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Other evocations of American Indian cultures captured by Chicago Daily News photographers ranged from logical to
bizarre. For example, during World War I, a photograph of three American Indian recruits in army training camp
emphasized the variety of civilians enlisted for the war effort (DN-0068944). In 1925, an Indian man named White Calf,
wearing native dress, was posed in profile so that newspaper photographers could show his likeness to the image of an
American Indian on the reverse side of buffalo-head nickels (DN-0079181). In 1927, the winner of the Miss Chicago
competition was posed with a young Native American woman (DN-0082755) and on another occasion that year, Mayor
William Hale Thompson participated in a publicity photo opportunity with Native Americans
(DN-0084328, DN-0084329). In 1928 a group of "Burlington Railroad Beauties" (DN-0085841)
posed in front of Union Station with a group of young women dressed in American Indian
outfits (although none of the women seem to be American Indians).
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