The first building used as a courthouse for Cottonwood County, ca. 1900.

Maggie Sengoge and Porky White drill into a tree in order to collect maple sap as part of the Heart of the Earth Survival School. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School (of Minneapolis) sugar bush camp, Maple Plain. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maple trees in a maple sugar camp. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maple sugar candy molded into the shape of a maple leaf. From the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, 1960–1985.

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, April 19, 1946. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

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

Set of seven birchbark cones mounted onto a wooden base. Four of the cones are filled with hardened maple syrup. Collected by Frances Densmore from the Grand Portage Reservation of Chippewa no later than 1930.

Um-be-quay (Mrs. John Mink) making maple sugar on the Mille Lacs Reservation of Ojibwe, ca. 1925.