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Major General John Newton, officer of the Federal Army and namesake of the em>General John Newton sternwheeler towboat.
Major General Norman Kirk, Surgeon General of the Army, inspecting Minnesota-made artificial limbs, December 6, 1943.
Major Jose H. Sherwood, 1918. Sherwood commanded the Sixteenth Battalion of the Minnesota Home Guard.
Major Thomas Warham, c.1918. Warham was commander of the Medical Corps, Motor Corps Division.
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.
Making artificial limbs at Minneapolis Artificial Limb Company, Minneapolis, 1945.
Making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.
Workers making signs for the school police, c.1930.