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Wisconsin State College

Date: 1878
Description: Wisconsin State College. Caption reads: "State Normal School, River Falls."
Print

Residence of Mrs. Eliza Richards

Date: 1878
Description: Engraving of Ocatagon House, the residence of Mrs. Eliza Richards. Several trees dot the landscape and other buildings can be seen in the distance at right...
Photograph

Map of Verona

Date: 1878
Description: Map of Verona in Dane County.
Map or Atlas

Crawford County Map

Date: 1878
Description: Illustrated map of Crawford County. On the bottom right is an inset of a group of people near a train on a railroad track.
Map or Atlas

Portland and Jefferson Map

Date: 1878
Description: A map of Portland and Jefferson in Monroe County.
Map or Atlas

State Capitol, Madison, Wis.

Date: 1878
Description: This frontispiece lithograph shows the State Capitol with an American flag on flying on top of the dome. The grounds include trees and paths and are enclos...
Map or Atlas

Western Hemisphere

Date: 1878
Description: This lithograph shows Greenland, North America, Central America, South America, Polynesia, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Oce...
Map or Atlas

Eastern Hemisphere

Date: 1878
Description: This lithograph shows Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Antarctic Continent, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Oce...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Showing Congressional and Judicial Districts

Date: 1878
Description: This map shows 13 districts throughout the state. Congressional districts are outlined in red and judicial districts are outlined in blue as show borders a...
Map or Atlas

Lithograph of Waukesha County Agriculture

Date: 1878
Description: This lithograph shows two agricultural scenes. The top scene shows a a farm house, barn, outbuildings, and windmill. The buildings are surround by crops an...
Map or Atlas

Geological Map of Wisconsin Compiled by T. C. Chamberlin, State Geologist

Date: 1878
Description: This map shows geographic regions of the entire state. The bottom left corner includes an "Explanation of Color": Laurentien Granite (pink), Huronian Iron-...
Map or Atlas

New RailRoad Map of the United States

Date: 1878
Description: This map shows railroad lines, states, cities, rivers, and a small portion of Canada and Mexico. States appear in pink, yellow, and green. The Gulf of Mexi...
Map or Atlas

Climatological Map of Wisconsin Compiled by Prof. H.H. Oldenhage

Date: 1878
Description: This map shows climate information for an entire year with an explanation key in the lower left corner of colors: Mean Temperature for the Year (red), Mean...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin State Schools

Date: 1878
Description: Six lithographs are grouped together showing mostly state normal schools. The scenes clockwise from top left are: State Normal School, Oshkosh; State Norma...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Showing Assembly Districts

Date: 1878
Description: This map shows ward boundaries in red, as well as counties, communities, rivers, lakes, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior. The bottom left corner includes a...
Map or Atlas

Governors of Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This print shows eight former Governors of Wisconsin. In date order: "Louis P. Harvey, 1862 til April 20"; "Edward Salomon, April 20 1862-1864"; "James T. ...
Print

Vilas House

Date: 1878
Description: View of Vilas House. The name on the building is Levi B. Vilas.
Drawing

Rev. H. Gilliland, D. D.

Date: 1878
Description: Lithograph portrait of Reverend Harrison Gilliland, around the end of his tenure as President of Galesville University.

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