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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 12 28 1906 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article about the purchase of land for a park related to Man Mound in Sauk County accompanied by a line drawing of the mound. Article clipped fro... |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| Description: | Students digging into a bird effigy mound on the University of Wisconsin campus on May 31 through June 1, 1935. |
| Date: | 06 1911 |
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| Description: | A field party of members of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society visit an effigy mound at Big Bend. The men are dressed in suits and hats. |
| Date: | 06 30 1910 |
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| Description: | People gathered for a ceremony at the unveiling of a marker at an eagle effigy mound on the State Hospital Grounds. |
| Date: | 05 04 1915 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with man walking down cleared train tracks, probably the Soo Line, next to man-sized drifts of snow, with a dog on the top of a drift. Between... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women sit on top of a mound near Trade Lake. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Ink and watercolor on tracing cloth. Shows parts of Green Lake, Princeton, and Brooklyn townships, Indian mound groups, Green Lake, and other significant b... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an elevated view of a farm. A man is sitting on the hill in the foreground with his arm on one knee, gazing at the view. There is a house, p... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | This maps shows roads, railroads, parks, recreational areas, Lake Wingra, Lake Monona, and part of Lake Mendota. The map includes pictorial images that dep... |
| Date: | 09 21 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over automobiles parked in the foreground and across fields towards a farm, which has several buildings, including a large silo. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A linear burial mound and historic marker at the University Ridge mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The mound group was eventually... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A field party lead by Charles E. Brown prepare to excavate the Heim effigy mound. The effigy, shaped like a fox or wolf, has been outlined by stakes. The m... |
| Date: | 03 31 1965 |
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| Description: | Nature view with marshland sedges and rushes in foreground, Lake Kegonsa, and a tree-lined horizon. The newly acquired area consists of marsh, woodland, In... |
| Date: | 07 19 1948 |
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| Description: | The higher antenna of the WIBA tower and transmitting station increased the power of the station for the newly operational FM transmission at the Blue Moun... |
| Date: | 06 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Turtle Effigy mound marker on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a metal plaque on a small formed block. An image of the mound is on the ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poppies are blooming in profusion in a field backed by an irregular hill, identified by the photographer as a shell mound. |
| Date: | 11 01 1947 |
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| 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... |
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