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Creamware Bowl Fragment - GRPO 12886

This bowl fragment represents the most complete creamware vessel in the Grand Portage National Monument collection. It measures 7.3 cm high with an outside rim diameter of 16.0 cm. The outside diameter of the b More

Salt Glaze Stoneware Tobacco Jar - GRPO 12685

This fully intact wheel-thrown salt glaze stoneware tobacco jar measures 10.0 cm high with a diameter at the base of 7.7 cm.

Birch Bark Basket - GRPO 17166 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Octagonal birch bark basket sewn with bulrush fiber at seams. Top of basket is reinforced with ash wood splint and sewn with basswood fiber dyed dark brown. The vessel stands 6 cm tall with a maximum diameter of 18 cm.

Birch Bark Basket - GRPO 16178 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Small, tray-shaped birch bark basket with rim reinforced by split and peeled black spruce root. Seams and rim are secured by basswood bark fibers. The vessel measures 25.3 cm long, 23.5 cm wide, and stands 9.0 cm tall.

Birch Bark Container with Decorative Quillwork - GRPO 17091

Cylindrical birch bark container decorated with dyed quillwork floral design on lid and side walls. The container and lid are both sewn with split and peeled black spruce root. Bark scalloping reinforces bottom More

Caulking or Pitch Kit - GRPO 17201

One of the daily tasks of the voyageurs upon pulling their canoes ashore after a long day of paddling was to inspect the seams of their birch bark vessels and make any necessary repairs. Spruce gum, pictured he More

Decorated Birch Bark Container - GRPO 1172

Works Progress Administration (WPA) project slightly conical-shaped container with floral quillwork design. The container is sewn with black spruce root seams and stands 14 cm high with a maximum diameter of 14 cm.

Birch Bark Container with Etched Design - GRPO 17210

Decoratively etched floral pattern on birch bark makuk with fitted lid and seams stitched with basswood fiber. The makuk measures 25.0 cm long, 15.5 cm wide, and stands 24.0 cm tall with the cover.

Decorative Birch Bark Basket - GRPO 1217

Works Progress Administration (WPA) project small conical birch bark container with etched floral design. Black spruce root seams are used for side walls and reinforcing rim. The container stands 8 cm tall with More

Cartouche Knife Handle - GRPO 12614

Cast brass filigree-patterned cartouche knife handle with trace amounts of thinly transparent organic material backing, likely horn. The handle measures 9.7 cm long. The 1797 inventory records 108 cartouche kn More

Beaded Belt - GRPO 1206 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Works Progress Administration (WPA) project beaded belt on tanned buckskin measuring 107 cm long and 9 cm wide. The piece with its decorative floral design contains a total of nearly 9,000 glass beads and consi More

Beaded Moccasins - GRPO 1563 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Pair or pucker toe beaded leather moccasins with decorative floral design enclosed within white, blue, red, and yellow beaded border on vamps. Leather ankle wraps have scalloped or sawtooth edging.

Beaded Moccasins - GRPO 1565 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Pair of pucker toe beaded leather moccasins with identical geometric design featuring white, yellow, maroon, and black beads on vamps and lower collars. Additional beadwork on vamps contains diagonal lines of t More

Hawk Bell - GRPO 14419 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Hawk bells were originally used as part of falconry equipment Europe before being utilized as fur trade goods when they were introduced to North America in the 16th century. This 18th century example is made of More

Clasp Knife Blade - GRPO 17785 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Clasp knife blade with hinge element, rivet pin, and marked with three characters, "- (V) (I)". This knife bears the registered mark of William Parker, a Sheffield knife maker, active from 1739 to circa 1784. More

Case Knife Blade - GRPO 13653 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

A case knife blade with vertical maker's mark that resembles a four-lobed crown over a robust numeral "2" is broken through the first rivet hole of its drooping tang. Many cutler marks incorporating crowns appe More

Ice Chisel - GRPO 17766 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Chisels like the one featured here were essential tools in the late 18th century fur trade. Ice chisels were often attached to long wooden handles and used to penetrate through the ice to create holes for fishi More

Pocket Watch - GRPO 1425 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Hollow shaft key used for winding watch; late 18th century

Hand Forged Iron Hammer - GRPO 8228

This hand-forged hammer may have been used by the North West Company blacksmith at the Grand Portage depot in the late 18th century. The tool is bent to form an eye for accommodating a handle and measures 11.1 More

Cast White Metal Button - GRPO 14887

Late 18th century cast white metal button with concentric circle design; eye molded to back face; diameter 1.7 cm.

Rectangular Shoe Buckle Frame - GRPO 12697

Late 18th century brass and white metal rectangular shoe buckle frame with incised lines along perimeter

Cast White Metal Button with radial design - GRPO 14889

Late 18th century cast white metal button with radial design; crudely-shaped eye molded to back; 1.7 cm diameter

Pistol-Grip Handle - GRPO 15375

One half of a hollow, pistol-grip style utensil handle, cast of white metal. This example measures 8.9 cm long and 1.9 cm wide. Pistol grip handles, introduced in the early 18th century, were commonly made of b More

Folding Knife - GRPO 17587 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

One of the most popular knives in the second half of the 18th century, this example features a slightly tapered handle with rounded end. Four iron pins are present on back edge of the handle. This knife, recove More

Round Cupreous Cufflinks - GRPO 14404

This pair of cupreous cufflinks, known as sleeve buttons in the 18th century, features a nautical design with a face diameter of 1.6 cm

