Maka Waste Wiŋ and Frances Densmore

Maka Waste Wiŋ and Frances Densmore

Maka Waste Wiŋ (Good Earth Woman, also called Susan Windgrow, left) and Red Wing ethnologist Frances Densmore (right) examine a pair of moccasins made by Maka Waste Wiŋ, a Dakota artist and elder, ca.1930.

Black and white photograph of the making artificial limbs at Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company, Minneapolis, 1945.

Making artificial limbs at Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company, Minneapolis

Making artificial limbs at Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company, Minneapolis, 1945.

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe

Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Malt-O-Meal box, ca. 1925. Used with the permission of Northfield Historical Society.

Malt-O-Meal Box

Malt-O-Meal box, ca. 1925. Used with the permission of Northfield Historical Society.

Malt-O-Meal cereal boxes, 1950. Used with the permission of Post Consumer Brands and Northfield Historical Society.

Malt-O-Meal cereal boxes

Malt-O-Meal cereal boxes, 1950. Used with the permission of Post Consumer Brands and Northfield Historical Society.

Lineup of ready-to-eat cereals made by the Malt-O-Meal Company, 1981. Used with the permission of Post Consumer Brands and Northfield Historical Society.

Malt-O-Meal cereals

Lineup of ready-to-eat cereals made by the Malt-O-Meal Company, 1981. Used with the permission of Post Consumer Brands and Northfield Historical Society.

Blackface minstrel sheet music written by Walter Bellam. Published by Joseph E. Frank in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From the Minnesota Historical Society sheet music collection, St. Paul.

Mammy’s Little Coal Black Coon (1903)

Blackface minstrel sheet music written by Walter Bellam. Published by Joseph E. Frank in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From the Minnesota Historical Society sheet music collection, St. Paul.

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