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Painting

Pecatonica Battle Ground

Date: 1857
Description: Pecatonica Battle Ground.
Painting

A View of Harper's Ferry

Date: 1857
Description: Business with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper took Hölzlhuber to New York, and from there he also visited Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washingt...
Map or Atlas

Fond du Lac Map 1/4

Date: 1857
Description: A quarter section of a map of the city of Fond du Lac. This section features an illustration of Amory Hall and the Exchange Bank of Darling & Co.
Map or Atlas

Fond du Lac Map 2/4

Date: 1857
Description: A quarter section of a map of the City of Fond du Lac featuring the Empire Branch Plank Road.
Map or Atlas

Fond du Lac Map 3/4

Date: 1857
Description: Quarter section of a map of the city of Fond du Lac featuring the Waupun Plank Road.
Map or Atlas

Fond du Lac Map 4/4

Date: 1857
Description: Quarter section of a map of the city of Fond du Lac featuring an illustration of the Lewis House.
Map or Atlas

Ethnographical Map of the Indian Tribes of the United State A.D. 1600

Date: 1857
Description: Information depicting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States: collected and prepared under the direction of the Bur...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Kekoskee

Date: 1857
Description: Plat map of Kekoskee, Wisconsin. Kekoskee is a village in Dodge County, in the Beaver Dam metropolitan area. The community name derives from Indian term fo...
Map or Atlas

Color-Coded Map of Lake Superior Region

Date: 1857
Description: A color-coded map of the Lake Superior region, including portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
Book or Pamphlet

Las Isletas-Falls of Presidio de Rio Grande

Date: 1857
Description: An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande.
Map or Atlas

New Map of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This detailed map was drawn nearly a decade after Wisconsin entered statehood. It depicts the entire state, northern Illinois and part of the upper peninsu...
Map or Atlas

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

Date: 1857
Description: This map depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railroads, roads, and the Menomonee and...
Map or Atlas

Colton's Township Map of the State of Wisconsin : Showing the Milwaukee Watertown & Madison R.R. and Its Connections

Date: 1857
Description: This map depicts the township survey grid in Wisconsin and northern Michigan and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of Grant County, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Relief shown by hachures. "Lith. of Ed. Mendel, Chicago." Shows townships and sections, rivers, roads, railroads, houses, flour mills, saw mills, furnaces...
Map or Atlas

Western Addition to Madison

Date: 1857
Description: This map is ink and pencil on tracing paper. The map shows plats of a western section of Madison. The lakes are labeled "Fourth Lake", "Third Lake" and "La...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map show city plats including the name and number of the plats as well as some land ownership. Some of the plats have manuscript annotations outlined ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows section corners, quarter section corners, foundry, steam saw mill, steam grist mill, planning mill, court house, baptist church, congregatio...
Document

La Crosse & Milwaukee Rail Road Company Stock Certificate

Date: 1857
Description: Engraved document certifying that D. Henry Rockwell of Oconomowoc is entitled to one share of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Rail Road Company worth one hundr...
Map or Atlas

Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map was created from a survey made in December 1855 and shows local streets, proposed roads, railroads, the lake shore, bridge wharfs, the basin, the ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, wards, roads, railroads, some landowners’ names, and selected buildings. The map includes an inset map of Glidden & L...

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