1882: American engraving, late 19th century.

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NC: FREED SLAVES, 1863. <br>Freed slaves coming into Union lines at New Bern, North Carolina, following the Emancipation Proclamation: American engraving, 1863.

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NAST: RACIAL PROBLEMS, 1879. <br>&quotDifficult Problems Solving Themselves": American cartoon, 1879, by Thomas Nast suggesting geographical solutions for racial injustice.

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HERNANDO CORTES <br>(1485-1547). Spanish conqueror of Mexico. Cortes supervising the building of ships to sail against Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) in August 1521. Wood engraving, American, 1848.

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PAUL BUNYAN. <br>The legendary lumberjack of the American Northwest. The statue of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, at Bemidge, Minnesota.

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IROQUOIS SACHEM, 1710. <br>Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, 1710. Oil by John Verelst.

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EXECUTION OF CONSPIRATORS. <br>The Execution of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators at the Washington, D.C. arsenal on 7 July 1865. Adjusting the ropes for hanging the conspirators.

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KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH, 1897. <br><br>Miners recently arrived in the Klondike. Photographed in 1897 near Dyea, Alaska.

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BUFFALO BILL'S SHOW POSTER. <br>American poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show depicting the Indian Chief Red Cloud.

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ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955). <br>German theoretical physicist. photographed with Mileva Maric in Zurich, Switzerland, 1911.

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TEXAS: THE ALAMO, 1836. <br>The Siege of the Alamo, 23 February-6 March 1836. Color engraving, 19th century.

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INDIAN ATTACK. <br><br>Indians attacking a Cumberland Valley settlement in the late 18th century: colored engraving, 1843.<br><br><br><br>The Granger Collection / TopFoto

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THE FIRST THANKSGIVING <br>at Plymouth, Massachusetts: oil on canvas, 1914, by Jennie Brownscombe.

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GOLD RUSH, 1897. <br><br>'Actresses' fording the Dyea River on their way to the Klondike gold fields in 1897.

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REVOLUTION OF 1917. <br><br>Russian and German soldiers fraternizing after the armistice, 5 December 1917, between Russia and the Central Powers.

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WILLIAM F. CODY (1846-1917). <br>William Frederick Cody. Known as Buffalo Bill. American frontiersman and showman. Photographed c1878.

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FSA: FARM BOY/DUST BOWL. <br><br>Farm Security Administration: Farm boy in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma: photographed in 1936 by Arthur Rothstein.

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FSA: JITTERBUGGING, 1939. <br><br>In a juke joint on a Saturday night, Clarksdale, Mississippi: photograph by Marion Post Wolcott.

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FSA: MIGRANT WORKERS, 1936. <br><br>Migrant workers on the road in Crittenden County, Arkansas, 1936. Photographed by Carl Mydans.

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FSA: BAPTISM, 1940. <br><br>Baptismal service at Morehead, Kentucky. Photograph, 1940, by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

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U.S. NAVY PILOT TEST, 1949. <br>Series of photograhs taken during a test simulating the conditions a pilot may experience when bailing out of a plane at high speed. Photographed at the Navy Air Material Center in Philadelphia, 1949.

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OLYMPIC GAMES, 1896. <br>The parade of the winners at the first modern Olympic Games, held in 1896 at Athens, Greece. Contemporary wood engraving after a drawing by André Castaigne.

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OLYMPIC GAMES, ANTIQUITY. <br>Cleisthenes of Sicyon (c600-570 B.C.) winning the chariot race at the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, 582 B.C.: engraving, 19th century.

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