Fur trade--Minnesota

Abstract

The rebuilt John Jacob Astor Trading Post at Fond du Lac, Minnesota, was dedicated at Fond du Lac on Sunday, August 4, 1935. The two items comprising this small collection include the letter inviting Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor (Lord and Lady Astor, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, III) to the dedication and the certificate presented to a member of the Astor family on that occasion from the governor of Minnesota, Floyd B. Olson.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of originals and typed transcripts of the following records: correspondence, receipts, lists of Hudson's Bay Company property loaded, transported, and unloaded, inventory records, record of Indian annuity - Long Lake District 1864, and a record indicating that the heads of families of different Indian tribes along the North Shore of Lake Superior have received interest from the provincial government for the year 1866. The records in this collection largely deal with...

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The collection contains one photographic copy of a license to trade with Indians at Fond du Lac, Minnesota, granted to John Baptiste Lamarie by the sub-agency of La Pointe, Wisconsin.

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The collections consists of four audiocassettes. The recordings contain addresses delivered at the conference.

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The collection contains a letter book with 35 letters by many people.