2-915-479 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

John Willock Noble, 1831-1912, between c1890 and c1910. Three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, left profile. [Politician, lawyer, brigadier general in the Civil War. Note framed photograph of Native Americans on desk. 'Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders'].