Imagining Pocahontas

Unless otherwise noted, all images

From Edward J. Gallagjer, “The Pocahontas Archive.” Lehigh University Digital Libary. http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/

Source: Van de Passe, Simon. "Matoaka als Rebecca." 1616. (John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1624.)

Source: "Pocahontas." Unknown artist. c. 1650. (Frances Mossiker, Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend. New York: Knopf, 1976. Following p. 143.)

Source: Woodbury, Mary. "Pocahontas." c.1730. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 35.)

Source: "Pocahontas." (The Booton Hall portrait) c. 1700-1800. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 33.)

Source: Ship's Figurehead of Pocahontas. c. 1820. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 41.)

Source: Capellano, Antonio. "Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas." 1825. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 14.)

Source: Lilly, Lambert. [Hawks, Francis L.] The Early History of the Southern States: Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Philadelphia, 1832. 76-89, 100-6.

Source: Chapman, John Gadsby. "The Baptism of Pocahontas." 1840. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 24.)

Source: "Pocahontas." New-York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts 18.3 (July 11, 1840): 17. Illustration by W. D. Redfield.

Source: Sinclair, Thomas. "Captain Smith Rescued by Pocahontas." 1841. James Wimer, Events of Indian History. Lancaster, 1841. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 15.)

Source: Rice, Daniel, and James Clark. "Pocahontas." 1842. (Thomas McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Vol. 3. Philadelphia, 1844.) (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 35.)

Source: Frost, John. The Pictorial History of the United States of America. Vol. 1. Philadelphia, 1843. 86-106. (Boston, 1852. 80-106.) Illustrations by W. Croome.

Source: [Goodrich, Samuel G.] By the Author of Peter Parley's Tales. "Pocahontas." Lives of the Celebrated American Indians. Boston, 1843. 169-89.

Source: Simms, William Gilmore. The Life of Captain John Smith, The Founder of Virginia. New York, 1846. 143-61, 182-90, 251-71, 326-36, 355-67. (Freeport: Books for Libraries, 1970.)

Source: "Our Indian Gallery." [New York] The John-Donkey 2.7 (August 12, 1848): 73.

Source: Glass, James William. "John Rolfe and Pocahontas." c. 1850. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 27.)

Source: Sully, Robert Matthew. "Pocahontas." c. 1850. (Ann Uhry Abrams, The Pilgrims and Pocahontas: Rival Myths of American Origin. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. 70.)

Source: Sully, Thomas. "Pocahontas." 1852. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 39.)

Source: White, Edwin. "Pocahontas Informing John Smith of a Conspiracy of the Indians." c. 1852. (William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1994. 20.)

Source: Davis, Francis. "Pocahontas: A Tale of Old Virginie." The Royal Illuminated Book of Legends. Second Series. Ed. Marcus Ward. Edinburgh, 1872. [illustrated; music; poetry]

Source: Drake, Samuel Adams. The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies. London, 1894. 42-65.

Source: Trahern, Al, and Richmond F. Hoyt. Princess Pocahontas March and Two-Step. Chicago: Windsor Music Co., 1903. [illustrated; music]

Source: Smith, E. Boyd. The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Illustrations by E. Boyd Smith.

Source: Sullivan, Daniel J. Miss Pocahontas. An Indian War-Whoop in Two Whoops. [Comic opera.]

Source: Ellis, Edward S. Pocahontas: A Princess of the Woods. New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1907. Illustrations by E. B. Comstock. [illustrated; juvenile] [3 of 4 images from this source.]

Source: Ellis, Edward S. Pocahontas: A Princess of the Woods. New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1907. Illustrations by E. B. Comstock.

Source: Odell, Edson Kenny. The Romance of Pocahontas. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1912.

Disney’s Pocahontas (1995).Disney Corporation

Q’orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005). New Line Cinema.