The North American Indian Portfolios Tiny Folio: From The Library Of Congress

This Tiny Folio(TM) volume is based on the well-known frontier artwork by Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, and McKenney & Hall. Based on the renowned frontier artwork of George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, and Prince Maximilian's Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832 and 1834, these historic collections of prints and paintings were the first to preserve images of Native Americans before their culture was affected by the white man. Fulfilling one of the Library of Congress's central missions--to document the printed, visual, and written history of this country--the images in this volume constitute part of the archive of the American memory.