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Drying Corn

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified Native American man is standing with his hand on a makeshift work table holding shelled corn spread over a piece of cloth. The table is mad...
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Potawatomi Couple

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man and woman, identified only as Potawatomie [sic] Indians, posing in front of a log structure. The woman is wearing large earrings and ...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1930
Description: A group of Native Americans, working in a long row, harvesting cranberries. They appear to be women and children. Dwellings are in the background on the le...
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Maple Grove

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified man wearing a hat and double breasted overcoat is holding a binocular case in his left hand and posing beside maple trees that have multipl...
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Sugar Camp

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man, left, posing in front of the sapling frame of a shelter at a maple sugar camp. Two Native American women are standing under the fram...
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Lacrosse Team

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a Native American lacrosse team posing holding their sticks before a match. A man holding a drum is standing on the far left. Two...
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Planting Corn

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses.
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Harvesting Potatoes

Date: 1925
Description: A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There...
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Preparing a Seed Bed

Date: 1925
Description: An Ojibwe man is standing and holding the reins of his team of two horses hitched to a harrow. Two boys are standing behind him. In the background are leaf...
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Charles Decorah

Date: 1925
Description: Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on...
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Learning Better Farming

Date: 1925
Description: A Caucasian man in a suit is standing at the center of a large arbor. Native American men and women are sitting or standing around him, while a Native Amer...
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Judging Sheep

Date: 1925
Description: A man in a light-colored overcoat, possibly Joseph Wojta, standing behind a sheep being inspected by two other men. A group, including men, women and child...
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Judging Corn

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Native American men, women and children are posing around a table piled with ears of corn in front of a stage in an auditorium. Several of the m...
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Learning to Select Good Horses

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a Native American man holding the lead of a horse as it is evaluated by another man, possibly Joseph Wojta, who is wearing a hat and long ...
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Judging Dairy Cows

Date: 1930
Description: View across muddy ground towards a man holding a dairy cow by the halter, and on the left a boy holding the lead of a heifer. They are standing in front of...
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Clearing Land

Date: 1920
Description: Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol...
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Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...
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Draft Horses

Date: 1920
Description: A man in a suit, with his back to the camera, is inspecting one of four draft horses. Other men are holding the horses, which are harnessed with horse coll...
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Portrait of Sid with Cigar

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Sid sitting indoors at Gisholt and holding a cigar.
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Truck

Date: 1930
Description: A 1925 Ford Model T Roadster pickup is parked in a field of red-blooming wildflowers. There is a man in the driver's seat, another man is reclining on the ...

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