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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Sauk City

Date: 1870
Description: Sauk City is the oldest incorporated village in Wisconsin (incorporated in 1854) and also has the oldest organized volunteer fire department in the state, ...
Map or Atlas

Tomah, Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye map of Tomah.
Photograph

Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.
Photograph

Family with Carriage

Date: 1870
Description: A carriage and a family stand in front of a picket fence in front of an unpainted Greek Revival frame house. Attached to the house is a storefront. Althoug...
Photograph

Group Beside Spring

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people sitting beside spring, perhaps at Winnequah or Picnic Point in Madison. All of them are either holding or are wearing hats.
Photograph

Fox River at Grand Chute

Date: 1870
Description: Overlook of the river, and a building near the dam from a steep hillside.
Photograph

Buildings on the Fox at Grand Chute

Date: 1870
Description: View from a hillside of either houses or factory buildings on the Fox River near a dam.
Photograph

Chippewa Falls

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of Chippewa Falls during the winter.
Photograph

Chippewa Falls

Date: 1870
Description: Chippewa Falls taken from high ground.
Photograph

View of Eau Claire

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Eau Claire.
Photograph

Northwest Intersection at Fourth and Water

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the town, looking northwest. The Chippewa River is in the foreground, with a lot of buildings, an intersection, and distant hills. One bui...
Photograph

Three Women near St. Croix River

Date: 1870
Description: View of Hudson with three women on a hill in the foreground, and the town along the St. Croix River below in the background.
Photograph

Kilbourn Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Kilbourn Bridge.
Photograph

Lodi

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Lodi, Wisconsin. A field is in the foreground, and the town beyond and hills in the far background.
Photograph

Primitive Methodist Church

Date: 1870
Description: View over rooftops towards the primitive Methodist Church, which is surrounded by homes.
Drawing

Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1870
Description: Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893, 900 block East Gorham Street. There are two deer are the left near trees, and two people are on horseback near the front...
Photograph

The Mound, River Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: A view of the "Mound."
Photograph

Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1870
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
Photograph

View of Mississippi River and the St. Croix River

Date: 1870
Description: Half stereograph of an elevated view from hill showing the confluence of the Mississippi River and the St. Croix River. A man wearing a hat is in the foreg...
Photograph

View from Case's Block

Date: 1870
Description: One-half stereograph of town, elevated view looking northeast from Case's Block.

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