Portraits Gallery

CYNTHIA ANN PARKER (1827-1865). American frontierswoman and Native American Cherokee captive

CYNTHIA ANN PARKER
(1827-1865). American frontierswoman and Native American Cherokee captive, mother of Comanche chief Quanah Parker, pictured here with her infant daughter, Topasannah. Photographed in 1861, shortly after she was returned to her family after her nearly 25-year captivity by a Comanche tribe

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AUSTEN: PERSUASION. 'Looking on her with a face as pallid as her own

AUSTEN: PERSUASION.
'Looking on her with a face as pallid as her own.' Illustration by Hugh Thomson for an 1898 edition of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion,' first published in 1817

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DALTON GANG, 1892. The bodies of William Powers (aka Tom Evans), Robert Dalton

DALTON GANG, 1892.
The bodies of William Powers (aka Tom Evans), Robert Dalton, his brother Gratton Dalton, and Dick Broadwell (aka Texas Jack), who were killed in their ill-fated attempt to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, Kansas, 5 October 1892

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