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Indians Fishing From Boats

Date: 07 16 1898
Description: A group of Ojibwa men fishing from boats.
Map or Atlas

La Crosse, Wis.

Date: 1873
Description: Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River.
Photograph

Billboards on Water Street

Date: 
Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
Photograph

Four Ho-Chunk People on Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: Four Ho-Chunk people crossing a bridge spanning the Black River. This photograph was taken before the flood of October 1911, when the bridge was completely...
Photograph

Ojibwa Indian

Date: 1913
Description: Portrait of Chippewa (Ojibwa) man at Bad River Indian Reservation.
Photograph

Peavy Falls Group, Menominee Indians

Date: 
Description: "Peavy Falls Group" of men and boys posed on bank of river. There is a man in a canoe in the river, and a footbridge in the background.
Photograph

Bear Trap Falls

Date: 1929
Description: Group of people at Bear Trap Falls in the Wolf River near Keshena. People are standing on the shoreline on the left near a sign for the falls. A man is sta...
Photograph

Older Ho-Chunk Woman on Bridge

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Description: View across road of an older Ho-Chunk woman, wearing a shawl over her shoulders and several necklaces, walking across a bridge on a board sidewalk. Two oth...
Photograph

Mrs. George Funmaker Sr. on the Black River Bridge

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Description: A Ho-Chunk woman is walking across the Black River Bridge wearing a long shawl over her shoulders and carrying a bundle. Identified as Mrs. George Funmaker...
Map or Atlas

Official Road Map, Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: This road map shows federal, state and county roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, eastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michi...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This 1897 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, dams, bridges, Indian r...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1902
Description: This 1902 map of the eastern portion of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, ...
Photograph

Howard White Thunder — Winnebago Indian Guide — At The Dells

Date: 1929
Description: View from pier of a Native American man wearing a headdress kneeling on a tourist boat called "Black Hawk" docked under a bridge in the Wisconsin River. He...
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a Native American woman, wrapped in a plaid shawl, walking in front of a horse hitched to a wagon. On the left across the ...
Map or Atlas

City of Menomonie Wisconsin : A Plan for Pleasure Roads and Reservations System

Date: 1907
Description: This blueprint map shows a proposed plan for pleasure roads and reservation system. It also shows schools, cemeteries, old river channel, proposed bridge, ...
Postcard

Scene on Highway 47, Menominee Indian Reservation

Date: 
Description: View over water towards a road leading to a bridge. A man is standing next to an automobile on the side of the road.

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