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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
Description: Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built...
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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 06 1837
Description: Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ...
Print

Punka Indians Encamped on Banks of the Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Punka Indians encamped on the banks of the Missouri River and canoeing in river.
Print

Encampment of the Piekann Indians

Date: 1832
Description: Encampment of the Piekann Indians.
Photograph

Sioux Indians at St. Paul Ice Carnival

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Description: A Sioux woman is sitting on the ground, and two Sioux men are standing in front of tepees.
Photograph

Group at Stand Rock Amphitheater

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Description: Group of Ho-Chunk at Stand Rock Amphitheater. Several men sit in a ring as other Ho-Chunk look on. Tepee in the background. This is where the Stand Rock In...
Photograph

Children in Indian Costume

Date: 07 22 1932
Description: Group portrait of children from the South Side Franklin playground dressed as Indians surrounding a small tipi (teepee) prior to the Lantern Parade.
Photograph

Camp Ammon

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Description: Entrance to "Camp Ammon," the Boy Scout camp at the Wisconsin State Fair. The camp was named for the director of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture.
Photograph

Lac Courte Oreilles Village Exhibit

Date: 1906
Description: The Lac Courte Oreilles village sponsored by the Wisconsin Archaeological Society at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Several members of the society are incl...
Photograph

Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
Photograph

Flathead Camp

Date: 1910
Description: Group of American Indian dwellings.
Photograph

Indians Visiting Dodge County Fair

Date: 1898
Description: Native American Indians in traditional dress outside their teepees (tipis) at the Dodge County Fair. There is a large building in the background along with...
Photograph

Christmas Greetings from Idaho

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Description: A Christmas greeting card with a view of the Lapwai Native American encampment in Idaho. A number of tepees are circled around a large tent. Caption at top...
Photograph

Carnival Prize Boat

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Description: A carnival prize boat labeled "Rodney Huck" and decorated with a Native American tipi theme floats across a lake while carrying a group of costumed women a...
Postcard

Apostle Island Indian Pageant

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Description: Photographic postcard of a scene from the Apostle Island Indian Pageant. A large group of young children in white shirts are sitting along a sloped hill ne...
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Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Washington County, Wisconsin, with a Native American man wearing buckskin clothes and leggings ...
Map or Atlas

Fuller's Woods Map

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Description: A decorative map of Fuller's Woods development along the Lake Mendota shoreline. Includes numbered lots and building line setbacks with decorative features...
Photograph

013 - Indian Teepee on Shorefront

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Description: Exterior view of Indian tipi (teepee) with several campers sitting on the ground in front. Original caption notes: "One of the two attractive Indian tipis ...
Historical Object

100 - Scenes from Joy Camps Pageant

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Campers are in costume, standing in one photograph and seated in the others. In one photograph...

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