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Painting

Pecatonica Battle Ground

Date: 1857
Description: Pecatonica Battle Ground.
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Photograph

View of Milwaukee, from Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward

Date: 1857
Description: From Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward, looking north, toward the city. Drawing is an elevated view of field and plank fence in foreground, road to the left a...
Print

View of Madison, the Capital of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th...
Painting

A Part of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1857
Description: A distant, elevated view of the city of Milwaukee and its shoreline. During the hot summer months, Hölzlhuber, took excursions on the water, many times bri...
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...
Painting

The Opening of the Railroad from Grandhaven to Grand Rapids

Date: 1857
Description: At the opening of the railway between Grandhaven and Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 26, 1857, the locomotive Grand Rapids was manned by the railroad...
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

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.
Drawing

Man Clinging to Plank after Steamer Sinks

Date: 1857
Description: Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of John Tice clinging to a piece of wreckage after the sinking of the steamer Central Amer...
Drawing

Tice and Grant Rescuing Dawson from the Raft

Date: 1857
Description: John Tice and Alexander Grant helping George W. Dawson from a floating piece of debris into a lifeboat after the sinking of the steamer Central America<...
Print

George Dawson Denied Access to Raft

Date: 1857
Description: George W. Dawson, an African-American passenger from the steamer Central America swims to a piece of debris to which several men are clinging after ...
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

Sheboygan Harbor Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map of Sheboygan Harbor shows the river mouth and harbor, piers, wharfs, piles of old destroyed bridge wharfs, streets, and the lake shore from survey...
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

Sketch of the Public Surveys in the State of Wisconsin and Territory of Minnesota

Date: 1857
Description: A map of the state of Wisconsin and the southeastern portion of the Territory of Minnesota, showing the Wisconsin reservations of the Oneida, Menominee, St...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Watertown & Madison Railroad and Its Connections

Date: 1857
Description: Map shows the railroads of southern Wisconsin, highlighting the Watertown and Madison Railroad. The Watertown and Madison Railroad between those two cities...
Map or Atlas

J.S. Fillmore's Map of Railroad System of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows the railroads in the entire state of Wisconsin and their connections with points in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan's Upper Peninsul...
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...

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