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In Immaculate Condition, Photos Are What You Will Get.

Came From A Mailer Printed By The Chippewa Paper Products Co,. INC And Sent Out By The Northern Pacific Railway

Postal Stamp Said Dec, 20' 61 So I Am Assuming These Were Sent In 1961.

They Are Northern Pacific Native American Chromolithographs. (Multi. Embossed Cardstock.) From The Original Pantings by E.A Burbank. Copyright, 1899, By E.A Burbank Chicago. These Prints DO NOT have the trade mark of Northern Pacific, Yellowstone Park Line.

(These are difficult to find, and I don't see many without the trade mark, and I have yet to find ones in a mailer.)

You Will Receive

from The Series A,

1x No.7 Chief Joseph (Nez-Perce)

For a total of 1 print

Elbridge Ayer (E.A.) Burbank, Born 1958 in Harvard, Illinois.

The Harvard-educated Burbank studied at the Chicago Academy of Design and spent a brief period in Europe before returning to Chicago to open his own studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. His first commission was for Northwest Magazine, for which he painted views of the Northern Pacific Railway.

His career took a different path In 1897, When Burbank’s wealthy uncle, Edward E. Ayer, president of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, commissioned him to go West and document American Indian life. Several prominent museums along with Wanamaker’s department store entered into a bidding war over these portraits, and the Chicago public school system even ordered 10,000 color reproductions of a single image. Burbank spent the last years of his life in San Francisco, contributing illustrations to the San Francisco Chronicle. He died after being struck by a cable car In 1949.