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Blister Rust Eradication Crew
1933
Native Americans hired to assist with the White Pine Blister Rust eradication effort on the Menominee Reservation are being trucked to their work site.
Native American Blister Rust Crew
1933
Three men working near a tree. During 1933 Menominee Indians protected over 4000 acres of white pines from the blister rust threat.
Blister Rust Eradication Staff
August 1935
William Cowan, the white pine blister rust control foreman on the Menominee Reservation, with his two assistants, Joseph Dodge and Leo Waukechom (right).
Menominee Women's Crew
1943
Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.
Menominee Women's Crew
1943
Ribes eradication crew of Indian women on the Menominee Reservation pose together in a line.
White Pine Blister Rust Eradication Crew
Six-man crew at Camp Mercer looking for ribes (gooseberries), a stage essential for the transmission of blister rust to white pines, working in a marsh area with two checkers walking behind them.
