President Wives

MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868): Hayne Hudjihini Eagle of Delight,

Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1833. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. 11 1/2 x 8 inches. 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': 'One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),' a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life. This very nice example of Hayne Hudjihini's portrait gives a hint of the beauty and charm that captivated President Monroe, Thomas McKenney and members of the Cabinet. She was one of Shaumonekusse's five wives, and was thought to be the most beautiful of all the Native American wives who visited Washington. She was eighteen or nineteen when King painted her portrait. Sadly, she died of the measles soon after returning home. McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winnebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath). Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a; Horan, 296.

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MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868): Rant-Che-Wai-Me, Female Flying Pigeon.

Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition.11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. 18 x 12 3/4 inches. A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': 'One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),' a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life. The devoted and audacious wife of the famous Iowa chief Mahaska, Flying Pigeon or Rant-Che-Wai-Me accompanied her husband, with his six other wives, on his 1824 trip to Washington to visit President Monroe. Upon her return, she organized a meeting of Iowa women to whom she recounted her trip to the White House. Of all Mahaska's wives, Flying Pigeon was his favorite, and she bore him a son, Mahaska the Younger, who would later become a respected Iowa chief. She was killed in a riding accident the following year. Young Mahaska is said to have recognized his mother's portrait, this image, in a visit to Washington years later by the fan in her hand. Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath). Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a

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Boller Jr., Paul F. Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN: 019505976X

533 pages. The book is in VERY GOOD condition with minor wear on the spine ends and corners. The page edges are slightly browned and two pages have been creased at the corner. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people The PREFACE reads: Presidential Wives completes the trilogy of books about the Presidents that I began with Presidential Anecdotes (1981) and continued with Presidential Campaigns (1984). The format is the same: essays and anecdotes. The essays focus on the backgrounds, characters, outlooks, and personal ties of the women the Presidents married, the lives they lived, public and private, as wives of political leaders, and the conceptions held by those who got to the White House of the duties and responsibilities of the First Lady of the Land.The stories accompanying the essays-some of them amusing, others dramatic, and still others on the sad side-illustrate, underline, and expand on the points made in the essays. s in Stories about the Presidents' wives are harder to come by than th about the Presldents themselves. Until the twentieth century the Wives of the Presidents, with a few notable exceptions, maintained low profiles and attracted little public attention. It did not occur to James Monroe or Martin Van Buren to mention their families in their autobiographies; nor did biographers of the Presidents, until recent years, feel obliged to spend more than a perfunctory page or paragraph or two on the President's wife. "A lady's name should appear in print only three times," said Edith Kermit Roosevelt, First Lady from 1901 to 1909; "at her birth, marriage, and death." The explosion of the mass media during the twentieth century, together with new notions about the place of women In American society, changed all that. It gradually got so that the wife of a President couldn't stay out of the news even if she wanted to. Soft Cover condition: Very Good

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Matilda Joslyn Gage (Author) & Sita Ram Goel (intro.) Illustrator: NA: Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman through the Christian Ages, Voice of India, New Delhi 1997 ISBN: 9788185990460

New Softcover 15 x 23 cm. CONTENTS: Chap. 1 : THE MATRIARCHATE : Tendency of Christianity from the first to restrict woman's liberty. Woman had great freedom under the old civilizations. The Matriarchate its traces among many Nations it preceded the Patriarchate. The Iroquois or Six Nations under Reminiscences of the Matriarchate. Government of the United States borrowed from the Six Nations. To the Matriarchate or Mother-role, is the World indebted for its first Conception of 'inherent rights," and a government established on this basis. Malabar under the Matriarchate when discovered by the Portuguese. The most Ancient Aryans under the Matriarchate. Ancient Egypt a reminiscence of the Matriarchal period. Authority of the Wife among the most polished nations of antiquity. As Vestal Virgin in Rome, woman's authority great both in Civil and Religious affairs. Monogamy the rule of the Matriarchate. Polygamy, Infanticide and Prostitution the rule of the Patriarchate. Chap. 2 : Celibacy : Original sin. Woman not regarded as a human being by the church. Marriage looked upon as vile. Celibacy of the clergy their degrading sensually. A Double Code of Morals. Celibacy confirmed as a dogma of the church. Many notable Consequences followed. Wives sold as slaves. Women driven to suicide. Influence of the Church unfavorable to virtue. Women of Wealth drawn into monastic life. The church in Mexico. President Diaz. Protestant Orders. Chap. 3 : CANON Law : The church makes the legitimacy of marriage depend upon its control of the ceremony. Change from ancient Civilization to renewed Barbarism at an early age of the Christian era, noted by historians, but its cause unperceived. The clergy a distinct body from the laity; their rights not the same. A Holy Sex and an unholy one. Rapid growth of Canon law in England. Alteration in the Laws through the Separation of Ecclesiastical courts from the Civil, recognized by Black-stone as among the remarkable Legal Events of Great Britain. Learning prohibited to women. The oath of seven persons required to convict a priest. Husband prohibited by Canon law from leaving more than one-third of their Property to wives; might leave them less. Daughters could be disinherited; sons could not be. The Reformation effected no change. Governments catering to Pope Leo XIII., at time of his Jubilee; the President of the United States sends a gift Chap. 4 : MARQUETTE : Feudalism; its degradation of woman. Jus prima Noctis. Rights of the Lords Spiritual. Peasants decide not to marry. Immorality of the heads of the Greek and the Protestant churches. Breton Ballad of the Fourteenth Century. St. Margaret of Scotland. Pall Mall Gazette's disclosures. Foreign traffic in Young English girls. West End. Eton. Prostitution chiefly supported by "Heads of Families." Northwestern Pineries. Governmental crime-makers. Rapid increase of Child criminals. The White Cross society. Baptism of nude women in the early Christian Church Chap. 5 : Witchcraft : The possession of a Pet of any kind dangerous to woman. Black Cats and witches, The fact of a woman's possessing knowledge, brought her under suspicion of the church. The three most distinguishing features of witchcraft. Opposition of the church to the growth of human will. Persecution for witchcraft a continuance of church Policy for obtaining Universal dominion over mankind. The Sabbat. The Black Mass. Women Physicians and surgeons of the middle ages; they discover anaesthetics. Their learning; their persecution by the church. The most eminent legal minds incapable of forming correct judgment. Three notable points in regard to witchcraft. Persecution introduced into America by the "Pilgrim Fathers." First Synod in America convened to try a woman for heresy. Whipping half nude women for their religious opinions. Famine caused by persecution of women Chap. 6 : WIVES : Printed Pages: 574. 5th or later edition

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