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Olive Oatman with tattoos on chin

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Image ID

3973999


Item data

Title

Olive Oatman with tattoos on chin

Collection

Captivity of the Oatman girls : being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians ...

Names

Stratton, Royal B., d. 1875 (Author)
Oatman, Lorenzo D., b. 1836 (Author)
Oatman, Olive Ann (Author)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1858 (Approximate)
Place: New York
Publisher: Printed for the author by Carlton & Porter

Library Location

General Research Division
Shelf locator: HBM (Oatman) (Stratton, R. B. Captivity of the Oatman girls. 1858)

Subjects

Indian captivities
Oatman family
Tattoos
Oatman, Olive Ann

Genres

Illustrations

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: R.B. Stratton.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 17368670
Barcode: 33433081690772
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12640793
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 771d2f10-c603-012f-2175-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1858

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MLA format

General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "Olive Oatman with tattoos on chin" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1858. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/771d2f10-c603-012f-2175-58d385a7bc34

APA format

General Research Division, The New York Public Library. (1858). Olive Oatman with tattoos on chin Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/771d2f10-c603-012f-2175-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "Olive Oatman with tattoos on chin" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/771d2f10-c603-012f-2175-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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