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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype print of the interior of the Geology Museum in Science Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. View towards corner of a room with win... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A mastodon skull unearthed at Quartz Creek at a depth of 42 feet. Photograph taken at Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Text on photograph reads: "Copyrigh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown, curator of the Museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, sits on a chair and reads while holding an artifact. |
| Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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| Description: | Diagram of a bird effigy mound found in Frost's Woods, Blooming Grove Township. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In 1916, it was estimated that 15,000 Indian mounds had formerly existed in Wisconsin. In the early 20th century, the Wisconsin Archaeological Society surv... |
| Date: | 03 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Ali Bacha looking south. Three indigenous men work on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left a man examines material in a wheelbarrow... |
| Date: | 03 23 1927 |
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| Description: | Ensemble of diggings at Ali Bacha. View looking downhill towards three men working on an archaeological excavation in Algeria, Africa. On the left an indig... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of men, women and children having a meal outdoors on the ground. They are gathered around a box being used as a table. Cu... |
| Date: | 04 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Logan African Expedition, Berriche, Algeria. Six men and a toddler are crouching or kneeling in the foreground. Behind them m... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The camp at El Kantara, Algeria. In the foreground, members of the expedition are sleeping on pallets, under blankets. Just beyond the sleepers are two tru... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is holding the broken end of a giant prehistoric ox horn next to the rest of the horns and partial skull to show the size. It is noted that they meas... |
| Date: | 01 26 1927 |
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| Description: | Alonzo Pond posing sitting and holding a pickaxe next to a block of earth showing the composition of the escargotiere (an old dump for domestic waste). Her... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Workmen excavate at an archaeological site at Mechta. M. Bebruge is the man in the foreground. A man sitting on the ground in the background on the right i... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A skull at the bottom of a excavation at Mechta. A digging pick has been included to show scale. |
| Date: | 11 12 1926 |
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| Description: | Alonzo Pond and colleague, M. Debruge, posing for a photograph at Mechta. M. Debruge has a cigarette in a holder in his hand, and both men are wearing coat... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Chariot wheel ruts can still be seen in Timgad, the ruins of an ancient Roman colonial town in north eastern Algeria. Columns are along both sides of the s... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A prehistoric station out among the dunes at Biskra, Algeria. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Outside the walls of Tebessa, in north eastern Algeria. Hills are in the far background. |
| Date: | 03 31 1929 |
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| Description: | Logan Museum truck in the oasis of Feriana, Tunisia. The road is lined with large fleshy cactus and trees. A person is sitting in the driver's seat of the ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ferrah stands in front of a tent in the Pond camp. Boxes are being used as tables, chairs and other camp supplies aresitting on the ground near the entranc... |
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