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Ho-Chunk Men Playing Wah-koo-chad-ah

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Description: Six Ho-Chunk men are standing and kneeling around a blanket playing Wah-koo-chad-ah (Moccasin), a favorite game. A typical dwelling (chipoteke) is in the b...
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Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder)

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Description: Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder), a 120-year-old Winnebago warrior chief, posing in front of a typical dwelling (chipoteke), with two men leaning against ...
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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake...
Photograph

Amund Pederson

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Description: A waist-up studio portrait of Amund Pederson, a private in Company G, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The following ...
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Increase Lapham at Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1869
Description: Increase A. Lapham in the foreground of a rock formation in Taylor's Glen, with A. Holly sitting on a rock in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Date: 1917
Description: Cover design of a pamphlet of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "an urgent call to real men from the imperial palace" in Atlanta, Ga., Col. W. J. Simm...
Photograph

Ole Evenson Luten

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Description: Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Ole Everson Luten [as on the photograph backing; also written as Ole Everson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20, and on...
Photograph

Jens Anderson

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Description: Head and shoulders oval portrait of Jens Anderson, a private in Company I, Wisconsin 15 Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Regimenta...
Photograph

Halvor O. Hove

Date: 1900
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Halvor O. Hove, a private in Company I, Wisconsin 15 Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Regimental...
Photograph

Ben Nelson

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Description: Full-length oval portrait of Ben Nelson [as written on the photograph backing; also written as Ben Nilson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 and published ro...
Photograph

John F. Hauff

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders oval studio portrait of John F. Hauff, a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained...
Book or Pamphlet

Cletrac Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Cletrac tank-type tractor. The cover features the headline: "From Start to Finish with the Cletrac" set against a...
Photograph

Man with Scythe and Dog

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Description: A man is standing in front of a barn holding a scythe while sharpening it. A dog is in the foreground.
Drawing

Depictions of Algonquian Individuals

Date: 1615
Description: Drawings of four Native Americans. A and C are dressed for combat. B appears to be a woman carrying and nursing an infant, and D is wearing winter garb, in...

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