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Photograph of a Benson John Lossing engraving of Tecumseh, based partially on a sketch by Pierre Le Dru 1812, of Tecumtha or Tecumseh with Peace Medal,

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Photograph of a Benson John Lossing engraving of Tecumseh, based partially on a sketch by Pierre Le Dru 1812, of Tecumtha or Tecumseh with Peace Medal
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Object Details

Creator

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

Scope and Contents

Composite image of Tecumseh or Tecumtha (The One Who Passes Across Intervening Space From One Point To Another) wearing a peace medal, taken from Benson John Lossing's Pictorial Fieldbook of the War of 1812. According to a note by Lossing, he made the "portrait" of Tecumseh from a Pierre le Dru's pencil sketch of his head and cap and a rough drawing showing him in full military dress, made at Malden shortly after the surrender of Detroit. Original engraving published in Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Fieldbook of the War of 1812, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868, p. 283.
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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw378f8b465-3798-4cee-9dae-49f6cd4bf1d2

Local Numbers

NAA INV 06182300 ; OPPS NEG 00770

Local Note

Original Made 1812

Creator

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

Culture

Shawnee

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Extent

1 Glass negative (004 in x 005 in mounted on 008 in x 010 in)

Date

undated

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Identifier

NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00770 06182300

Type

Archival materials
Glass negatives
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Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267669867-3

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