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New London

Date: 1871
Description: Birds eye map of New London depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, the bridge, Wolf River, and the bayou. At the bottom of the map, a re...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Ishpeming

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye view of Ishpeming.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works during Chicago Fire

Date: 1871
Description: Elevated view of men and ships near the McCormick Works and the Chicago River during the Chicago Fire of 1871. The original caption reads: "Reproduction o...
Photograph

Family Seated in a Row near House

Date: 1871
Description: Family in line, seated in yard, with two-story frame house that has an addition and small second story windows in background. There is a huge woodpile behi...
Photograph

Sawmill near Lake Winnebago

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph of a sawmill area and Lake Winnebago in the foreground. The square building with the "cupola" was the Revere House. A manuscript notation, very...
Print

Rebuilt McCormick Buildings

Date: 1871
Description: Collage depicting multiple McCormick buildings reconstructed or built after the Chicago Fire. The caption at bottom reads, "Rebuilt Chicago. — Buildings Er...
Map or Atlas

Barron County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: This map of Barron County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, post offices, dwellings, schools, roads, swa...
Map or Atlas

Map of the North Shore of Lake Superior, Ontario, Dominion of Canada : Showing the Location of 94,298 Acres of Mineral Land Belonging to the Ontario Mineral Lands Company and the Position of the Property of the Silver Islet Mining Company of Silver Islet

Date: 1871
Description: This map shows railroads, canals, towns and some lighthouses. Areas of the company lands proper, tin, iron, gold & silver, silver islet, and lead are color...

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