Fur Trade Gallery

BUSN2A-00012

Native Americans exchanging furs for goods at a Hudson Bay Company post. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of a Frederic Remington illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

1800s, 19th Century, Aboriginal, Amerindian, Art, Barter, Blanket, Business, Canada, Canadian, Commerce, Exchange, Fort, Frederic Remington, Frontier, Fur, Fur Trade, Hide, Historic, History, Hudson Bay Company, Illustraiton, Indian, Merchant, Mounties, Native American, North America, Outpost, Pelt, Pioneer, Post, Remington, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Settler, Trade, Trapper, United States, Us A, Vintage

BUSN2P-00115

Beaver pelt stretched on a sapling frame and laced with rawhide, a reproduction of the pre-industrial tanning method displayed in Wisconsin.
Photograph

© 2000 N.Carter/North Wind Picture Archives

1600s, 1700s, 17th Century, 1800s, 18th Century, 19th Century, Aboriginal, American, Amerindian, Artifact, Beaver, Beaver Pelt, Business, Canada, Commerce, Currency, French Canada, Frontier, Fur, Fur Trade, Hide, Historic, History, Indian, Native, Native American, New France, North America, Pelt, Rawhide, Replica, Tanning, Trade, United States, Us A, Vintage, Wisconsin

PEXP2A-00026

Antoine de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac landing on the shore of Lake Saint Clair where he founded Fort Detroit, 1701.
Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Howard Pyle

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