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Camp at Michipicoton

Date: 1850
Description: View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles.
Drawing

Island of St. Ignace

Date: 1850
Description: Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the fo...
Painting

The Fur-Trader's House on Yellow Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: This house was located among the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. Here Hölzlhuber and his companions took shelter in an uncomfortable stable one night, after an ...
Painting

Joe Barry's Farm, A Day's Journey to the South of Odanah

Date: 1858
Description: Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest....
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Grignon Block House

Date: 1850
Description: The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said."
Photograph

Pleasant Ridge Log Church

Date: 1854
Description: Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Church in 1884.

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