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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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River Baptism

Date: 1888
Description: A baptism in a river in southern Wisconsin.
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Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk and Staff at Grant Funeral

Date: 08 18 1885
Description: Wisconsin Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk and his staff at the funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. Present with Rusk, 5th from the left, and i...
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Eastern District Norwegian Synod Meeting

Date: 1877
Description: Group portrait of delegated to the Eastern District Norwegian Synod meeting held at Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, photographed in front o...
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Reverend Even Johnson Homme and Wife Ingeborg

Date: 1877
Description: Mrs. Ingeborg Swenholt Homme sits at the left and her husband the Reverend Even Johnson Homme sits at the right, with their children, around a table in fro...
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The Ministers

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of a group portrait of men assembled on the steps to a church door. "The Ministers" gathered at "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapol...
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Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 1877
Description: This group portrait was taken in the yard in front of the Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church parsonage, and is part of a series taken during th...
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Interior of Norwegian-American Lutheran Church

Date: 1874
Description: The interior of a Norwegian-American Lutheran Church decorated with garlands and religious admonitions in Norwegian.
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St. Anthony Falls

Date: 1875
Description: "St. Anthony Falls" photographed during the "Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopi...
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Ponca Indian Sundance

Date: 07 1894
Description: A Ponca Indian Sundance. The participants are lined up in the grass.
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Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Date: 06 1877
Description: The congregation of the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church during the Eastern District Norwegian Synod which ran from May 31-June 6, 1877. Winnebago Cou...
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Men at the Eastern District Norwegian Synod

Date: 06 1877
Description: Men seated outside during the Eastern District Norwegian Synod held at Immanuel Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Winchester, Wisconsin. Winnebago C...
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Sioux Give Away Horses

Date: 1897
Description: Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches.
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Sioux Tepees

Date: 1898
Description: Sioux tepees at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Apaches

Date: 1898
Description: Apaches at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Apaches

Date: 1898
Description: Apaches at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Sauk-Foxes

Date: 1898
Description: Sauk-Foxes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Indian Dance

Date: 1898
Description: The opening dance of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Captain Joseph Black Eagle

Date: 1898
Description: Captain Joseph Black Eagle (Waubli Sapa), Sioux, with a man and a woman at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Dr. War Eagle

Date: 1898
Description: Dr. War Eagle shoots at a target using a bow and arrow at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.

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