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Chippewas Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 
Description: Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe.
Photograph

First Thanksgiving

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Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
Book or Pamphlet

Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion farm equipment, featuring a chromolithograph illustration of Native Americans ...
Print

Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
Photograph

Chief Ta-vah-puts

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of Ta-vah-puts, Chief of the U-in-tah Utes, standing in a field.
Photograph

Cowboys at Roundup

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Description: A group of cowboys at roundup.
Photograph

Chuck Wagon and Supper at Roundup

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Description: A chuck wagon and supper at a cowboy roundup. A group of men sit around a fire.
Photograph

Osage Ceremony

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Description: An Osage woman prepares to be married to the corn. A man leads her horse.
Photograph

Indian Mother and Child

Date: 1897
Description: Honani's daughter and her child, educated at Keam's Canyon School. There is sweet corn drying on the front of the house.
Photograph

Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Child, Dog, and Winter Lodges

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Description: Ho-Chunk winter lodges among trees, probably a Ho-Chunk encampment at the cranberry marsh. There are large, cut logs in between two lodges. A small Ho-Chun...
Print

Nativity Scene

Date: 1981
Description: Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ...
Print

Greetings

Date: 1914
Description: Holiday card of a Native American woman holding a patterned bowl of holly and berries. A blanket is draped over her shoulders, and a red and green headband...
Print

Advertisement for Indian Trail Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: Advertisement for a 5 lb. gift box of fresh Wisconsin Cranberries. The advertisement tag line reads "So smart to give . . . so pleasant to receive". Pictur...
Print

Oshkosh Brewing Co. Billhead

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Description: Billhead of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, in business from 1894-1971, with the company trademark of a waist-up view of Chief Oshkosh wearing a jacket and bo...
Print

Oshkosh Brewing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, active from 1894-1971, with the company trademark of a waist-up view of Chief Oshkosh wearing a jacket, a banded...
Print

Kickapoo Farm Seeds, Label

Date: 01 20 1945
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features the shape of the state of Wisconsin outlined in blue and filled in with yell...
Book or Pamphlet

Wichita Motors Company Trademark

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a Spanish-language booklet advertising Wichita tractors. The back cover features an illustration of a Native American profile, the Wichita Mo...

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