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This small section of the newspaper talks about tourist’s reactions to seeing Hawaiian women ride astride on horses rather than how European women typically rode side-saddle. Seeing this was particularly shocking for Western women as it had been more…

Black and white print on paper, drawing, of scene along coast with sailors being brought ashore on rafts and greeted by Indigenous peoples in their encampment. There are cone-shaped thatched huts in distance. Sketched, patterned border.
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This object is the suit with Abraham Lincoln wore to the office a President of the United States, 1861-1865. It shows a black broadcloth coat, vest and trousers, although the shirt and tie are reproductions. Lincoln used this suit when he delivered…

This is a photograph, taken between 1866-1870, of Indians at Lytton, situated at the junction of the Thompson River and Fraser River, in British Columbia. The Indian Chief is in a Buckskin coat and fur hat, surrounded by fellow villagers with babies,…