New Philadelphia Archaeological Project

Photographic Narrative – Summer 2006

Center for Heritage Resource Studies in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Illinois State Museum, and the New Philadelphia Association

Latest press :
Rockford Register Star, February 2007

Photos, except as noted, by Paul A. Shackel

Photo Christopher Valvano	Figure 1. Excavation of half of a pit cellar in New Philadelphia. The cellar was situated under a cabin cosntructed in the 1850s and located in the center of a small rural community. The building was dismanteld and the cellar filled in the 1860s.
	Figure 2. Athena Hsieh (Tufts) and Christopher Stawski (Michigan State) reveal the top of Feature 19, a subterrrainian storage area built about 1848 and abandoned and filled with domestic trash in the 1850s.
	Figure 3. Maria Nieves Colon (Puerto Rico) and Megan Bailey (Bryn Mawr) reveal domestic artifacts from a late nineteenth-century context. The plate was manufactured in Peoria, Illinois between 1888-1890.
	Figure 4. NSF-REU students (Megan Bailey and Maria Nieves Colon (background) and Dr. Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum) reveal the corner of a late nineteenth- century foundation.
	Figure 5. Shamia Sandels (Hamline) and Megan Bailey (Bryn Mawr) discuss soil color and texture for Block 3, Lot 7.
	Figure 6. Late nineteenth-century building foundation in Block 3, Lot 7. The house was destroyed in the 1930s and used as a refuse area for one of the remaining New Philadelphia families.
	Figure 7. Holly Brookens (U. Illinois-Springfield) measures the subterraining storage feature. It was built in about 1848 and filled in with household debris by about 1854.
	Figure 8. Emily Helton (Oberlin), Jason Jacoby (Arkansas) and Adeola Adegbola (Buffalo) excavate the northern half of Feature 14, a cellar pit that was constructed in the 1850s and filled in the 1860s. Boots belong to Emily.
	Figure 9. Professor Christopher Fennell (Illinois) co- PI for the New Philadelphia archaeology project being interviewd by local PBS TV.
Figure 10. Shamia Sandels (Hamline) at the end of a hot and dusty day in the field.	Figure 11. Jason Jacoby (Arkansas) in a light moment discussing archaeological techniques.
Photo Lee Fennell
Figure 12. Front row - archaeologists Christopher Fennell (Illilnois), Paul Shackel (Maryland) and Terrance Martin (Illinois State Museum). Back row - members of the New Philadelphia Association: Larry Armisted, Natalie Armisted, Linda Bradshaw, Philip Bradshaw, Joe Conover, Sandra McWorter, Ron Carter, Mary Carter, Carol McCartney.