Jesuit Style Ring - GRPO 14712 - Public domain portrait engraving

Jesuit style brass ring with octagonal plaque (11.7 mm by 12.4 mm) engraved "IM" and bordered by a rocker-stamp pattern. This was probably cast as a single unit. In the western Great Lakes, Jesuit rings are str More

Brass Pendant with Glass Insets - GRPO 14710

A cast, soft brass, tri-lobed pendant frame with four blue-green (Munsell 10BG 6/8) faceted, faux gem glass insets. Round insets in outer lobes, and square inset at center. Sets are bracketed by relief floral p More

Razor - GRPO 14959 - National Parks Gallery

Razor blade stamped ACIER-FOND (“steel edge”) over the cutting edge near the spine. The tang is stamped, G.SMITH, the mark of Georgius Smith, a Sheffield razor-maker active in the mid-1770s. The brass pivot pin More

Silver Bracelet - GRPO 4831 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Silver bracelet etched with lines and perforated at ends for cord attachment bearing the stamp “RC” for Robert Cruickshank. Born in England, Cruickshank immigrated first to Boston in 1767 and then moved to Mont More

Silver Moon - GRPO 16948 - Public domain engraving

Moon, concave engraved silver disk with maker's mark "NR" and two buttons on either side near the top center of the disk. The buttons have eye holes on the back to attach to a chain or fastener. The disk has an More

Wool Assomption Sash - GRPO 525

Arrow and lightning pattern fingerwoven sash (mid-19th century) consisting of 515 threads woven in 1,089 rows. There are 19 color zones present. The woven length of the wool sash is 227.3 cm, the length of th More

White Cedar Paddle Fragment - GRPO 16122

White cedar paddle blade, Ottertail-style with rounded tip, part of lower shaft, and dihedral cross-section. This is the most complete and best preserved paddle blade in Grand Portage National Monument's collec More

Harmonica Plate - GRPO 12707 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Copper alloy harmonica plate with ten rectangular reed slots, and an equal number of corresponding reed attachment holes arranged in a straight line along one greater margin. This example recovered during arche More

Copper Fishtail Kettle Lug - GRPO 8082

Decorative copper fishtail-design kettle lug measuring 6.8 cm long, 5.2 cm wide, and 0.3 cm thick. This style of kettle ear dates to approximately 1800 for English kettles, just near the end of the North West C More

Brass Trade Ring - GRPO 14703 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Plain band with crude markings scratched on inner surface. The ring diameter measures 1.9 cm. Similar bands with interior markings are reported at the 1792-1800 NWC site of Fort George in Alberta and the circa More

Daniel Wing, Historical Society of Old Yarmouth

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Yarmouth is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, on Cape Cod, and was first settled in More

Union stock yards and packing houses, Chicago, Ill.

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Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Madison Street, Chicago, Ill., Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Stock yards, Chicago, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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State Street and the Masonic Temple, Chicago

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Map of the Counties of Cook and DuPage, the east part of Kane and Kendall, the north part of Will, state of Illinois /

New map of Chicago : comprising the whole city, taken from Lowe's map, with all the recent additions, subdivisions & extensions

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Chicago - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Krause Music Store, 4611 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Thomas Wentworth Higginson autograph letter to [Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Channing Higginson], Chicago, 23 February 1860

Tells her of a ball in Elkart, Indiana. Describes his fellow-travelers on the trip to Chicago. Marked "Thomas Wentworth Higginson" in pencil. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Map of Cook County, Illinois / - Public domain old map

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Canoe Sail Toggle - GRPO 13997 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

The use of sails in birch bark canoes is depicted in Frances Anne Hopkins' 1869 painting entitled "Voyageurs on Lake Superior" and is mentioned in the journals of fur traders. They were often rigged with line More

Van Vechten's map of Cook Du Page Countie's also the norther portion of Lake County, Indiana /

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by James Van Vechten in the Clerks Office for the Northern District of Illinois." LC Land ownership maps, 106 Available also through the Library of Congres More

Exchange Bank, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collection.

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Interior 1st Presbyterian Church, Stereoscope Card

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Sturgess House, Pine Street, Stereoscope Card

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Chicago Fire, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collection.

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Int. court house, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collection.

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Chamber of Commerce, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collection.

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Plan of the South Open Ground, the Upper Plaisance, the Midway Plaisance, the Lake Open Ground, the Lagoon Plaisance and the Parkway Quadrant : as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Vaux & Co. landscape architects

America Transformed: As people flocked to cities in the late 19th century, Americans recognized that cities lacked space where locals could enjoy nature and its health benefits. In 1869, Chicago decided that it More

Shippard block, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collection.

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West wing court house, Stereoscope Card

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Guide map of Chicago, October 11th, 1871

America Transformed: By 1870, Chicago's population approached 300,000, making it the nation's fifth largest city. This guide map, published just after the Great Chicago Fire, superimposes the burned area over t More

Map of Chicago showing the burnt district

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More

Travelers' and shippers' railway guide map of Chicago

Railway guide map of Chicago Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Unit BF-O. Black Forest - acrobatic skaters

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Trimming and skinning hams, Chicago, Stereoscope Card

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East and west meet in striking architectural forms

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Night lights for Sweden's forecourts, Stereoscope Card

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Unit BF-O. Black Forest - ice skaters' finale

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Horticultural building from Wooded Island. World's Fair

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The most powerful light ever produced by man

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From Italian exhibit to Hall of Science

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Unit ME-O. Merrie England, Stratford Place

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The Chicago Union Veteran club. Address of the committee on political action to the soldiers and sailors of Cook County ... Henry F. Hawkes, Chairman. [1879].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 18, Folder 24.