American Fur Post at Fond du Lac 1826
John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Post at Fond du Lac, as seen from the St. Louis River, painted in 1826 by James Otto Lewis. (Image: Zenith City Press)
This week’s featured design from Zenith City Press’s line of vintage reproduction art is a reproduction of an 1826 watercolor by James Otto Lewis showing John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Post along the banks of the St. Louis River at Fond du Lac, Minnesota (now a neighborhood in Duluth), in 1826. The scene was painted from Nekuk Island, then home to an Ojibwe village and show the fur post’s stockade, buildings, and the white canvas tents of an encampment of American soldiers there to participate in the signing of the First Treaty of Fond du Lac.
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