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A Map of the Ousconsin & Fox Rivers

Date: 1929
Description: This map with north oriented to the upper left shows military forts, Indian villages, settler's houses with surnames, trading houses, lodges and encampment...
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Where They Settled in Wisconsin

Date: 1982
Description: This map shows the location of major settlement regions for various ethnic groups. Includes a legend in lower left hand corner. Sparse settlement is repres...
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Wisconsin 1

Date: 1899
Description: This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ...
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Wisconsin 2

Date: 1899
Description: This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ...
Photograph

Trapper with Hides

Date: 1920
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...
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Part of Townships 12 & 13, Range 9 East, 4th Mer

Date: 1900
Description: This manuscript map shows outline of Fort Winnebago reserve land, Fort Winnebago, claim of A. Grignon, and Indian boundaries. The Fox River and Swan Lake a...
Photograph

Garden Beds

Date: 1930
Description: Raised linear garden beds have been delineated with hydrated lime to show the arrangement of the intersecting beds.
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Garden Beds at Leeman

Date: 1930
Description: A map of the site of a Native American village with a complex of linear raised garden beds and cache pits near Leeman. Also shown are a farmstead, road, an...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Engraving of the Peck Cabin, after the painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. Caption at bottom reads: "First House in Madison. 1837."
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Planting Corn

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses.
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Learning Better Farming

Date: 1925
Description: A Caucasian man in a suit is standing at the center of a large arbor. Native American men and women are sitting or standing around him, while a Native Amer...
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Judging Horses

Date: 1925
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 ...
Photograph

Judging Corn

Date: 1920
Description: A group of Native American men, women and children are posing around a table piled with ears of corn in front of a stage in an auditorium. Several of the m...
Photograph

Learning to Select Good Horses

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a Native American man holding the lead of a horse as it is evaluated by another man, possibly Joseph Wojta, who is wearing a hat and long ...
Photograph

Judging Dairy Cows

Date: 1930
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...
Photograph

Stock Farm

Date: 1920
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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A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians Comprehending Aquanishuonigy Proper

Date: 1758
Description: This detailed map of north eastern America shows the boundaries, cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, Native American land and towns, and roads from east of t...
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Three Woodland Indian Men

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of three Woodland Native Americans. Full-length group portrait in front of a painted classical garden studio backdrop. They a...
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Lovisiana by de Rivier Missisippi

Date: 1720
Description: Map showing the course of the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico up past Lake Superior into Canada. It shows the towns, Native American tribes and l...
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A Map of the Five Great Lakes with Part of Pensilvania, New York, Canada, and Hudsons Bay Territories &c

Date: 1755
Description: Map of the Great Lakes region during the French and Indian War. It shows in great detail the territories, borders and boundary lines, Native American tribe...

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