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The University of Wisconsin Arboretum, Madison

Date: 1933
Description: Blue print and blue line print maps that show local streets, Nakoma Country Club, part of Lake Forest, and part of Lake Wingra. A legend is included that s...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section Through the Line A.B. Showing the Denudation Spensley Br. to Little Bear Creek

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and geological sections of the Spensley Break, James Break, Wisconsin River, and Little Bear Cr...
Photograph

Blue Mound State Park

Date: 09 07 2014
Description: View from the top of a hill looking out to a valley, with clouds in the blue sky. Trees are framing the view, and in the foreground, a woman, the photograp...
Photograph

Aztalan State Park

Date: 
Description: View of Aztalan State Park site when it was called Aztalan Mound Park.
Print

The Cross at Merton

Date: 1851
Description: Diagram of an effigy mound in the shape of a cross.
Map or Atlas

Map of Primrose Township

Date: 1873
Description: A map of the township of Primrose from the "Atlas of Dane County."
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 06 1939
Description: Elevated view of the tourist attraction Little Norway, situated in an idyllic valley, with the stave church in the center and a small house at right. There...
Photograph

Rountree House

Date: 1948
Description: The John H. Rountree House, built in 1854. According to "The History of Wisconsin" (Vol. I, 1973), "The rise of the settlement at Platte Mounds was indisso...
Map or Atlas

Geological Map of Areas of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Northwest Illinois

Date: 1844
Description: A hand-colored map and chart showing a geological cross-section from Rockingham, in present-day Scott County, Iowa, through Blue Mounds to the Wisconsin Ri...
Photograph

Hauge Church

Date: 08 2013
Description: Interior view of a window sitting high up in a white lime-plastered wall, letting light into Hauge Church, a small Lutheran church built in 1852 by Norwegi...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section Through the Line A.B. Showing the Denudation E. Blue Mound Br. to the Wisconsin River

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and geological sections of the East Blue Mound Break, Blue Mound Creek, Black Earth River, and ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Carriers' Picnic

Date: 08 1955
Description: Eight Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys around a picnic table enjoying root beer and apples in the shade of a grove. They are (left to right): Ri...
Photograph

Man Mound Park Marker

Date: 1963
Description: The marker notes Man Mound Park by the Wisconsin Archeological Society, Sauk County Historical Society and the Landmark Committee, W.F.W.C.
Photograph

Large Burial Mound at Morris Park near Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: A large burial mound near the south side of Governor Nelson State Park.
Drawing

Lizard Mound

Date: 06 30 1939
Description: A drawing of a lizard-shaped Indian mound at Hudson Park.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Brigham Park Historic Marker

Date: 07 13 1955
Description: Mrs. Charles I. Brigham (left), and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Brigham, Jr., with her children Mark, Jonathan, and Elizabeth, standing and reading t...
Photograph

Shell Mound

Date: 1930
Description: Poppies are blooming in a large field with a hill in the background. The photographer identifies the hill as a shell mound. The shell mound is likely the l...
Photograph

Aztalan Church

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of Aztalan Church.
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

Animal Effigy Mound

Date: 
Description: An animal effigy burial mound at the Williams South mound group on the north shore of Lake Kegonsa.

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