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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Franz Hölzlhuber drawings
Creator:
Hölzlhuber, Franz, 1826-1898
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 9892
Physical Description:
8.50 Linear Feet
(6 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1856-1860
Abstract: Drawings of Native American tribes by Austrian artist Franz Hölzlhuber while he was traveling in the United States.
Language of Material: Materials are in German.
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[Identification of item]. Franz Hölzlhuber drawings, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired from W. C. Wyman, approximately 1920.
Franz Hölzlhuber was an Austrian visitor to the United States from 1856 to 1860, who stayed for a while in Milwaukee before
he traveled around Wisconsin, Canada and the Mississippi River Valley. While traveling he sketched his observations and took
notes on what he saw. Some of his drawings were published in various periodicals including Harper's monthly. After his return
to Austria, he used his sketches for lectures and further drawings and paintings.
Fifty-four drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber of clothing, tools, weapons, instruments, and hides used by Native Americans, as well
as portraits of individual Native American men and women (Menomonee, Chippewa, Winnebago, Comanche, Oneida, Blackhawk, Ponca,
Sioux, Pawnee, Concaw, Oshkosh, Ottoe) in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Hölzlhuber titled the drawings on the
front (in German) and there is text on the verso of the drawings (also in German). Also present is the original housing of
the drawings, a volume that was entitled "Costüm-Bilder waffen und Geräthshaften einiger Indianerstamme im Nordwesten America."
Box 6 contains photocopies of the German text on the versos of the drawings. There are no English translations.
These drawings were originally bound in a volume. For conservation reasons they have been taken out and housed as separate
items. The drawing titles in the container list are given in English; most of them are just descriptions of the drawings and
not necessarily English translations of Hölzlhuber's titles on the drawings. Processed by Brooke M. Black in January 2014.
In 2021, she created a finding aid.
Forms part of the American Indian File.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Indian weapons -- Pictorial works
Indians of North America -- Clothing -- Mississippi River Valley -- Pictorial works
Indians of North America -- Iowa -- Pictorial works
Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Pictorial works
Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Pictorial works
Indians of North America -- Wisconsin -- Pictorial works
Drawings (visual works) -- United States -- 19th century