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Photograph

Excavation in Circular Mound

Date: 11 01 1947
Description: View across an excavation toward men and women standing above and behind it. Men are in another excavated hole behind it. Caption reads: "Excavation in cir...
Photograph

Water Spirit Effigy

Date: 05 04 1915
Description: Caption reads: "An effigy of the water spirit type found at Clifton, Wis. The outline was whitewashed, the mound being carefully followed where it met the ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1969
Description: A map of Wisconsin from The Atlas of the Eight Counties of Forest, Florence, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Price, Vilas. The map shows rivers and a vari...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Southern Part

Date: 1845
Description: Map of Wisconsin, including lower western border with Iowa, southern border along Illinois, eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, and northern area along Wis...
Photograph

New Spring Harbor School Under Construction

Date: 05 23 1958
Description: Construction begins on Spring Harbor School, 1110 Spring Harbor Drive just north of University Avenue. The building was designed by Kaeser and McLeod Archi...
Map or Atlas

Jackson County T21N R3W Plat Map

Date: 1901
Description: Plat map showing land ownership of Township 21N Range 3W in Jackson County for 1901. Scale is 2 inches to 1 mile.
Map or Atlas

Portage County Map

Date: 1944
Description: Portage County Map. Includes the towns of Eau Plaine, Dewey, Sharon, Alban, Carson, Hull, New Hope, Linwood, Stockton, Amherst, Plover, Grant, Buena Vista,...
Drawing

Lizard Mound

Date: 06 30 1939
Description: A drawing of a lizard-shaped Indian mound at Hudson Park.
Photograph

Wisconsin Archeological Society

Date: 05 26 1906
Description: The Wisconsin Archeological Society attending the unveiling of the Cutler Indian mound marker at Cutler Park. Mrs. William H. Anderson, President (?) of th...
Map or Atlas

Lafayette County

Date: 1895
Description: A plat map of Lafayette County in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Effigy Mound at Mendota Mental Health Institute

Date: 01 25 2015
Description: Small patches of snow are covering the grass and dead leaves on an American Indian effigy mound. Trees are in the background.
Photograph

Cemetery

Date: 10 2013
Description: A grove of trees growing behind a line of gravestones at Forest Hill Cemetery, and what may be an effigy mound. Fallen leaves are on the grass.
Photograph

Panther Intaglio Effigy

Date: 06 2008
Description: View looking east of a 1000-year-old Indian intaglio effigy in the shape of a panther. The effigy, which is on the north bank of the Rock River, is filled ...
Painting

Cross-Section of a Native American Burial Site

Date: 2009
Description: Watercolor of a Native American burial site. Generalized cross-section and stratigraphy of a typical Late Woodland effigy mound in Wisconsin.
Painting

Cross-Section of a Native American Burial Site

Date: 2009
Description: Watercolor of a Native American burial site. Reconstructed stratigraphy and cross-section representative of effigy mounds at the Nitschke Mound group.
Painting

Cross-Section of a Native American Burial Site

Date: 2009
Description: Watercolor of a Native American burial site. Reconstructed stratigraphy and cross-section representative of effigy mounds at the Kletzien Mound group.
Painting

Cross-Section of a Native American Burial Site

Date: 2009
Description: Watercolor of a Native American burial site. Reconstructed stratigraphy and cross-section representative of conical mounds at the Raisbeck Mound group.
Painting

Cross-Section of a Native American Burial Site

Date: 2009
Description: Watercolor of a Native American burial site. Reconstructed stratigraphy and cross-section representative of effigy mounds at the Kratz Creek Mound group.
Painting

Ink and Watercolor Map of Prehistoric Mounds

Date: 
Description: Ink and watercolor of prehistoric mounds near the mouth of Haigs Creek and the Scioto River.
Drawing

Map of Prehistoric Mounds

Date: 
Description: Map of prehistoric mounds near the Big Kanawha River.

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