Post by Cliff Krainik on May 30, 2002 21:21:22 GMT -5
BLACK HAWK WAR LEGACY EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Case 1 - RARE BOOKS and PHOTOGRAPHS
[Black Hawk] Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk. . . With an Account of the Cause and General History of the Late War, His Surrender and Confinement at Jefferson Barracks, and Travels Through the United States. Dictated by himself. J.B. Patterson, editor. Cincinnati, 1833. First edition.
A remarkable autobiography told from a Native American point of view.
[Black Hawk] Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, . . . Boston, 1834. Second edition.
The first printing of Black Hawk’s autobiography to contain a frontis portrait of the Sac leader.
Antoine LeClaire (1797-1861). Son of a French trader
and a Potawatomi woman, LeClaire was the interpreter who recorded Black Hawk’s autobiography.
Albumen carte de visite photograph, circa 1860s.
Wakefield, John Allen. History of the War Between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians, and Parts of Other Disaffected Tribes of Indians, in the Years Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-seven, Thirty-one, and Thirty-two. Jacksonville, Illinois: Gundy, 1834.
First published history of the Black Hawk War. This book was owned by Major Thomas S. Jesup, U.S. Quartermaster Gen.
[Pamphlet] Edwards, William P. Narrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of Misses Frances and Almira Hall, Two Respectable Young Women (Sisters) of the Ages of 16 and 18, Who Were Taken Prisoners by the Savages, at a Frontier Settlement, Near Indian Creek, In May last, When Fifteen of the Inhabitants Fell Victims to the Bloody Tomahawk and Scalping Knife; Among Whom Were the Parents of the Unfortunate Females . . . 1832.
Drake, Benjamin. The Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk. Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1838.
Shabbona (ca. 1775-1859) and his wife.
Albumen cartes de visite, Morris, Illinois, circa 1860s.
Ottawa chief closely associated with the Potawatomi of the Illinois River. Shabbona exerted his influence to keep the Potawatomi at peace during the Winnebago difficulties in 1827 and the Black Hawk War.
Portrait of an unidentified Native American man in traditional costume - probably Winnebago.
Albumen carte de visite by F. Bishop & Son,
Watertown, Wisconsin, circa 1860s.
[Newspaper] New York Mirror, July 13, 1833. Contains a front page article entitled, "MUCK-A-TAY-MICH-E-KAW-KAIR, The Black Hawk."
Article illustrated with full-length profile portrait of Black
Hawk - the first likeness of Black Hawk to appear in print.
Case 2 - DOCUMENTS and RELICS
The Battle of Burr Oak Grove.
Two-page handwritten report by Captain Adam W. Snyder of the Illinois Mounted Volunteers, addressed to Major Bennett Riley, U.S. Army, commanding at Kellogg’s Grove, Illinois, June 17, 1832.
Captain Snyder provides a highly detailed, eyewitness account of the engagement between the Illinois Volunteers and Black Hawk’s forces near Kellogg’s Grove, Stephenson County, Illinois.
Portrait of Captain Adam W. Snyder (1817-1842).
Printed copy of a painting circa 1840.
Letter written by John Reynolds, governor and commander-in-chief of Illinois Militia, appointing William Campbell as lieutenant colonel of the 27th
Regiment of the Illinois Militia. Single page.
Galena, Illinois, May 14, 1832.
Handwritten order from Colonel J.M. Strode,
27th Regiment of the Illinois Militia directing
Lieutenant Colonel William Campbell to take two companies of his regiment on foot to the mouth of the Plum River to dislodge the Indians believed to be on some islands of the Mississippi. Single page order written by Samuel D. Carpenter, Adjutant. Galena, Illinois, June 11, 1832.
Henry Dodge (1782-1867). Colonel of the Iowa County Regiment, Michigan Volunteers; major US Mounted Rangers, 1832; colonel U.S. Dragoons, 1836; first governor of the Territory of Wisconsin, 1836-1841 and 1845-48; delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1841-45; senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (photograph on glass) by
C.R. Moffett, Mineral Point, Wisconsin,
February 18, 1858. Mineral Point Historical Society.
Single-shot percussion pistol reportedly carried by
Lieut. Charles Bracken, aide to Colonel Dodge during the Black Hawk War. Mineral Point Historical Society.
Black Hawk War relic. Musket ball found by local archaeologist at Fort Union (home of Henry Dodge
located between Dodgeville and Mineral Point).
Citation by the Wisconsin State Assembly - Official Expression of "Regret and Sorrow" to the Sac and Fox Nation for the "Bad Axe Massacre" of August 2, 1832.
Document signed by Thomas Loftus, Speaker of the Assembly and Representative David Clerenbach, Speaker Pro Tempore, May 5, 1990.
Black Hawk medals and tokens. Collection of medals and tokens relating to Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War.
