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Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
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 ...
Photograph

Chief Ta-vah-puts

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of Ta-vah-puts, Chief of the U-in-tah Utes, standing in a field.
Photograph

Governor Phillip at Victory Celebration

Date: 07 09 1919
Description: Governor Phillip outdoors at a victory celebration.
Photograph

Chief Geronimo

Date: 1908
Description: The Native American Chief Geronimo, prominent Native American leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache, riding in an automobile with three other me...
Photograph

Three Views of the Indian Massacre

Date: 1862
Description: A composite of three views showing the siege of New Ulm on August 19 during the Indian Massacre of 1862. The lower left view depicts wagons and horses on a...
Photograph

Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
Photograph

Powwow

Date: 
Description: Group of men and drum posed in front of an arbor and an American flag. Native American powwow held six miles east of town.
Photograph

Mound at Trade Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Three men and two women sit on top of a mound near Trade Lake.
Photograph

Brotherton Lumberjacks

Date: 1925
Description: Chief Niles and other Brotherton men sawing logs.
Photograph

Menominee Indian Performer

Date: 1958
Description: The image shows a performer standing and holding a pipe. Member of the Peavey Falls group of dancers and musicians from the Menominee Indian Reservation in...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Catalog cover featuring illustrations along with the text: "The Foreign Commisioners Visit the Northwest, and Learn Why Bonanza Farming Pays." At the top i...
Photograph

Ho Chunk Powwow

Date: 
Description: View across field towards a group of people gathered in a clearing. There is a shelter in the background, and tents are in the far background.
Photograph

Men Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are working in a field near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. People are watching at the edge of the field in the background. On a hill above...
Photograph

Men and Effigy Mounds

Date: 
Description: A small group of men, some of them carrying bags, walk in a field among effigy mounds.
Photograph

Lacrosse Team

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a Native American lacrosse team posing holding their sticks before a match. A man holding a drum is standing on the far left. Two...
Photograph

Charles Decorah

Date: 1925
Description: Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on...
Photograph

Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...
Photograph

The Ho-Chunk Chief

Date: 
Description: Chief Albert Yellow Thunder, Sr., standing in semi-profile, holding a peace pipe and wearing Native American ceremonial clothing. In the right foreground i...
Photograph

Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial

Date: 
Description: Roger Little Eagle (Tallmadge) standing in a field holding a horse by the bridle.

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