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Painting

Pocahontas

Date: 1832
Description: Portrait of Pocahontas.
Print

Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
Photograph

Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men posing sitting and wearing suits and ties in front of a painted backdrop. The young man on the right wearing the ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Frank Lincoln and Charley Smith

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the left is wearing a sweater and suit jacket and is r...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Edward Funmaker and Frank Washington Lincoln

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men posing in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right is sitting, and the man on the left is st...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Winnebago Indian Woman

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Description: View of a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian woman in traditional dress. The woman stands on stone steps, surrounded by flowers and trees.
Print

Nativity Scene

Date: 1981
Description: Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ...
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the New Continent According to its Greatest Diametrical Length from the River la Plata to Beyond the Lake of the Assiniboils

Date: 1780
Description: This map portrays North and South America at a very unusual angle, with north oriented towards the upper right corner. Colonies, Native American land, a fe...
Map or Atlas

Amérique ou Nouveau Continent Dressée sur les Nouvelles Rélations Découvertes et Observations

Date: 1759
Description: Map of North and South America showing regions, colonies, cities and settlements, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Near the bottom left an inset ma...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries

Date: 1763
Description: Map of America and part of Canada including the borders of European claims after the French and Indian War. Cities, forts, Native American lands, rivers, l...
Map or Atlas

Partie de l'Amérique Septentrionale: Qui Comprend le Cours de l'Ohio, la Nlle. Angleterre, la Nlle York, le New Jersey, la Pensylvanie, le Maryland, la Virginie, la Caroline

Date: 1755
Description: Map of colonial America, showing the lands north of South Carolina and west of the Mississippi River. An inset map of the Carolinas and Georgia sits in the...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of North America

Date: 1780
Description: Detailed map of America east of the Louisiana region. It shows forts, cities, borders and boundary lines, Native American land, the post road, mountains, w...
Map or Atlas

Partie Méridionale de la Louisiane, Avec la Floride, la Caroline et la Virginie

Date: 1784
Description: Map of the southeastern region of America to just west of the Mississippi River. It shows borders, cities, towns, forts, Native American land, portages, mo...
Photograph

Group Portrait at High School Graduation

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Description: Group portrait of five people at a high school graduation. The graduate is wearing a blanket with a Native American motif draped over one of her shoulders,...
Postcard

Winnebago Indians at Bethesda Park

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Winnebago Indians at Bethesda Park, Waukesha, Wis." A group of Ho-Chunk pose at Bethesda Park as a crowd of tourists looks on. There ...
Photograph

Grace Raymond Hebard at Sacajawea's Grave

Date: 1926
Description: A woman holding flowers is standing between two graves, looking at the one on the left. Caption reads: "Wind River Indian Reservation (formerly the Shosho...
Postcard

Postcard in View Folder

Date: 1936
Description: Text reads: "Indian Camp Life." One of 16 postcard images inside of a souvenir view folder. Four Native American men are sitting on a bench on the right. T...

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