Chequamegon History Source Archive

Chequamegon History Collections

  • Descriptions of La Pointe

  • Ojibwe Voices in Translation

  • German Speakers at La Pointe

  • Land Frauds

  • Ojibwe Language

  • Censuses and Rolls

CHSA Documents

Original Image Gallery

These images are original graphics created by Chequamegon History authors which are derived or inspired by primary source material,. Please contact us if you wish to use or reproduce them.

Locations of Ojibwe people and select fur trade workers mentioned in the journals of Perrault, Curot, Nelson, Sayers, and Malhiot

Created by L. Filipczak in May 2014 from information in fur trade journals c.1795-1805. See John Sayers' Winter Journal (1804-1805) for more information.

Digital overlay of Joseph Nicollet's manuscript draft map of country between Lake Superior, the St. Croix, and the Wisconsin Rivers

Created by L. Filipczak in December 2018 from a manuscript map held by St. Olaf's College. See Translation Help Needed: Ojibwe and French placenames on Joseph Nicollet’s manuscript map of Wisconsin for more information.

Fictional advertisement for steamboat travel on Lake Superior, inspired by advertisements from the 1850s.

Created by L. Filipczak in July 2014 to illustrate Chequamegon History post, Steamboats, Celebrities, Soo Shipping, and Superior Speculation: Joseph R. Williams’ Account of the 1855 Payment