Minnesota

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

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

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

Once large chunks of quartzite are taken out, they must be broken into smaller pieces and used to build a retaining wall.

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.

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.

The pails and handles of the leather buckets have been stitched and assembled into one using metals rings.

A participant displays foods being prepared and references used in the kitchen.

Parents help their kids put together pottery shards based on pottery designs

A closeup of a demonstrator's hands as they file pipestone into the shape of a pipe.

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.

A regular hammer won't do the trick - many quarriers use 16 and 20 lb. sledge hammers with their smaller 5 lb. hammer.

Two leather buckets filled with water near a fire ring.

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

Quarrier and carver Travis Erickson using a knife to carve a pipe stem.

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

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

Five reenactors making birch bark baskets using black spruce root to stitch them together.

Harvey Derby demonstrates pipe carving for visitors

Leather buckets made by sewing the pail and handle and connecting them together using metal rings.

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.

Quarriers Inspect a Piece of Pipestone

Pipemaking is a tradition dating over 3,000 years.

Travis Erickson, 4th generation quarrier and carver, working outside during Covid-19.

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.

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

Four petroglyphs on display on the visitor center.

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

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

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.

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

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 probably British, late 18th century.

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 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 French or British, 18th century.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 18th century puppet show is popular with participants and visitors.

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

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

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

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

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

Case knife probably French or British, 18th century.

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

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Clasp knife blade, probably French, 1730-1750.

Knife blade possibly of cutler Jean Tivet French 1730-1750.

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

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 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 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 w/Cross & L stamp, British, 1780-1830.

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

The Paul LaPlante is a replica Mackinaw sailboat used by fishermen on Lake Superior in the mid-late 1800 and early 1900s.

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 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

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

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

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

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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

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A silver and wood pipe with a heart on the end, North and Central America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Cooke no. 1622--Built 1884 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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