Newberry Library

Newberry Library

Potawatomi materials at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Digital Heritage Items
Wa-Baun-See, a Pottawatimie.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents, Photos
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Drawings and paintings of treaty ceremonies between 1825 and 1828, Lewis published The Aboriginal Portfolio in Philadelphia between 1835 and 1836.
Ayer MS 130 (VAULT) Relation du Sieur de la Motte Cadillac, pg.2_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
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*Open PDF file to see all document pages; Lamothe Cadillac's description, probably from around 1693-1697, of the French settlement at Michilimackinac, and the customs and traditions of the neighboring Indian tribes.
Le Cours de Missisipi, ou de St. Louis ...
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents, Photos
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Shows area from James Bay to Cuba and from the headwaters of the Rio Grande to Lake Ontario.
AP_2563_BX116_00001_o2_Wawasuk.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Photos
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A collection of studio portraits of Indigneous peoples, 1850-1863; 1865
Ayer_MS_Map_48_00001_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
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ca. 1850 Tracing made by historian Pierre Margry from ca. 1675 manuscript map variously attributed to explorer Louis Joliet and royal geographer Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin.
Ayer MS Map 61_1.JPG
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
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Tracing made ca. 1850 by historian Pierre Margry from 1697 map by French royal geographer Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin. Based on information supplied by fur trader Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, who explored the Mississippi River valley between 1683-1701.
Ayer_MS_Map_47_00001_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
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Tracing made ca. 1850 by historian Pierre Margry from 1673 manuscript map by explorer Jacques Marquette
AP_2547_BX116_00001_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Photos
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
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*Open PDF file to see all document pages
Ayer_MS_Map_54_00001_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
Graff 2507 (Vault) Carte de la Louisiane, 1718, Detail of Lake Michigan, Chicago_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Ruggles 209 (vault) Narrative of the massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812_o2.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents
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Could only locate corresponding map.
graff_map_642_Page_1.jpg
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
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Documents