Chippewa squaw making birch canoe, circa 1899

Containers:
Box 3, Image RL.11785-P-0498
Physical description:
17 3/4 x 9 cm; lithograph; card mount
Scope and content:

Printed on front: 406. Chippewa Squaw Making Birch Canoe. Printed on back: Lengthy narrative about the process and economics of making canoes. Stereocard, printed in color, undated, unsigned, is a reproduction of a photograph of a Chippewa woman sitting by the side of a birch canoe under construction, with a handful of other female and male builders in the background.

Biographical / historical:
Truman Ward Ingersoll (b. 1862) was a St. Paul, Minnesota photographer active from the 1880s to his retirement in 1909. His photographic work was well-known and many of his stereocards were commercially available in the Sears catalog. [Source: "Truman Ingersoll: St. Paul photographer pictured the world / Patricia Condon Johnston," 1980, online pdf, viewed December 5, 2022]

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