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Wigwam on Nett Lake Reservation of Ojibwe, 1918.
Wilbur Burton Foshay, 1929.
Foshay (right) and Henry H. Henley face arraignment on charges of mail fraud, 1931. Photographed by the Minneapolis Star Journal.
Wilbur Foshay’s mug shot, taken at Leavenworth Penitentiary, ca. 1934. Public domain.
Foshay with his associate Henry H. Henley at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary following their conviction on mail fraud, 1934.
Noiseless Automatic Sewing Machine designed by by the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company in London, England in 1871. Used by the Frederick Spangenberg family.
Two Ojibwe youths sell bags of wild rice to a buyer on the Leech Lake Reservation of Ojibwe. Photograph by Bill Burnson, ca. 1970.
Wild rice growing at Nett Lake. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 1, 1946. Minnesota Historical Society, Collection I.69.121.
Wild rice harvest. Two women winnowing rice with nooshkaachinaaganan (winnowing baskets), 1910-1918. Photograph by Frances Densmore.