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Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Eau Claire depicts street names and street locations, houses, trees, bridges, piers, canals, railroads, and the Chippewa and Eau Clair...
Photograph

Kingsley House

Date: 1872
Description: Exterior view of the Kingsley house with family in front. It has tall and narrow double-hung windows that are grouped in twos and etched. Carpenter's lace ...
Photograph

Family of Fifteen by House

Date: 1872
Description: An extended family of fifteen stands in front of a wood frame house. On the left a man holds a black horse, and to the right of the doorway a woman sits at...
Photograph

Freight Steamer "Cornucopia"

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill...
Print

Kenosha's Countryside

Date: 1872
Description: An excerpt from "Picturesque America," ed. Bryant, (1872).
Map or Atlas

Office Wallbridge Bro. U. Sargent Map

Date: 1872
Description: Map entitled Office Wallbridge Bro. U. Sargent showing upper Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as Lake Superior.
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of men use a team of four horses to transport logs across snow-covered ground on a sled. Trees are in the background. Caption reads: "A Logging Sce...
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of loggers poses for a group portrait amongst cut logs in a snow-covered wooded area. The men in the middle have their axes in hand, while other me...
Map or Atlas

Map of a Part of Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Showing the Proposed Location of the Route for a Ship Canal

Date: 1872
Description: This 1872 map shows the proposed route of a canal between Sturgeon Bay, on the Green Bay side of the Door Peninsula, and Lake Michigan. Depths in both Stur...
Map or Atlas

Map of Menasha, Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows landowners, buildings, lot numbers, roads and railroads. Includes Menasha business directory.
Map or Atlas

Sectional Map of Lincoln County Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows what is currently Lincoln County and portions of Vilas, Oneida, Iron, and Langlade counties. Includes manuscript annotations of marked land tracts.
Map or Atlas

Map of Manitowoc County Wisconsin

Date: 1872
Description: Shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, railroads, churches, schools, and cemeteries. Includes business directories of Manitowoc ...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse Bridge, Various Routes

Date: 1872
Description: This map is pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper. Shown on the map is the elevation and profile of La Crescent Bottoms, Mt. Vernon Street line, 13th Street...
Map or Atlas

Cram's Railroad and Township Map of Nebraska

Date: 1872
Description: Issued by J.M. Wolfe, publisher of Nebraska railway guide, gazetteer & directory. Publisher: Omaha, Neb. : J.M. Wolfe, 1872. Description: 1 map : hand-...
Map or Atlas

Map of a Part of Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Showing the Final Location of the Route for a Ship Canal

Date: 1872
Description: This map includes depth shown by soundings and isolines and relief shown by contours. Tree species and locations are labeled, as well as a cranberry meadow...

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