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Woman in Inupiat Clothing & Ho-Chunk Student

Date: 06 13 1935
Description: Deaconess Magdalene Klippen, of Chicago, former head of the Norwegian Lutheran Brevig Mission near Mary's Igloo, Alaska, wearing Inupiat clothing, and Lena...
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Government Indian School

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of the main building. Caption reads: "Government Indian School, Main Building, Tomah, Wis."
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Door County Museum

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Door County Museum, featuring a display of a sculpted man in Native American dress.
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Billboards on Water Street

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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...
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Annie Massey and Hester Decorah Lowery on a Street in Town

Date: 1915
Description: Annie Massey (KeKoRaSinchKah), left, and Hester Decorah Lowery (NoGinWinKah). Hester lived to be well over one hundred years old.
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Jim Swallow and Pinkey Bigsoldier Crossing Street

Date: 1915
Description: Jim Swallow (MaPaZoeRayKeKah) and Pinkey Bigsolder (HoWaWinKah), as well as an unidentified child, crossing at the corner of Main and South First Street. J...
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Ho-Chunk Group in front of Werner Drugstore

Date: 1915
Description: A group of Ho-Chunk gathering in front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street. The signpost on the right side indicates that English was not the first language...
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Ho-Chunk Girls and Boy on Water Street

Date: 1915
Description: Two Ho-Chunk girls wrapped in Racine Woolen Mills shawls walking with a young boy down Water Street downtown. The Journal sign is visible behind them, and ...
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Three Children in Town

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman, and three Ho-Chunk children wearing winter clothes, standing on a board sidewalk in town, probably Black River Falls. Two of the children a...
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Ho-Chunk Man Walking with European American Man

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Description: View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Men in Front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street

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Description: View from street of two Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk man standing in the doorway of the Werner Drugstore on the north side of Main Street between First an...
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Statue of Chief Keokuk

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Description: View of a statue of Chief Keokuk of the Sauk Indians located in Rand Park. The Keokuk chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was instrumental ...
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Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 07 28 1901
Description: View down Main Street, facing east, during Pawnee Bill's Circus Wild West Parade.
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Pawnee Bill's Circus Parade

Date: 06 03 1901
Description: View of Pawnee Bill's Wild West Parade, looking west down Main Street.
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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 ...
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Winnebago Indian Village Sign

Date: 08 1957
Description: View from street of a sign hanging at 211 Broadway, advertising the Winnebago Indian Village, which was managed by Pipe Dyer.
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Judging Horses

Date: 1925
Description: View across unpaved road towards a Native American man wearing a plaid overcoat with two work horses. A crowd of men are watching from the elevated wooden ...
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Judging Dairy Cows

Date: 1930
Description: View across muddy ground towards a man holding a dairy cow by the halter, and on the left a boy holding the lead of a heifer. They are standing in front of...
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Harriet Oiyotte LaSarge

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Description: Harriet Oiyotte LaSarge poses next to a goggle wearing hound dog on a motorcycle. On the left, another Native American individual looks on. In the backgrou...
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Ojibwa Man and Woman

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Description: An Ojibwa man and woman are sitting together on a park bench. She is wearing a skirt and plaid blouse, and he is wearing a military uniform. Immediately be...

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