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Chippewa Group

Date: 1908
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) group wearing traditional clothing photographed by A.J. Kingsbury, a photographer who produced many "documentary" postcards. This image...
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Native American Mother

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Description: A Chippewa mother with two children at Minocqua, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first ...
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Chippewa Family

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Description: A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul...
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Chippewa Mother

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Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) mother with two children, one of whom is in a cradleboard, at the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about N...
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Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Painting

The Fur-Trader's House on Yellow Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: This house was located among the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. Here Hölzlhuber and his companions took shelter in an uncomfortable stable one night, after an ...
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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...
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Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction which is near Minocqua. The group is standing in front of a wigwam, and a woman in the r...
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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.
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New Dells Lumber Company Logging Camp

Date: 1920
Description: Vicinity of the New Dells Lumber Company logging camp. Chippewa family on a snowy day at their camp site.
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Chippewa Indian Wigwam

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Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian Wigwam in the winter.
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Stoddard Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 1941
Description: Joe Stoddard of the Chippewa tribe harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Indian Reservation.
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Native Americans Launch a New Canoe

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Description: Two Indians are launching a new canoe, possibly on Flambeau Lake.
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Ojibwa Indian

Date: 1913
Description: Portrait of Chippewa (Ojibwa) man at Bad River Indian Reservation.
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Chippewa Indians near a Stretched Bear Hide

Date: 1907
Description: View towards a man standing with two children, a boy wearing a hat and suspenders, and a girl wearing a dress. They are standing in front of a bear hide st...
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An Indian Burying Ground

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Description: View of an Indian cemetery on a Chippewa reservation. People are posing among the graves.
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The Home of the Chippewa

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Description: Chippewa Indians are seated around a dome-shaped dwelling on a reservation.
Postcard

Hayward Indian School Students

Date: 1889
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of five Hayward Indian School students, possibly a basketball team, from L to R: John C...
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Ojibwe Cemetery

Date: 06 1919
Description: Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian cemetery among brush and trees. Probably Lac Courte Oreilles.

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