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Ground Plan of Indian Effigy Mounds

Date: 07 1838
Description: A map diagram of Indian effigy mounds seven miles east of Blue Mounds in the Wisconsin Territory.
Print

Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
Poster

Map of the United States in 1831

Date: 1933
Description: Map created by International Harvester entitled: "The United States as it appeared in 1831 when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the Reaper." The map pinpoint...
Photograph

Menominee County Economic Development

Date: 10 1968
Description: During a visit to Menominee County, Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall and Senator Gaylord Nelson learn about a proposed resort complex.
Drawing

Map of Aztalan

Date: 1837
Description: Copy of N.F. Hyer's original map of Aztalan as published in the Milwaukee Advertiser, February 25, 1837.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Green Grass

Date: 
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. Green Grass (HaWinChoKah) is wearing floral beaded Ho...
Book or Pamphlet

Fox Indian Wars Map

Date: 
Description: Hand-drawn map of the location of the Fox Indian Wars.
Print

Germany

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a silhouette of a soldier with his gun, walking across a map of Germany outlined in red. The word "GERMANY" is printed in gray over it. I...
Drawing

Duck River Map

Date: 
Description: Prehistoric Indian earthworks on the middle fork of the Duck River.
Drawing

Fortification on Hurricane Creek

Date: 1806
Description: Prehistoric Indian fortification on Hurricane Creek.
Drawing

Map of Prehistoric Mounds

Date: 
Description: Map of prehistoric mounds near the Big Kanawha River.
Painting

Ink and Watercolor Map of Prehistoric Mounds

Date: 
Description: Ink and watercolor of prehistoric mounds near the mouth of Haigs Creek and the Scioto River.
Print

Kickapoo Farm Seeds, Label

Date: 01 20 1945
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features the shape of the state of Wisconsin outlined in blue and filled in with yell...
Print

The Restaurant at Baron's Menu

Date: 
Description: Back, front, and inside front cover of the menu from The Restaurant at Baron's department store, with "A Historical Map of Madison" focusing on the isthmus...
Historical Object

119 - Joy Camps Directors and Chief Whirling Thunder

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one photograph Barbara Ellen Joy, camp owner and co-director, cooks over a large grill are...
Drawing

Mound Map

Date: 11 11 1921
Description: A hand-drawn map of Little Bluff mounds.
Map or Atlas

Lands of the Chicago & North Western Railway Company in the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This map shows township grids, railroads, roads, and drainage. The area of the map covers northeastern Wisconsin and Menominee Indian reservation. Green Ba...
Map or Atlas

Menomonee Reserve

Date: 1840
Description: This map is pencil on paper and shows rivers, granite locations, and selected landmarks. Relief is shown by hachures.
Map or Atlas

Map of Lac Court Oreilles Indian Reservation

Date: 1940
Description: This blue line print map traced from aerial survey mosaic shows reservation boundary, roads, trails, and railroads. Color manuscript annotations show triba...
Map or Atlas

An Historical Map of Sheboygan County : As It Appeared Under Aboriginal Possession

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows trails, mounds, villages, corn fields, and contemporary civil townships; some villages and features include both Indian and English place na...

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