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Odanah Indian Fair
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Elevated group portrait of men, women and children posing at the fairgrounds at Odanah. Most of the people are Native Americans, probably Ojibwe, with a number of white attendees. Left of center, a man is holding an American flag on a pole. There are horse stalls and horse-drawn wagons in the background, and a grandstand on the right. A house and barn are beyond the stockade-style fence.
1915
Johnson, Ashland
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