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Title: Queonemysing Indian Town monument
Date(s): 1925
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: Marker reads: 'Queonemysing Indian Town was located on the other side of Brandywine Creek from here in the great bend. Rattlesnake Trail and thence over Point Lookout in the rocks on Christina Creek in present Wilmington. The chief Secetareus and his people of the Unami group, their totem the tortoise, of the Lenni-Lenape or Delawares, sold to William Penn the land between Chester Creek and Christina Creek, December 19, 1688.' Marker erected by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the...
Show moreMarker reads: 'Queonemysing Indian Town was located on the other side of Brandywine Creek from here in the great bend. Rattlesnake Trail and thence over Point Lookout in the rocks on Christina Creek in present Wilmington. The chief Secetareus and his people of the Unami group, their totem the tortoise, of the Lenni-Lenape or Delawares, sold to William Penn the land between Chester Creek and Christina Creek, December 19, 1688.' Marker erected by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Delaware County Historical Society in 1924.
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Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680125121
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Tamenend (Tamanend) Monument
Date(s): 1931
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: The monument reads, 'To the memory of the celebrated chieftain TAMENEND, once owner of this and all land between Neshaminy and Pennypack Creeks. These stones are placed at this spot near which an aged Indian called Tamany by the pioneers of Bucks County, was buried by white men about the year 1750.'
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680122059
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Minguannan Indian Town commemoration stone near London Tract Meeting House, Landenberg, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1931
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: The monument, dedicated to the Lenni Lenape town of Minguannan, is near the London Tract Meeting House. The Lenni Lenape, led by Machaloha of the Unami group, later sold the land, which included the area between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay to the falls of the Susquehanna River, to William Penn on October 18, 1683. The site was marked by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Chester County Historical Society in 1926.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680122051
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Noble Settee
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: James Noble, a Lenni-Lenape descendent and stonecutter, cut out of existing rock a bench known as Noble's Settee.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680128016
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: 'Indian Hannah' monument
Date(s): 1927
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: Monument reads: 'Indian Hannah, 1730-1802. The last of the Indians in Chester County was born in the vale about 300 yards to the east on the land of the protector of her people, the Quaker assemblyman William Webb. Her mother was Indian Sarah and her grandmother Indian Jane of the Unami group, their totem the tortoise, of the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians.' Erected by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Chester County Historical Society, 1925.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680125164
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Noble Settee
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: James Noble, a Lenni-Lenape descendent and stonecutter, cut out of existing rock a bench known as Noble's Settee.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680128017
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: London Tract Meeting House near Landenberg, Pennsylvania
Date(s): 1931
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: The monument, dedicated to the Lenni Lenape town of Minguannan, is near the London Tract Meeting House. The Lenni Lenape people, led by Machaloha of the Unami group, later sold the land, which included the area between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay to the falls of the Susquehanna River, to William Penn on October 18, 1683. The site was marked by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Chester County Historical Society in 1926.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680122052
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: 'Indian Hannah' Historical Marker
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Zebley, Frank R., 1883-1960 (photographer)
Description: A marker was erected to denote the birthplace of 'Indian Hannah,' (1730-1802) the last of the Unami Group of Chester County Indians, Lenni-Lenape or Delaware people. The marker was placed on land of William Webb, Quaker Assemblyman, protector of her people, in 1925 by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Chester County Historical Society near the site of her birth.
Collection ID: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums (Accession 1968.012)
Hagley ID: 680122004
Collection: Frank R. Zebley photograph albums

Title: Portrait of Ojibway Indian Chief
Date(s): 1911
Contributor(s): Schoonover, Frank E., 1877-1972 (photographer)
Description: Near Long Lake, Ontario. Taken during Schoonover's 1911 Canada trip.
Collection ID: Frank E. Schoonover negatives (Accession 2017.239)
Hagley ID: 2017239_13_100
Collection: Frank E. Schoonover negatives