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Map or Atlas

Waupun, Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye map of Waupun.
Map or Atlas

Weyauwega, Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye map of Weyauwega.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Whitewater

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets.
Photograph

Funeral Party around Casket

Date: 1870
Description: A funeral party is assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as Lars D. Reque, stan...
Photograph

Living Room at 116 East Gorham Street

Date: 1870
Description: Living room and downstairs bedroom of Timothy Brown II and Elizabeth Barnard Brown's house (built 1863), 116 East Gorham Street.
Print

Veterinarian Broadside

Date: 1870
Description: Broadside issued by veterinarian E.W. Palmer of Garden Prairie, Iowa, advertising his large animal services including his weekly Saturday clinic at Moffatt...
Photograph

William H. Canfield, Civil Engineer

Date: 1870
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Canfield (1819-1913), a Wisconsin civil engineer and surveyor who is best known for his studies of Sauk County's nat...
Photograph

Professor Davenport Fisher, Chemist

Date: 1870
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive...
Book or Pamphlet

German Immigration Brochure Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Cover of a Wisconsin immigration brochure in German.
Print

Will You Love Me Always

Date: 1870
Description: Valentine's Day card with a woman sitting in a meadow reading a book. She is wearing a yellow dress and a red hat with a feather. To the right in the backg...
Map or Atlas

Daearlen o Wisconsin at Wasanaeth Bwrdd ymfudiant y Dalaeth

Date: 1870
Description: A geological survey map of Wisconsin, with hand-colored portions showing the surveys completed from 1873 to 1875. Although the title and legend are in Wel...
Manuscript

Increase Lapham's 1870 California Diary

Date: 1870
Description: Page from a diary kept by Increase Lapham in California between April 11 and May 19, 1870. The page shows a portion of a list of minerals of California.
Map or Atlas

Bird's Eye View of Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: Bird’s-eye view map. "Looking north east." Indexed for points of interest. Shows homes, businesses, and the Bark and Rock River. Streets running west to ea...
Map or Atlas

Mississippi River Basin East of the Mississippi and North of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: This map is mostly pencil on paper map but includes latitude and longitude grid in ink. The map covers the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca to the Wiscon...
Photograph

Norwegian Family with Possessions

Date: 1870
Description: Detail from original of the family. Original caption reads: "Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dres...

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