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Drawing

Lake Superior Area

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of four Indians on Madeline Island with a canoe in the water on the shore.
Book or Pamphlet

Combat between Indian Tribes

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of the Ojibwa, the Sacs, and Foxes battling from canoes on the water.
Drawing

Madison from University Hill

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the...
Drawing

Madison Landscape

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark ...
Drawing

Black Earth Valley

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of Black Earth Valley. Gentle lightly tree-covered hills frame the center grassy valley. Two farmhouses are sitting at the base of hills on ...
Map or Atlas

State Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1852
Description: Map reads: "The State of Wisconsin- compiled from the latest authorities". In addition, there is a scale which is six miles for every inch, and a profile o...
Drawing

Courthouse and Mountains

Date: 1852
Description: Landscape featuring a rural city center with a prominent courthouse surrounded by fields and woods. Rolling erosion-softened mountains rise in the backgro...
Drawing

Farm and Trees

Date: 1852
Description: Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees.
Drawing

Birch Trees on Knoll

Date: 1852
Description: Group of birch [?] trees on a knoll.
Drawing

Spirits on Devil's Lake

Date: 1852
Description: Devil's Lake from shore flanked by steep tree-covered hillsides. A small solitary rowboat floats near the distant shore.
Drawing

Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory

Date: 1852
Description: Landscape view of Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory from a nearby hill showing the Fort, the Mississippi river, the countryside, farm buildings and tipis....
Drawing

First Lake Dane County

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of trees around the shore of a lake from across a field.
Map or Atlas

Map of Part of Wisconsin, R4E to R9E and T11N to T28N, Being Parts of Sauk, Columbia, Juneau, Adams, and Marquette Counties

Date: 1852
Description: This manuscript map shows the portage of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers at Fort Winnebago, the course of the Fox River in Columbia and Marquette counties, an...
Map or Atlas

Series of Sections on the Mississippi Between the the Wisconsin River and the Falls of St. Anthony

Date: 1852
Description: Hand-colored maps and a series of geological cross sections of the Mississippi River between the Falls of St. Anthony and the mouth of the Wisconsin River ...
Map or Atlas

New Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1852
Description: A hand-colored map showing portions of present-day Iron and Vilas counties north of the Manitowish River as part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Wi...
Map or Atlas

New Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1852
Description: Map shows Wisconsin counties by color and includes rivers, lakes and some cities. This information is also given for eastern Minnesota and northern Illinoi...
Map or Atlas

Map of Mount Vernon with Byam's Addition, Dane County, Wisconsin

Date: 1852
Description: On left side map reads: "Note by the lithographer on the Original Plat there is a Certificate of Record signed by Resister of Dane Co. also a Certificate o...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Part of the Village of Rolling Prairie Dodge County Wisconsin

Date: 1852
Description: Map created between 1852 and 1867 shows numbered lots, labelled roads, the "Centre Line of LaCrosse & Milwaukee R.R." railroad, and a station house. Roads ...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the Three Village Plats of Grand Chute, Appleton & Lawesburgh, Outagamie County, Wisn.

Date: 1852
Description: This map shows plat of three towns, sections, local streets, the Grand Chute Island, and part of the Fox River. The map includes 1 inset map: "Diagram of C...
Photograph

Road in the Vicinity of Madison

Date: 1852
Description: View down a road lined with trees. Two people in a horse-drawn vehicle are moving down the road. Caption reads: "Unidientified road in the vicinity of Madi...

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