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Map Showing the Route of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal : Being an Improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, and Connection of the Same by Canal

Date: 1868
Description: Map showing the northern water routes between Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean Relief shown by hachures. Includes Profile of the Erie Canal, table of ...
Photograph

Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
Map or Atlas

Map of Private Claims Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 West of Fox River as Subdivided in 1868 for Mrs. C. L. A. Tank

Date: 1868
Description: This map shows land ownership by name, lots, roads, railroads, and part of the Fox River. The map includes an explanation and table of witnesses to the cor...
Map or Atlas

Iron Ridge Station

Date: 1868
Description: This map is ink on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers, depot, railroads and side tracks, and streets in sections 24 and 25, T.11, R.16E. The map...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Features an illustration of a man using a mower with a team of two horses. Caption below reads: "Here a stump is to be passed, as you now discover, And a l...
Map or Atlas

Chapman’s New Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: This map of the state of Wisconsin was created in 1868 and later used by Increase Lapham to trace an outbreak of tornadoes going across the state in May of...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1868
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, some property ownership, wards, roads, and railroads. An inset map shows the Glidden & Lockwood’s addition. There are...
Map or Atlas

North America : Showing the Origin & Progress of the Storm of March 14-17, 1859, and How it Might Have Been Known Upon the Lakes a Whole Day Before it Reached Them!

Date: 1868
Description: This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ...
Map or Atlas

Chapman's New Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: This map shows railroads, counties and towns and includes a township grid. Sections are shown in blue, green, yellow, and pink. Rivers and lakes are labele...
Map or Atlas

A Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: This map shows the configurations of the counties, communities, railroads and projected railroads, mines, shipping routes, and labeled rivers and lakes. Po...
Map or Atlas

Green Bay & Miss. Canal : for Steamboat Navigation, Locks 160 x 35 Ft

Date: 1868
Description: This map includes a table of estimated costs "by Brev. Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren Maj. U.S.E., of improvement of Wis. River from his survey of 1867." Included a...
Photograph

Ceylon Childs Lincoln

Date: 1868
Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon Childs Lincoln. Full-length seated pose facing 45 degrees to the right, with left arm on cloth covered table and ...
Photograph

Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
Photograph

Joseph Ager and Wife

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a man and a woman. Joseph Ager, a farmer from Ripon, is sitting. His wife is standing next to him with her hand on his shoulder...
Photograph

Joseph and Jane Ager's Children

Date: 1868
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a boy and a girl standing together. The girl has her hand on the boy's shoulder. These are the children of Joseph a...
Photograph

Carl Ferdinand Allen

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite of Carl Ferdinand Allen, a Danish historian and professor. He was the author of De Tre Nordiske Rigers Historie, 1497-1536, Haand...
Photograph

Willie Gowdy and Edward Alsworth Ross

Date: 1868
Description: Oval-framed portrait of two children, identified as Willie Gowdy (left) and Edward Alsworth Ross (right). Willie Gowdy was Edward's half-brother.
Drawing

Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved lithograph of a waist-up portrait of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen. Allen was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly f...

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