People Escaping from the Indian Massacre in Minnesota

Artist Joel E. Whitney (American, 1822 - 1886)

Date1862

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 2 1/8 × 3 1/16 inches (5.4 × 7.78 cm)
Mount: 2 3/8 × 3 15/16 inches (6.03 × 10 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.262

SignedOn mount verso, center, in black type: "WHITNEY'S GALLERY, / ST. PAUL, MINN. / A full and complete assortment of STEREOSCOPIC / CARD AND PARLOR SIZE VIEWS OF MINNESOTA / SCENERY, INDIAN PICTURES, / Paintings, Engravings, Copies of works of / Art, Photograph Albums, &c. &c. /ALWAYS ON HAND."

InscribedOn mount recto, center, in black type: "People Escaping from the Indian Massacre of 1862, / In Minnesota, at Dinner on a Prairie. Photographed by one of the party."

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DescriptionImage of a crowd of people (men, women, children) seated in a grassy landscape with a horse and wooden carts behind them.

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