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Indian School

Date: 
Description: Native American children, presumably students, and adults pose outside an Indian school. The location is not verified, but may be in the Hayward vicinity.
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Samson Occom

Date: 1766
Description: Portrait of Mohegan minister and preacher Samson Occom, posed sitting with his finger on a Bible on a bookstand, with Indian implements visible on the wall...
Book or Pamphlet

Ojibwe Dictionary Title Page

Date: 1853
Description: Title page of A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language by Reverend Frederic Baraga.
Book or Pamphlet

Dictionary of the Ojibwe Language

Date: 1853
Description: Page 586 of Reverend Frederic Baraga's "Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language".
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Teenage Boy

Date: 
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a smiling boy, possibly Ho Chunk, posed standing with books under his right arm with his hands in his trouser pockets. He is...
Photograph

Mary Myott Alexander

Date: 1921
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a seated woman. Caption reads: "Letter, July 21, 1921, N. W. Jipson to L. P. Kellogg (in office file) says: 'Knowing of your in...
Photograph

Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill

Date: 1949
Description: Portrait of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill, a physician of Mohawk ancestry. She is sitting at a table examining a book through a magnifying glass. Dr. Minoka ...
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Lura Fowler Kindness with Brothertown Record Book

Date: 03 1934
Description: View of a woman holding a large bound volume and standing next to a tree. Caption reads: "An Indian woman of over 70 [Lura Fowler Kindness] who lives by he...
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American Indian Canoes

Date: 1852
Description: Illustrations of 5 different canoes. Caption reads: "Plate 9, opp. pg. 66. Vol. 1, Indian Tribes of the United States. ed. Francis S. Drake, 1884. A...

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