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Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1845
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, local streets, railroads, some landowners’ names, Milwaukee River, Menomonee River, and part of Lake Michigan. The ma...
Photograph

Horace Griswold Bliss

Date: 1845
Description: A cased daguerreotype of Horace Griswold Bliss, purported to be Madison's first pharmacist. Subject is seated, looking forward, bent to the right at a 3/4 ...
Photograph

Horace Griswold Bliss

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Horace Griswold Bliss sitting in a chair with his legs crossed, wearing a striped coat, striped vest, and striped tie...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Mineral Lands Upon Lake Superior Ceded to the United States by the Treaty of 1842 With the Chippeway Indians

Date: 1845
Description: This map shows lakes, rivers, Chippewa land, the U.S. Mineral Land Agency, boundary between U.S. and Canada, Methodist and Catholic missions, and American ...
Photograph

Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney

Date: 1845
Description: Ninth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up portrait of Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney. Half figure facing directly front, wearing round-rimmed spectacles and whi...
Photograph

Elbridge F. Ayer and Mary D. Ayer

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Elbridge F. and Mary D. Ayer. Seated three-quarter figures, man on left, woman on right. Elbridge wears suit, vest and bow tie...
Photograph

Ann Elizabeth Stone

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Ann Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Samuel and Caroline Allcott Stone, taken in the mid-1840s. Three-quarter length seated pose, ...
Photograph

Leverett Steele Kellogg

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Leverett Steele Kellogg, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin pioneer in 1836, from Connecticut. Waist-up portrait, facing forward. He is we...
Photograph

John H. Knapp

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of John H. Knapp. He is seated, facing forward, and is wearing a suit with velvet collar, plaid vest, cravat, and stand-up collar...
Drawing

Smelting Lead Ore

Date: 1845
Description: Drawing of Shullsburg. Text at bottom reads: "Smelting lead ore in log furnaces. Scene in Gratiots Grove at Shullsburg, Wis. in 1845-6. Drawn from life. By...
Photograph

James Monroe Gillet

Date: 1845
Description: Waist-up portrait of James Monroe Gillet, around the time he founded the newspaper The Fond du Lac Whig.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Southern Part

Date: 1845
Description: Map of Wisconsin, including lower western border with Iowa, southern border along Illinois, eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, and northern area along Wis...

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