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Oshkosh Trading Post
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Two men and a woman are walking from a parked automobile toward the covered porch of the Oshkosh Trading Post, a low, log building on the Menominee Indian Reservation. There is a Sinclair HC gasoline pump on the right. A sign over the porch advertises Indian baskets, bead work, novelties, ice cold drinks, cigarettes and candy. There is a stone chimney on the left. It is snowing and there are a few inches of snow on the ground.
1935
Coon, C. L.
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Medicine Man
1935
A waist-up informal portrait of Match-o-ka-mah, described on the reverse of the photograph as "Medicine Man and Keeper of the Sacred Drum of the Wisconsin Menominee Indians." He is wearing a work s...
Reservation School
1935
Menominee Indian Reservation Government School near Shawano. Caption reads: "Government School, Menominee Indian Reservation, Near Shawano, Wis."
Menominee Reservation Agency
1935
U.S. Department of the Indian agency building on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
Felling the White Pine
July 1936
Two men are working together to cut down a large white pine tree on a Menominee Indian reservation.
Selective Logging
March 1938
A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices.
Loading Big Log
1936
Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the threat of white pine blister rust.
