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Lumber Rafts in Narrows

Date: 1887
Description: Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Photograph

Picnic Point from University Drive

Date: 1887
Description: Picnic Point from University Drive.
Photograph

View of Town on Mississippi River

Date: 1887
Description: View over Mississippi River of town on shoreline with bluff in the background.
Map or Atlas

Gogebic Iron Range in Wisconsin

Date: 1887
Description: Benedict & Co. engineers. As shown by development to March 1st 1887. Inset: Map of northern Wisconsin showing location of range. Lands in red.
Photograph

Tonyawatha Spring Hotel

Date: 1887
Description: View across water towards the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel on Lake Monona. The hotel, on the east shore of the lake, is located in Blooming Grove Township, just...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Mississippi River

Date: 1887
Description: A map of a portion of the Mississippi River from Marais D'Osier Lake (left) to Watertown.
Photograph

Returning Stranded Logs to Main Channel

Date: 1887
Description: Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w...
Photograph

Spectators at Grand Regatta - Anaglyph

Date: 1887
Description: "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A stereograph showing spectators gathered behind the starter's cannon on Devil's Lake.
Photograph

Map of Menekaune, Menominee and Marinette

Date: 1887
Description: A bird's-eye map of Menekaune, Menominee and Marinette.
Map or Atlas

Diagram of Pepin County Along the Left Bank of Lake Pepin, Between the Chippewa & Rush Rivers

Date: 1887
Description: This 1887 manuscript map by Amidon G. Miller covers portions of the towns of Nelson and Stockholm in Pepin County, Wisconsin, as well as a portion of the T...
Map or Atlas

Township No. 31 North of Range No. 22 East, 4th Mer.

Date: 1887
Description: This manuscript map of the southern portion of the Town of Porterfield, Marinette County, Wisconsin, shows sections and land ownership. The Menominee River...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ashland County, Wisconsin Corrected

Date: 1887
Description: This 1887 map of Ashland County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, vacant Wisconsin Central Railroad land, state and "go...
Map or Atlas

Gogebic Iron Range

Date: 1887
Description: This map shows mining properties in the Gogebic Range between Atkins Lake, in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, on the west and Lake Gogebic, Michigan, on the east...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, Wisconsin

Date: 1887
Description: This 1887 map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, railroads, vacant Wisconsin Central Railroad land, land sold by t...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, & Part of Lincoln County, Wisconsin Showing Wisconsin Central Rail Road Lands

Date: 1887
Description: This 1896 map shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, vacant land and land sold by the Wisconsin Central Rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Lakes & Drives in the Vicinity of Oconomowoc & Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1887
Description: This late 19th century map shows the lake region around Oconomowoc in Waukesha County and eastern Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Cities and villages, roads, ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Fox-Wisconsin Rivers

Date: 1887
Description: Map of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers to accompany Reuben Gold Thwaites' Historic Waterways.
Map or Atlas

Site of Fort St. Antoine

Date: 1887
Description: This etching by Amidon G. Miller covers portions of the towns of Nelson and Stockholm in Pepin County, Wisconsin, as well as a portion of the Town of Maide...
Map or Atlas

Map of West Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1887
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, established dock lines, docks, slips, railroads, and streets of West Superior in 1887.

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