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Louisiana, parte settentrionalle : scoperta sotto la protettione di Luigi XIV, Ré di Francia, etc. / descritta, e dedicata, dal P. Cosmografo Coronelli.

Date: 1695
Description: Copperplate engraving; Venice, 1695. Scale [ca. 1:5,069,000] at center.
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Partie occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les Nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres peuples; avec la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte etc.

Date: 1688
Description: This map includes vignettes of Amerindian life with text describing geography, culture, and exploration activity, written in French. The Great Lakes, river...
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Plan of Captain Carvers travel in the interior parts of North America in 1766 and 1767

Date: 1778
Description: Hand-colored. London, 1778. Coordinates: W 99⁰--W 83⁰/N 49⁰--N 41⁰. Scale [ca. 1:3,500,000]
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Part of Map Illustrating the March of the Army Under Command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman from Atlanta Ga. to Savannah, Ga. November 15th to Dec. 21st, 1864

Date: 1865
Description: This pen and ink map sketches the route taken by General Sherman's troops from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia. Railroads, rivers, and towns are lab...
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Sinsinawa City, Wisconsin Territory : Situated on the South East Side of the Mound of the Same Name Near the River Mississippi.

Date: 1835
Description: Plat for a proposed Sinsinawa City (never built), in Grant County, Wis. When it became clear in the mid-1830s that Wisconsin Territory would be established...
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La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: A map of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, showing and identifying the townships and section numbers, towns, cities and villages, landowners, rivers, railroads,...
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Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: This 1898 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, dams, bridges, Indian r...
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Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1973
Description: Map shows sections, trails, roads, and locations of ancient burial grounds, hills, groves, and settlers. Printed in brown ink.
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Plat of the Town of West Columbus

Date: 1854
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...
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Map of the City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: Lower left hand corner reads: "Compliment of the Madison Association of Commerce MADISON The Four Lake City WISCONSIN." Around the perimeter of the map is ...
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Map of University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1937
Description: Includes points of interests in Madison and on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Includes list of presidents of University of Wisconsin, 1849-193...
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Map of Outagamie County Wisconsin

Date: 1873
Description: Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, state and county lands, churches, schools, cemeteries, roads, and railroads. There is an inse...
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Map of Polk County Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: Map created between 1871 and 1880. Shows townships, post offices, a possible railroad to Penoka Iron Range, and the North Wisconsin Railroad.
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City of Waukesha Wisconsin

Date: 1954
Description: This map of Waukesha shows numbered ward boundaries, roads, and some buildings. The bottom of the map includes a street index.
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Business Section, City of Racine

Date: 1950
Description: This map of Racine's business section is oriented with the north to the right and shows businesses and lot owners. Businesses, streets, and the Root River ...
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Primrose Plat Map

Date: 1861
Description: The township of Primrose, which is a detail from the plat map of Dane County.
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Montrose Plat Map

Date: 1861
Description: The township of Montrose, which is a detail from a Dane County plat map.
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A New and Correct Map of the World, Laid Down According to the Newest Discoveries, and from the Most Exact Observations

Date: 1712
Description: Engraved double-hemispherical world map by Moll, included in his atlas The world described, or, A new and correct sett of maps: shewing the kingdoms and st...
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Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne et en Portugal

Date: 1740
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki...
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The United States of North America: with the British and Spanish Territories, According to the Treaty, of 1784

Date: 1785
Description: Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th...

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