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| Description: | View of a rock with a plaque that reads: "Group of Prehistoric Indian Burial Mounds and Winnebago Village Site. Marked by the Delavan Woman's Club - May 19... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A row of conical burial mounds adjoins the Park and Pleasure Drive on the north shore of Lake Wingra (now Edgewood Drive, at the south edge of Edgewood Col... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi... |
| Date: | 10 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for a section of Interstate Highway I-90 near the Wisconsin Dells, with a group of Native Americans watching from above. A Dells Fargo ... |
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| Description: | Crowds of individuals assembled on the sides of the street to watch parading soldiers, and Native Americans riding horses. Looking east on Main Street from... |
| Date: | 10 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Sara (Mrs. Joseph) Mallon (Menominee) of Milwaukee, wearing a sash stands between two American flags behind a memorial that reads, "Indian Mounds: One of s... |
| Date: | 07 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Three campers under the Camp Wakanda emblem, the Giant Eagle, at the camp's council ring are, left to right: Robert Hesse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hesse... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Statue of the monk with a cross in his left hand and his right hand upraised. Behind the statue is a plaque with a carving of an Indian in a canoe near a s... |
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| Description: | View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma... |
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| Description: | View from street of two Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk man standing in the doorway of the Werner Drugstore on the north side of Main Street between First an... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Territorial seal of Wisconsin. There is a farmer in the foreground plowing behind horses, a Native American apparently heading west, a river steamboat and ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Chief No-Ha-Nutch'Ka,left, who is actually Jack Grey, head of public relations for Wisconsin Dells, gives Chamber of Commerce members tips on how to gain m... |
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| Description: | Native American women and children wait in line by a bus to be tested for tuberculosis by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. A sign points the wa... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A Native American trapper sits on his haunches in front of a building where various hides on stretchers have been hung to dry. The building is sided with s... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards a Native American man wearing a plaid overcoat with two work horses. A crowd of men are watching from the elevated wooden ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across muddy ground towards a man holding a dairy cow by the halter, and on the left a boy holding the lead of a heifer. They are standing in front of... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat... |
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| Description: | An exhibit of baskets which were probably created by American Indians in Wisconsin. A sign on the wall above the display case reads: "Seed Gatherers of the... |
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