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Navarino at the Head of Green Bay

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Description: Map of "Navarino at the Head of Green Bay." Ousconsin Territory Daniel Whitney Proprietor.
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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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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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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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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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Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum five Presbiteriioannis Imperium

Date: 1696
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of Ethiopia, from Blaeu's General Atlas. Map title is framed by a man and a woman, both wearing head turbans, who are standin...
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Carte de l’Egypte Ancienne et Moderne, in Atlas Universel

Date: 1798
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of Egypt. Map title appears on bottom left as a carving in stone next ...
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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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Map of the Western Part of the Territories

Date: 02 01 1793
Description: Text in the upper right corner reads, "A Map of The Western Part of the Territories belonging to the United States of America. Drawn from the best authorit...
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Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1945
Description: This maps shows roads, railroads, parks, recreational areas, Lake Wingra, Lake Monona, and part of Lake Mendota. The map includes pictorial images that dep...
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Index of Out-of-Print Quadrangle Maps of Wisconsin

Date: 1975
Description: This map provides an index of outdated quadrangle maps for the state. Communities, counties, rivers, and lakes are labeled including Lake Michigan and Lake...
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Historical Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1937
Description: Pictorial map showing historical events and locations within the state of Wisconsin, as well as waterways and counties. Original caption on the bottom marg...
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Map of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail-Road

Date: 1850
Description: This map shows a cross-section of southern Wisconsin, with the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad line running from Milwaukee to the Mississippi River near...

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