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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.
Photograph

Red Cliff Reservation Cemetery

Date: 
Description: Man posing by a gate in the Red Cliff Indian Reservation cemetery.
Photograph

Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Book or Pamphlet

Menominee Indian Village, Wolf River

Date: 
Description: A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river.
Postcard

Chief Whirling Thunder, Riverview Guide

Date: 
Description: Chief Whirling Thunder, standing at the front of an excursion boat named "Black Hawk," which appears to be near the Wisconsin Dells. Caption reads: "Chief ...
Photograph

Pecatonica Battleground

Date: 1930
Description: Pecatonica Battleground.
Photograph

Lac Courte Oreilles Village Exhibit

Date: 1906
Description: The Lac Courte Oreilles village sponsored by the Wisconsin Archaeological Society at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Several members of the society are incl...
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Chippewa Indian Wigwam

Date: 
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian Wigwam in the winter.
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

Oval Burial Mound in T. Lewis Group near McFarland, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Oval burial mound at the T. Lewis Mound group in what is now Indian Mounds Park.
Photograph

Linear Mound in T. Lewis Mound Group

Date: 
Description: A linear burial mound at the T. Lewis Mound group in what is now Indian Mounds Park.
Photograph

Linear Mound in T. Lewis Mound Group

Date: 
Description: A linear burial mound at the T. Lewis Mound group in what is now Indian Mounds Park.
Photograph

Effigy Mound Near Lake Mendota

Date: 1914
Description: Deer or rabbit effigy mound outlined with lime (ca. 800-1100 A.D.), at the McConnell mound group.
Photograph

Conical Mound on the Crest of the Dividing Ridge

Date: 1909
Description: A horse grazes near Native American burial mounds on the Dividing Ridge, a recessional moraine, between Lakes Monona and Wingra in Madison, Wisconsin. The ...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
Photograph

Indian "Trail Tree"

Date: 1920
Description: View of a supposed Indian "trail tree," on former Mercer's addition or subdivision, now the corner of Chestnut and Van Hise Streets, near Madison West High...
Photograph

"Trail Tree" in Residential Neighborhood

Date: 1920
Description: View of a supposed Indian "trail tree" on former Mercer's addition or subdivision, now the corner of Chestnut and Van Hise Streets, near Madison West High ...

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