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Learn about how the Lucerne sank in the Chequamegon Bay in 1886 |
Date: | 07 1838 |
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Description: | A map diagram of Indian effigy mounds seven miles east of Blue Mounds in the Wisconsin Territory. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), Massachusetts anthropologist, librarian, and archaeologist. Haven is best known as t... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | Diagram of an effigy mound in the shape of a cross. |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | Map of a portion of Merton including the Bark River, a mill, Fort Hill, and Indian mounds. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Group portrait including Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 4th from left) and her fellow travelers on a trip to Egypt. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View down road lined with trees in Egypt. A group of Egyptians are standing and sitting between the trees and the river, and travelers on the road are walk... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The Sphinx at Giza in Egypt. Three men are standing or sitting on the shoulder of the Sphinx, and several men are sitting in the shade below with two camel... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | A group portrait of Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 3rd from left) and her fellow travelers, guides and Egyptians on a trip to Giza, Egypt. Five people are r... |
Date: | 06 1879 |
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Description: | Tracing of a cave petroglyph depicting a human figure wearing headgear. A club is depicted to the right of the figure. |
Date: | 06 1879 |
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Description: | Tracing of a petroglyph depicting an animal figure pursued by a human figure with a bow and arrow followed by a child. |
Geologist, Archaeologist, and Soldier |
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Brief biography of Charles Whittlesey (1808 - 1886). |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Bone lice comb from site of first Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1816-1829. (Museum object #1997.62.11941) |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Charred bread slices recovered from the Alden's Corners archaeological site in Dane County, Wisconsin. (Museum object #2002.211.1,3,5) |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Caption on photograph reads: "Pictograph Rock. Rock bearing aboriginal... |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Pictograph Rock bearing aboriginal carvings, located on the south side... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Diagrams of four effigy mounds surveyed by Increase A. Lapham and W.H. Canfield in 1850. No. 1 is an unidentified animal shape, No. 2 consists of two linea... |
Date: | 04 18 1888 |
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Description: | A stereograph of ruins of a fireplace in an old French fort on the banks of the Mississippi River. The fort may have been built by Nicholas Perrot. |
Date: | 04 18 1888 |
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Description: | Stereograph of fireplace ruins on the site of an old French fort, possibly built by Nicholas Perrot. There is an electric pole behind the fireplace and a g... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | A drawing of ancient works at the southeast angle of the Third Lake. |
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