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Group of Girls in Parade

Date: 1902
Description: Girls walking in a parade, probably on Memorial Day.
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High Water on River

Date: 1905
Description: View of the river and town. High water looking west. Site of the present dam, but this was the old roller dam. Building with an advertisement for Veterinar...
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Farmhouse on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: View up hill towards farmhouse. There is a woman using a hand-pump in the yard on the right.
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Cutting Roots for Medicine

Date: 09 1923
Description: Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) women cutting roots for medicine. A quilt hangs on a line in the background and a chicken walks near the women.
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Group with Cows in front of House

Date: 1905
Description: Two boys, each with a cow, posing in front of a house and standing on the lawn framing a woman and young child standing on a board sidewalk.
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Woman Putting on Hat

Date: 1900
Description: Woman putting on a hat in front of a dressing table mirror.
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Portrait of Lumberjack

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin...
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Three Men in Photography Studio

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of three standing men, two wearing matching straw hats, and vests with trousers, and the other holding a camera on a stool. They are posing...
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Three Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified white men dressed in bib overalls. One man is sitting in the center betwee...
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Portrait of Albert A. Johnson and Annie Messie Arthur

Date: 1905
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk couple, Albert A. Johnson (HunkChoKah) and Annie Bessie Arthur Johnson Standingwater (WeHunKah...
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Portrait of Henry (Little) Snake

Date: 1915
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, Henry (Little) Snake (HaRaChoMonEKah), sitting and wearing a scarf around his neck in front of a painted backdr...
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Ida Lizzie Decorra Blowsnake in Moccasins

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Ida Lizzie Decorra Blowsnake (Real Wampum Woman) (WooRooShiekESkaeWinKah), ...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1905
Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Sam Carley Blowsnake (HoChunkHaTeKah), wearing a hat and sporting long hair, is sitting next to ...
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Group of People with Bobsled

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with six women, six children, and a man examining a bobsled hitched to a horse.
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Black River State Forest

Date: 1997
Description: Black River State Forest, two miles south of US 54 in the Jackson County Forest. The sand track in the foreground is the grade of the old narrow gauge rail...
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Group Portrait of Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1906
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family, Jim White Bear, his wife Kate, and their children (four girls and a boy). Kate White Bear and the older girls are wea...
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Small Children Sitting in a Circle

Date: 1900
Description: A group of small children, probably Flora LeClaire's kindergarten class, sits in a circle on the floor of a classroom. Various decorations adorn the walls ...
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Children at School Table

Date: 1900
Description: Children in a kindergarten class sit around a table with their teacher, probably Flora LeClaire. The calendars on the wall indicate that this photograph w...
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Semi-Centennial Pow Wow

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at Semi-Centennial Pow Wow. Spectators are in the background, and a canvas is stretched around the clearing to make an enclosure. Buil...
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Pow Wow Scene

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at pow wow led by Chief Winneshiek, below Lutheran Church in a canvas enclosure.

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