Grand Rounds Scenic Byway - Huge Lego Spaceship in the Mall of America
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A lego spaceman hovers in the air above mall walkers. Location: Location: Minnesota (44.854° N 93.243° W) Status: Public domain. Photo... More
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
Ranger for a Day - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Park ranger Drapeau helping a girl scout make traditional pottery Public domain photograph of educational activity, National Park rangers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hauling Rocks, Pipestone national monument
Once large chunks of quartzite are taken out, they must be broken into smaller pieces and used to build a retaining wall.
The 16 lb. Sledge Hammer - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
A regular hammer won't do the trick - many quarriers use 16 and 20 lb. sledge hammers with their smaller 5 lb. hammer.
Leather Buckets, Free images of New Mexico
Two leather buckets filled with water near a fire ring.
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
Travis Erickson at Work - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Quarrier and carver Travis Erickson using a knife to carve a pipe stem.
Leather Buckets, Free images of New Mexico
Leather buckets made by sewing the pail and handle and connecting them together using metal rings.
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.
National parks: Petroglyphs - public domain image
Four petroglyphs on display on the visitor center.
Carving Demonstration, Pipestone national monument
A closeup of a demonstrator's hands as they file pipestone into the shape of a pipe.
Birch Bark Basket - GRPO 16178 - Public Domain image, National Parks G...
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.
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 G...
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.
Buckets Made of Leather? - A couple of black boots sitting on top of a...
The pails and handles of the leather buckets have been stitched and assembled into one using metals rings.
Archeology Day 2019 - National Parks Gallery
Parents help their kids put together pottery shards based on pottery designs
Cooking Demonstration in Kitchen
A participant displays foods being prepared and references used in the kitchen.
'Ranger for a Day' Camp - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Ranger Drapeau helping girl scouts make clay pottery Public domain photograph of educational activity, National Park rangers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Basket Making, Free images of New Mexico
Five reenactors making birch bark baskets using black spruce root to stitch them together.
Harvey Derby 3 - National Parks Gallery
Harvey Derby demonstrates pipe carving for visitors
Quarriers Inspect a Piece of Pipestone
Quarriers Inspect a Piece of Pipestone
Pipe Carving Demonstration - National Parks Gallery
Pipemaking is a tradition dating over 3,000 years.
Outdoor Demonstrations, Pipestone national monument
Travis Erickson, 4th generation quarrier and carver, working outside during Covid-19.
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 Gal...
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 Gal...
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
A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and...
Relief shown pictorially. Includes scenes of apostles at bottom of sheet. Attributed to Richard Blome. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also throu... More
Folding Knife - GRPO 17585 - Public Domain image, National Parks Galle...
Folding knife probably British, late 18th century.
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 G...
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 - GRPO 17802 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Case knife French or British, 18th century.
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.
Bear and Raccoon Please the Crowd
The 18th century puppet show is popular with participants and visitors.
Rectangular Shoe Buckle Frame - GRPO 12697
Late 18th century brass and white metal rectangular shoe buckle frame with incised lines along perimeter
Folding Knife - GRPO 17587 - Public Domain image, National Parks Galle...
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
DCM 0238: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pilager) Courting Flute (V...
The flue cover is, for this plain instrument, unusually ornate, carved, possibly to resemble a rattlesnake's rattle, integral mouthpipe. DCM ledger: "Pilager Tribe of Minnesota." Instrument type: Courting Flute... More
Case Knife Blade - GRPO 13653 - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...
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
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
Case Knife - GRPO 17800 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Case knife probably French or British, 18th century.
![Carte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent dans le grand fleuve de Missisipi [sic] ... ; Carte que les Gnacsitares : ont dessine sur des paux de cerfs ...](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvY2FydGUtZGUtbGEtcml2aWVyZS1sb25ndWUtZXQtZGUtcXVlbHF1ZXMtYXV0cmVzLXF1aS1zZS1kZWNoYXJnZW50LWRhbnMtbGUtYzNiNzQwLTEwMjQuanBn/40/17/webp "Carte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent dans le grand fleuve de Missisipi [sic] ... ; Carte que les Gnacsitares : ont dessine sur des paux de cerfs ...")
Carte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent ...
Map 1 covers area of Minnesota River, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Mississippi River south to Saint Louis. Map 2 covers the area west of the Minnesota River. Both maps drawn within same neat lines, divided... More
War club - Public domain dedication. Metropolitan Museum of Art image.
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Clasp Knife - GRPO 16589 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Knife blade possibly of cutler Jean Tivet French 1730-1750.
Clasp Knife - GRPO 16921 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Clasp knife blade, probably French, 1730-1750.
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 Gall...
