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Map or Atlas

Map of the Route of the Military Road from Fort Crawford to Fort Howard Via Fort Winnebago

Date: 1936
Description: This map is red and black ink on tracing cloth and is oriented with north to the upper left. This hand-drawn map shows a central portion of the military ro...
Manuscript

Mishakwut Still

Date: 1936
Description: Actors in Indian costume as seen in the film "Mishaskwut," which depicts the life of the Menominee Indians. The film was sponsored by the Wauwatosa Board o...
Photograph

St. Joseph's Indian School

Date: 1936
Description: St. Joseph's Indian School on the Keshena Menominee Reservation.
Photograph

Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1936
Description: The Indian burial grounds in La Pointe.
Photograph

Loading Big Log

Date: 1936
Description: Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the...
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Indian Agency House in Portage, Wisconsin. Built in 1832 by the United States Government for the Indian Agent to the Ho-Chunk Nation, John Ha...
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Indian Agency house after restoration. A person is standing on the porch.
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh Statue

Date: 1936
Description: Chief Oshkosh's statue and grave. Located in Menominee Park, formerly North Park.
Photograph

Portrait of Marie Big Hawk and Her Baby

Date: 1936
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Marie Big Hawk Whitewater, holding her baby Clyde White in her lap in front of a painted background. She has shoulder ...
Photograph

Rainbow Falls

Date: 1936
Description: View across Rainbow Falls on the Wolf River, on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
Photograph

Big Smoky Falls

Date: 1936
Description: A view of Big Smoky Falls on the Wolf River, on the Menominee Reservation.
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Indian Agency House, built in 1832.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 1936
Description: Exterior view of a logging camp on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The three buildings are surrounded by forest.
Photograph

Gifford's Resort

Date: 1936
Description: View from water of people sitting in a canoe on the shore of East Lake next to a dock on which people are standing and a flag is waving. On shore there is ...
Photograph

Boys after Pie-Eating Contest

Date: 1936
Description: Four boys smiling with pie filling on their faces standing around a table with four empty pie tins. Behind them is a large crowd of children.
Map or Atlas

Official Highway Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This map shows the state trunk highway system and county trunk highways. This map show surface type on state and county trunk highways and the locations of...
Photograph

Children Posing By Tree

Date: 1936
Description: Walker Reid (1929-2016) standing alongside tree with Indian girl. Reid Walker shown is 7-years-old, and is the son of Carol McMillan Reid. Portrait taken a...
Photograph

Amphitheater at Stand Rock

Date: 1936
Description: An elevated view towards a Native American man wearing a feathered headdress and a young girl of European descent standing in front of a tepee on the stage...
Postcard

View Folder of Postcards

Date: 1936
Description: Text reads: "Indians of Wisconsin Dells. The Sentinel." The mailing side of a souvenir view folder containing eight accordion folded, double-sided color im...
Postcard

Postcard in View Folder

Date: 1936
Description: Text reads: "Chief Silvertongue and Princess He-Nook-Gink-Sha." One of 16 postcard images inside of a souvenir view folder. A Native American woman is play...

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