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Mother and Baby
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Hand-colored photograph depicting a Native American mother holding her child in a cradleboard. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first curator of photography at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
1903
Detroit Publishing Co.
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W013A7U
WHi 23882
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