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Menominee Indian Village, Wolf River

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Description: A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river.
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Commander Attilio Gatti in Africa

Date: 1939
Description: Commander Attilio Gatti poses in front of a Congolese village during his tenth expedition to Africa. The expedition was sponsored by International Harveste...
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Polperro House and Woman

Date: 1940
Description: A woman demonstrating how Shake Rag Street got its name, with the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, behind her. The house was temporarily co...
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Ho-Chunk Powwow

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Description: Ho-Chunk men are sitting and standing in an area portioned off by canvas barriers and a lodge and teepee. Identified as probably the Homecoming Powwow in 1...
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Women in the Temporary Ho-Chunk Village

Date: 1908
Description: A group of Ho-Chunk women wrapped in shawls gathering at the temporary Ho-Chunk village. Identified as the Homecoming Powwow at the intersection of Main an...
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Ho-Chunk Men around Drum

Date: 1908
Description: A Ho-Chunk man dressed in a mix of native and contemporary clothing dancing around singers seated around a drum. Ho-Chunk men are sitting and standing arou...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Children near Wigwam and Teepee

Date: 1908
Description: A cattail mat–covered wigwam (ciiporoke) and a small teepee were set up in a mock Ho-Chunk village for the 1908 homecoming celebration.
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Ho-Chunk Cattail Mat Lodge and Tepees

Date: 1908
Description: A Ho-Chunk cattail mat lodge and tepees in an area partitioned off by canvas barriers. There is a person sitting on the ground on the left, and a medicine ...
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Woman and Mules on Airstrip

Date: 1961
Description: A woman leads a mule laden with bundles across the airstrip at the village of Keukacham, Laos. A young mule follows. In the background at the base of a hil...
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Elevated View of Keukacham

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of Keukacham village, Laos. Three soldiers stand talking in the foreground by a large, open, white tent. In the background is a rubble pile, ...
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Survivors and Soldiers in Field, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Soldiers stand in front of a group of survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The survivors are carrying bundles of belongings and a g...
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Rifle Training, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Women train with rifles in a village near the Laotion border in the mountain region of Vietnam. A group of about 25 women are lined up in two rows standing...
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Capture of Suspected Viet Cong

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna...
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Indigenous Men Carry Supplies

Date: 1943
Description: View down line of indigenous men, from a village near the airstrip, helping soldiers carry equipment to a camp area along a trail. Two soldiers stand off t...
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Officers Returning from the Front

Date: 1918
Description: Two officers wearing heavy winter clothes are seated in a horse-drawn wooden sleigh on a snowy path. Just behind them is a building that appears to be a Ru...
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Convoy

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy street towards a group of people gathered outdoors. Horses with sleighs are parked in front of some of the buildings, which are of log cons...
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U.S. Army Machine Gunnery School

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a child standing near the United States Army machine gunnery school, which is surrounded by other buildings. The towers and onions...
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View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of the Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking north. There are dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings, and a c...
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View of Troitsky Prospect in the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking south, showing homes, churches, state buildings, as well as the statue of Pe...
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Costa Rican Homes

Date: 1902
Description: Several families posing outside their homes in a small village in Costa Rica. On the left are what appears to be a railroad track or wooden walkway. The ho...

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