Portrait of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman nursing her baby, Prairie Flower (Toposannah). Parker was captured by Native American Comanches as a teenager, later married Chief Peta Nocona and bore children including Quanah Parker, the last Comanche Chief.
Description
1 copy photonegative ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.); 1 photoprint ; 18 x 13 cm. (7 x 5 in.)
Type of Material
Film negatives.; Photographic prints.; Portraits.; Imaged.; Image
Subject
Comanche Indians--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--1860-1870.; Breast feeding--1860-1870.; Infants--1860-1870.; Mothers & children--1860-1870.; Women--1860-1870.; Nocona, Peta--Family.; Parker, Cynthia Ann, 1827?-1864.; Parker, Prairie Flower.; Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911--Family.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Source
James T. DeShields-Cynthia Ann Parker-The Story of Her Capture-1886-frontpiece.
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR710032238
Notes
Formerly F33483.; Photographic reproduction of a halftone reproduction.; Title printed below halftone reproduction of an etching from a photograph done in the 1860's.; R7100322380
Identifier
F33483 DPLW
Filename
10032238.TIF
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