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Diagram of McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1867
Description: A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ...
Photograph

McCormick's Reaper Factory

Date: 1867
Description: Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1867. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Rush Street bri...
Map or Atlas

Appleton Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Appleton, Outagamie Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, the Fox River, the court house, jail, school houses, Lawren...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, rivers, lakes, and trees. A reference key at the bottom of th...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Fond du Lac

Date: 1867
Description: Birds eye drawing of Fond du Lac depicts street names and street layouts, houses, buildings, trees, and the Fond du Lac River. A reference key at the botto...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye Map of Green Bay and Fort Howard

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Green Bay and Fort Howard, Brown Co., depicts street names and street layouts, houses, trees, and the East River. A reference key at the ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of La Crosse

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of La Crosse with nine insets of residences, schools, and the Court House and Jail.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Madison with insets of the University, Rasdall House, Vilas House, and the Wisconsin State Capitol. View includes cattail marsh, smokesta...
Map or Atlas

Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye view of Oshkosh, "drawn from nature."
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Ripon

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Ripon, with insets of points of interest.
Photograph

Reed Residence

Date: 1867
Description: View across road towards the home of Curtis Reed.
Photograph

Water Street

Date: 1867
Description: West Water Street south from Spring Street.
Print

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1867
Description: E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ...
Print

La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
Poster

Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
Map or Atlas

Chippewa Valley Railroad Map

Date: 1867
Description: A map showing railroad land in Chippewa Valley.
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1867
Description: View down sidewalk along a row of buildings at Ripon College.
Map or Atlas

North Anna, From Surveys Under the Direction of N. Michler

Date: 1867
Description: This map of the battlefield on the North Anna River at Hanover Junction illustrates the Union positions in blue and Confederate positions in red. Roads, ra...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Map of the entire state indicates county boundaries outlined in red, cities of over 3000 inhabitants and county seats. It also marks rivers and lakes.
Map or Atlas

Chapman's New Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the state’s township grid, lakes, rivers, railroads, as well as the locations of towns, counties and the reservatio...

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