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J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company

Date: 09 21 1922
Description: Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
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Tourists Among Burial Mounds

Date: 1910
Description: A sightseeing party wanders among cows and Native American burial mounds near the popular picnic area at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendot...
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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Ho-Chunk and European-American Group in a Field

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhardt's nursery. A lar...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Harvesting Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Picking Cranberries

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field with wooden boxes. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhard...
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Ho-Chunk Woman in Field with Tents

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Description: A Ho-Chunk woman walking in a field. In the background are several white tents, possibly an encampment for a cranberry harvest.
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Portrait of Joe Bear Heart and Wife Posing Outdoors

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the ground in a clearing with trees in the background. She is sitting cross-legged and is holding an ea...
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Joe Bear Heart near Table of Drying Corn

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Description: Lantern slide of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a hat posing standing behind a table loaded with kernels of corn on a cloth drying by a wooden building. The man is...
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Group of Ho-Chunk Men and Boys

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Description: A group of Ho-Chunk men and boys standing in front of two canvas tents set up at a Ho-Chunk gathering, possibly a cranberry camp. The smiles on their faces...
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Frisk Cloud Sitting on a Steer

Date: 1905
Description: Frisk Cloud (MauhHeTaChaEKah) is riding at cow at a powwow. Watching Frisk, left to right, are two unidentified men, Albert Thunder (CheNunkEToKaRaKah), Ge...
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Ho-Chunk Summer Lodges in Field

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Description: Ho-Chunk summer lodges in a field. The lodge in the center has a stove pipe coming out the top. On the left is what appears to be a grinding wheel mounted ...
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Ho-Chunk Lodges

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Description: Ho-Chunk lodges among trees. Probably a Ho-Chunk encampment at the cranberry marsh.
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Ho-Chunk Cranberry Gathering

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Description: View from distance of two groups of people in a open field surrounded by trees. On the right are what appears to be European Americans, with four buggies p...
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Three Ho-Chunk Children in a Field

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk children posing for a group portrait in a field known as Browneagle Bottoms. The children are, left to right, Maude Browneagle (WeHunKah), L...
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Seven Ho-Chunk Men in Field

Date: 1920
Description: Outdoor group portrait of seven Ho-Chunk men standing outdoors in a cranberry bog, They are holding the hand scoops used to harvest cranberries. The long n...
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
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A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland: With Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Date: 1755
Description: Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns...

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