An Online Exhibition
In 2019, we highlighted two unique artifacts per month. Each artifact contributed to the story of America from the pre-Columbian period all the way through the lives and work of John and Juliette Kinzie in the 1830s.
A Beaten Survivor of an Unseen World of Copper
1A Reminder of Clashing Cultures
2Making this Land Their Own: Colonial Civil Compacts
3Relics of a Struggle for Independence
4Personal Effects of an American-Made Artist
5The Northwest Ordinance: A New Era in Native Relations
6A War of Hard-Learned Lessons
7Shattered Dreams and New Opportunity
8A Silver Family of Traders
9Allies in Unrest
10Miners, a Treaty, and Yellow Thunder
11Arrival on the Frontier
12The Frontier: A Communication Novelty
13Into the Harness
14The "Davis"
15To Chicago via Buffalo
16A Windy City Welcome
17Admiration and Apprehension
18A Touch of Temperance
19An Annual Tradition
20A Grim Spectacle
21Better Times: Expressions of Relief
22A Social Tradition
23New Beginnings
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