Scrapbook, circa 1890s.

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Scrapbook, circa 1890s.

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Album of unknown origin, circa 1890s, including both text and photographs documenting the hostilities between Chippewa tribes living in the Leech Lake Chippewa Reservation, Minnesota, and U.S. soldiers. The album details the skirmishes on Bear Island in which a number of soldiers were killed. The photographs also document life on the Chippewa Reservation at Leech Lake and the landscape of northern Minnesota. Also included are photographs of Wisconsin soldiers at Camp Harvey and the Wisconsin communities of Hudson, Janesville, and Lake Geneva. Additionally, there are photographs of Chicago, principally of the World's Fair, and images from the aftermath of a cyclone.

0.6 c.f.

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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