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
Case Knife - GRPO 16968 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery
Case knife w/Cross & L stamp, British, 1780-1830.
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
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
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 Gal...
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
Mackinaw Boat, Free images of New Mexico
The Paul LaPlante is a replica Mackinaw sailboat used by fishermen on Lake Superior in the mid-late 1800 and early 1900s.
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
Brass Trade Ring - GRPO 14703 - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...
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
Cradleboard Cover Panel, arts of africa oceania and the americas
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Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi painted by J. Shaw ; engraved ...
Print shows a view through an opening in the trees of a small cascade of water forming the St. Anthony waterfalls. Illus. from: Picturesque views of American scenery, 1820 by J. Shaw. Philadelphia : M. Carey &... More
Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi.
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Knife Case, arts of africa oceania and the americas
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Messiter Pipe, arts of africa oceania and the americas
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Pipe Bowl, arts of africa oceania and the americas
A silver and wood pipe with a heart on the end, North and Central America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Minnesota & North Western no. 11 [0-4-0] locomotive](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzIwMjEvMDIvMDMvbWlubmVzb3RhLWFuZC1ub3J0aC13ZXN0ZXJuLW5vLTExLTAtNC0wLWUxZTljZi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/23/webp "Minnesota & North Western no. 11 [0-4-0] locomotive")
Minnesota & North Western no. 11 [0-4-0] locomotive
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Roach, arts of africa oceania and the americas
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Manuscript map, probably made by a French voyageur, of Indian lands of...
Reproduction number: A120 (color slide); LC-MSS-39115-7 (B&W negative) This map of Wisconsin river valleys, probably made by a French voyageur, was carried by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), the author, eth... More
Map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country ...
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Map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country ...
Relief shown by hachures. Bar scale incorrect. Note in manuscript ink on paper affixed to verso: "To accompany the claim of H.R. Schoolcraft. The country coloured green lies west & north of the [Michigan superi... More
A reconnoissance of the Minnay Sotor Watapāh; or St. Peter's River to...
Public domain scan of a plan, map, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Minnesota from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography,...
This image has been taken from scan 000073 from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ... together with a condensed history of the land ... the biography... More
Pipe Tomahawk, 19th century - Public domain dedication photo
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Pipe Tomahawk, arts of africa oceania and the americas
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Messiter Pipe, 19th century - Public domain dedication photo
United States, South Dakota or Minnesota Public domain photograph of glass museum object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Knife Case, 19th century - Public domain dedication photo
United States, Minnesota Public domain photograph of glass museum object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Map of the territory of Minnesota exhibiting the route of the expediti...
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
Dalles of the St. Louis, Stereoscope Card
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Minnesota ice harvest, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
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![Devil's Chair, (150 feet perpendicular hight [sic] from the water's edge.)](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTAvMDEvMDEvZGV2aWxzLWNoYWlyLTE1MC1mZWV0LXBlcnBlbmRpY3VsYXItaGlnaHQtc2ljLWZyb20tdGhlLXdhdGVycy1lZGdlLWE5YzhlMC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/20/webp "Devil's Chair, (150 feet perpendicular hight [sic] from the water's edge.)")
Devil's Chair, (150 feet perpendicular hight [sic] from the water's ed...
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Dalles of the St. Croix River. Falls of the St. Croix
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![Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies north of the parallel of South Bend of Lake Michigan. It will be seen at a glance, that the unbroken line of communication with the Atlantic seaboard, and the only winter route for northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, will be by the Michigan Southern Railway, and south shore of Lake Erie.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDMvbWFwLW9mLXRoZS1ub3J0aHdlc3Rlcm4tc3RhdGVzLXNoZXdpbmctc2ljLXdoYXQtcHJvcG9ydGlvbi1saWVzLW5vcnRoLW9mLXRoZS03YTUzZWYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/30/webp "Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies north of the parallel of South Bend of Lake Michigan. It will be seen at a glance, that the unbroken line of communication with the Atlantic seaboard, and the only winter route for northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, will be by the Michigan Southern Railway, and south shore of Lake Erie.")
Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies nor...
Outline map of the north-central United States showing the canals and the railroad network and naming the Michigan Central and the Michigan Southern Railway. John B. Jervis was chief engineer on the Mohawk & Hu... More
On the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad
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Lake Superior & Mississippi R. R., Stereoscope Card
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Lake Minnetonka views, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
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Pineries of Minnesota (on the drive)
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On the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad
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Minnehaha, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, cascade, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Willow River Falls, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
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Minne-ha-ha. (Laughing Water.), Stereoscope Card
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Waterfall, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
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Willow River Falls, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
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Castle Rock, Stereoscope Card, Minnesota, 19th century.
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Charm Bag, arts of africa oceania and the americas
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