Cresap and his party, concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it
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Title
Cresap and his party, concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
Warfare -- American Indian
Date / Origin
Date Issued: unknown
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC WARF-Ame
Subjects
Cresap, Michael, 1742-1775
Indians of North America -- War
Logan, James, d. 1780
Lord Dunmore’s War, 1774
Massacres
Canoes
Genres
Notes
Content: Incident in the "Yellow Creek Massacre" of April 30, 1774.
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: 11 x 11 cm (4 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17960483
Barcode: 33333159484241
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 42716120-c565-012f-b816-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cresap and his party, concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/42716120-c565-012f-b816-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. Cresap and his party, concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/42716120-c565-012f-b816-58d385a7bc34
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cresap and his party, concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/42716120-c565-012f-b816-58d385a7bc34
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