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Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Photograph

Indian Log Drivers

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River.
Print

A Fur Trader in the Council Tepee

Date: 02 1892
Description: Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee.
Photograph

Cigarette Sales

Date: 06 1981
Description: Winnebago Enterprises trailer, advertising drive-up cigarette sales.
Print

Indian Sugar Makers

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Description: Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers.
Photograph

Native Americans Inspecting Grain Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 1913
Description: Man, most likely R.G. Brooks, showing a Milwaukee grain binder to three Native Americans in traditional dress in front of McCormick Works. One of the Nativ...
Photograph

Making Grey Iron Wheels for Mowers at International Harvester Foundry

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Description: The original caption reads as follows: "Harvesting machines are made largely of iron and steel, consequently foundries, blacksmith shops, machine shops and...
Drawing

Indian Sugar Camp

Date: 1850
Description: Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar...
Print

Constructing Boats

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587.
Photograph

Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Engine

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Description: Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ...
Postcard

Menominee Reservation Sawmill

Date: 1910
Description: Sawmill on a Menominee Indian reservation, with logs floating in the water in the foreground. Caption reads: "Menominee Indian Mills."
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 ...
Photograph

Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 18 feet in the air from a 6-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. A man stands behind the pipe on the right.
Photograph

Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 60 feet in the air from a 4-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. Two men stand on the left near pumping machinery.
Photograph

Indian Carpenter Shop

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Description: A carpenter shop at the Chemawa Indian Training School in Salem, Oregon.
Photograph

Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
Book or Pamphlet

Mining on Lake Superior

Date: 1855
Description: "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior."
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Indian Sawmill

Date: 1950
Description: A sawmill run on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
Photograph

Unloading Logs

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Description: Indians (Native Americans) unloading logs at the sawmill on the Menominee Reservation.

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