Caption: Graduate student Cortney Cain (right) and undergraduate Parisa Ford, both in landscape architecture, research historical architectural drawings and plans in the University Archives in Steenbock Library, as part of cultural landscape inventory project. The project has used photos and other primary sources to help identify archaeological and historic sites on campus, and to develop a history of how the campus evolved from a pastoral landscape to an urban one. "After working on this project, you see campus differently -- you see the footprints of the past, why the landscapes are the way they are," says Cathy Dammann, who is writing a master's thesis on the changing landscape of the college of agriculture campus.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: October 2004
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Caption: A cyclist passes by an ancient goose-shaped Indian effigy mound built by Woodland culture Indians about 1,000 years ago, one of a group of four mounds between the Natatorium and the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path. The four remaining sets of mounds on campus, including those near Willow Creek, were likely built by ancestors of the present-day Ho-Chunk tribe who inhabited the region for 10,000 years.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: October 2004
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Caption: Statues of figures from the Civil War era stand on either side of the Camp Randall Arch in G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Park. More than 70,000 soldiers trained at Camp Randall, beginning in 1862. The Grand Army of the Republic was a civil war veterans organization.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: 1998
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Caption: View of Science Hall, Langdon Street and the Armory (Red Gym) from the running track on what is now Library Mall. This photo dates from between 1890 and 1896, before construction began on the University Library (now the Wisconsin Historical Society). At the time, the plan to remove the track and athletic fields from lower campus and replace them with a formal garden met with outcry from students. This image is among the more than 500 historical photos of campus which will be available on the University Archives website as part of the Cultural Landscape Project.
Photo by: courtesy UW-Madison Archives
Date: 1890s
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Caption: This plan was drawn in conjunction with the 1908 Laird & Cret campus plan for future development, produced by Warren Powers Laird, Paul Philippe Cret and Arthur Peabody. This map "C" comes from a bound collection with the title "Historical Maps Relating to Campus Development" on its cover, and the title "A Summary of Campus Planning, The University of Wisconsin 1850 to 1954" on its first page.
Photo by: courtesy UW-Madison Archives
Date: 1908
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