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Menominee Indian Family

Date: 1931
Description: A portrait of a Menominee family in traditional dress. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt.
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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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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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Ho-Chunk Man Performing Handstand

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Description: Ho-Chunk man performing a handstand in front of two Ho-Chunk men standing on the left. There is a child sitting in one of several horses horse-drawn wagons...
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Ho-Chunk Man Performing Handstand

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Description: Ho-Chunk man performing a handstand in front of two Ho-Chunk men standing nearby. There is a horse-drawn wagon near trees and bushes in the background.
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Ho-Chunk Children with Dog near Marsh

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Description: Standing together in a row are two Ho-Chunk girls wearing print dresses, and two Ho-Chunk boys who are nude on a sandy pile in front of a marsh. In front o...
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Lac Courte Oreilles at Victory Festival

Date: 06 19 1919
Description: Large group portrait of Lac Courte Oreilles Indians in traditional garb at the Victory Festival.
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Governor Zimmerman As Ho-Chunk Chief

Date: 08 1927
Description: Outdoor portrait of former boxer, Tommy Gibbons, Father Gordon, and Governor Fred R. Zimmerman at a Ho Chunk (Winnebago) ceremony. Zimmerman is wearing a b...
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Mound at Round Lake

Date: 1921
Description: Three men and four children standing on top of a mound near Round Lake.
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Houses at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: Informal outdoor group portrait of Native American men and boys. One man is wearing a feather on his head, a beaded sash, and beaded pants. Two buildings a...
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Mobile Testing for Tuberculosis

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Description: Native American women and children wait in line by a bus to be tested for tuberculosis by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. A sign points the wa...
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Group of Native American Men and Boys

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Description: Group portrait of older men, with younger men and a boy, posing on a rock formation above the Wisconsin River. They are all wearing traditional clothing, i...
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Group Portrait of Native Americans on Wisconsin River

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Description: A large group of Native Americans, men, women and children, posing on rocks along the Wisconsin River. They are wearing traditional clothing, and some of t...
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Group Portrait of Native Americans near Wisconsin Dells

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Description: Group portrait of Native Americans, including Ho-Chunk, Sioux, Kiowa and southwestern Native American tribes, posing on rocks along the Wisconsin River wea...

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