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Painting

Henry Dodge

Date: 1836
Description: A detail of a full-length portrait of Henry Dodge.
Print

Indians Fighting at Fort Mackenzie

Date: 08 28 1833
Description: Indians fighting at Fort Mackenzie (Montana).
Print

View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
Photograph

Old Fort Winnebago

Date: 1834
Description: Reproduction of an oil painting of Fort Winnebago, which was built in 1827 by Major William Whistler and a detachment of the First Infantry. Caption reads:...
Print

Combat at Fort McKenzie

Date: 1832
Description: Indians in combat at Fort McKenzie on August 28th, 1833.
Photograph

Drawing of The Milwaukie Steamboat

Date: 1832
Description: An early type of sidewheel passenger and freight steamboat The Milwaukie, also known as The Milwaukee. It was used on Lake Erie and upper lak...
Print

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti...
Postcard

Fort Crawford

Date: 1830
Description: Illustration of Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Fort Crawford in 1830, Prairie Du Chien, Wis."
Photograph

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856).
Drawing

Old Fort Winnebago

Date: 1834
Description: Caption reads: "Old Ft. Winnebago".
Map or Atlas

United States Map

Date: 1835
Description: Map reads: "Map of the United States of America with its Territories and Districts - Including also a part of Upper and Lower Canada and Mexico". The map i...
Print

Public Meeting Notice

Date: 09 1838
Description: A public notice of a meeting that nominated Hon. James Duane Doty for Delegate to Congress for this Territory. Other names on document; Hon. Gilbert Knapp,...
Print

Abigail Adams

Date: 1839
Description: Facsimile engraving of a Gilbert Stuart painting of Abigail (Smith) Adams, wife of President John Adams and second First Lady of the United States.

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