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Identifier

009

Creation Date

2019

Description

Alt Text: Poster for Effigy Mounds National Monument with several background images: Green colored rock face, large green feather with a profile of a bird in red in the center of the feather, a large silver coin featuring three animal shaped mounds, and a section of brown leaves covering the ground.

Transcription: Effigy Mounds National Park. Effigy Mounds, 2017, Iowa. Effigy Mounds National Monument overlooks the Mississippi River in Northeastern Iowa. It preserves more than 200 earthen mounds made by indigenous cultures between 1400 and 750 BC. Most of these burial mounds are in the shape of animals, such as bears and birds.

Description: Poster depicting Effigy Mounds National Monument featuring a quarter created in 2017 in honor of the monument and a description of the park.

Sub-Collection

National Parks and Monuments

Series Title

National Parks and Monuments

Series Description

This series of twenty-three posters on the theme of National Parks and Monuments, was produced in December 2018 and January 2019. The posters were first exhibited at the Hartman Reserve Nature Center in Cedar Falls IA in March thru April 2019. They were created on a Macintosh computer, using Adobe Photoshop, by combining modified features from public domain photographs and other graphic elements.

Park/Monument Location

Iowa, United States

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Effigy Mounds National Monument (Iowa)--Posters;

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