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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Sunlight shining through a cloud, illuminating the water below. "Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Wisconsin Scenery." |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Rood's Glen. A boy plays with a toy boat at bottom left while two men and a woman talk at bottom right. Two other figures can be seen in t... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | This 1861 map of Columbia County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, property owners and... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Shows land ownership by name, churches, schools, farm houses, wagon roads, railroads. Includes directory of businesses for Columbus, Portage, Doylestown, W... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Register of the Deed Office filed by the land surveyor and lawyer Alfred Topliff. The document includes detailed listings of city blocks. In the right hand... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of a small child sitting in a chair. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group of tourists and crew members on the bow deck of the DELL QUEEN, an excursion boat that operated on the Wisconsin River at Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from shoreline of the rock formation in the Dells of the Wisconsin River. A man is paddling a canoe in the foreground. Printed o... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Clough house, residence of Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby. A man is standing and holding the hands of two young girls in front of the fenc... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map shows plat of town, local streets, railroads, projected railroads, residential buildings, mills, and part of the Crawfish River. The map includes ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map is ink and pencil on paper and shows plat of the town, local streets, and blocks and lots by number. The map includes explanatory text. |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This map shows proposed lot and block numbers for a paper city located in township 10 north, range 7 east, Wisconsin Territory, now the Town of West Point,... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This plat shows block and lot numbers and land reserved for a railroad and passenger depot. The map includes certifications and registration. Kilbourn City... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | This map shows the land claim owned by the Portage Canal Company and includes an index of landownership and landmarks. The Wisconsin and Portage River, the... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | This map is pencil on tracing paper and shows marshes, the Wisconsin River, Indian trails, and Indian boundary line. The upper left corner reads: "Let sect... |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | This plat map is pen-and-ink on tracing paper and shows a paper city planned in the late 1830's located on the shore of Swan Lake, Columbia County, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 11 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and no... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map shows landownership, lot and block numbers, streets, a canal, bridges, Fort Winnebago, the Wisconsin River, and the Fox River. Relief is shown by ... |
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