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Photograph

Winter on Picnic Point

Date: 1915
Description: Picnic Point from Observatory Hill in winter.
Print

Signal Oak, Ripon, Wisconsin

Date: 1956
Description: View of the Signal Oak taken from the original, which was the first in a series of Heritage Prints. The idea for the series was conceived by the First Nati...
Drawing

Water Tower

Date: 1930
Description: Water Tower Park showing Milwaukee and the bay.
Poster

2nd Annual Miffland Party

Date: 09 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising the "Second Annual Day of Interdependence Comemerating [sic] the Declaration of Miffland." Features a caricatured Mifflin Co-op and two ...
Poster

Travel By Train, Atlantic City Travel Poster

Date: 1932
Description: An original lithograph promoting Atlantic City as "the playground of the world," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depicts the buildings ...
Poster

Travel By Train Travel Poster: Fifth Avenue, New York

Date: 1932
Description: An original lithograph promoting Fifth Avenue in New York as "The World's Greatest Shopping Street," and to get there by way of the train. The poster depic...
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Traveling Libraries Map

Date: 1922
Description: This map shows public libraries, state traveling libraries, and county traveling libraries. County boundaries are labeled. Lake Michigan is on the far righ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Federal System Showing Types of Surfacing as of Dec. 31, 1930 & 1931. Construction: [In Wisconsin].

Date: 1930
Description: This map shows surface types on the highways including: concrete, bit, mat, gravels, shales, and unsurfaced. County boundaries, cities, rivers, roads, high...
Map or Atlas

Round Top [in Madison, Wisconsin] With Prices

Date: 1910
Description: This blueprint plat map shows the plan of lots and streets on a Madison hill south of Lake Monona. Includes annotations showing land prices in pencil.
Map or Atlas

Property of the University of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: This blueprint map includes manuscript annotations in red and shows number of acres and dates of acquisition (1905-1914) of each parcel of land, as well as...
Map or Atlas

St. Germain - Heart of Vilas County Vacationland

Date: 1975
Description: This map shows nature trails, public attractions, public hunting and fishing grounds, dams, waysides, lakes, highways, and roads. The upper right corner in...
Map or Atlas

Map of Upper and Lower Nashotah Lakes, Showing the Location of the Nashotah Mission

Date: 1934
Description: This map shows the area as it appeared in 1848 and includes buildings, land use, and roads with distances to nearby locations. The upper right corner reads...
Map or Atlas

Amended District Zoning Map of the City of Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Date: 1951
Description: This map shows city streets, zoning of city areas, residences, local businesses, and commercial areas marked in red, yellow, and light brown. The bottom ri...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Mendota, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows a paper city laid out in 1836 on the Wisconsin River, now the site of Wyalusing State Park, Grant County. The upper right corner includes a ...
Map or Atlas

New Boston : [Wisconsin Territory]

Date: 1900
Description: This photocopy plat map of a paper city on the southeastern shore of Green Bay, probably in Brown County. The front includes a registration and the back in...
Map or Atlas

Owen : [Wisconsin]

Date: 1910
Description: This set of manuscript blueprint maps show block and lot numbers, railroads, and some landownership, including lands and buildings of J.S. Owen Lumber Co. ...
Map or Atlas

Pell Lake, Wis. : Bloomfield Township, Walworth County, T1N R18E

Date: 1937
Description: This cadastral map shows lots, streets, and Pell Lake. The back of the map includes a large advertisement for the Pell Lake Addition summer home lots.
Map or Atlas

Part of Townships 12 & 13, Range 9 East, 4th Mer

Date: 1900
Description: This manuscript map shows outline of Fort Winnebago reserve land, Fort Winnebago, claim of A. Grignon, and Indian boundaries. The Fox River and Swan Lake a...
Map or Atlas

Replat of Blocks 225 & 239, City of Madison, Wis.

Date: 1905
Description: This blueprint map includes manuscript annotations in red showing land of Home Realty Co., Hon. Geo. B. Burrows, and A.O. Fox Industrial.

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