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Photograph

North Reading Room Mural

Date: 10 03 1934
Description: The mural depicts a trading station on the borders of a lake, the Whites and Indians are bargaining for furs, and the canoe is the means of transportation....
Photograph

Menominee Indian Family

Date: 1931
Description: A portrait of a Menominee family in traditional dress. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt.
Photograph

Pecatonica Battleground

Date: 1930
Description: Pecatonica Battleground.
Photograph

Preparing Corn for Drying

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on...
Photograph

Compass Training

Date: 1937
Description: Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory.
Photograph

Excavation of Outlet Mound 5

Date: 05 30 1931
Description: W.P. and Vivian Morgan, Grace Rollins and ? Mills excavate a burial mound in the Outlet group at the foot of Lake Monona.
Photograph

Visitors Watch a Burial Mound Excavation

Date: 1935
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Outing Club watch the excavation of a burial mound at the Outlet group in 1935.
Photograph

Linear Burial Mound near the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn

Date: 1930
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...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man running. Includes the text "exercise for health" and "Christmas...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man facing the sun with his arms outsretched. Includes the text "su...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native American man meditating at a campfire. Includes the text "rest" and "Christm...
Postcard

Bethany Indian Mission

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of the Bethany Indian Mission School. Caption reads: "Bethany Indian Mission, Wittenberg, Wis."
Photograph

Portrait of Marie Big Hawk and Her Baby

Date: 1936
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Marie Big Hawk Whitewater, holding her baby Clyde White in her lap in front of a painted background. She has shoulder ...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Indian Trails Map

Date: 1930
Description: This map shows Indian trails through Wisconsin counties. The trail are in red ink. Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Lake Superior, and the Wisconsin River are lab...
Print

Chief Oshkosh, Beer Label

Date: 1937
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Chief Oshkosh, Lager Beer, Brewed and Bottled By the Oshkosh Brewing Company." Print...
Print

Pioneer Beer, Label

Date: 1937
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Pioneer Beer, G. Weber Brewing Co." Under this in the center is a leaf with the lett...
Print

Superfine Marathon Beer, Label

Date: 1939
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Superfine Marathon Beer, Marathon City Brewing Company." In the foreground of the im...
Map or Atlas

Plats of Townships 20 and 21 North, Jackson County, Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: Two hand-colored maps of the area comprising the town of Millston (Plats of Townships 20 and 21 north, range 2 west), Jackson County, Wisconsin, showing 40...
Map or Atlas

Recreational Area Plan for Wisconsin

Date: 1939
Description: This illustrated map shows counties, highways, rivers, roads, present and proposed state parks and forests, proposed state parkways, proposed state monumen...
Map or Atlas

Historical Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1937
Description: Pictorial map showing historical events and locations within the state of Wisconsin, as well as waterways and counties. Original caption on the bottom marg...

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