[A trader's map of the Ohio country before 1753.
Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. Title from C. A. Hanna's The wilderness trail, 1910-1911. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 772 Availa... More
Letter from Edmund Moran to Evan Shelby
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A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and...
Scale ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Annotated in ink. One annotation shows where "Genr. Wayne defeated the Indians Augt. 20, 1794." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Lo... More
Indenture made by Henry Vanderburgh for Peter McNelly, Knox County, Te...
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Ohio and N.W. Territory - 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
Western states - Public domain vintage map
Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More
The states of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois and Michigan Territory : from t...
Shows parts of adjoining states. Prime meridian: Washington [D.C.]. Colored by county. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy: Signed inside front cover: Millard Fill... More
Map of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with the settled parts...
Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Scheme for the settlement of a New Colony to the Westward of Pennsylva...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Not in Hildeburn. 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; Portfo... More
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
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Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the U...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to loc... More
Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Wi...
William Hypolitus Keating (1799-1840), a professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), compiled this two-volume account of a scientific expedition in 1823 under the auspic... More
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
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Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
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A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...
Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... More
Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes...
This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes reg... More
The Wabash; or, Adventures of an English gentleman's family in the int...
Also available in digital form from the Library of Congress Web site.
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest
This book recounts the experiences of a young, genteel wife adjusting to the military life and frontier conditions of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her perilous journeys b... More
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...
This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More
History of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1778-1783
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 11 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1778-1783, while v. 12 has papers dealin... More
Dickson and Grignon papers, 1812-1815
"Supplement the Lawe and Grignon papers published in vol. X, Wisconsin historical collections, pp. 94-121." Edited by Reuben Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The boundaries of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
American Fur Company invoices, 1821-22
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
American Fur Company employees, 1818-19
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1767-1814
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 12 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1767-1814, while v. 11 has papers dealin... More
Journal of an Episcopalian missionary's tour to Green Bay, 1834
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Episcopalianism in Wisconsin, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. Madison, 1898.
Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Based on the original Italian edition of Mazzuchelli's Memoirs ... of a missionary apostle of the order of Saint Dominic among various Indian tribes and among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States ... More
Address by Bishop Benjamin William Arnett, D.D., Wednesday evening, Oc...
Arnett, a prominent A.M.E. cleric and at this time bishop of South Carolina and Georgia, speaks about the founding and development of the U.S. by both black and white races. He also favors further U.S. expansio... More
A Methodist circuit rider's horseback tour from Pennsylvania to Wiscon...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900. (LC copy replaced by Microfilm; original call number: E484.3.B78)
The dual origin of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 10, 1899." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The French regime in Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
Vol. I (v. 16): This volume is the first of three volumes devoted to the era of French dominance in the fur trade region of the upper Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi (1634-1763), emphasizing the period be... More
A selection of George Croghan's letters and journals relating to tours...
"Sources: Pennsylvania colonial records, v, pp. 496-498, 530-536, 539, 540, 731-735; vi, pp. 642, 643, 781, 782; vii, pp. 267-271. Massachusetts historical collections, 4 series, ix, pp. 362-379. Butler's Histo... More
Ogden's Letters from the West, 1821-1823
"Reprint of the original edition: New Bedford, 1823."--p. [19]. Includes facsimile of t.-p. of 1823 New Bedford edition with title: Letters from the West, comprising a tour through the western country, and a re... More
Slavery in the old Northwest - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congr...
"From Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16703. Gift, Carnegie Instit... More
Fur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815
"From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
History of the Democratic party organization in the Northwest, 1824-18...
Also available in digital form.
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
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William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
The unfinished autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, together with a...
This account focuses on the fur trade experiences of Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), better known as commander of the military forces suppressing the Sioux [Dakota] uprisings of 1862 and 1863, and, in 1858, ... More
Scheme for the settlement of a New Colony to the Westward of Pennsylva...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Not in Hildeburn. 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; Portfo... More
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the U...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to loc... More
Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Wi...
William Hypolitus Keating (1799-1840), a professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), compiled this two-volume account of a scientific expedition in 1823 under the auspic... More
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More
A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...
Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... More
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes...
This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes reg... More
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest
This book recounts the experiences of a young, genteel wife adjusting to the military life and frontier conditions of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her perilous journeys b... More
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...
This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More
History of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
The boundaries of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
Dickson and Grignon papers, 1812-1815
"Supplement the Lawe and Grignon papers published in vol. X, Wisconsin historical collections, pp. 94-121." Edited by Reuben Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
American Fur Company invoices, 1821-22
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1778-1783
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 11 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1778-1783, while v. 12 has papers dealin... More
American Fur Company employees, 1818-19
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1767-1814
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 12 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1767-1814, while v. 11 has papers dealin... More
Journal of an Episcopalian missionary's tour to Green Bay, 1834
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Episcopalianism in Wisconsin, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. Madison, 1898.
Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Based on the original Italian edition of Mazzuchelli's Memoirs ... of a missionary apostle of the order of Saint Dominic among various Indian tribes and among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States ... More
Address by Bishop Benjamin William Arnett, D.D., Wednesday evening, Oc...
Arnett, a prominent A.M.E. cleric and at this time bishop of South Carolina and Georgia, speaks about the founding and development of the U.S. by both black and white races. He also favors further U.S. expansio... More
A Methodist circuit rider's horseback tour from Pennsylvania to Wiscon...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900. (LC copy replaced by Microfilm; original call number: E484.3.B78)
The dual origin of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 10, 1899." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The French regime in Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
Vol. I (v. 16): This volume is the first of three volumes devoted to the era of French dominance in the fur trade region of the upper Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi (1634-1763), emphasizing the period be... More
A selection of George Croghan's letters and journals relating to tours...
"Sources: Pennsylvania colonial records, v, pp. 496-498, 530-536, 539, 540, 731-735; vi, pp. 642, 643, 781, 782; vii, pp. 267-271. Massachusetts historical collections, 4 series, ix, pp. 362-379. Butler's Histo... More
Ogden's Letters from the West, 1821-1823
"Reprint of the original edition: New Bedford, 1823."--p. [19]. Includes facsimile of t.-p. of 1823 New Bedford edition with title: Letters from the West, comprising a tour through the western country, and a re... More
Slavery in the old Northwest - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congr...
"From Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16703. Gift, Carnegie Instit... More
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Fur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815
"From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
History of the Democratic party organization in the Northwest, 1824-18...
Also available in digital form.
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
The unfinished autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, together with a...
This account focuses on the fur trade experiences of Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), better known as commander of the military forces suppressing the Sioux [Dakota] uprisings of 1862 and 1863, and, in 1858, ... More
