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Joliet and Marquette

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Description: Father Marquette and Joliet at the Mississippi River.
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Photograph

Indian Log Drivers

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River.
Print

View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
Photograph

Ojibwa-Pillager Battle Boat Landing

Date: 1898
Description: People on a boat dock watch a boat landing as part of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island.
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Six Native American Men

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Description: Copy photograph of six Native American men standing outdoors wearing Sioux bonnets, and original print inscribed "Riverview Boat Line Indian Guides." Possi...
Photograph

Eskimo Automobile Transfer Company

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Description: Side view of an a large group of people in an automobile from the Eskimo Automobile Transfer Company heading toward Cape Prince of Wales and Kotzebue Sound...
Map or Atlas

Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ, Pensylvaniæ, Necnon Insvlarvm Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali

Date: 1770
Description: Map of North America from the Great Lakes to the northern portion of South America. It shows cities, Native American land, mountains, swamps, lakes, rivers...
Photograph

Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 09 02 1966
Description: The caption on the reverse of this print explains: "Indians harvesting wild rice. Man poles rice boat while wife uses cedar ricing sticks and strips grain ...
Postcard

Indian Canoe

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Indian Canoe" and "Greetings from Tomah, Wis." On reverse: "Camp of berry-pickers, man, wife, and children. Camp site on a beautiful ...

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