Manuscripts
Winnebago Treaty documents
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Personnel of the Winnebago (o-chun-gra-Large Fish) Treaty of 1829
Manuscripts
First item is the Third treaty of Prairie Du Chien between the United States and the Winnebago tribe, concluded August 1, 1829. It is a single sheet of vellum measuring 21" x 37". The Winnebago Tribe ceded land to the United States in Illinois and Wisconsin in exchange for payments of $18,000 per year for a period of 30 years, as well as $30,000 in goods (1 time), and 3,000 pounds of tobacco and 50 barrels of salt to be delivered annually (for 30 years). It was signed by John McNeil, Pierre Menard, and Caleb Atwater for the United States; it was also signed by more than forty Winnebago individuals (all signing with their mark), and more than thirty Indian agents and officers of the United States Army, including then Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Taylor. All signatures appear on the verso, along with a small wax seal. Accompanied with a volume titled "Personnel of the Winnebago (o-chun-gra-Large Fish) Treaty of 1829." The manuscript, bound in deerskin and completed after 1884, contains biographies of the Winnebago and American signatories and attesters of the Third Treaty of Prairie Du Chien and an account of the "friendly council" between "Nau-Kaw" Winnebago Chief, in company with fifteen other Chiefs and Warriors of that Nation and President John Quincy Adams, on December 2, 1828.
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Documents, letters, and treaties from the State Department Archives
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A variety of original texts which Johnston photographed (possibly for an article?) including the Articles of Confederation, the Oaths of Allegiance, the Treaty of Paris, Treaty and Seal of George I, Treaty of the War of 1812, C.A. Dana letter, Signature Treaty of the Mexican War, Acts of the 51st Congress, and John Quincy Adams' passport among other documents, some unidentified.
photCL 352 (1010-1030)
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Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., order to Secretary of State William H. Seward :
Manuscripts
Authorizing and directing the secretary of state to affix the seal of the United States to the "proclamation of the Treaty for the cession of Russian Possessions in North America to the United States," referring to the treaty finalizing the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia, which had been signed March 30, 1867; formal transfer of the territory occurred on October 18, 1867.
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Winnebago Indian warrior portrait
Manuscripts
Fifty-four drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber of clothing, tools, weapons, instruments, and hides used by Native Americans, as well as portraits of individual Native American men and women (Menomonee, Chippewa, Winnebago, Comanche, Oneida, Blackhawk, Ponca, Sioux, Pawnee, Concaw, Oshkosh, Ottoe) in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Hölzlhuber titled the drawings on the front (in German) and there is text on the verso of the drawings (also in German). Also present is the original housing of the drawings, a volume that was entitled "Costüm-Bilder waffen und Geräthshaften einiger Indianerstamme im Nordwesten America." Box 6 contains photocopies of the German text on the versos of the drawings. There are no English translations.
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Two Winnebago Indian women
Manuscripts
Fifty-four drawings by Franz Hölzlhuber of clothing, tools, weapons, instruments, and hides used by Native Americans, as well as portraits of individual Native American men and women (Menomonee, Chippewa, Winnebago, Comanche, Oneida, Blackhawk, Ponca, Sioux, Pawnee, Concaw, Oshkosh, Ottoe) in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Hölzlhuber titled the drawings on the front (in German) and there is text on the verso of the drawings (also in German). Also present is the original housing of the drawings, a volume that was entitled "Costüm-Bilder waffen und Geräthshaften einiger Indianerstamme im Nordwesten America." Box 6 contains photocopies of the German text on the versos of the drawings. There are no English translations.
mssHM 9892
New and Correct Map of North America with the Places of the Principal Engagements during the Present War, are accurately inserted. And the Boundaries as Settled by Treaty in 1783 Clearly Marked
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Kashnor notes, " A scarce map issued immediately after the peace, showing the boundaries, that in the west reach from Lake of the Woods to the Mississippi, and passing down that river. The Maine boundary is practically that which was claimed by the United States up to 1839." Canada is labeled "British America by Treaty" and US territory "Rebel Colonies, now the United States of America." MS note: 142 (on backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned seal seal. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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