Fonds consists of works by Alfred Jacob Miller entitled: "No. 1. Hunting the Buffalo: Attack with Lances, 1837"; "No. 2. Approaching the Buffalo, 1837"; "No. 3. A Buffalo Rift, 1837"; "No. 4. Schim-a-co-che High Lance, a Crow Indian, 1837"; "No. 5. Indian Warrior and His Squaw, 1837"; "No. 6. Wild Horses: Throwing the Lasso, 1837"; "No. 7. Shoshonie Women: Throwing the Lasso, 1837"; "No. 8. Indian Village on the Missouri, 1837"; "No. 9. Indian Woman Making War Dress, 1837"; "No. 10. Head of a Sioux Indian, 1837"; "No. 11. Shooting Elk, 1837"; "No. 12. Skirmishing Crown Indians, 1837"; "No. 13. Ma-wo-ma Little Chief, 1837"; "No. 14. A Reconnoitre, 1837"; "No. 15. War Ground. Beating a Retreat, 1837"; "No. 16. Medicine Circles, 1837"; "No. 17. Caravan en route, 1837"; "No. 18. Camp Providers, 1837"; "No. 19. A Young Indian Mother Fording a Stream, 1837"; "No. 20. Nez Perces Indians, 1837"; "No. 21. The Grizzly Bear, 1837"; "No. 22. Indian Girls, 1837"; "No. 23. Indian Lodge, 1837"; "No. 24. Breakfast at Sunrise, 1837"; "No. 25. Herd of Elk, 1837"; "No. 26. Fort Laramie, 1837"; "No. 27. Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise, 1837"; "No. 28. The Blackfeet, 1837"; "No. 29. Hunting the Buffalo in Herds, 1837"; "No. 30. The Yell of Triumph, 1837"; "No. 31. Pawnee Indians Watching the Caravan, 1837"; "No. 32. Prairie on Fire, 1837"; "No. 33. Approaching Buffalo, 1837"; "No. 34. Pawnee Indians on the War Path, 1837"; "No. 35. Stampede by Blackfeet Indians, 1837"; "No. 36. Buffalo Hunt, 1837"; "No. 37. A Kansas Indian, 1837"; "No. 38. A Young Woman of the Flat Head Tribe, 1837"; "No. 39. The Rendez-vous near Green River Oregon, 1837"; "No. 40. A Surround, 1837". Fonds also consists of two printed volumes (one bound volume, one unbound porfolio) of explanitory text relating to the forty images in the Alfred Jacob Miller set of watercolours of Indian images in the American West in 1837. These volumes are in leather folio enclosures with gold leaf.
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 : Alfred Jacob Miller (born Baltimore 1810, died Baltimore 1874) studied under Thomas Sully and in Europe. He went west in 1837, and upon his return executed a set of paintings which are now in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.