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Map or Atlas

Expedition Map of Major S.H. Long

Date: 1823
Description: In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th...
Photograph

Voyageurs at Fort William

Date: 1860
Description: Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi...
Photograph

Portaging at Curtain Falls

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Description: View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson.
Book or Pamphlet

James Expedition Map

Date: 02 1823
Description: A map featuring the North American expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains led by Edwin James.
Photograph

William and Alma at Portofino

Date: 02 22 1930
Description: William Conrad Seipp, Jr., left, and his daughter Melita, far right, pose with Alma Schmidt Petersen and her son Conrad at an overlook above Portofino Bay....
Print

Herd of Bison near Lake Jessie

Date: 11 22 1919
Description: Print on card depicting a herd of Bison near Lake Jessie. Written under the title is the date: "July 10th, 1853" and "Shyenne River County."
Photograph

Stopping for Lunch

Date: 1907
Description: View down shoreline towards the travelers pausing in their canoe journey to have lunch on the riverbank below Gordon Dam.
Map or Atlas

Map of Rainy Lake Gold Region

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Description: A geological map of the Rainy Lake region in Minnesota and Ontario.
Map or Atlas

Dawson and Rainy Lake Region Maps

Date: 
Description: A blueprint map with an overlay traced in pencil of the routes of Howard Greene and The Gang's 1910 and 1911 canoe trips.

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