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Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion farm equipment, featuring a chromolithograph illustration of Native Americans ...
Book or Pamphlet

Mining on Lake Superior

Date: 1855
Description: "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior."
Book or Pamphlet

Pawnee Torture

Date: 1884
Description: A engraving of the artist's conception of Pawnees torturing a female captive in the Morning Star Sacrifice ceremony.
Book or Pamphlet

Ho-Chunk in Ciproke

Date: 1884
Description: Group of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians in a long house (ciproke). Some of the men are displaying animal pelts. There is a bucket and a small barrel at the e...
Book or Pamphlet

Aboriginal Port Folio Frontispiece

Date: 08 1835
Description: The frontispiece design on blue paper, featuring the likeness of an Indian chief, for "The Aboriginal Port Folio".
Book or Pamphlet

Wichita Motors Company Trademark

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a Spanish-language booklet advertising Wichita tractors. The back cover features an illustration of a Native American profile, the Wichita Mo...
Book or Pamphlet

Spearing Fish in Winter

Date: 1884
Description: Small group of Native Americans spearing fish through ice on a river. Mountains can be seen in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1901
Description: Front cover and middle pages from the annual banquet of the Old Settlers' Club. The front cover includes a circular portrait of club president A.G. Weisser...

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