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Joseph Jesse Chase and Martha (Wakute-Wapaha) Chase, who were married on June 11, 1872. Used with the permission of Cheyanne St. John.
Joseph Linwood Laughy in his US Navy uniform, 1917.
Joseph N. Alexander Visitors’ Center in Gooseberry Falls State Park. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user Jonathunder, November 15, 2021. CC BY-SA 2.0
Joseph Renshaw Brown, c.1860.
Participants in the Treaty of Washington, including Henry Belland, Joseph Renshaw Brown, Nathaniel R. Brown, Antoine Joseph Campbell, and the Dakota leaders Wabasha and Mankato, 1858. Photographed by Charles DeForest Fredericks.
Joseph Renshaw Brown, c.1863. Photograph by Hirsch Brothers.
Joseph Rolette in the garb of a fur trader, c.1860.
Joseph Rolette as a young businessman and trader, c.1841.
British percussion double barrel shotgun used by Rolette, c.1850–1871.