"Fell the shining hatchets quickly 'mid the thickly-crowded women"
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Item data
Title
"Fell the shining hatchets quickly 'mid the thickly-crowded women"
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
American History -- 1701s-1740s
Names
Lumley, Arthur, ca. 1837-1912 (Artist)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1860-03-17
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-170
Subjects
United States -- 1700-1799
Massacres
Deerfield (Mass.) -- History -- Siege, 1704
Indians of North America -- 1700-1709
Scalping
United States -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713
Women -- Massachusetts -- Deerfield -- 1700-1709
Genres
Conjectural Works
Periodical Illustrations
Notes
Content: Written on border: "From 'The sack of Deerfield, March, 1704,' a ballad of Massachussetts, by Thomas Dunn. English"
Source Note: Harper's weekly : a journal of civilization. (New York : Harper' s Weekly Co., 1857-1916).
Physical Description
Wood engravings
Extent: 17 x 25 cm (6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17168624
Barcode: 33333159308663
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dce01810-c52f-012f-fc75-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1860-03-17
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MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. ""Fell the shining hatchets quickly 'mid the thickly-crowded women"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dce01810-c52f-012f-fc75-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1860). "Fell the shining hatchets quickly 'mid the thickly-crowded women" Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dce01810-c52f-012f-fc75-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. ""Fell the shining hatchets quickly 'mid the thickly-crowded women"" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/dce01810-c52f-012f-fc75-58d385a7bc34
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