Copper, brass, and silver, 20th century.
Case 1 - RARE BOOKS and PHOTOGRAPHS
[Black Hawk] Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk. . . With an Account of the Cause and General History of the Late War, His Surrender and Confinement at Jefferson Barracks, and Travels Through the United States. Dictated by himself. J.B. Patterson, editor. Cincinnati, 1833. First edition.
A remarkable autobiography told from a Native American point of view.
[Black Hawk] Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, . . . Boston, 1834. Second edition.
The first printing of Black Hawk’s autobiography to contain a frontis portrait of the Sac leader.
Antoine LeClaire (1797-1861). Son of a French trader
and a Potawatomi woman, LeClaire was the interpreter who recorded Black Hawk’s autobiography.
Albumen carte de visite photograph, circa 1860s.
Wakefield, John Allen. History of the War Between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians, and Parts of Other Disaffected Tribes of Indians, in the Years Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-seven, Thirty-one, and Thirty-two. Jacksonville, Illinois: Gundy, 1834.
First published history of the Black Hawk War. This book was owned by Major Thomas S. Jesup, U.S. Quartermaster Gen.
[Pamphlet] Edwards, William P. Narrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of Misses Frances and Almira Hall, Two Respectable Young Women (Sisters) of the Ages of 16 and 18, Who Were Taken Prisoners by the Savages, at a Frontier Settlement, Near Indian Creek, In May last, When Fifteen of the Inhabitants Fell Victims to the Bloody Tomahawk and Scalping Knife; Among Whom Were the Parents of the Unfortunate Females . . . 1832.
Drake, Benjamin. The Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk. Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1838.
Shabbona (ca. 1775-1859) and his wife.
Albumen cartes de visite, Morris, Illinois, circa 1860s.
Ottawa chief closely associated with the Potawatomi of the Illinois River. Shabbona exerted his influence to keep the Potawatomi at peace during the Winnebago difficulties in 1827 and the Black Hawk War.
Portrait of an unidentified Native American man in traditional costume - probably Winnebago.
Albumen carte de visite by F. Bishop & Son,
Watertown, Wisconsin, circa 1860s.
[Newspaper] New York Mirror, July 13, 1833. Contains a front page article entitled, "MUCK-A-TAY-MICH-E-KAW-KAIR, The Black Hawk."
Article illustrated with full-length profile portrait of Black
Hawk - the first likeness of Black Hawk to appear in print.
Case 2 - DOCUMENTS and RELICS
The Battle of Burr Oak Grove.
Two-page handwritten report by Captain Adam W. Snyder of the Illinois Mounted Volunteers, addressed to Major Bennett Riley, U.S. Army, commanding at Kellogg’s Grove, Illinois, June 17, 1832.
Captain Snyder provides a highly detailed, eyewitness account of the engagement between the Illinois Volunteers and Black Hawk’s forces near Kellogg’s Grove, Stephenson County, Illinois.
Portrait of Captain Adam W. Snyder (1817-1842).
Printed copy of a painting circa 1840.
Letter written by John Reynolds, governor and commander-in-chief of Illinois Militia, appointing William Campbell as lieutenant colonel of the 27th
Regiment of the Illinois Militia. Single page.
Galena, Illinois, May 14, 1832.
Handwritten order from Colonel J.M. Strode,
27th Regiment of the Illinois Militia directing
Lieutenant Colonel William Campbell to take two companies of his regiment on foot to the mouth of the Plum River to dislodge the Indians believed to be on some islands of the Mississippi. Single page order written by Samuel D. Carpenter, Adjutant. Galena, Illinois, June 11, 1832.
Henry Dodge (1782-1867). Colonel of the Iowa County Regiment, Michigan Volunteers; major US Mounted Rangers, 1832; colonel U.S. Dragoons, 1836; first governor of the Territory of Wisconsin, 1836-1841 and 1845-48; delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1841-45; senator from Wisconsin, 1848-57.
Quarter-plate ambrotype (photograph on glass) by
C.R. Moffett, Mineral Point, Wisconsin,
February 18, 1858. Mineral Point Historical Society.
Single-shot percussion pistol reportedly carried by
Lieut. Charles Bracken, aide to Colonel Dodge during the Black Hawk War. Mineral Point Historical Society.
Black Hawk War relic. Musket ball found by local archaeologist at Fort Union (home of Henry Dodge
located between Dodgeville and Mineral Point).
Citation by the Wisconsin State Assembly - Official Expression of "Regret and Sorrow" to the Sac and Fox Nation for the "Bad Axe Massacre" of August 2, 1832.
Document signed by Thomas Loftus, Speaker of the Assembly and Representative David Clerenbach, Speaker Pro Tempore, May 5, 1990.
Black Hawk medals and tokens. Collection of medals and tokens relating to Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War.
Copper, brass, and silver, 20th century.