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Drawing

Medicine Man Jes´ akkid´

Date: 1885
Description: Illustration of medicine man Jes´ akkid´ bending over an ill person, removing disease from his/her body.
Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Print

How Indians Treat Their Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

Indians Tending the Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Photograph

Pima Agency Building

Date: 
Description: Nurses on the front porch of a Pima Agency building, possibly a hospital.
Photograph

Leech Lake Agency Medical Care

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. Stephenson, Leech Lake Agency physician, and assistants prepare a small pox patient for removal to the hospital.
Photograph

Leech Lake Agency Patient

Date: 1901
Description: A Leech Lake Agency small pox patient is being put on a boat for removal to a hospital.
Photograph

Leech Lake Agency Teepee

Date: 1901
Description: A small pox patient's Leech Lake Agency teepee, burned after the man's removal.
Photograph

Physician's Residence

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Description: The physician's residence, with the office just beyond, at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon. Three men and a dog gather at the porch.
Photograph

Indian Hospital

Date: 
Description: A girl's dormitory or one of the hospital wards during the La Grippe epidemic at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
Photograph

School Hospital

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Description: A school hospital at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon, with Mrs. Smith, the nurse, standing in front.
Photograph

Agency Physician

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Description: Thomas M. Henderson, M.D., Ph.D., Warm Springs agency physician, in one corner of his studio making some bacteriological investigations.
Photograph

Blackfeet Agency Hospital

Date: 
Description: The Blackfeet Agency Hospital in Browning, Montana. People gather near the front door and on the porches.
Print

Transporting the Wounded

Date: 1853
Description: "Transporting the Wounded". Wood engraving from a drawing by Seth Eastman, from the Aboriginal Portfolio by Mary H. Eastman, 1853.
Photograph

Ojibwa Herbalist

Date: 
Description: An Ojibwa herbalist prepares medicine and treats a patient. From the "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology J.W. Powell Director 1885-1886" page 159.
Photograph

Nurse with Native Americans

Date: 
Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man running. Includes the text "exercise for health" and "Christmas...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man facing the sun with his arms outsretched. Includes the text "su...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native American man meditating at a campfire. Includes the text "rest" and "Christm...
Photograph

Cutting Roots for Medicine

Date: 09 1923
Description: Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) women cutting roots for medicine. A quilt hangs on a line in the background and a chicken walks near the women.

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