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1. Article about Chicago artist Frances Badger--her connection to the Northwoods and Big Lake and her paintings of Ojibwa harvesting wild rice. 1908-1930s - Ms. Badger was employed as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration to paint murals of American life. MWHS purchased two prints of her paintings of Ojibwa harvesting wild rice on Rice Creek near her family's estate, Keego Lodge, on Big Lake. This article was written by Kay Krans for the MWHS November 2021 newsletter.

   10/2021

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2. Giclee print of painting done by Frances Badger. Depicts Ojibwa people harvesting wild rice on Rice Creek near Big Lake. 1930s - Ms. Badger spent summers at her family's estate on Big Lake beginning as a young girl in 1908. In the 1930s she was an artist employed by Franklin D. Roosevelts's Work Projects Administration (WPA) to paint murals of "American Life".

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3. Giclee print of painting done by Frances Badger. Depicts Ojibwa people processing wild rice at their camp on Rice Creek near Big Lake. 1930s - Ms. Badger spent summers at her family's estate on Big Lake beginning as a young girl in 1908. In the 1930s she was an artist employed by Franklin D. Roosevelts's Work Projects Administration (WPA) to paint murals of "American Life".

   Print

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4. Obituary for and newspaper clippings about artist/muralist Frances Badger. 1973-1997

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5. The Alpheus Shreve Badger family on their dock with the gazebo. Big Lake. ca 1910 - Originally named Tamaracks Mrs. Badger, from Kenilworth, IL, renamed the estate Keego Lodge when purchased in 1908. The young girl in front is the artist Frances Badger. Her parents are on the right in the photo. Mrs. Blackwell is the other women standing behind Frances; her husband is in the back.

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6. The Badger family at their estate, Keego Lodge, on Big Lake. ca 1910 - Badgers were the second owners of this property. They changed the name from Tamarack Lodge to Keego (aka Pedrigal).

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