Hand Petroglyph

Hand Petroglyph

Hand Petroglyph at Jeffers Petroglyphs Historic Site, ca. 2018. Photograph by Tom Sanders; used with the permission of Tom Sanders.

Looking west from the outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs

Looking west from the rocky outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs

Looking west from the rocky outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs, ca. 2018. Photograph by Tom Sanders; used with the permission of Tom Sanders.

LiDAR map of the Red Rock Ridge and its cultural sites

LiDAR map of the Red Rock Ridge and its cultural sites

LiDAR map of the Red Rock Ridge and its cultural sites, ca. 2018. Photograph by MnTOPO/Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Main outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs

Main outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs

Main outcrop at Jeffers Petroglyphs, ca. 2018.

Digitally enhanced petroglyphs

Digitally enhanced petroglyphs

Digitally enhanced petroglyphs at the Jeffers site, ca. 2018.

Jeffers Petroglyphs

Jeffers Petroglyphs is an internationally significant Native American sacred site and the location of the largest group of Indigenous petroglyphs (rock carvings) in the Midwestern United States. Situated in Dakota homeland, it is sacred to multiple Native American nations, including the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Iowa, and Ojibwe.

Lawrence Taliaferro hand puppet

Lawrence Taliaferro hand puppet

Hand puppet used to portray Lawrence Taliaferro in educational puppet shows. Made by artist Deborah Swanson around 1969.

Historical marker recognizing Lawrence Taliaferro

Historical marker recognizing Lawrence Taliaferro

Marker recognizing the service of Lawrence Taliaferro at Fort Snelling. Photograph by Lee Brothers, 1929.

Elizabeth Dillon Taliaferro

Oil-on-canvas portrait of Elizabeth Dillon Taliaferro, wife of Lawrence Taliaferro, ca. 1850s. Artist unknown.

List of enslaved people owned by Lawrence Taliaferro

List of enslaved people owned by Lawrence Taliaferro

List of enslaved people owned by Lawrence Taliaferro, ca. 1830s and 1840s. The list was written by Taliaferro himself and includes the note “21 freed from slavery 1839-40-43.”

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