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Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
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Buffalo Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Ceremonial Indian dance (Plate 8).

"All tribes have their medicine songs particular for the hunting of each animal they choose to go in pursuit of, and b...

Photograph

Men in Wagons by Post Office

Date: 1873
Description: Men in wagons posed in front of a rural post office. They brandish guns, whiskey bottles and possibly a harmonica with humorous intent.
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War Dance

Date: 09 1890
Description: A drawing of a war dance including Kiowas, Osages, and Pawnees drawn by a Comanche boy, at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, Oklahoma.
Photograph

Group of Women in Costume

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of group in costume in front of a painted backdrop.
Photograph

General Wallace's 2nd Division at the Battle of Shiloh #8

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Description: A stereograph view of a cyclorama of the Battle of Shiloh. Caption on stereograph reads, "Gen. W.H.L. Wallace's 2nd Div. Army of the Tenn." Text at right: ...
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Recruits Wanted for the Brave Southern Army

Date: 1860
Description: A dog and a monkey are dressed in Confederate uniforms. The dog plays a drum that has the initials C.S.A. on it. The monkey wears a hat with the initials J...
Magazine or Periodical

Arrival of a Federal Column at a Planter's House in Dixie

Date: 04 04 1863
Description: Illustration depicting a large group of people gathered in the yard of a house. Three woman stand on the porch steps, and men, women and children are gathe...
Print

Menominee War Dance

Date: 1842
Description: Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail...
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Menu Cover for Dinner for Delegations to the 5th Session of the Assembly General of the United Nations

Date: 11 27 1950
Description: Front cover of the menu for a dinner given by Nazrollah Entezam, President of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly during its fifth session and leader ...

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