Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Converting the West: a biography of Narcissa Whitman
Collection
Identifier: Mss2934
Abstract
Typescript biography of Narcissa Whitman.
Dates:
1992
The physical appearances section of a Prentiss/Whitman folio
Collection
Identifier: Mss2413
Abstract
Photocopy proposal, 1970, regarding sketches possibly of Narcissa and Marcus Whitman, drawn by Paul Kane in 1847.
Dates:
1970
Joelle Smith portraits of Oregon pioneers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 5058
Abstract
Ink portraits of famous Oregon pioneers, including George Abernathy, Jonathan Bourne, Robert Gray, Joseph Lane, John McLoughlin, Joe Meek, Peter Skene Ogden, Oswald West, John Whiteaker, Narcissa Whitman, W. S. U'Ren and Jason Lee, and Oregon pioneer archetypes, such as a trapper and farmer.
Dates:
1976
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1203
Abstract
Papers of and relating to Presbyterian missionaries Marcus Whitman (1802-1847) and Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847), including their correspondence, documents and recollections relating to their murder and the aftermath, and ephemera related to their memorialization. The Whitmans established a mission in 1836 at Waiilatpu near Walla Walla in the part of the Oregon Territory that would later become Washington state, with the goal of converting the local Cayuse people. The Whitmans' relations with...
Dates:
1834-1947; Majority of material found within 1834-1850
Whitman Mission research scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: Mss2929
Abstract
Scrapbook containing brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, extracts from Narcissa Whitman's diary, and photographic postcards regarding the Whitman killings and the history of the Whitman Mission and the Cayuse Indians.
Dates:
circa 1836-1966
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries 4
- Cayuse Indians -- Missions 3
- Whitman Massacre, 1847 3
- Washington (State) 2
- Biographies (literary genre) 1
- Cayuse Indians -- History 1
- Fine Arts 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific 1
- Missionaries -- Northwest, Pacific 1
- Missionaries -- Washington (State) -- Biography 1
- Missionaries -- Washington (State) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Oregon 1
- Overland Journeys to the Northwestern United States 1
- Overland journeys to the Pacific 1
- Pioneers 1
- Pioneers -- Oregon -- Pictorial works 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Women 1
- Women missionaries -- Northwest, Pacific 1
- Women missionaries -- Washington (State) -- Biography 1
- correspondence 1
- manuscripts for publication 1
- portraits 1
- scrapbooks 1