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Map or Atlas

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...
Map or Atlas

Surveyor's Original Maps of Townships Drained by the Chippewa River and Its Tributories

Date: 1850
Description: This series of maps shows townships, ranges, sections, lakes, rivers, and roads. The maps cover areas between Township No. 26 and Township No. 42.
Map or Atlas

Map of Tank's, Schettler's & Allen's, Sundry Additions to Fort Howard, Wisconsin

Date: 1850
Description: This map shows the location of planned blocks and lot numbers, street names, and docks along the Fox River and canal.
Map or Atlas

A Plat of DePere

Date: 1850
Description: This photocopied map shows lot and block numbers, selected buildings, street names and state lock located on the Fox River. Includes a description of Deper...
Print

Case's Threshing Machine

Date: 1850
Description: Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from...
Photograph

Lydia Remsen Draper

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864...
Book or Pamphlet

Richard W. Thompson

Date: 1850
Description: Studio portrait of Richard Thompson sitting in a chair and holding a cane.
Photograph

Increase Claflin

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Increase Claflin, first white settler of Door County.
Photograph

Reverend A.M. Iverson

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Reverend Andrew M. Iverson of the first Moravian congregation in Door County.
Drawing

The Great Bird and Other Effigy Mounds

Date: 1850
Description: Diagrams of four effigy mounds surveyed by Increase A. Lapham and W.H. Canfield in 1850. No. 1 is an unidentified animal shape, No. 2 consists of two linea...
Photograph

Ezekiel Gillespie

Date: 1850
Description: Black and white copy print of a daguerreotype portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie.
Photograph

General William Irvine

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Irvine. The portrait shows General Irvine in his military uniform. General Irvine served as a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Ancient Works at Third Lake

Date: 1850
Description: A drawing of ancient works at the southeast angle of the Third Lake.
Postcard

Racine Harbor

Date: 1850
Description: Text on front reads: "Racine, Wisconsin in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main...

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