An Ojibwe family make a birchbark canoe in Ely, ca. 1890–1910.

Beaded book cover made at Birch Coulee before 1936.

Miniature embroidered moccasins made at Birch Coulee and given to Evangeline Whipple by Julia Walker Lawrence in October of 1908.

Alternate color version of the Minnesota state seal, before 1971 and ca. 1960s.

Four-color version of the Great Seal of Minnesota, 2018. From the Minnesota State Brand Style Guide, 2018.

Color version of the Minnesota state seal, 1983. Public domain.

Variation of the Great Seal of Minnesota that replaces the Native American horseman with a settler on horseback. This version of the seal was authorized by the Secretary of State in 1971 but never used on official documents. It nevertheless appeared in some official settings.

The central image of the Great Seal of Minnesota on the battle flag of the Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, as it would have appeared in about 1865, before damage to the center image.

Great Seal of Minnesota (alternate design) by lithographer Louis Buechner, 1858. This seal contains familiar settler-colonial images of progress offset by a Native American man pointing to a setting sun. From Robert M. Brown's “The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota,” Minnesota History 33, no. 3 (Autumn 1952), 127.