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Photograph

Oshkosh Harbor

Date: 1855
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels.
Photograph

View of Oshkosh Harbor

Date: 1855
Description: Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t...
Map or Atlas

Harrison's Map of Madison

Date: 1855
Description: Map of the city of Madison, Dane County, published by George Harrison, surveyed and drawn by P. McCabe, and engraved by J.H. Colton & Co., New York. In add...
Drawing

Fox-Wisconsin Canal

Date: 1855
Description: Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ...
Map or Atlas

United States Map

Date: 1855
Description: Map reads "Our Country" which is accompanied by a sailor with a flag to the left and workers rejoicing under the Constitution and Laws to the right. Across...
Drawing

View of Detroit

Date: 1855
Description: View of Detroit with several boats and ships in (probably) the Detroit River.
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Kenosha Counties

Date: 1855
Description: Map of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Kenosha Counties with part of Walworth County showing townships, waterways, railroads, plank roads, prairies, meado...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Milwaukee & Mississippi railroad and its connections / lith. & printed by J.H. Colton & Co.

Date: 1855
Description: Drawn around 1855, this map shows the placement of railroad tracks in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois connecting Milwaukee, Prairie du Chien, Gale...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: Map of Wisconsin, showing railway routes throughout the state as well as the names of the counties, townships, and cities in the state. The inset of the ma...
Map or Atlas

Map of Minnesota : and Part of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: Drawn three years before Minnesota entered statehood, this map shows Minnesota Territory and the western part of Wisconsin. The map shows county lines, riv...
Map or Atlas

A Geological Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows counties, cities, rivers, canals, lakes, railroads, common roads, county towns, townships, villages, and post offices. The map includes part...
Map or Atlas

Map shewing [sic] the connection of Chicago and other lake ports with northern and central Wisconsin by rail road.

Date: 1855
Description: A map of Wisconsin and northern Illinois, showing the railroad routes in these areas, specifically the Fox River Valley, Wisconsin Central and the Ontonago...
Map or Atlas

Colton's Township Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: Drawn seven years after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows the counties, cities, towns, rivers and lakes in the entire state. The map includes a c...
Map or Atlas

Chapman's Sectional Map of Wisconsin : with the Most Recent Surveys

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows the entire state and part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It depicts creeks, rivers, lakes, railroads completed, railroads in progress, ...
Map or Atlas

Chapman's Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This Wisconsin map depicts counties, creeks, rivers, lakes, railroads completed, railroads in progress, common roads and the Menomonee Reservation.
Map or Atlas

Chapman's Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This map depicts counties, creeks, rivers, lakes, railroads completed, railroads in progress, common roads and the Menomonee Reservation.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin: A Sectional Map with the Most Recent Surveys

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, plank roads, mines, and the Menomonee Reservation. ...
Map or Atlas

Morse's Cerographic Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, and proposed railroads,. Horicon Marsh is labeled H...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Penokee Iron Range Near Lake Superior - Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: This map by Increase Lapham shows the Penokee Iron Range in Ashland and Iron counties, Wisconsin. Part of the Gogebic Range, the Penokees extend from an ar...
Map or Atlas

Map of Dunnville, Dunn County, Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: Map reads: "Knapp, Stout & Co., William Carson, Henry Eaton, Amos Collum, William Wilson & C.S. Bundy Proprietors."Streets running horizontally begin at th...

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