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.