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Manuscript

Calendared Treaty of Green Bay

Date: 08 18 1821
Description: Green Bay Treaty, August 18, 1821. The treaty is signed by the chiefs of the six Indian nations for the possession of lands near the Fox River to the Winne...
Photograph

Hobart Church

Date: 1900
Description: Hobart Episcopal Church on the Oneida Indian Reservation.
Manuscript

Calendared Treaty of Green Bay

Date: 08 18 1821
Description: The reverse side of the Green Bay treaty, August 18, 1821. The treaty is signed by the chiefs of the six Indian nations for the possession of lands near th...
Photograph

Spirit of the Northwest

Date: 1920
Description: "Spirit of the Northwest" monument by Sidney Bedore, on the grounds of the Brown County Court House. Represented, left to right: a Menominee, Claude Alloue...
Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Print

Menominee War Dance

Date: 1842
Description: Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail...
Photograph

Spirit of the Northwest Monument

Date: 1950
Description: "Spirit of the Northwest" monument by Sidney Bedore, on the grounds of the Brown County Court House. Represented, left to right: a member of the Fox Tribe,...
Print

Menominee Training School Dance Card

Date: 06 23 1908
Description: Menominee Training School dance card.
Postcard

Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse

Date: 
Description: Caption reads: "Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse." Text on reverse reads: "This mural decoration, on the south wall of the east entrance hall, rep...
Print

Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
Photograph

Chief Skenandoah

Date: 1875
Description: Portrait of Chief Elijah Skenandoah, a Turtle Clan chief of the Oneida nation. He moved to Wisconsin from New York in the 1830s, along with a group of Onei...
Print

Chief Daniel Bread

Date: 1911
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Daniel Bread, an Oneida political leader who was known for collaboration and compromise with the United States government an...
Photograph

Compass Training

Date: 1937
Description: Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory.
Postcard

Greetings from Green Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1957
Description: Large Letter style postcard for Green Bay depicting various scenes in the letters that spell the name of the city. Caption reads: "Greetings from Green Bay...
Photograph

Frances Ann Oiyotte Decorah with Certificate

Date: 1961
Description: Frances "Frenchie" Ann Oiyotte Decorah receiving her beauticians license at the age of 18 from the Green Bay Beauty School. The blond woman on the left is ...
Photograph

Banquet at Beauty School

Date: 1961
Description: Group portrait of women at a banquet at the Green Bay Beauty School. In the back row, fourth from the left, is Frances Decorah. Handwritten at the bottom i...
Photograph

Cadle Home

Date: 1870
Description: Exterior of the Cadle Home, an Episcopal Home for aged people. The Cadle Home was named for Reverend Cadle who went to Green Bay in 1829 as the first local...
Photograph

"The Spirit of the Northwest"

Date: 
Description: "The Spirit of the Northwest," a sculpture by Sidney Bedore which features a missionary, an explorer, and a Native American.
Map or Atlas

Map of Brown County, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: This map of Brown County, Wisconsin, from the late 19th century shows land claims along the Fox River, the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities...
Photograph

Small Island

Date: 08 18 1963
Description: Elevated view of a small, gravelly island in Lake Michigan. Caption on photograph reads, "Green Bay shore with small gravely island. This is very likely th...

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