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Drawing

Lake Superior Area

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of four Indians on Madeline Island with a canoe in the water on the shore.
Postcard

Menominee Reservation Sawmill

Date: 1910
Description: Sawmill on a Menominee Indian reservation, with logs floating in the water in the foreground. Caption reads: "Menominee Indian Mills."
Print

Fortified Village of Aztalan

Date: 1955
Description: Artist's conception of ancient village of Aztalan, fortified with high walls surrounding it.
Print

Fond du Lac Company House

Date: 1837
Description: Fond du Lac Company House. Groups of Indians are in the yard outside the inn, and several Indian dwellings are erected next to it. A man on horseback with ...
Print

Linear Mound on the Dividing Ridge

Date: 
Description: Two men enjoy the shade among Native American burial mounds on the Dividing Ridge, a recessional moraine, between Lakes Monona and Wingra in Madison, Wisco...
Photograph

Goose Effigy Mound at Black Hawk Country Club

Date: 1919
Description: A goose effigy mound outlined with lime, on the grounds of the Black Hawk Country Club. The folded wings are characteristic of goose effigies in the area o...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man running. Includes the text "exercise for health" and "Christmas...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man facing the sun with his arms outsretched. Includes the text "su...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native American man meditating at a campfire. Includes the text "rest" and "Christm...
Map or Atlas

Map of Historic and Scenic Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Map reads: "Historic and Scenic Wisconsin — Land of Gathering Waters." In an inset there is a hand-painted depiction of the Wisconsin State Seal. For some ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Farwell's Point

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Memorial Hospital with a key to buildings in the upper left. Indian mounds are marked on the site. Arthur Peabody was the state architect for th...
Photograph

The Home of the Chippewa

Date: 
Description: Chippewa Indians are seated around a dome-shaped dwelling on a reservation.
Book or Pamphlet

Missionary in Canoe

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of a missionary priest wearing a robe standing in the fore of a canoe as it comes ashore paddled by a person in the aft. An Indian on ...
Drawing

Two Figures Smoking Pipes

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of two seated figures smoking pipes.
Postcard

Hayward Indian School Students

Date: 1889
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of five Hayward Indian School students, possibly a basketball team, from L to R: John C...
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Manuscript

Blooming Grove Homecoming Article

Date: 07 28 1926
Description: Newspaper clipping including headline, photograph of six Winnebago (Ho Chunk) Indians, and a caption indicating that the men pictured would be attending a ...
Postcard

An Indian Burying Ground

Date: 
Description: Native American burial ground. Caption reads: "An Indian Burying Ground, Near Antigo, Wis."
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Indian Trails Map

Date: 1930
Description: This map shows Indian trails through Wisconsin counties. The trail are in red ink. Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Lake Superior, and the Wisconsin River are lab...
Print

Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Washington County, Wisconsin, with a Native American man wearing buckskin clothes and leggings ...

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