Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | View along bridge of paddle boats and ships in the harbor, pedestrians, and the town in the background on the other side of the river. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | View from bridge on river. Storefronts and homes line the road that stretches to the horizon. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin, showing the county boundaries, towns, cities, railroads, roads, lakes, rivers, bays, and the Lake Superior’s islands. In ... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map shows the entire state of Wisconsin with counties, cities and rivers. It includes an inset of the layout of the streets of Milwaukee and a chart w... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map shows the state of Wisconsin in 1856. Counties in existence at the time and the division of townships, railroads, both existing and proposed, and ... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map with an ornamental border shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railroads, road... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map of shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railroads, roads, and the Menomonee an... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map depicts the route of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad in Wisconsin. Other railroads in Wisconsin, northern Michigan, and northern Illinois wit... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map of Brohead shows land and lot ownerships by name and color, as well as roads, and railroads. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map of the City of La Crosse is a plat of Pike & Co's Addition. The map shows street names, block and lot numbers, the South La Crosse River, and the ... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map shows a plat of town, local streets, and parts of East and Fox Rivers. |
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