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Arthur Glaser

Educator/ Historian
Sen. John Heinz History Museum/ Allegheny Observatory
Elementary (9 to 12 years old), Middle School (13 to 15 years old), High School (16 to 18 years old), Adults, Post-Secondary
Science, Social Studies, Arts :

Arthur Glaser's collections

 

Captured by Indians: Warfare and Assimilation on the 18thC Frontier.

<p>After the Britains won the British, French and Indian War, the victors made promises to the native Americans that the former French claims would not be occupied by the English colonists. The Quebec Act forbade settlers to pass beyond the ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. Britain soon discovered that it was impossible to stop the settlers from crossing into Indian lands. The reaction of the native-Americans was swift and furious. Raiding parties killed and/or captured hundreds of these frontier farmers.</p>
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Charles Messier: Comet Ferret

<p>Charles Messier was an eighteenth century astronomer whose specialty was searching for comets. He observed at an observatory atop the Hotel Cluny which was financed by the French Navy.</p>
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George Catlin: Indian Portraiture

<p>During the 1830s, George Catlin and his team produced over five hundred images of native American life on the western plains. Nearly half of his work consisted of exquisite portraits of Indians of many different tribes. Some tribes like the Hidatsa disappeared before any other visual representation of them could be made.</p>
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