Title: Charles Burmeister Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1891, 1918, 1959

Creator:

• Burmeister, Charles, 1855-1891

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 46; PH 1630; PH 1631; PH 2283; DD 177

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 118 photographs (2 albums and 1 folder), 1 piece of ephemera, and 1 film

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center and the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections.

Archival Locations:

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Charles Burmeister of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Frankfort, Michigan, containing: memoranda concerning the history of the merchant marine of the Great Lakes, particularly Lake Michigan; correspondence, 1879-1880, of Hannah, Lay & Company, a Traverse City, Michigan, lumber firm; diaries, 1864-1891; reminiscences of life in Door County, Wisconsin; an Ottawa Indian trade vocabulary; an autobiography of his brother, Byron Burmeister; and photographs. The photographs include an album with cyanotype images made by Charles Burmeister including views of Frankfort, Michigan, the harbor and shoreline, winter scenes, boats, a lifesaving station, shipping operations, family outings, a Methodist church camp, and an Indian camp; another album consists of portraits of Charles Burmeister and his family; and the loose photographs contain similar images of Frankfort found in the first album, 1879-1890, and two portraits of Burmeister. Also includes a black cut-out silhouette of Burmeister, 1879, some clipped advertisements for his grocery store, and a 1959 film based on Burmeister’s accounts of shipping accidents off of Frankfort from 1878 to 1886.

Language: English, Ottawa

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0046

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Laura Burmeister, Pasadena, California, October 1924, November 1949, and 1958.

Green Bay Mss 46 Box   1 Volume   1	Physicians handbook of practice, 1864
Box   1 Volume   2-16	Diaries, 1864-1888
Box   1 Folder   1	Papers, 1874-1891, 1918 Scope and Content Note: Consisting of correspondence of the firm of Hannah, Lay & Company, Traverse City, Michigan, 1879-1880; accounts, articles and autobiography of Byron Burmeister; “Ottawa Indians of Grand Furon Region 'As taught me by various Indians'” in the Ottawa language by Charles Burmeister, circa 1890.
Box   1 Folder   2	Notebooks, 1874-1891, 1918 Physical Description: 14 volumes  Scope and Content Note: Kept by Burmeister about steamboats and early lake navigation and other subjects; clippings; and miscellaneous papers.
Box   1 Folder   3	Genealogical papers
Box   2 Volume   17-19	Diaries, 1889-1891
	Visual Materials
Box   2 Volume   20	Scrapbook Scope and Content Note: Consisting mostly of undated newspaper clippings pasted into the Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Michigan, 1883.
PH 1630	Cyanotype album
PH 1631	Portrait album
PH 2283	15 photographs and 1 piece of ephemera
DD 177	One Survivor film, 1959