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Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
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Mr. Bearskin

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Description: Mr. Bearskin, a medicine man, at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first cur...
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Woman Holds Framed Portrait with Family Group

Date: 1875
Description: A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot...
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"The Warrior And His Bride"

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: The Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. Interior view of the parlor. The house served as residence for John and Juliette Kinzie after 1829...
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: Indian Agency House, near the site of Fort Winnebago. This is an interior view of the parlor.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. Interior view of the parlor.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1940
Description: An interior view of the parlor in the Indian Agency House.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1940
Description: An interior view of the parlor in the Indian Agency house.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 06 1938
Description: View of the parlor with a Nunns and Clark piano, identical to the one owned by Juliette Kinzie when she resided in the house between 1830-1833.
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Native American on Horse

Date: 1902
Description: Portrait of Native American on horseback. A similar photograph that appeared in the Williston Press, January 11, 1951, dated it as 1902.
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Studio Portrait of Standing Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Pigeon – “He Cho Kah”. Born 1875, died August 1915. Posed standing near a prop stone wal...
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Portrait of a Young Ho-Chunk Man in Regalia

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Winnesheik posing standing. He has his right hand on a prop wooden fence, and is wearin...
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Studio Portrait of a Standing Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing with his right hand on a prop wooden fence and wearing a suit, ...
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Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man Holding Liquor Bottle and Spherical Object

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing wearing an overcoat (duster) and hat. He is holding a spherical...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Father and Son

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (Hoonk Ha Ga Kah) (Son of [Wa Con Cha Kah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [We Hon Pe Kaw] Lucy Bear, Thunde...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on the left on a prop stone wall, and Henry Winneshiek (ni do ni KA) on the ...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men Posed Standing

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Description: Studio full-length portrait of two Ho-Chunk men standing. The man on the left has his right hand on a stump and the man on the right, Frank Yellowfeather C...
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Studio Portrait of Two Men

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James Seymour (Nebraskan Winnebago) sitting on a prop stone wall, holding a hat in his right hand, and we...

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