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Pocahontas, -1617

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Edna Hillyer Ford Collection of Portraits of American Indians correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9260
Scope and content Includes a letter from Ford to F. W. Hodge discussing the oil paintings that she has of American Indians. The paintings are believed in part to be copies of ones owned by the Smithsonian. She includes photos of all eleven as well as a description of each. She has also annotated the back of some of the photos to include additional information about the original paintings and painters. She mentions their similarity to the McKinney and Hall lithographs and Lewis collection paintings as well....
Dates: 1909.