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Map or Atlas

View of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1856
Description: View looking west from Lake Michigan with several steam ships and sailing vessels in harbor. There is a lighthouse to left of center, along shoreline.
Postcard

The Pere Marquette 18

Date: 
Description: The screw rail ferry, Pere Marquette 18, entering the harbor. Caption reads: "Pere Marquette Steamer Entering, Milwaukee, Wis."
Postcard

Whaleback Steamer "Christopher Columbus"

Date: 
Description: Colorized view depicting the passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," approaching the East Water Street Bridge. Caption reads: "Whaleback Steame...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1853
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1862
Description: Drawn the second year of the Civil War, this 1862 map of Milwaukee shows post offices, light houses, beacon lights, county buildings, elevator warehouses, ...
Photograph

Fishing On Breakwater

Date: 1910
Description: Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Map or Atlas

Panoramic View of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee with prominent streets and buildings identified. Taken from City Hall Tower.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1872
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan.
Map or Atlas

Map of Electric Railway System. T.M.E.R. & L. Co.

Date: 1898
Description: Bird's-eye map, looking west from shoreline on Lake Michigan of Milwaukee to Golden Lake in Waukesha County, with Kenosha and Fox Point at bottom corners, ...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee-Downer College-Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
Drawing

Milwaukee River Downtown

Date: 1874
Description: Milwaukee River in the downtown area, looking south from the west side of the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge.
Postcard

Mill Pond

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a mill pond and dam.
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1876
Description: Made from U.S. Surveys and from minutes furnished by Jos. S. Buck and Dr. C. Chase. Scale 20 CHs to an inch.
Map or Atlas

Colton's Wisconsin

Date: 1882
Description: This basic reference map of the state shows natural features, railroads, county seats, and political boundaries against the G.L.O. township and range grid....
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee Quadrangle

Date: 1906
Description: Polyconic projection. Map made from surveys without spirit level control. Henry Gannett, Chief Topographer. Topography by Van H. Manning and Nat. Tyler, Jr...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of East Central Wisconsin

Date: 1908
Description: Colored map in perspective indicates railroad routes. Lake Winnebago and Oshkosh in center, area extends to Shawano (top right corner), Green Bay (bottom r...

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