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Aerial View of Residential Area

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Valley Fair Mall, with a residential area beyond it on both sides of a river, all surrounded by trees and farmland.
Print

Bridge of Steamboats

Date: 
Description: A fleet of steamboats used by General Joseph Bailey of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry constructing a bridge across the Atchafalaya passage of General Banks' ...
Print

Sinking of the "Albemarle"

Date: 
Description: Sinking of the "Albemarle." Lieut. Cushing (?) torpedoing the ALBEMARLE.
Photograph

New Guinea Coast

Date: 1942
Description: View over water towards the New Guinea coast from a boat. A larger boat is on the right and several smaller craft in the center. A pier is on the shoreline...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 543-553

Date: 
Description: The first time out of doors in shirtsleeves is a moment of kindlier feeling,
of stern and lonely reservations gladly set aside.

With the passing ...
Map or Atlas

Madison Public Schools Survey of Buildings and Sites

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows the public schools and their school districts. The bottom of the map reads:" Old buildings and sites in red. New buildings and sites in blac...
Print

Apostle Islands Visit

Date: 07 2001
Description: David Obey poses with Park Ranger Geoffrey Smith on the left and Martin Hanson on the right. They are standing on the beach with water and land in the back...
Map or Atlas

Preliminary Town Plan, Village of Port Edwards, Wis.

Date: 06 1931
Description: This map is a photocopy of a map that has been hand-colored and shows streets, the Wisconsin River, Mill Pond, and points of interest that include a school...
Map or Atlas

Village of Leicester, Dane Co., Wis.

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows the blocks and streets that make up the village, and includes the Baraboo Air Line Railroad which cuts through the village at a diagonal fro...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Stoughton: Showing the Additions Made

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows the additions made in January 1855, as well as houses, streets, Catfish Creek, and the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road and Depot. It als...
Map or Atlas

Stockbridge Reservation

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows landownership circa 1848 in the old Stockbridge Indian reservation on Lake Winnebago in Calumet County. It is oriented with north to the lef...
Map or Atlas

Chippewa and St. Croix Rivers

Date: 1935
Description: Original created in 1788, this facsimile map shows the routes traveled by Perrault, an early voyageur in Northern America.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin River Valley

Date: 1911
Description: This map includes references to reservoirs, industrial sites, and drainage basins.
Map or Atlas

Ashland, Siskiwit, and Iron River R.R.

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows AS&IR Railroad between Siskiwit and Nash (with dock), a proposed extension of AS&IR Railroad "now under construction" between Superior and N...
Map or Atlas

Map of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This map includes business directories, statistical table, distance table, list of county officers, and illustrated views of residential and commercial pro...
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Town of Fond du Lac: At the South End of Winnebaygo Lake

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows land parcels, streets, the Fond du Lac River, Lake Winnebaygo (Winnebago), and blocks. Certification is on the left hand corner. The back of...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map shows landownership, rural mail routes, rural buildings, railroads, U.S. national highways, state trunk highways, county trunk highways, township...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor : (John Jacob Astor, Ramsay Crooks & Robert Stuart): Proprietors

Date: 1835
Description: Map shows the Fox River, lot and block numbers, private claims, streets, a public squares, a manual labour school, and Fort Howard. An inset map shows a pl...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse as Seen from Cliffwood : [and] Cliffwood as Seen from La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: This set of photocopy bird's-eye-view maps include one view looking west from the top of Wisconsin River bluffs; and a second view looking east towards La ...
Map or Atlas

Baltimore : [Wisconsin Territory]

Date: 1900
Description: Plat map showing a paper city located on the Wisconsin River. The map includes a public square, street names, and a note written by Francis Headman.

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