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Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Photograph

Swearing-In Native American Civil War Recruits

Date: 1861
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...
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View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie du Chien

Date: 09 1825
Description: Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov...
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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 (...
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Abdih-Hiddisch (A Minatarre Chief)

Date: 1832
Description: Abdih-Hiddisch, a Minatarre Chief, posed holding an ax.
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Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back

Date: 1844
Description: Buffalo chasing hunter with rifle on horseback (Plate 12).

"The wounded and chafed bull often turns upon its assailant, and runs him back, over the whole...

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O'-check-ka, or Four Legs

Date: 1835
Description: O'-check-ka, or Four Legs, Head Chief of the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) on Lake Michigan. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the ...
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

Oneida G.A.R.

Date: 1907
Description: Oneida members of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Parish Hall is in the background.
Photograph

Victory Celebration

Date: 06 19 1919
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians and returned soldiers posing at the Victory celebration. Ira O. Isham, Chippewa interpreter, is in the foreground.
Painting

Fort Shelby/Fort McKay

Date: 1823
Description: British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b...
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 07 07 1929
Description: Miss Mary Prescott and Mrs. William McMahon, grandaughter and great grandaughter, respectively, of Pierre Paquette, appeared at a meeting called by the Wis...
Photograph

Angus Lookaround Holding Tuba

Date: 1917
Description: Candid portrait of three men in white t-shirts. Angus Lookaround, in a white hat, is seated, holding a tuba. The men appear to be aboard a ship, possibly t...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Veteran Homer Snake

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing next to a chair, identified as Homer Snake, who is wearing a hat with a GAR emblem, signifyin...
Photograph

Elderly Ho-Chunk Man James Bird

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man posing sitting. He is wearing a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, trousers, and a hat with a United ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charlie Saunders and Family

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man, and two Ho-Chunk women. The man is wearing a military hat and suit j...
Drawing

French Fur Traders at La Baye

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Description: Several French fur traders negotiating with native Indians at La Baye.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charles Sine Sr. and Harry Swallow

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length tudio portrait of Ho-Chunk men, Charles Sine Sr. and Harry Swallow, both posing sitting, wearing hats, and holding guns in front of a painted b...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Tom Roddy and Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a European American man flanked by two Ho-Chunk men, all posing standing. The Ho-Chunk men are dressed in regalia a...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Studio portrait of group of people posing in front of a painted backdrop. A Ho-Chunk woman, identified as the wife of George Greengrass, sits in front of t...

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