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Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Pehriska-Ruhpa. Minatarre warrior with bow and arrow in the costume of the dog dance. |
Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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Description: | Herman Kruse (left) and Ed Papke (right) on the occasion of Papke's retirement. Papke was a founding member of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of Americ... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Illustration of medicine man Jes´ akkid´ bending over an ill person, removing disease from his/her body. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the... |
Date: | 02 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Funeral of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Minatarre scalp dance ceremonial gathering. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Ischohä-Kakoschóchatä, Dance of the Mandan Indians. |
Date: | 01 21 1935 |
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Description: | The Board of Directors burning the mortgage for the Nakoma Country Club to celebrate paying it off, with l-r: H.M. Lambert, Frank Davies, Carl Laughnan, H.... |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their medicine lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hangkush. |
Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall... |
Date: | 03 20 1975 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "K.P. Mazurek (left), President, International Harvester's Truck Division, receives the key to the city of El Paso, Texas, from May... |
Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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Description: | Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts receive the Eagle Scout rank or the Explorer Silver Award, scouting's highest awards at a scouting court of honor ceremony. |
Date: | 02 09 1958 |
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Description: | The Reverend Erwin G. Tieman baptizes infants as part of a Lutheran crusade for Christ evangelism. |
Date: | 09 1912 |
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Description: | The first airmail shipment from Cicero Field to Wheaton and Elmhurst, Illinois. Postmaster MacDonald of Cicero is swearing-in pilots Max Lillie, Paul Stude... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown... |
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